Harxheim

This article deals with Harxheim in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rheinhessen, for the place of the same name in the Donnersberg district see: Harxheim (Zellertal) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 8 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Bodenheim
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.51 km 2
Residents:	2387 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	680 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55296
Area code :	06138
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 026
Association administration address:	Am Dollesplatz 1 55294 Bodenheim
Website :	www.harxheim.de
Local Mayor :	Andreas Hofreuter ( CDU )
Location of the local community Harxheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Harxheim ( Rheinhessen ) is a municipality with around 2,400 inhabitants in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bodenheim .

Old courtyard

Catholic Church of St. Laurentius

Evangelical parish church

Geographical location

Harxheim is a wine village on the southern outskirts of Mainz and also borders, clockwise, north-northeast to a small extent directly on Bodenheim , in the northeast on Gau-Bischofsheim , in the east on Lörzweiler and in the south on Mommenheim .

history

In 767 Harxheim was first mentioned as Harasheim . The ending " -heim " indicates a Franconian town foundation. In the Middle Ages , the monasteries Lorsch and Fulda owned goods in Harxheim, and later the village fell to the Counts of Falkenstein. In contrast to many other communities in Rheinhessen, the Reformation doctrine was introduced here very early. After the County of Falkenstein had belonged to Austria for a long time, it - and with it Harxheim - fell to the French Republic in 1801.

At times, the name form Harxheim an der Steig or ... an der Steige was used to differentiate between places of the same name .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Harxheim 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	8th	2	0	16 seats
2014	6th	7th	1	2	16 seats
2009	7th	6th	1	2	16 seats
2004	6th	8th	-	2	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Harxheim e. V.

Local mayor

The local mayors of Harxheim:

• Michel Ackermann I (1849-1853)
• Johann Philipp Happel II. (1853-1891)
• Philipp Heinrich Frieß (1891–1912)
• Johann Adam Böhm (1927-1946)
• Friedrich Ackermann (1946–1958)
• Heinrich Brehm (Brehm List) (1958–1968)
• Walter Sparwasser (FWG) (1968–1977)
• Paul Calovini (FWG) (1977–1979)
• Gerhard Standke (SPD) (1979)
• Heinrich Müller (SPD) (1979–1994)
• Rolf Günther (SPD) (1994–1998)
• Ursula Knüpper Heger (CDU) (1998–2009)
• Rita Drescher (SPD) (2009-2014)
• Andreas Hofreuter (CDU) (since 2014)

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Andreas Hofreuter was confirmed in office with 56.16% of the vote.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In gold, a green ear of wheat and a green leafless oak branch, each with a downward-hanging and upward-standing acorn, which cross each other and are covered with a blue grape."

Community partnerships

Since 1981 there has been a partnership with Messigny-et-Vantoux , a municipality in Burgundy (France).

Buildings

• Catholic Church of St. Laurentius, first mentioned in 1365, destroyed by Swedish soldiers in the Thirty Years War in 1639. Rebuilt in 1870/71.
• Evangelical church, built in the Middle Ages in late Gothic style, partly destroyed in the Thirty Years War. After reconstruction from 1698 to 1871, also used by Catholics as a simultaneum.
• 

  Schlossberg tower
  Schlossbergturm, 1999 built observation tower in the Harxheimer Weinlage Schloßberg north of the village.

traffic

The next motorway junction is Mainz-Hechtsheim on the A 60 (about 7 kilometers away). With the ORN bus line 660 Harxheim is connected to the local public transport between Mainz and Alzey .

From 1896 to 1985 (in freight traffic until 1989) Harxheim had a train station on the now disused Bodenheim – Alzey line . The train station, originally called "Harxheim (Reinh.)", Was renamed "Harxheim-Lörzweiler" on April 1, 1910.

Personalities

• Manuel Höferlin (* 1973), politician - from 2009 to 2013 and since 2017 member of the German Bundestag (FDP)
• Achim Scheu (* 1971), sports presenter at Südwestrundfunk (SWR1)

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Harxheim

literature

• Literature about Harxheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Harxheim  - Collection of Images

• The official website of the Harxheim community
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: pictures from Harxheim on mainz-bingen-foto.de )
• Historical information about Harxheim at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Topographic map from the 19th century ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bodenheim, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 . 
6. ↑ St. Laurentius Harxheim on the website of the diocese of Mainz
7. ↑ Evangelical Church Harxheim> History on the website of the Ev. Parish Harxheim - Gau-Bischofsheim
8. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from March 19, 1910, No. 11. Announcement No. 201, p. 103.