Wörrstadt

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wörrstadt
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.75 km 2
Residents:	7968 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	476 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55286
Area code :	06732
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 073
City structure:	City and 1 district
City administration address :	Pariser Strasse 75 55286 Wörrstadt
Website :	www.woerrstadt.de
City Mayor :	Ingo Kleinfelder ( SPD )
Location of the city of Wörrstadt in the Alzey-Worms district

Wörrstadt is a town in the district of Alzey-Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate with around 8,000 inhabitants (as of Dec. 2018) . It is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Wörrstadt , to which it also belongs. According to state planning, Wörrstadt is designated as a basic center.

geography

Geographical location

Wörrstadt is located in Rheinhessen on the northwestern edge of the Upper Rhine Plain . The Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz is approx. 15 kilometers north of the city (as the crow flies), the district town of Alzey is approx. 10 kilometers south of Wörrstadt. The district of Rommersheim belongs to Wörrstadt and is located in a depression in the southwest of the city.

Wörrstadt is surrounded by the typical Rhine-Hessian cultural landscape: intensive viticulture is practiced in the favorable areas, and arable farming in the less exposed locations. The Rhine-Hessian landscape has largely been cleared and the natural vegetation is hardly or not at all. Wörrstadt has a special feature for Rheinhessen : with the Neuborn , the city has one of the few forest areas in the region. There are many natural springs in this forest area, the water of which feeds the swimming pool of the association, the Neubornbad . The Mühlbach flows through Wörrstadt .

Neighboring communities

• Saulheim
• Schornsheim
• Gabsheim
• Spiesheim
• Ensheim
• Armsheim
• Sulzheim
• Vendersheim

City structure

• Wörrstadt
• Rommersheim

climate

The annual precipitation is 567 mm. The rainfall is low. They are in the lower quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 14% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is January, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 2 times more rainfall than in January. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 49% of the measuring stations .

history

Wörrstadt was first mentioned in a document in 772. The Franconian caretaker Pippin the Middle donated goods in the three towns of Wörrstadt, Armsheim and Saulheim to the St. Nicomedes Church in Mainz. Already for the time around 2000 BC Chr. Is considered a settlement of today's urban area. Rommersheim , whose name was Eichloch until 1931, is first mentioned in 824.

The Laurentiuskirche was built around 1100 as a fortified church. There was an earlier church in the 8th century. The second church was burned down by a lightning strike around 1600 and was rebuilt. The previous church was taller, but it is still the tallest building in town. You can see them as you drive by from federal highway 420 . The Catholic Church was built in the 18th century and stands next to the Laurentius Church, which has been Protestant since the 16th century. The Rommersheim Church was built between 1733 and 1751. The old crucifix suggests a very old church.

On November 7, 1970, Rommersheim was incorporated into Wörrstadt with 432 residents at the time. September 4, 2009 Wörrstadt was Prime Minister Kurt Beck , the city charter granted.

politics

The town hall of Wörrstadt

City council

The city ​​council in Wörrstadt 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. Up until the 2009 elections, the then municipal council had 22 council members, the increase to 24 seats had become necessary according to the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral law due to the increased population of Wörrstadt.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	GREEN	BfW	FWG	total
2019	9	6th	-	5	-	4th	24 seats
2014	11	6th	1	3	-	3	24 seats
2009	11	7th	-	2	2	2	24 seats
2004	7th	8th	-	2	2	3	22 seats

• BfW = Citizens for Wörrstadt e. V.
• FWG = Free Voting Group Wörrstadt e. V.

Local or city mayor

• Hans-Günter Schweers - SPD (1982-1983)
• Günter Helmus - SPD (1983-2004)
• Ingo Kleinfelder - SPD (2004 – today) (Mayor since 2009)

In the elections on May 26, 2019, Ingo Kleinfelder was confirmed in his office in the first ballot with 54.67% of the votes.

