Ober-Flörsheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 9 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Alzey Land
Height :	244 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.24 km 2
Residents:	1248 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55234
Area code :	06735
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 052
Association administration address:	Weinrufstrasse 38 55232 Alzey
Website :	www.ober-floersheim.de
Local Mayor :	Sascha Leonhardt
Location of the local community Ober-Flörsheim in the district of Alzey-Worms

Ober-Flörsheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association.

Geographical location

Ober-Flörsheim is located on a high plateau in the Rhine-Hessian wine-growing region .

history

Flarlesheim superiori was first mentioned in 776 in a list of donations from Lorsch Abbey . From 1237 until the end of the 18th century, the Teutonic Order Commander Ober-Flörsheim existed here , whose preserved buildings are characteristic of the town.

Since 1506 Ober-Flörsheim belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and was subordinate to the Oberamt Alzey . During the Thirty Years' War , Swedish troops devastated the soldiers and the village. In 1689, the devastation of the Palatinate by French troops under King Louis XIV again hit the place seriously.

During the wars after the French Revolution , there was a battle near Ober-Flörsheim on March 30, 1793, in which the Prussians defeated the French . This victory could not prevent the final success of the French, so that Ober-Flörsheim annexed with the other areas on the left bank of the Rhine and in 1798 became part of the department of Mont Tonnerre ( Donnersberg ).

After the defeat of the French Empire , Ober-Flörsheim became part of the newly created province of Rheinhessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 .

After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, the place came in 1835 to the newly established Worms district , to which it belonged until November 1, 1938. In the course of the regional reform at the time, he joined the Alzey district , which was renamed the Alzey district shortly afterwards .

American troops occupied the place on March 20, 1945, but it was added to the French occupation zone in the summer of 1945 and became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 . The district of Alzey continued until the administrative reform of June 7, 1969, in the course of which the majority of it was dissolved in the district of Alzey-Worms , to which Ober-Flörsheim has belonged ever since.

Ober-Flörsheim has been part of the Alzey-Land community since 1972 .

religion

Reformed in the 16th century, Catholic worship was reintroduced in 1698. In 1705, with the division of the Palatinate church , the Reformed regained control of the parish church. In the long term, both denominations coexisted. In 1747 the Lutheran Confession was the third denomination to build a church in the village. In 1876 the Free Protestant Congregation , a split from the Evangelicals, was founded.

Population development

Medieval gate tower

• 1787 - 516 inhabitants
• 1815 - 851 inhabitants
• 1849 - 1,223 inhabitants (858 Protestant, 272 Catholic, 91 Mennonite )
• 1870 - 1,094 inhabitants (799 Protestant, 265 Catholic, 44 Mennonite)
• 1900 - 1,014 inhabitants (533 Protestant, 236 Catholic, 231 free Protestant, 21 Mennonite)
• 2004 - 1,104 inhabitants
• 2008 - 1,191 inhabitants (566 Protestant, 331 Roman Catholic, 67 other, 227 without denomination)
• 2012 - 1,237 inhabitants (575 Protestant, 344 Roman Catholic, 35 other, 283 without denomination)
• 2014 - 1,205 inhabitants (531 Protestant, 317 Roman Catholic, 34 other, 323 without denomination)

politics

The memorial for the people of Ober-Flörsheim who fought in the Franco-German War was given to the community of Ober-Flörsheim in 1901 by a citizen who emigrated to the USA. It stands in front of the town hall.

