Osthofen

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Osthofen (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '  N , 8 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wonnegau
Height :	89 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.63 km 2
Residents:	9521 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	511 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67574
Area code :	06242
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 055
Association administration address:	Am Schneller 3 67574 Osthofen
Website :	www.osthofen.de
City Mayor :	Thomas Goller ( SPD )
Location of the city of Osthofen in the Alzey-Worms district

Osthofen is a town in the Wonnegau community in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Alzey-Worms . It is also the administrative seat and largest municipality of the Wonnegau community. The community was elevated to a city on October 24, 1970. According to state planning, Osthofen is designated as a basic center.

geography

Osthofen is located in Rheinhessen about eight kilometers north of Worms . Neighboring towns are Bechtheim in the northwest, Mettenheim in the north, Biblis on the right bank of the Rhine (district Nordheim ), in the south and southwest Worms with the districts Rheindürkheim , Herrnsheim and Abenheim and in the west Westhofen .

history

Archaeological finds have shown that the Osthofen district on the Seebach was inhabited at least four millennia ago. The place was first mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in a document dated July 1, 784 as Ostowa . At that time, Count Gerold von Anglachgau and his wife Imma gave property in various districts to the Lorsch Monastery , including court riding in Osthofen, fields, paths and footbridges, vineyards and serfs.

Presumably, Osthofen was founded by the Mühlheim, which is now incorporated, or the former Merovingian royal palace in Neuhausen .

A Remigius chapel was possibly built on the Osthofen Goldberg in the 6th century. The first large manor was located here, which developed into an imperial castle by 1195. In 1215 the Knights Templar also built a castle in Mühlheim . The early Mühlheim nunnery was also built .

Until the end of the 18th century, Osthofen belonged to the Palatinate Oberamt Alzey . During the French period , the place was the seat of a Mairie in the canton of Bechtheim , which was part of the Donnersberg department .

Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and a state treaty concluded in 1816 between Hesse , Austria and Prussia , the region came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen by this . The cantons were retained, but the canton of Bechtheim was renamed the canton of Osthofen in 1822 , after the seat of the justice of the peace had actually been relocated to Osthofen in 1804, i.e. during the French period. After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, Osthofen came to the newly established Worms district in 1835 , to which it belonged until the administrative reform in 1969.

From March 1933 to July 1934 there was a concentration camp in Osthofen, the Osthofen concentration camp , the setting for Anna Seghers ' novel The Seventh Cross . In contrast to the novel, however, no people were murdered in the Osthofen concentration camp.

In the transit camp Osthofen around 215,000 refugees were smuggled from 1946 to the beginning of the 1,953th Then they looked for a new livelihood in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population development

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

With a current population of 9,521, Osthofen is one of the largest communities in Rheinhessen.

year Residents 1815 1,240 1835 3,318 1871 2,879 1905 3,924 1939 4,743 1950 5,510 1961 5,732

year Residents 1970 6,732 1987 7,033 1997 8,430 2005 8,455 2011 8,692 2017 9,289

politics

City council

City council election 2019

Turnout: 53.4% ​​(2014: 50.0%)
Weighted result

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40

30th

20th

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31.7%
(-4.1  % p )

23.1%
(-2.1  % p )

7.0%
( n.k. )

5.5%
(+1.5  % p )

16.6%
(-5.1  % p )

16.1%
(+ 2.8  % p )

SPD

CDU

Green

ÖDP

BVW

FWG

2014



2019



The city ​​council in Osthofen consists of 24 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	ÖDP	FWG	BVW	total
2019	8th	5	2	1	4th	4th	24 seats
2014	9	6th	-	1	3	5	24 seats
2009	11	7th	-	1	5	-	24 seats
2004	11	8th	-	-	5	-	24 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group of the City of Osthofen
• BVW = Bürgererverein Wonnegau e. V.

