Gundersheim

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gundersheim (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '  N , 8 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wonnegau
Height :	152 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.64 km 2
Residents:	1553 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	180 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67598
Area code :	06244
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 036
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Am Schneller 3 67574 Osthofen
Website :	www.gundersheim.de
Local Mayor :	Joachim Mayer ( SPD )
Location of the local community Gundersheim in the district of Alzey-Worms

Gundersheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Wonnegau community .

geography

As a wine-growing community , Gundersheim is located in the largest wine-growing district in Germany and in the middle of the Rheinhessen wine-growing region . It is about 6 kilometers southeast of Alzey .

Enzheim is a district of Gundersheim. The community also includes the residential areas Haus Bösel, Hof Haumühle and Mönch-Bischheimerhof.

history

The place Gundersheim is mentioned for the first time as Guntirsh on September 18, 769 in a deed of donation from the Lorsch monastery ( Codex Laureshamensis deed No. 920, Reg. No. 424) . The Weissenburg Monastery in Alsace also had a manor in Gundersheim in the 9th century. At the end of the 10th century, the previous Weißenburg property became Salian, then Staufer property. Since the High Middle Ages, the owners changed more frequently. Share in Gundersheim had u. a. the Rau, Wild and Rhine Counts, the Palatinate Electors, the Dukes of Nassau and the Counts of Sponheim. In 1475 Gundersheim finally became part of the Electoral Palatinate . It was administered as part of the Oberamt Alzey .

After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794), the place belonged to the canton of Pfeddersheim in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 . After the Congress of Vienna (1815), Gundersheim belonged to the province of Rheinhessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse from 1816, to the People's State of Hesse from 1919 , and in 1946 the former Hessian province of Rheinhessen was transferred to the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population development

The development of the population of Gundersheim, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 850 1835 1,083 1871 1,132 1905 1,224 1939 1,240 1950 1,484 1961 1,478

year Residents 1970 1,500 1987 1,493 1997 1,626 2005 1,661 2011 1,618 2017 1,612 2019 1,553

religion

catholic church (left) and protestant church (right)

Gundersheim has a Protestant and a Catholic church. The Reformation was carried out in 1546 by Elector Friedrich II . The majority of the population is Protestant.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gundersheim 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.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	FWG	total
2019	6th	5	3	2	16 seats
2014	9	5	2	-	16 seats
2009	8th	6th	2	-	16 seats
2004	8th	6th	2	-	16 seats
1999	9	5	2	-	16 seats

mayor

Local mayor is Joachim Mayer (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 80.19% of the vote and is the successor to Erno Straus (SPD), who had not run for office after 27 years.

coat of arms

	Blasonierung : "In a silver rechtshin -turned blue doppelzinkige hoe beseitet of two blue grapes with green stalk and leaf."

Community partnerships

The community of Gundersheim has maintained a partnership relationship with the French community of Selongey in Burgundy since the 1960s .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Catholic church with late Gothic choir and sacristy from 1492. Tower from 1521–24. The three-aisled nave was built in 1911 in the neo-Gothic style.
• Evangelical Church, built in 1726, steeple from 1891.
• War memorial 1870/71, created by the sculptor J. Sipp with the statue of a Germania on the base

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Gundersheim
• List of natural monuments in Gundersheim

The Rosengarten nature reserve was created in the former limestone quarries .

Sports

The gymnastics club Gundersheim 1863 eV is the oldest club in town. He has departments u. a. for aerobics, jazz dance, gymnastics and health sports and badminton. The Association for Physical Exercise (VfL) Gundersheim has also existed since 1920 with currently around 430 members and departments for football, table tennis and gymnastics.

Regular events

• The local volunteer fire brigade Gundersheim and the associated support association invite you to an open house on Corpus Christi.
• Every year in the last weekend in August the red wine fair takes place.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Gundersheim is located on the A 61 and has its own junction southeast of the Alzey junction , via which the A 63 in the direction of Mainz or Kaiserslautern can be reached. The Gundersheim (Rheinhess) stop is on the Worms – Bingen Stadt railway line . There are trains to Alzey and Worms every half hour . One of the two bus stops is at the sports field.

economy

The community has been shaped by viticulture since ancient times. There are still some wineries there today. In the second half of the 19th century there were two match factories , but they closed again around 1890. The limestone quarry , which was operated as Gundersheimer Kalkwerke by Südzucker AG in Offstein until 1955 and was the largest industrial employer until the middle of the 20th century, was of greater importance .

There is also an industrial park with various companies, including logistical, service-related and production-oriented companies.

education

• There is a kindergarten, which was expanded in 2005 due to the interest.
• The primary school in Gundersheim is attended by children from Gundersheim, Hangen-Weisheim and Bermersheim .

literature

• Gundersheim 769-1969. From the history of a Rhine-Hessian wine village. Festschrift for the 1200th anniversary. Gundersheim 1969.
• Dieter Krienke and Ingrid Westerhoff: Alzey Worms district. Verbandsgemeinden Eich, Monsheim and Wonnegau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 20.3. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2018, ISBN 978-3-88462-379-4 , pp. 210–220.

Web links

Commons : Gundersheim  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the Gundersheim parish
• Historical information about Gundersheim at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Gundersheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 135 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved December 20, 2019 . 
4. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections . Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on September 8, 2019 (see Wonnegau, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth row of results).