Youth home in Rheinhessen

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Nieder-Olm
Height :	156 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.17 km 2
Residents:	1582 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	256 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55270
Area code :	06130
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 031
Association administration address:	Pariser Strasse 110 ; 55268 Nieder-Olm
Website :	www.jugenheim-rheinhessen.de
Local Mayor :	Herbert Petri ( SPD )
Location of the local community Jugenheim in Rheinhessen in the Mainz-Bingen district

Youth home in Rheinhessen

Jugenheim in Rheinhessen is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The wine village belongs to the Nieder-Olm association.

geography

Jugenheim is located in the middle between Mainz , Bingen , Alzey and Bad Kreuznach in Rheinhessen .

history

The area around Jugenheim had been inhabited since the younger Stone Age , which can be proven by numerous finds. A Franconian cemetery south of the village discovered in 1924 and the ending of the place name in -heim suggest that Jugenheim was founded by the Franks during the time of the conquest (5th / 6th century). Whether the mention of a place “Gaginheim” in the Lorsch Codex from 767 refers to Jugenheim is sometimes disputed by research. The place name appears in documents in the 9th century as "Goganheim" and in the 13th and 14th centuries as "Guginheim" and "Gugenheym", until the final name "Jugenheim" developed from it. Only a few documents prove the development in the high Middle Ages.

In 966 Emperor Otto I donated various goods in Jugenheim to the Church of St. Moritz in Magdeburg . Through an exchange of goods, the village came to the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken in 1112 . After Jugenheim was demonstrably owned by the Raugrafen von der Altenbaumburg and then by Sponheim-Dannenfels since the beginning of the 14th century , the place came to the Nassau dynasty through marriage in 1393 . This affiliation to changing lines of the Nassau-Saarbrücken family continued until the end of the 18th century. From 1769 to 1777 Jugenheim was pledged to Nassau-Usingen . In 1794 Jugenheim briefly became the residence of the Saarbrücken prince (hereditary prince) Heinrich (Ludwig Karl Albrecht) , who fled here while fleeing from the French revolutionary troops who occupied Jugenheim in 1795. The lion of Nassau-Saarbrücken has remained in the local coat of arms to this day.

Since the 13th century Jugenheim was the seat of a court, under Nassau-Saarbrücken the place became the center of an office to which Tiefenthal and parts of Wöllstein , Gumbsheim and Pleitersheim belonged.

Jugenheim also owes the house of Nassau-Saarbrücken a new St. Martin church , which Prince Wilhelm Heinrich von Nassau-Saarbrücken (1718–1768) had built on March 31, 1762 after the end of the Seven Years' War . The first mention of the parish of Jugenheim comes from 1299, the church that already existed at that time is a choir tower church, which was consecrated to the Mainz cathedral patron , Saint Martin . Only on May 28, 1775, after many financial difficulties, could the new church be handed over to its destination. A used organ was not acquired until 1804. The 18th century can be described as the most important epoch of the youth home, in which the new buildings of the church, office house and rectory were built. Nothing is left of the triple wall and the three medieval gates. From 1798 to 1814 the place belonged to the canton Oberingelheim in the Donnersberg department .

The 19th century brought a calm development for Jugenheim. The population increased from 717 in 1815 to 1100 inhabitants. The old boundaries of the town, which were only crossed after the Second World War, remained decisive for the modest structural development. In 1852 a “rescue house for morally neglected boys” was set up in a house on Edelsberg that is still preserved and renovated. In the first years of the 20th century, Jugenheim was connected to the Rhine-Hessian water supply, and the canalization took place in the 1920s. Since 1904/05 there was a single-track railway line to Ingelheim am Rhein . The line, reminiscent of the now residential station, was closed in 1954 for economic reasons. A war memorial showing a statue of Germania was erected in memory of the war in 1870/71 on the main street opposite the new village square. Memorials to the dead of the two world wars can be found in the old cemetery by the church. The new cemetery was laid out on the road to Stadecken-Elsheim . To the west of the village is the old Jewish cemetery, an important historical testimony. Jews from Jugenheim and the surrounding communities from the 18th century to around 1935 were buried here.

