Johannisberg (Geisenheim)

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Johannisberg
City of Geisenheim
Johannisberg coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 181  (110–250)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.75 km²
Residents : 2882  (2004)
Population density : 329 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 65366
Area code : 06722
Center seen from the west
Center seen from the west

Johannisberg is a district of the city of Geisenheim in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse . The place is known for its Riesling wines and for the "invention" of the late harvest in 1775.

geography

Johannisberg lies at an altitude of about 110 to 250  m above sea level. NN in the middle of vineyards on the Elsterbach between Geisenheim and Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau . The 50th northern parallel runs through the vineyard "Schloss Johannisberg" below the Johannisberger Schloss .

  • Welcome sign at the entrance to the village

  • The 50th parallel, in the middle of the "Johannisberg" vineyard

  • Crossroads at the foot of the Johannisberg Castle vineyard

history

Johannisberg costume around 1840

Until 1971 Johannisberg was an independent municipality with the districts Grund , Berg (also "Rosengasse") and Schloßheide . On the occasion of the regional reform in Hesse, Johannisberg voluntarily joined forces with the city of Geisenheim on December 31, 1971 due to financial bottlenecks and has since been part of the "Lindenstadt" in the Rheingau. Finds show that the place must have been settled as early as the Roman , Celtic and Franconian times, but Johannisberg was first mentioned when the monastery was founded in 1106 by the Archbishop of Mainz, Ruthardt on the "Bischofsberg". Originally the monastery was to be built in honor of St. Nicholas, but was then consecrated to John the Baptist , from which the place got its name. Today Johannisberg Castle stands at this point.

Before the monastery was founded, Johannisberg was named Rheingrafenhausen , after the Rheingrafen who maintained Johannisberg Castle near Johannisberg . The renaming is probably related to the takeover of the area by the Archbishopric of Mainz .

politics

coat of arms

Johannisberg had its own coat of arms until 1973, before it was integrated into that of the city of Geisenheim - as was the coat of arms of the Geisenheim district of Stephanshausen in 1977 . But the Johannisberg coat of arms is still used today as a sign of local ties.

flag

The flag was approved on September 5, 1969 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Town twinning

Since March 31, 1966, there has been a relationship with the French wine-growing community Puligny-Montrachet in Burgundy , which initially existed through youth and school exchanges. Today the “Freundeskreis Puligny-Montrachet-Johannisberg” maintains contact with the communities and enables families and citizens to contact one another.

Culture and sights

"Our village should be more beautiful" - winner in the state and federal government

In 1988 Johannisberg was the state winner in the competition Our village should become more beautiful , and in 1991 the place was even national winner .

Buildings

Johannisberg Castle

The landmark of the place is the imposing and very well restored Johannisberg Castle , from where you have a view to the southwest as far as into the Nahe valley , into the Rhine-Hessian lowlands and to the east to Mainz and Frankfurt . The castle on the Johannisberg is the old Johannisberg monastery . Today it is home to the "Johannisberg Castle Winery", which cultivates the vineyard of the same name below the landmark.

Hansenberg Castle

Also visible from afar is the Hansenberg Castle , located a little higher above the Hansenberg vineyard site , which was built in 1823 by the Johannisberg pedagogue Johannes de Laspée . Originally intended as a near-natural school and educational institution for orphans, the castle was never used as intended due to Laspée's early death, one year after construction began. Today the castle is part of a state boarding school for the gifted.

Schwarzenstein Castle

The Schwarzenstein Castle, built in 1873 as an artificial ruin , is located at the same height, approx. 500 m to the east . Today the ruin with a noble restaurant is located in a noble little park above the Schwarzenstein vineyard .

