Oestrich-Winkel

Basic data
State :	Hesse
Administrative region :	Darmstadt
County :	Rheingau-Taunus district
Height :	84 m above sea level NHN
Area :	59.53 km 2
Residents:	11,849 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	199 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	65375
Area code :	06723
License plate :	RÜD, SWA
Community key :	06 4 39 012
LOCODE :	DE OSW
City structure:	4 districts
; City administration address :	Paul-Gerhardt-Weg 1 ; 65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Website :	www.oestrich-winkel.de
Mayor :	Kay Tenge (independent)
Location of the city of Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau-Taunus district

Oestrich-Winkel is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse . The seat of the city administration is in the district of Oestrich .

geography

Geographical location

The city is located on the Rhine , about 20 km west of Mainz . The intersection of the 50th north latitude with the 8th east longitude lies in the Winkel district.

City structure

Aerial view of the place.
In the foreground the Winkel district , Oestrich at the top left and Frei-Weinheim on the opposite side of the Rhine

The urban area of Oestrich-Winkel consists of the districts Hallgarten , Mittelheim , Oestrich and Winkel .

Winkel, the structurally connected Mittelheim and Oestrich are located in a west-east direction directly on the Rhine, Hallgarten about 2 km to the north.

Expansion of the urban area

The urban area covers a total of 5953 hectares, of which:

Building and open space	233 ha
traffic area	229 ha
Agricultural area	176 ha
Vineyards	1019 ha
Forest area	3949 ha
Water surface	243 ha
Area of other use	104 ha

Neighboring communities

Oestrich-Winkel borders Geisenheim in the west, Lorch , Welterod ( Rhein-Lahn-Kreis ), Heidenrod and Schlangenbad in the north and Eltville am Rhein in the east . In the south, across the Rhine, lies the town of Ingelheim am Rhein ( Mainz-Bingen district ).

history

Oestrich-Winkel, which has around 12,000 inhabitants, was created in the course of the regional reform in Hesse on July 1, 1972 through the voluntary merger of the previously independent municipalities of Mittelheim , Oestrich and Winkel . At the same time, the state government granted the new municipality the right to call itself a city . Even before the city was founded, the double name had a long tradition as the name of the only train station in the city. The last mayor of Winkel, Klaus Frietsch , who later became the district administrator of the Rheingau-Taunus district, was elected the city's first mayor . On January 1, 1977, the Hallgarten community was incorporated by virtue of state law . Local districts with local councils and local councilors were formed for all city districts .

Religions

Each of the four districts of Oestrich-Winkel has its own Catholic church, which belong to the large parish of St. Peter and Paul Rheingau. The Protestant Christians belong to the Evangelical Church Community of Oestrich-Winkel, which was founded in 1891 and which also includes the Eltville district of Hattenheim .

In Oestrich there is a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses and in Mittelheim there is a congregation of the New Apostolic Church .

A Jewish community existed in Oestrich from the 19th century until the National Socialist era . The Jewish cemetery in Oestrich is considered to be the oldest preserved Jewish cemetery in the Rheingau. In August 2013 the artist Gunter Demnig laid the first stumbling blocks to commemorate the Jewish victims of National Socialism .

politics

City Council

The local elections on March 6, 2016 produced the following results, compared to previous local elections:

Distribution of seats in the 2016 city council A total of 31 seats SPD : 9 Greens : 5 FDP : 3 CDU : 14	Parties and constituencies		% 2016	Seats 2016	% 2011	Seats 2011	% 2006	Seats 2006	% 2001	Seats 2001
	CDU	Christian Democratic Union of Germany	44.6	14th	37.9	14th	43.4	16	47.9	18th
	SPD	Social Democratic Party of Germany	30.7	9	29.7	11	29.6	11	31.1	11
	GREEN	Alliance 90 / The Greens	14.9	5	25.4	9	19.1	7th	10.8	4th
	FDP	Free Democratic Party	9.8	3	7.0	3	7.9	3	4.3	2
	FWG	Free community of voters	-	-	-	-	-	-	6.0	2
	total		100.0	31	100.0	37	100.0	37	100.0	37
	Voter turnout in%		55.5		52.8		51.5		60.2

Civic center and town hall of the city of Oestrich-Winkel, built in 2005

mayor

On May 26, 2019, Kay Tenge (non-party, election proposal from the CDU) was elected mayor with 58.2 percent of the vote. The turnout was 67.4 percent. He took office on September 1, 2019. His predecessor Michael Heil had not stood for re-election.