Mayor and City Council

• Wendelin Best (1822-1831)
• Johann Weißheimer II. (1831–1843)
• Georg Friedrich Knierim I (1843–1850)
• Peter Berger (1851-1853)
• Friedrich Knierim I (1853–1862)
• Nikolaus Nagel (1862–1864)
• Georg Friedrich Best II. (1864–1867)
• Jakob Beckenbach (1867–1870)
• Johann Rissler III. (1870-1883)
• Simon Friedrich Schill (1883-1892)
• Johann Rissler III. (1892-1897)
• Georg Jakob Konrad (1897–1912)
• Wilhelm Schmitt (1912–1923)
• Carl Brenner (1924–1933)
• Wilhelm Fuhrländer (1933–1935)
• Kurt Mildner (1935–1944)
• Heinrich Hundsdorf (1944–1945) (acting)
• Heinrich Rhein (1945–1946)
• Ludwig Knobloch (1946–1948)
• Walter Assmann (1948–1956)
• Albert Fischer (1956–1972)
• Günter Metzler (1973–1987)
• Klaus Hagemann (SPD) (1987–1994)
• Bernd Müller (SPD) (1994–2012) (full-time mayor)
• Wolfgang Itzerodt (SPD) (2013–2014) (honorary city mayor)
• Thomas Goller (SPD) (since 2014) (honorary mayor)

Thomas Goller (SPD) was elected honorary mayor on June 8, 2014 (runoff) with a voter turnout of 36 percent with 53.95 percent of the valid votes. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 74.41% of the votes.

The mayor is supported by three honorary councilors. The first councilor of the city of Osthofen is currently Uwe Kern (independent), the other councilors are Kai Kronauer (independent, proposed by the CDU) and Rolf Kommer (SPD).

fusion

The previously independent town of Osthofen merged on July 1, 2014 with the community of Westhofen to form the new community of Wonnegau . The association has its seat in Osthofen. Some departments remain in Westhofen.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black a red-armored, tongued and crowned golden lion, accompanied by an uneducated golden sun in the right upper corner and three six-pointed golden stars on the right flank."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The lion reminds of the fact that the city belongs to the Electoral Palatinate, the rising sun in the "east" symbolizes the place name Osthofen.

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Osthofen

Buildings

• The evangelical mountain church probably goes back to a Remigius chapel from the 6th century, next to which a manor fortified to the castle over the course of history was located. Today's mountain church emerged from the castle and chapel, with the church tower probably standing on the foundations of the keep. The church has been rebuilt several times and got its current appearance after a fire in the 19th century. The mountain cemetery has been occupied continuously since 1648.
• The Catholic Remigius Church has its origins in a chapel of the Templar Order, which was later taken over by the Order of St. John, went to the Catholic Church in 1713. Parish who decisively rebuilt the building in 1792. The altar of the church was originally in the Carmelite Church in Worms.
• The town hall of the Verbandsgemeinde Wonnegau am Schneller was built in 1902 as a tax office in the neo-renaissance style.
• The old town hall dates from 1739 and initially served until 1972, then again as the seat of the Osthofen town council since 2014.
• The miniature castle Leckzapfen was built in 1891 to look like Lichtenstein Castle . The building stands above the "Leckzapfen" vineyard, above the old town of Osthofen.
• In the so-called small church , which is directly connected to the old town hall, components of the first town hall from 1581 went on.
• The Osthofen concentration camp , operated by the National Socialists in 1933/34, is now a memorial. The building was immortalized by the German writer Anna Seghers in her novel The Seventh Cross , which was also made into a film with the American actor Spencer Tracy in the lead role.
• The Jewish cemetery on Mettenheimer Chaussee was laid out in 1832 and is a reminder of the local Jewish community.
• The Schill Tower is a malt silo built in the early 1960s with a viewing platform that is no longer accessible today. Similar to the Henninger Tower in Frankfurt, which was also built as a malt silo at almost the same time , the building has now become a landmark of the city that can be seen from afar.

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  Mountain church

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  Old Town Hall

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  Miniature castle lick plug

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  Osthofen Concentration Camp Memorial

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  Seat of the Wonnegau community

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  Schill Tower

Regular events

Wonnegauer wine festival

From 1949 to 2013 the annual Wonnegauer Winzerfest took place in Osthofen . The highlights of the multi-day event included the coronation of the Wonnegau wine queen and the prince bubbly , as well as the traditional Monday wine tasting. In the future, a city ​​festival , in which the local associations also participate, is to replace the wine festival.

Wonnegauer wine majesties

Term of office	Wine Queen	Wine princess	Prince bubbly
2013/2014	Marie-Christin Strauch	-	Patrick Seiler
2012/2013	Wibke Ahl	Rika Unkelbach and Franziska Kromm	-
2011/2012	-	-	Benjamin Gumbel
2010/2011	Mona Hartmann	-	Benjamin Gumbel
2009/2010	Anja Bartmann	-	David Knierim
2008/2009	Anja Bartmann	-	David Knierim

Osthofen wine mile

The Osthofen Wine Mile has been held annually on the last weekend in June since 2016. In the first year she was included in the circle of award-winning wine festivals in Rheinhessen . The wine mile gets its special festival character from two stages that connect Ludwig-Schwamb-Straße and Altbachanlage. Regional and national bands , DJs and wind bands perform there from Friday to Sunday . The supporting program also includes dance and martial arts performances, offers for children and the Kerwe breakfast on Sundays.

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

The Wonnegau Hall

The Wonnegau-Halle gymnasium is available to clubs and schools in Osthofen and the surrounding area . The hall is also used with the adjacent space for major events.

Viticulture

Osthofen belongs to the "Wonnegau winegrowing area" in the Rheinhessen growing area . There are 35 wine-growing businesses in the city, and the area under vines is 465  hectares . About 68% of the cultivated wine are white grape varieties (as of 2007). In 1979 116 businesses were still active, the vineyard area at that time was 429 hectares.

Companies

• Osthofen has been the headquarters of the Schill Malz malting group since it was founded in 1859 . Production at the Osthofen location was discontinued at the end of 2005.
• In Osthofen, Nestlé HealthCare Nutrition produces special drinking and nutritional nutrition for people with special nutritional needs. The plant emerged from the German headquarters of the Swiss Wander AG , whose founder, Dr. Georg Wander was born in Osthofen in 1841.

traffic

Regional train with railcars of the DB class 628 in Osthofen station on the way to Mannheim on the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line

Local exit from Osthofen to federal highway 9

Local public transport

The station Osthofen is located on the railway line Mainz-Mannheim . The S6 trains to Mainz and Mannheim stop here every 30 minutes . The journey time to Mainz main station is around 40 minutes, Mannheim main station can be reached in around 45 minutes. Earlier here the closed routes Osthofen-Rheindürkheim-Gunter Blum (today freight to Worms Rheindürkheim ) Osthofen-Westhofen and Osthofen-Gau Odernheim on. The routes to Westhofen and Gau Odernheim were in 1958 and 1992 shut down .

Osthofen is also connected to Worms, Alzey and the rest of the Alzey-Worms district with the VRN bus routes 431, 432, 434 and 435 .

Street

There is also a motorway connection to the A 61 and in the direction of the Rhine to the federal highway 9 nearby .

people

sons and daughters of the town

• Margarete von Osthofen († July 19, 1418), wife of the knight Hamman von Sickingen , grandmother of Reinhard I. von Sickingen, Prince-Bishop in Worms (1445–1482)
• Georg Helwich (born July 21, 1588 in Osthofen, † 1632 in Mainz), cathedral vicar and former historian of the Archdiocese of Mainz
• Johann Georg Wahl (born April 23, 1702 in Osthofen; † July 15, 1773 in Osthofen), "Churpfalz Zoller and art-experienced master carpenter", created the so-called "convict cabinet"
• Friedrich Magnus Schwerd (born March 8, 1792 in Osthofen; † April 22, 1871 in Speyer), high school teacher, geodesist, astronomer and physicist
• Johann Weißheimer II (born October 25, 1797; † 1883 in Osthofen), landowner, mayor and chronicler of Osthofen, patron of the composer Richard Wagner
• Friedrich August von Pauli (born May 6, 1802 in Osthofen; † June 26, 1883 in Bad Kissingen), chief construction director and pioneer of railway bridge construction, inventor of the Pauli girder
• Simon Friedrich Schill (born March 30, 1834 in Osthofen; † August 25, 1921 there), winemaker, entrepreneur and politician
• Wendelin Weißheimer (born February 26, 1838 - † June 10, 1910 in Nuremberg), composer, conductor, music writer, confidante of the composer Richard Wagner
• Georg Wander (born August 11, 1841 in Osthofen; March 14, 1897 in Bern ), the Ovaltine production of Wander AG in Osthofen goes back to him .
• Dietrich Gruen (born February 22, 1847 in Osthofen, † April 10, 1911 at sea near Italy), watchmaker, founder and owner of the Gruen Watch Company , pioneer in the manufacture of pocket and wrist watches
• Adam Schreiber (born July 26, 1849 in Osthofen, † December 15, 1926 in Worms), Apostolic Protonotary, 1st Rector of the Papal Basilica and Provost at Worms Cathedral.
• Franz Best (October 12, 1853 - October 16, 1939): Hessian liberal member of the state parliament
• Carl Schill (born November 5, 1862 in Osthofen; † October 22, 1944 there), entrepreneur, councilor and "gymnastics father" from Rheinhessen
• Karl d'Angelo (born September 9, 1890 in Osthofen, † March 20, 1945 probably in Gernsheim): Head of the Osthofen concentration camp, protective custody camp leader of the Dachau concentration camp, police director in Cuxhaven and Heilbronn
• Heinrich Worster (born November 27, 1909 in Osthofen; † October 4, 1963 ibid), SS-Hauptsturmführer and head of site administration in the Dachau and Majdanek concentration camps
• Christian Filips (born November 22, 1981 in Osthofen), German poet, dramaturge and essayist