Johannisberg Monastery

The fourth large building is the new Johannisberg monastery between the districts of Grund and Berg . The monastery church was built in 1928 and the Benedictine monastery itself was built in 1956 . For lack of offspring, the monastery was in 1991 by the strictly cloistered up living Benedictine and handed over to the Missionary Sisters of the Divine Word Order. But this order only stayed in the monastery for a few years. Since the beginning of 2006, the monastery including the monastery church has been a conference hotel with a large garden and restaurant.

  • Johannisberg Castle

  • Hansenberg Castle

  • Schwarzenstein Castle

  • New Johannisberg Monastery; left: Berg district , above in the background: Johannisberg Castle on the Johannisberg, right: Grund district

carnival

In an otherwise little carnival-like Hessen, the Rheingau, as a former Electoral Mainz territory, and thus Johannisberg, occupies a special position. In 1913 the Kerwe and Carnival Association "Funny Brothers" was founded, which in 1960 was renamed the Johannisberger Carneval Association 1913 (JCV).

Economy and Infrastructure

Johannisberg is the "city" of wine. Throughout the year you can either take part in wine tastings, hikes or festivals in the countless wineries and wine taverns. Every summer there is a great rush at the Rheingau Music Festival in Schloss Johannisberg and Schloss Hansenberg.

Vineyards

Vineyards in Johannisberg

From north-west to south-east:

  • Hansenberg (west of Goldatzel)
  • Goldatzel
  • Schwarzenstein (north of Vogelsang)
  • hell
  • Middle Hell (south of Hell)
  • Vogelsang
  • Harvest Brothers
  • Klaus
  • Johannisberg Castle

Local public transport

Johannisberg is connected to the local public transport of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund via the Rheingau-Taunus-Verkehrsgesellschaft (RTV) bus line 183 . The buses run every hour on weekdays and Saturdays (every half hour during rush hour) and every 2 hours on Sundays from the train station in Geisenheim through Johannisberg to Stephanshausen and Presberg (and back). There is a connection to the trains in the direction of Wiesbaden / Frankfurt am Main and in the direction of Koblenz / Neuwied from Geisenheim station .

Volunteer firefighter

Johannisberg has a 38-person volunteer fire brigade , whose fire station is located in Hansenbergallee. It has three vehicles: a fire fighting vehicle (LF 10 KatS), which replaced the old LF 8/6 in 2018, a portable pump vehicle with a water tank (TSF-W) and a team transport vehicle (MTF). Together with the volunteer fire brigades of the core town of Geisenheim and the district of Stephanshausen, fire protection and general help is ensured for the four districts of Geisenheim.

Education and sport

Johannes de Laspée Primary School

Although the place does not even have 3000 inhabitants, it offers a variety of educational facilities and leisure activities:

In addition, Johannisberg has

  • of the Turngesellschaft 1884 eV
  • the SV 1919 Johannisberg eV
  • and the Motorsport Club Johannisberg eV

through three sports clubs.

Personalities born in Johannisberg

  • Johannes Weitzel (1771–1837), writer, publisher and state librarian in the Duchy of Nassau
  • Sebastian Engert (1774–1830), Nassau civil servant and bailiff
  • Joseph Faust (1856–1919), Catholic pastor and author of numerous comedies, tales and dramas
  • Alexander Czéh (1876–1955), German administrative officer and district administrator for the districts of Geilenkirchen and Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg
  • Jakob Christmann (1554–1613), orientalist and astronomer, professor at the University of Heidelberg (and temporarily its rector)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Geisenheim: Geisenheim in numbers
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 375 .
  3. ↑ On the monastery cf. Silvia Countess Brockdorff (†) and Johannes Burkardt: Johannisberg (Rheingau) . In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier among others: The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Hessen (Germania Benedictina 7 Hessen), Eos, St. Ottilien 2004, pp. 666–697. ISBN 3-8306-7199-7
  4. ^ Approval of a flag of the Johannesberg community (item 1330) from April 7, 1970 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1969 No. 38 , p. 1619 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 2,4 MB ]).
  5. ^ Johannisberg volunteer fire brigade