Former mayor

2013 to 2019: Michael Heil (CDU)
1995 to 2013: Paul Weimann (CDU)
1989 to 1995: Heinz-Dieter Mielke (SPD)
1972 to 1989: Klaus Frietsch (SPD)

Partnerships

The city of Oestrich-Winkel maintains partnerships with the Hungarian Tokaj , the French Denicé and the 2nd / Fernmeldebataillon 283 in Lahnstein .

coat of arms

The city coat of arms of Oestrich-Winkel shows a mirrored silver "Z", accompanied on both sides by a golden star. The "Z" represents a wolf tang or a double hook and was apparently used to ward off wolves in earlier times. The coat of arms dates from the 17th century. Before the city was founded, it was the municipal coat of arms of today's Mittelheim district since 1965 .

flag

On January 6, 1988, the city of Oestrich-Winkel was awarded the flag described below: "The flag of the city of Oestrich-Winkel shows the city coat of arms between narrow blue marginal strips covered with a white thread on a wide white central strip in the upper half."

Culture and sights

Vineyards in Oestrich-Winkel with a view of the Hallgarter Zange

Wine culture

Oestrich-Winkel is shaped by viticulture . The following locations are cultivated:

Oestrich: Lenchen - Doosberg - Klosterberg - Pfaffenberg
Mittelheim: Edelmann - St. Nikolaus - Goldberg
Angle: Dachsberg - Hasensprung - Gutenberg - Jesuit Garden - Bee Garden - Vollrads Castle
Hallgarten: Jungfer - Würzgarten - Schönhell - Hendelberg - Mehrhölzchen

Attractions

Oestrich crane

the residential tower of Vollrads Castle

The Oestricher crane , a landmark of the Oestrich district , is a former wine loading crane from the 18th century for loading and unloading ships. Completed in 1745, it worked until 1926. Inside the crane there are two pedal or running wheels , in each of which two men set a winch in motion through their body mass in order to lift the ship's cargo.

The Oestrich parish church of St. Martin and the St. Aegidius basilica in Mittelheim are considered the oldest churches in the Rheingau. The famous Hallgarten Madonna from the early 15th century can be seen in the parish church of the Assumption in Hallgarten . The modern Evangelical Church in Mittelheim from 1956 is also a listed building.

Reichartshausen Palace (founded in the 12th century) is located on the north-eastern border of the municipality near Hattenheim , with its farm buildings disguised as artificial ruins around 1900 ; Today it houses the EBS University for Economics and Law .

The oldest preserved stone house in Germany, the Gray House, is in Winkel . For a long time it was believed that Rabanus Maurus lived there and died there in 856.

Vollrads Castle with its ancient water tower - located two kilometers north of Winkel - is also one of the noteworthy sights.

The Brentano house is in the center of Winkel . Here is Goethe stopped in 1814 for some time as a guest of the Frankfurt banking family Brentano. The family's children are Clemens , Gunda and Bettina Brentano . Karoline von Günderrode , a friend of Bettina, stabbed herself to death on the banks of the Rhine in Winkel in 1806 out of heartache and weariness. A barn opposite the Brentano House has been used as a cultural event building since 2003 under the name “Brentano barn”.

To the north of the city stands a stone lookout tower on the 580 m high Hallgarter Zange .

Regular events

Regular events are the Lenchenfest (most recently in 2007), the Dippemarkt, a Christmas market and the jazz week.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economy and resident companies

Viticulture and tourism are important in Oestrich-Winkel. Due to a profound structural change, there are only a few industrial companies in the city today. Mainly there are craft and service companies. Resident companies with supraregional importance are the cosmetics manufacturer WILDE COSMETICS GmbH and Lafarge Roof System Components GmbH & Co. KG, which operates in the field of plastics processing. Koepp Schaum GmbH was also based in Oestrich-Winkel until 2018 .

In 2011 there were 1931 jobs subject to social security contributions in the urban area. The service share was 64.1%.

Educational institutions

EBS University of Economics and Law (Business School), view of the campus from the banks of the Rhine

Oestrich-Winkel has been the seat of the EBS University for Business and Law since 1980 and is therefore a university town. The Pfingstbachschule (elementary school) is located in the Oestrich district . Another primary school is located in the Hallgarten district.

