Guldental

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Langenlonsheim-Stromberg
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.99 km 2
Residents:	2485 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	191 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55452
Area code :	06707
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 035
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Naheweinstrasse 80 ; 55450 Langenlonsheim
Website :	www.guldental.de
Mayoress :	Elke Demele ( SPD )
Location of the local community Guldental in the Bad Kreuznach district

Guldental is a municipality on the Nahe in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Langenlonsheim-Stromberg community .

geography

Guldental

The place is in the Naheland between the southern foothills of the Hunsrück on the course of the Guldenbach .

The neighboring communities are clockwise from the north: Langenlonsheim , Bretzenheim , Bad Kreuznach , Hargesheim , Gutenberg , Windesheim and Waldlaubersheim .

Guldental was created as part of the administrative reform in 1969 from the two former places Heddesheim and Waldhilbersheim as well as from the district of Breitenfelserhof and the residential area Ackermühle.

history

Heddesheim
district above Waldhilbersheim district below

District of Breitenfelserhof

Guldental

The property Hetdenesheim (Heddesheim) was mentioned in a document as early as 1163 and was one of the large villages in today's Bad Kreuznach district 700 years ago . Under French rule, Heddesheim was assigned to the Mairie Langenlonsheim in 1800 .

The current district of Waldhilbersheim is also very old: the name of the place appears in documents as early as 1200. In 1800 the place came to Mairie (the later mayor's office ) Windesheim and in 1939 to the office of Langenlonsheim.

Today's local community Guldental was formed in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform on June 7, 1969 from the independent communities Heddesheim (Nahe) with the districts of Breitenfelser Hof and Waldhilbersheim.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Guldental consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. By 2014 the council had 20 council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	FLG	total
2019	5	5	2	4th	16 seats
2014	4th	6th	2	4th	16 seats
2009	4th	9	2	5	20 seats
2004	4th	10	1	5	20 seats

FLG = Free List Guldental e. V.

mayor

Local mayor is Elke Demele (SPD). In the local election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in her office with a share of 58.98% of the votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the local community Guldental is made up of the coats of arms of the original communities Heddesheim and Waldhilbersheim. In the upper half of the divided shield is a black, floating St. Andrew's cross on a gold background. In the lower part there are three silver wings on a red background. The St. Andrew's Cross was originally part of the Heddesheimer coat of arms, the wings part of the Waldhilbersheimer coat of arms.

The approval to use this coat of arms was granted after the amalgamation in 1969 in 1971 by the Koblenz district government .

Community partnerships

Kronberg im Taunus (no formal twin town, but friends)

Kronberg Bridge

Cleebourg (France, Alsace), the partnership document was signed on July 25, 1988 by the Cleebourg mayor at the time, Charles Jautzy, and the mayor of Guldental, Jakob Maurer

Culture and sights

Buildings

Evangelical Parish Church (Heddesheim)

Romanesque choir tower with Gothic altered acoustic arcades. Longhouse from the 15th century, subsequently extended to the south by a room closed on three sides. Restoration after fire in 1709, the west side with beveled corners. From this time also today's tower helmet .

St. Jakobus (Heddesheim)

Catholic parish church St. James the Elder : built in neo-Gothic form in 1894 according to plans by the Freiburg cathedral master builder Max Meckel . Single-aisle church interior with retracted choir and side chapels arranged like a transept, gable front with a flank tower crowned by an elaborate pointed helmet with wich houses. After the interior renovation completed in 2003, the interior gives a very good image of a neo-Gothic total work of art with wood-carved altarpieces , glass paintings and the restored color and painting from the time of construction.

St. Martin (Waldhilbersheim)

Catholic parish church St. Martin : Baroque hall building with roof turrets built in 1774/75 , extended by an axis to the west in 1923.

Museums

Light railway and museum

Feldbahn -Museum Guldental with 36 light railways and trains
Local history and viticulture museum

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Guldental is part of the Rhein-Nahe local transport network . In the municipality, the Heddesheim (Nahe) train station is located on the Hunsrückquerbahn Langenlonsheim - Hermeskeil , which is currently only used for freight traffic. The nearest train station with passenger is Langenlonsheim on the Nahe Valley Railway Bingen- Bad Kreuznach km, about 5 east of Guldental. The bus line 240 of the Rhein-Nahe bus service runs from Guldental to Bad Kreuznach every day at least every two hours .

The next motorway junction is Waldlaubersheim on federal motorway 61 Koblenz - Ludwigshafen , about five kilometers north of Guldental.

Viticulture

Sonnenberg, Guldental vineyard

Guldental is significantly shaped by viticulture and with 377 hectares of planted vineyards, after Bad Kreuznach, the Nahe's largest wine-growing community .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Jakob Maurer (former mayor), since January 6, 2002
Günter Lukas (local writer), since January 6, 2002
Josef Sonnet, since January 21, 2007

Born in Guldental

Michael von Obentraut (1574–1625), equestrian general who fought on the side of the Protestant Union in the Thirty Years' War
Gustav Pfarrius (1800–1884), poet, teacher and professor

Connected with Guldental

Mathilde Machwirth, Mathilde I., fifth German Wine Queen 1953–1954, first German Wine Queen from the Nahe wine-growing region
Johann Lafer (* 1957), Austrian chef, television chef, entrepreneur and non-fiction author
Julia Klöckner (* 1972), politician (CDU), Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, 47th German Wine Queen 1995–1996
Andreas Fischer-Lescano (* 1972), lawyer, professor at the University of Bremen
Dennis Friedrich (* 1978), volleyball player, began his career at VSC Guldental
Manuel Friedrich (* 1979), soccer player, started his career at SG Guldental 07

literature

Norbert Wortmann: Guldental, the cozy wine village in NaheLand . Guldental 2007 (illustrated book).

Web links

Commons : Guldental - Collection of Images

Website of the local community of Guldental
Image film: Guldental, the wine village on the Nahe
Brief portrait of Guldental ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR television
Literature about Guldental in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 22 (PDF; 3 MB).

↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 165 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Guldental. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Langenlonsheim, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
↑ Rainer Seil: Guldental . Guldental community self-published, 1986
^ Field Railway Museum

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 22 (PDF; 3 MB).

[3] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 165 (PDF; 2.8 MB).