Almond (municipality)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Rudesheim
Height :	200 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.33 km 2
Residents:	913 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	144 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55595
Area code :	0671
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 061
Association administration address:	Nahestrasse 63 55593 Rüdesheim
Website :	www.gemeinde-mandel.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Schulz
Location of the local community Mandel in the Bad Kreuznach district

Almond from a western perspective, on the right the Protestant church

Mandel is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rüdesheim .

geography

Almond is located in the Naheland , south of the Hunsrück , about five kilometers from Bad Kreuznach . Neighboring communities are Weinsheim , Sponheim , Sankt Katharinen (near Bad Kreuznach) , Roxheim and Rüdesheim .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 962 as Mannendal . At the time, Mandel was an imperial fief of the St. Maximin Abbey near Trier . The bailiwick held the Wild and Rhine Counts. Property in Mandel was part of the basic equipment of the Sponheim Monastery , founded in 1101 by Count Stefan II of Sponheim . In 1439 the local rule over Mandel was in the hands of the von Dalberg family , the treasurers of Worms .

They transferred the village as a fiefdom to the von Koppenstein family , a branch of the Sponheimers who named themselves after their ancestral castle Koppenstein in the Hunsrück . Members of this family stood for a long time as knights, clergymen or officials in the service of various territorial lords, including the Counts of Sponheim. The newly built castle in Mandel was the administrative seat and partly also the residence.

When the Koppenstein family died out in 1768, the village of Mandel fell back to the feudal lords , the barons of Dalberg, and in 1786 was sold with all rights to Count Karl August von Bretzenheim .

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the region and annexed it after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814, Mandel belonged to the French Rhine-Moselle department and was assigned to the canton of Kreuznach and the arrondissement of Simmern . Almond became the chief town ( chef-lieu ) of a Mairie around 1800 .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region came under the Kingdom of Prussia . From 1816 the town was the almond circle Kreuznach in Koblenz assigned.

Population development

The development of the population of Almond, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 565 1835 687 1871 687 1905 664 1939 645 1950 741

year Residents 1961 711 1970 687 1987 717 1997 855 2005 846 2019 913

politics

Municipal council

The council in almond consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Peter Schulz was elected as local mayor by the local council on February 2, 2017. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 91.54% of the votes.

Karin Gräff was the local mayor until April 2016, who resigned from her position for personal reasons.

coat of arms

Blazon : box of blue and gold; in the upper right a golden crossing with a black raven on two green almonds. The old coat of arms is instead of almonds a dome on which the raven sits

Reason: The coat of arms is borrowed from the von Koppenstein family .

Main municipality

Since 2019, Mandel has been one of the 28 focus communities in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for eight years. In this way, the community is subsidized for projects and can now start a village moderation in order to further develop the village and make it "fit" for the future.

Village moderation

On March 1, 2020, the community and the village planner Nathalie Franzen invited to the village conference in the Schlossberghalle. There they discussed what the place could look like in 2035. In further meetings, a village inspection and working groups, it is decided what Mandel needs in order to develop further. Kitchen table discussions are also offered.

Village square

Workshops have been taking place on the new village square since 2017 . The tenement at Römerstrasse 30 was demolished for this purpose. The new village square has been under construction since Easter 2020. This should become a meeting point for all generations and be used for events such as the fair .

Culture and sights

Historic Buildings

• Evangelical Church, built in the classical style in 1829/1830.
• Evangelical rectory, built in 1789/1791 in the style of early classicism.
• Renaissance hunting lodge, built at the beginning of the 17th century by the Barons von Koppenstein. The facade has a stair tower protruding on five sides.
• Catholic Church of St. Antonius, built in neo-Romanesque style in 1897 on a piece of land donated by Baron von Salis-Soglio, descendant of the Koppenstein family.
• Dreher House, residential building from 1594 with a so-called "mocking mask", a plastic head of a servant with a cap, embedded in the wall.

Events

• Fastnacht / Carnival / Mardi Gras is held every year by TuS Mandel in the Schlossberghalle Mandel. This includes a kid's session and an adult cap session.
• Various events of the rural women and the sponsoring association of the Wichtelhaus kindergarten (e.g. children's reading club, Advent window )
• Guided tours through the local community (not regularly), including the tour for the Open Monument Day
• For the appearance in and around the village there is an environmental day every year and the event "Together for one another, a village for young and old". The flower beds have been looked after by "bed sponsors" for a few years. Anyone who wants to tend flower beds can do this voluntary work.
• The fair is celebrated every year on the square on the village square and the old spring.
• In summer, a boules tournament is held on the boules pitch .

Open Monument Day

• 1st year: Guided tour of the Koppensteiner Schloss, then Ev. Church, town center
• 2nd year: Mandel's oldest house, with Masonic stone, Old Town Hall Street
• 3rd year: Methodist Church Eben Ezer , converted into a residential building, Kreuznacherstraße, then a house with Masonic stone

Public places and facilities

• A container behind the gym serves as a youth room. There is a barbecue area next door, which is also part of the youth room.
• The Schlossberghalle Mandel is a multi-purpose hall that is used as an event hall and a gym. Town council meetings, smaller events and conferences are also held there.
• The old spring is also located near the playground. The Almond Brook originated in the spring well located there.
• In Mandel there is a large church which - until the later construction of the Catholic Church - was used as a simultaneous church for Protestant and Catholic services.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Almond

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  Coat of arms stone from 1722 on the castle gate

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  Former hunting lodge

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  Classicist Protestant rectory and church

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  House from 1805, additional floor in 1860

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  Half-timbered houses from the 18th century

Sons and daughters of the church

Title page of a book by Johann Andreas Coppenstein (1625), with reference to the place of birth Mandel

• Johann Andreas Coppenstein († 1638), Dominican priest, theologian and writer of the Counter Reformation
• Julius Hirsch (1882–1961), German-American economist and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics
• Wolfgang Knauss (* 1933), engineering scientist, professor at Caltech

literature

• Bodo Lipps: Voyages of discovery in the Bad Kreuznach district . District administration Bad Kreuznach, Bad Kreuznach 1991, p. 154.

Web links

Commons : Almond  - Collection of Images

• Website of the municipality of Mandel
• Literature about almonds in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Mandel. Retrieved September 16, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Mandel has a mayor again. Local church Mandel, accessed February 4, 2017 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rüdesheim, Verbandsgemeinde, 14th line of results. Retrieved September 16, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung: Almond in the funding program. VRM GmbH & Co KG, accessed on April 19, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung: Mandel on the journey to the year 2035. VRM GmbH & Co KG, accessed on April 19, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung: Ideas for a new village square. VRM GmbH & Co KG, accessed on April 19, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Local community Mandel - tenement Römerstrasse 30. Accessed on April 19, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Local community Mandel - Mandel dances and laughs 2020. Accessed on April 19, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Local community Mandel - Advent window. Retrieved April 19, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Local community Mandel - Environment Day 2018. Accessed on April 19, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Local community Mandel - 1st campaign 2018 Together, for one another. Retrieved April 19, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Local community Mandel - Mandeler Curb from June 14th to 17th, 2019. Accessed on April 19th, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Open Monument Day® 2020. Accessed on April 19, 2020 .