Municipal council

The municipal council in Ober-Flörsheim consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	BLO	FWG	UBL	total
2019	12	4th	-	16 seats
2014	10	6th	-	16 seats
2009	6th	5	5	16 seats

• BLO = Citizen List Ober-Flörsheim e. V. (until January 16, 2018: Voting Group Gardt e.V.)
• WGZ = Free Voting Group Ober-Flörsheim e. V.
• UBL = Independent Citizens List

Mayor (list not yet complete)

• 1800–1810 Franz Müller
• 1810–1819 Nikolaus Stauff
• 1819–1831 Johannes Dettweiler
• 1831–1837 Johannes Mundorff
• 1838–1843 Johannes Dettweiler
• 1843–1862 Friedrich Diehl
• 1862–1871 Jakob Engel
• 1871–1884 Christian Fauth
• 1884–1922 Johannes Müller
• Jakob Kratz
• until 1945 Johann Hahn
• 1945–1946 Georg Müller
• 1946–1964 Albert Stauff
• 1964–1999 Werner Pfister
• 1999–2001 U. Vogt, resigned at Easter 2001
• 2001–2014 Adolf Gardt
• since 2014 Sascha Leonhardt

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Sascha Leonhardt (BLO) was confirmed in his office with a share of the vote of 86.74%.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue, a silver lily surmounted by two five-pointed silver stars."

Culture and sights

View of Ober-Flörsheim with the two churches (left: Catholic; right: Protestant); Photo: T. Schäfer

Evangelical church, built in 1887/88

Former Commandery of the Teutonic Order

town hall

Local history museum in the community center (former manor house in the commentary), opening times by arrangement. In 2001 the Heimat- und Kulturverein Ober-Flörsheim was founded, which now has around 110 members.

music

In addition to the men's choir Sängerkranz from 1855, which also has a women's choir, there is also the Catholic Church Music Association from 1912 and a Protestant church choir.

Buildings

Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul, built in 1776/1777 in place of the old parish church, which was given to the Reformed in 1705 after the Palatinate church was divided. The Teutonic Order, which held the patronage for the Catholic community, opposed the decision and upheld the property rights for the Catholics in a long legal dispute. As a result of the disputes, however, the old church fell apart, so that the baroque style new building was necessary. The bell tower was not added until 1930.

The Protestant church was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1887/88, it was renovated in 1961–65 and 1976–78, as indicated by a sandstone block on the west side of the tower.

The baroque, castle-like Komturhaus, the Schaffnerei opposite, a medieval gate tower and the remnants of the defensive walls of the district were preserved from the German Order Coming Ober-Flörsheim . They shape the townscape.

A late baroque courtyard in Alzeyer Strasse, separated from the town hall by Weedegasse, with a typical hipped mansard roof, is particularly worth seeing . This was created at the end of the 18th century.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Ober-Flörsheim

Sports

TSG 1863 Ober-Flörsheim offers gymnastics , couple dance , taekwondo and tennis , among others .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Georg Ludwig Nikolaus Alefeld , * 1789 in Ober-Flörsheim; † 1858 in Wiesbaden, major general of the ducal Nassau
• Sebastian Walter , * 1848 in Ober-Flörsheim; † 1922 Milwaukee, manufacturer ( emigrated to Milwaukee / USA in 1866 )
• Willy Deutschmann , * 1880 Ober-Flörsheim, painter, worked in Petersbächel im Wasgau, where he died in 1960. He is considered the most important painter of the central Wasgau, the border line between the Palatinate and Alsace.

literature

• 768-1968: 1200 years of Ober-Flörsheim. Festschrift. published by the municipality of Ober-Flörsheim. o. O. 1968.
• Reif, Friedrich: History of the former market town, today's village of Ober-Flörsheim. Mainz 1901.
• Schmahl, Helmut: The Ober-Flörsheim war memorial and its founder Sebastian Walter. Kirchheimbolanden 2001.
• Widder, Johann Goswin: Geographical-historical description of the Electoral Palatinate. Vol. 3, Frankfurt am Main 1787
• Literature about Ober-Flörsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Ober-Flörsheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Information from the community of Alzey-Land about Ober-Flörsheim
• Website of the Heimat- und Kulturverein Ober-Flörsheim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Here in this country: Commentary in Ober-Flörsheim - Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, SWR television
3. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945: Worms
4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 158 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Ober-Flörsheim. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ Sascha Leonhardt: Renaming of WG Gardt → BLO. Local community Ober-Flörsheim, January 28, 2018, accessed on September 7, 2019 . 
8. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, third from last line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .