Sankt Johann (Rheinhessen)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '  N , 8 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.66 km 2
Residents:	831 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	147 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55578
Area code :	06701
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 050
Association administration address:	Elisabethenstrasse 1 55576 Sprendlingen
Website :	www.sprendlingen-gensingen.de/
Local Mayor :	Hans Bergmann
Location of the local community of Sankt Johann in the Mainz-Bingen district

Sankt Johann in Rheinhessen is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Sprendlingen .

geography

Sankt Johann is located about 20 kilometers southwest of Mainz and borders on Sprendlingen to the west and Wolfsheim to the east .

history

The typical Rhine-Hessian wine village was called Weiler Megelsheim in the Middle Ages and was first mentioned in a document in 1220. In 1234 Megelsheim came together with Sprendlingen from the Raugrafen to the county of Sponheim-Kreuznach . The lower part of the municipal coat of arms, chessboard blue-gold, dates from this period . In 1417 the County of Sponheim-Starkenburg inherited 4/5 of the County of Sponheim-Kreuznach, including the local rule over Megelsheim. In 1437 Johann V , the last Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg, inherited the local rule to a condominium owned by the Margrave of Baden and the Count of Veldenz . In 1444 Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken inherits the county of Veldenz. In 1459 the house was divided into Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Pfalz-Simmern , to which St. Johann was added and which in 1559 inherited the Electoral Palatinate . In 1707 the condominium from Baden and now Kurpfalz in the area of ​​the former County of Sponheim-Kreuznach is dissolved. After the death of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm , Sprendlingen was owned by Baden and formed a margravial Baden office to which St. Johann was assigned. The place stayed with Baden until the end of the 18th century.

From 1912 to 1953, Sankt Johann was the terminus of the narrow-gauge overland tram Bad Kreuznach – St. Johann . Omnibuses then replaced their traffic.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Sankt Johann 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

In the 2019 local elections, Hans Bergmann was once again directly confirmed as local mayor with 56.42 percent of the vote .

Culture and sights

St. John's Church

Buildings

The landmark of the place is the high-Gothic Protestant St. John's Church, which, as evidenced by the representation on the vault - keystone in the choir , derives its name from John the Baptist . It is one of the most important sacred buildings in Rheinhessen . The church was built as a pilgrimage church in the second half of the fourteenth century by the Counts of Sponheim-Kreuznach and is located on the Rhine-Hessian way of the pilgrims of St. James . Its medieval wall paintings , which are particularly popular with art historians because of a monumental representation (6 m × 8 m) of the veneration of Christ and Mary by members of the donor family in a fantastic architectural setting based on Bohemian models, and the modern church windows by Heinz Hindorf are worth seeing . The important organ was built in 1793 by the Hesse-Darmstadt court organ builder Johann Philipp Oberndörfer for Roßdorf near Darmstadt and acquired from there in 1848.

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Sankt Johann
• List of natural monuments in Sankt Johann

Sports

There is a golf course above the village on the Wißberg .

Regular events

Concerts take place regularly in the Johanniskirche. The Sankt Johann fair goes back to the Middle Ages and is celebrated on the weekend after St. John's Day.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Erika Hofmann, German Wine Queen 1954/1955

literature

• Local history working group of the Volksbildungswerk St.Johann under the direction of Ludwig Diehl: Sankt Johann - Remembrance in pictures from old days , Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar, 1989, ISBN 3-89264-319-9
• Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1984; ISBN 3-422-00382-7
• Joachim Glatz, Medieval wall painting in the Palatinate and in Rheinhessen , dissertation, Mainz 1981
• Literature about Sankt Johann in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Sankt Johann  - Collection of Images

• Local community St. Johann on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: website of the Friends of St. John's Church )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present - history of the existing and departed cities, spots, villages, hamlets and farms, monasteries and castles of the province of Rheinhessen along with an introduction. , Emil Roth publishing house, Mainz, 1905
3. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City and municipal council elections 2019. Accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Individual elections 2019. Accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Joachim Glatz, Medieval wall painting in the Palatinate and in Rheinhessen , dissertation, Mainz 1981, p. 319, p. 320
6. ^ Georg Dehio , Handbook of German Art Monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 921; ISBN 3-422-00382-7