One of the few public construction projects after the Second World War was the construction of a new schoolhouse in 1951. Since the school was closed, the building has served as a town hall and village community center. In 1978 the sports and community hall was inaugurated. In the course of the regional reform, Jugenheim was part of the Nieder-Olm community in the Mainz-Bingen district . The structural development of the place exceeded the old village boundaries at the end of the 1980s. Since 1960 new building areas have been created in the south of the town center. Agriculture - especially viticulture - is still of great importance, but more and more businesses are being run as a sideline. Most of the economically active residents work outside of the country . Jugenheim has been a recognized village renewal community since 1987 .

Population development

The development of the population of Jugenheim in Rheinhessen, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year	Residents
1815	717
1835	1,050
1871	1,132
1905	1,093
1939	869
1950	1,083

year	Residents
1961	927
1970	1.008
1987	1,016
1997	1,418
2005	1,649
2019	1,582

politics

Municipal council

town hall

The municipal council in Jugenheim 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	FWG	total
2019	8th	3	5	16 seats
2014	9	2	5	16 seats
2009	10	1	5	16 seats
2004	9	2	5	16 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group in the Nieder-Olm community

mayor

Herbert Petri (SPD) has been the honorary local mayor since 1999.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In the blue shield, sprinkled with silver crosses, there is a red crowned and armored silver lion, with a golden J leading between the front paws."

Contrasting description of the coat of arms of the municipality: "On a blue background sprinkled with seven silver crosses a silver, soaring, red crowned and silver-red armored lion".

The court seal of the community, which has been documented since 1484 - with the inscription "Sigillum-dess -gericht-in-Gogenem" - shows the above Nassau-Saarbrück lion as heraldic animal , to which in 1956 a mark was added in the form of the first letter of the place name has been. The place, which passed to Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1393 , did not yet have its own court seal in 1466.

Community partnerships

The partner community of Jugenheim has been Oberhoffen-sur-Moder in Alsace since 1987 .

Culture and sights

Buildings

St. Martin

former mill property in the main street

The Protestant Martinskirche was consecrated in 1775 and with its 1,000 seats is one of the largest churches in Rheinhessen. Your Wegmann organ from 1762 including the original organ balustrade comes from the Welschnonnen Church in Mainz . On the walls and in the deep reveals of the three windows of the tower, high-quality wall paintings from around 1420 have been preserved. In the late 15th century a Gothic tabernacle was built.

societies

Volunteer firefighter
Country Women's Association
gIG-Jugenheim eV (commercial interest group)
GV Jugenheim
Jugenheimer MusikFreunde 2001
Riding and breeding association Rheinhessen-Mitte
TC 1988 youth home
TuS 1899 Jugenheim

Sports

three open-air tennis courts
the tennis hall with 2 fields, built in 1999
Sports facility with natural grass pitch
Riding arena with riding arena
Beach volleyball field (built in 2005)
Skate park (built in 2009)

nature

The rare orchid bee orchid from Jugenheim

Around 25 hectares of high-quality nature conservation area are looked after in Jugenheim by NABU Mainz and the surrounding area. In the landscape plan of the VG Nieder-Olm, these areas are referred to as “the most valuable areas in the association”. In particular, the "Jugenheimer Wäldchen" and the "Biotopes at the Bleichkopf" are named as future "possible nature reserves" due to their high ecological value. In the supervised areas, rare orchids like the find himantoglossum hircinum and the orchid . In his home community, the former winemaker and NABU representative "Heinfried Greß, with the support of other volunteer Nabu employees, managed to settle barn owls and kestrels and to offer endangered plant species a home again." For this, Greß was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 2010.

Economy and Infrastructure

There has been a family-owned bread and pastry shop in the village since the 18th century . The oldest restaurant was founded around 1880. There is also a CAP grocery store .

Jugenheim has been connected to the natural gas network since 1980 .

Public facilities

Community kindergarten
Kindergarten of the Protestant parish
Volunteer firefighter
Parish hall
Youth meeting in the town hall cellar

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Claus Schick (born November 6, 1944), politician of the SPD and former district administrator of the Mainz-Bingen district.

literature

Rheinische Kunststätten: "Jugenheim in Rheinhessen", issue 281, 1st edition 1982
Literature on youth home in Rheinhessen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography