Gundheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '  N , 8 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wonnegau
Height :	127 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.61 km 2
Residents:	904 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	196 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67599
Area code :	06244
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 037
Association administration address:	Am Schneller 3 67574 Osthofen
Website :	www.gundheim-rheinhessen.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Leidemer ( CDU )
Location of the local community Gundheim in the district of Alzey-Worms

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

geography

The wine growing area is in Rheinhessen . The “Rebschule” residential area also belongs to Gundheim .

Neighboring communities or localities are: Westhofen , Worms-Abenheim , Mörstadt , Flörsheim-Dalsheim and Bermersheim .

history

Gundheim was first mentioned in a deed of donation for the imperial monastery Lorsch as Guntheim in the year 774 , the Gundheimer castle preserved in small remains in 1276. In the 15th century the place came into the possession of the Electoral Palatinate , local and castle lords were the Obersteiner . After their extinction, Elector Johann Wilhelm enfeoffed Baron Johann Erwin von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths with the village, bailiwick and court of Gundheim in 1699 . This family then remained in the village's fiefdom until the end of the 18th century. The castle was finally destroyed in the 17th century after it had suffered badly in the Schmalkaldic War in 1547 . As a replacement mansion, the so-called Palatinate Court was built in the 18th century , later the municipal administration and schoolhouse, now a local museum.

After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops (1794), Gundheim belonged to the canton of Pfeddersheim in the Donnersberg department from 1798 to 1814 . As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Rheinhessen region, and with it Gundheim, became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 . After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, the place came in 1835 to the newly established Worms district , to which it belonged until 1969.

From 1903 to 1968 Gundheim was the terminus of the Worms – Gundheim railway line . However, passenger traffic was stopped as early as 1961.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gundheim consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

Catholic parish church St. Laurentius

Remains of the castle wall

Entrance to the castle cellar

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	5	4th	12 seats
2014	3	6th	3	12 seats
2009	4th	5	3	12 seats
2004	3	7th	2	12 seats

mayor

The local mayor is Michael Leidemer (CDU). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 79.14% of the vote, making him the successor to Dieter Gutzler, who was no longer a candidate.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue a golden, red-armored griffin claw." The coat of arms was approved by the Hessian Minister of the Interior in Darmstadt on November 19, 1930, with a certificate.
	Founding of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is based on the noble family of Greiffenclau zu Vollraths, who Gundheim received as a fiefdom in 1699. The family crest was a golden griffin claw with silver-blue fletching.

Vineyards

Well-known Gundheim individual layers of the large Bergkloster site in the "Wonnegau area" of the Rheinhessen wine region are:

• Hunger bee
• Almond Fountain
• Sonnenberg

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Gundheim

Personalities

• Andreas von Oberstein (1533–1603), cathedral dean and important reformer in the Prince Diocese of Speyer

literature

• 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. 221–227.

Web links

Commons : Gundheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Gundheim parish
• History of Gundheim at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Gundheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• Current, interesting and historical facts about Gundheim at the Heimatverein Gundheim

Individual evidence

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 86 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Website on Gundheim Castle
4. ^ Entry by Reinhard Friedrich zu Gundheim in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on August 23, 2016.
5. ^ Chronicle of Gundheim
6. ↑ Election results of the local elections in 2019. Rhineland-Palatinate - State Returning Officer, accessed on June 26, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wonnegau, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .