Oberheimbach

This article deals with that of the municipality of Oberheimbach. For the suburb of Wüstenrot of the same name, see Maienfels , for the suburb of Much see here .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Nahe
Height :	140 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.72 km 2
Residents:	539 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55413
Area code :	06743
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 045
Association administration address:	Koblenzer Strasse 18 55411 Bingen am Rhein
Website :	www.oberheimbach.de
Local Mayor :	Karl-Heinz Leinberger ( SPD )
Location of the local community Oberheimbach in the Mainz-Bingen district

Oberheimbach is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Nahe Association , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Bingen am Rhein .

Oberheimbach has been part of the Middle Rhine Unesco World Heritage Site since 2003 .

geography

Oberheimbach is located between Koblenz and Bad Kreuznach in the Heimbach valley, about two kilometers from Niederheimbach . The Kreuzmühle residential area also belongs to Oberheimbach .

history

Heimbach was first mentioned in a document dated June 14, 983, in which Emperor Otto II confirmed his rights under the spell of Bingen to Archbishop Willigis of Mainz .

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  Catholic parish church St. Margaretha

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  Center - parish church St. Margaretha

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  The inn "Im Krug zum Grüne Kranze", built in 1898

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  Guard tower of the former fortification

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Oberheimbach consists of twelve 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	total
2019	8th	4th	12 seats
2014	7th	5	12 seats
2009	8th	4th	12 seats
2004	7th	5	12 seats

mayor

The local mayor is Karl-Heinz Leinberger. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 91.69% of the votes.

Parish partnership

• Chargé in France

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Largest wine-growing communities in the growing area	Rank among all Rhineland-Palatinate wine-growing communities according to vineyards	Planted vineyards	Grape varieties
			White wine	red wine
		Ha	%
Middle Rhine		445	85.3	14.7
000Boppard	265	065	86.9	13.1
000Oberheimbach	279	059	89.7	10.3

Oberheimbach is characterized by viticulture and with 59 hectares of vines, after Boppard (65 hectares), it is the largest wine-growing community in the Middle Rhine .

traffic

• To the federal highway 9 , which connects Mainz with Koblenz, it is approx. 2 km in a northeast direction.
• The federal motorway 61 is reached after approx. 15 km at the junction Rheinböllen .
• The next train station is in Niederheimbach on the Mainz - Koblenz line .

Personalities

• Adam Schönwetter von Heimbach (around 1465–1519), lawyer, born in Oberheimbach; City counsel in Frankfurt am Main and author of the Frankfurt Reformation

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Oberheimbach
• Jewish cemetery (Oberheimbach)

literature

• Literature about Oberheimbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Oberheimbach  - Collection of images

Wiktionary: Oberheimbach  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Website of the local community Oberheimbach
• Historical information about Oberheimbach at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 106 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Regesten of the city of Bingen, the Klopp Castle and the Rupertsberg Monastery . Bingen 1853, p. 3 ( Google Books )
4. ↑ Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved July 29, 2019
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rhein-Nahe, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh result line. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .