Mainz city center

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Mainz city center was a district of the state capital Mainz . The district originated from the Mainz district and in 1989 was divided into Mainz-Altstadt , Mainz-Neustadt , Mainz-Oberstadt and the eastern part (Hartenberg) of Mainz-Hartenberg-Münchfeld . For the entirety of its history, it was by far the most populous district of Mainz with around 80,000 inhabitants.

For the first time in 1965, a local council was elected by the city council for the district. Since direct election of the local council by the population was only introduced in 1999 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz-Innenstadt is the only district in Mainz whose local council was always elected indirectly by the city council. While the other local districts had local councils with nine members at that time, the inner city had a local council with 15 members due to its size. The first composition was: SPD 8, CDU 6, FDP 1.

1974 Aenne Ley ( FDP ) is selected as location Head, as the first Mainzerin, the board a district. During her term of office, in which the 1000th anniversary of the cathedral fell, the pedestrian zones in the city center were set up. She gave up the office in 1979 when she was elected to the city council as the first woman in the history of Mainz, as honorary department head for environmental protection , social security and links to the US armed forces .

In 1983 Gisela Thews (SPD) became mayor and remained in this position until she took office as a full-time department head for green, environment, urban renovation and health in early 1988. The last mayor (1988–1989) was Ulla Brede-Hoffmann ( SPD ), who was mayor of Mainz-Altstadt until 1994 (and again from 2009–2014).

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With the naming of a previously unnamed park area on Große Langgasse between Gymnasium- and Dominikanerstraße as "Dr.-Gisela-Thews-Platz", the area commonly referred to as "Insel" or "Inselplatz" was given a permanent name in the summer of 2019 and the earlier one Mayor Gisela Thews a memorial.

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  1. ↑ https://www.mainz.de/leben-und-arbeit/stadtteile/oberstadt/oberstadt.php
  2. ↑ Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung, January 22, 1965, “The new local councils”
  3. ↑ Election campaigns (a brochure of the state working group of municipal women and equality officers in Rhineland-Palatinate, published March 2018), p. 28
  4. ↑ Mainz pays tribute to Gisela Thews in: Allgemeine Zeitung of August 31, 2018
  5. ↑ Appreciation of a great life achievement in: Allgemeine Zeitung from June 21, 2019