Based on political decisions in the district council and the resulting changed regional school development plan, there was restructuring in the area of the educational offer in 2015. The Rabanus-Maurus-Schule (elementary school) in the Winkel district and the Rheingau reform school in the Oestrich district were closed. The latter was the last secondary school in the Rheingau. Today's Pfingstbach School is located in the buildings of the previous reform school.

traffic

Oestrich-Winkel is located directly on the federal highway 42 , which accompanies the bank of the Rhine as a bypass and separates it from the built-up area. She goes behind Walluf seamlessly into the federal highway 66 over.

From Mittelheim there is a ferry service for cars to Ingelheim am Rhein , where there is a connection to the Federal Motorway 60 , between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. (in the summer months until 10 p.m.) . The access to the ferry under the B 42 is too low for trucks. The bank of the Rhine in Winkel is the berth for the passenger ships Robert Stolz and Willy Schneider , which are operated by the local Charterliner GmbH van de Lücht .

Since the B 42 runs through the floodplain on the banks of the Rhine , and the traffic has to be routed regularly during floods, the old town through road, in Oestrich and Mittelheim the Rheingaustraße and in Winkel the main road , as the B 42a, still has the status of a federal road. The B 42a branches off the bypass road at Schloss Reichartshausen, runs through Oestrich-Winkel and joins again with the B 42 before Geisenheim . In Oestrich it runs as the main thoroughfare through the southern part of the city, next to most of the shops Bank and restaurants, there are also two bus stops here, from the entrance to the town (where it is connected to the B 42 via a clasp with a roundabout) has two lanes, behind Friedensplatz it is through the Scharfe Eck, for about 150 meters only one lane, here comes it often jams. Behind it the road becomes two lanes again. The area of Oestrich becomes more extensive here. In Mittelheim it connects to the train station, then it runs south and runs right next to the main road, later it meets in Winkel, after a turn to the north, on Lindenplatz. Here it meets a road (two-lane) that runs to Geisenheim and another road (one-way street) that passes through Winkel and Mittelheim and meets the Rheingaustraße behind the train station, the stretch of road marked as the main road has many defects and is very narrow.

The Hallgarten district, about 2.5 km from the Rhine, is connected to the regional traffic from Reichartshausen Castle by the K 638 district road with a railway underpass.

The Oestrich-Winkel railway station is located in Mittelheim he is on the East Rhine Railway ( Frankfurt (Main) - Wiesbaden -Oestrich-angle Koblenz ), which up to the Hessian border at Lorchhausen the Rhine-Main Transport Association is a member.

When the right Rhine route was built, the communities of Oestrich and Winkel could not agree with the railway company on the locations of the railway stations. So the railway built a train station in the small Mittelheim and called it Oestrich-Winkel, generations before it was thought of uniting the three communities under this name as part of the regional reform.

Bike trails

The R3a variant of the Hessian long-distance cycle route R3 ( Rhein-Main-Kinzig-Radweg ) runs through the village . The R3 leads under the motto In the footsteps of the late harvest rider . along the Rhine , Main and Kinzig via Fulda to Tann in the Rhön . On the first section to Eltville, the R3a variant leads over the Rheingau Riesling Route . The Rhine Cycle Path runs along the banks of the Rhine , an approx. 1230 km long long- distance cycle path that leads through five countries from the headwaters of the Rhine in the Swiss Alps on the Oberalp Pass to the mouth near Rotterdam .

Education and care

Until 2015, Oestrich-Winkel had two primary schools in Winkel and in Oestrich, with a secondary school also being integrated into the Oestrich primary school. With the closure of the Winkler Rabanus-Maurus School in 2015, their students were relocated to the smaller Oestrich elementary school, which has now been renamed the "Pfingstbach School". The secondary school was moved to the integrated comprehensive school in Rüdesheim.

sons and daughters of the town

1467, Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads , † March 13, 1531, Archbishop and Elector of Trier, was born at Vollrads Castle
1665, April 18, in Mittelheim, Philipp Gersenius , † February 15, 1727 in Aschaffenburg, Jesuit , cathedral preacher in Würzburg, university professor in Würzburg and Bamberg, from 1723 rector of the Jesuit college in Speyer
1846, May 22, Peter Spahn , † 31 August 1925 in Bad Wildungen, German politician ( CENTER ), MdR , MdL ( Prussia ) Prussian Minister of Justice, was born in angle
1955, March 8, Andreas Etienne , actor and theater director

Personalities

Rabanus Maurus (around 780–856), an important Carolingian scholar, died in Winkel
Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), a romantic poet, committed suicide in Winkel
Andreas Joseph Hofmann (1752–1849), Metternich's teacher , revolutionary, agent of France in London - and in 1793 the first President of Parliament in German history in the Rhenish-German National Convention