Personalities who have worked on site

• Georg Baselitz (born January 23, 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, today a district of Kamenz in the Saxon Upper Lusatia; real name Hans-Georg Kern), an important contemporary German painter and sculptor, lived in Osthofen from 1966 to 1975
• Klaus Hagemann (born December 31, 1947 in Wölkau, Merseburg district), German politician ( SPD ), former mayor of Osthofen and from 1994 to 2013 member of the German Bundestag
• Karl Platt (born March 14, 1978), German mountain bike professional

literature

In alphabetical order by authors / editors:

• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present . Giessen 1905, pp. 378-381.
• Klaus Hagemann: Osthofener Bilderbogen - A walk through the wine town . Hamm am Rhein 1995.
• Brigitte Kazenwadel-Drews: Osthofen - A tour through history . Heidelberg 2006.
• Dieter Krienke and Ingrid Westerhoff: Alzey Worms district. Verbandsgemeinden Eich, Monsheim and Wonnegau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 20.3. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2018. ISBN 978-3-88462-379-4 , pp. 243–288.

Web links

Commons : Osthofen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Osthofen
• Literature about Osthofen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
• Link catalog on Osthofen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 187 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
4. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1880 July 1, 784 - Reg. 1926. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 332 , accessed on January 25, 2016 . 
5. ^ Collection of Grand Ducal Hessian Laws and Ordinances , Volume 3, v. Zabern, 1835, p. 198 ( Google Books )
6. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections . Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 
7. ^ Thomas Goller (SPD) becomes the new mayor of Osthofen. In: Nibelungen Courier. Retrieved May 7, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wonnegau, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of results. Retrieved September 8, 2019 . 
9. ↑ City council and city council , website of the city of Osthofen
10. ↑ Kai Kronauer is alderman , Wormser Zeitung , June 27, 2019
11. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 209 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
12. ↑ http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/lokales/alzey/vg-wonnegau/osthofen/stadtfest-ersetzt-das-winzerfest_15058789.htm
13. ↑ Farewell to “Prinz Schampus” / KRONUNG Weinkönigin Wibke and Princesses Rika and Franziska follow in the footsteps of Benjamin I. von Karl M. Wirthwein on wormser-zeitung.de from September 24, 2012
14. ↑ EXCELLENT Osthofener Weinmeile. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 20, 2018 ; accessed on February 20, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Transport & Public Transport | City of Osthofen. Retrieved January 28, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Julius Grünewald, Dorette Staab: Johann Georg Wahl (1702–1773): A craftsman's life in the 18th century (=  Alzeyer history sheets . Special issue 25). E. Humbert Verlag, Alzey 2013, ISBN 978-3-86232-023-3 .
17. ^ Dietrich Gruen in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 5, 2017.
18. ↑ http://www.deutschbaselitz-rundweg.de/georg-baselitz.html
19. ↑ Bike-Magazin.de: Karl Platt professional area: Palatinate Forest. Professional area: Karl Platt's home trails . June 25, 2016. Online at www.bike-magazin.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016.