The city mayor is supported in his duties by three honorary councilors.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black, two retrospective red-armored and tongued silver lions, holding a golden rust."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The silver lions represent the former feudal lords of Wörrstadt, the Rhine Counts . The rust is the attribute of St. Lawrence and reminds of his patronage and the former coat of arms.

Twin town

Since 1986, Wörrstadt has maintained a partnership with Arnay-le-Duc in France .

Culture and sights

Culture and music

• Kulturkreis Wörrstadt e. V., founded 1979; active with 15–20 events per year, theater, concerts, lectures
• Jazz Club Rheinhessen e. V., founded in 1986; organizes five to six concerts a year, some with international jazz greats
• Neuborn Open Air Festival (Metal / Rock Open Air)
• Wörrstadt 286er e. V., founded in 2014 (Association for Carnival Customs Maintenance)
• several choral societies
  • Gesangverein Liederkranz e. V. Wörrstadt
  • Gesangverein Sängerbund e. V. Wörrstadt
  • Choral Association WÖ-Rommersheim

Buildings

Laurentiuskirche

Wind turbines near Wörrstadt, photographed from the Rheinsender plateau

Burgunderturm near Wörrstadt

• Building of the former Thurn-und-Taxis- Post
• Laurentiuskirche (Wörrstadt) with Stumm organ from 1759
• Neunröhrenbrunnen , built in 1608, renovated in 1930. The Mühlbach rises here .
• Elm ditch , remains of the former fortifications
• Town hall of Rommersheim , built around 1600. Rommersheim is now part of Wörrstadt
• Day laborer's house , a historic residential building of the lower class at the time.
• Schiller monument near the cemetery
• Five wind turbines of type E-82 , each with a hub height of 138 meters. The rotor blades reach a height of 179 m. Five other wind turbines of the same type also have a hub height of 138 meters.
• Burgunderturm , a 15 m high observation tower in the Kachelberg vineyard west of Wörrstadt.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wörrstadt

Sports

• Football club Wörrstadt 06 e. V.
• Gymnastics and Sports Club Wörrstadt e. V. 1847 ( German women's soccer champion 1974 )
• Cyclist Association Wörrstadt 1899 e. V. (three-time BDR gold cup winner; multiple German and European champion in art cycling)
• Table tennis club Wörrstadt
• Judo Club Wörrstadt e. V.
• Wörrstadt chess club
• Tus handball Wörrstadt

Sports facilities

• Large sports hall (IGS)
• Training hall (IGS)
• Cycling hall
• Shooting range "Im Neuborn"
• "Am Neuborn" football pitch
• Tennis courts "at the swimming pool"
• Community hall on Jahnstrasse
• outdoor pool
• Skate facility for young people at the Neubornsportplatz

leisure offers

• The Neubornbad is in a quiet location, embedded in a valley and surrounded by meadows and vineyards, between Wörrstadt and the district of Rommersheim. The outdoor pool is fed with water from the Neuborn spring. A solar system heats the cold spring water.
• In the vicinity of Wörrstadt there are many designated cycle paths that are connected to an extensive network of paths.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Large construction site for juwi's corporate headquarters in the industrial area of ​​Wörrstadt (panorama from January 2008)

The main branch of industry in Wörrstadt is viticulture.

• Three commercial areas are designated, two of them directly on the federal motorway 63
• At the end of 2003, Wörrstadt had 711 businesses.
• For its size, Wörrstadt has an excessive supply of shopping opportunities.

In the first half of 2008, the new company headquarters of Juwi , which is active in the renewable energy sector , was built in the industrial area near the motorway . The company was previously based in Bolanden and Mainz, but moved to the new headquarters in Wörrstadt in mid-July 2008. With around 1000 employees, juwi is now one of the largest employers in the area. The pillars of the company are wind energy , solar energy and bioenergy .

There is a wind park with 22 wind turbines in the Wörrstadt energy park , as well as a solar park . One of the wind turbines is owned by the association.

The Renewable Energy Agency honored Wörrstadt as an “energy municipality” for its commitment in the field of renewable energies, especially solar thermal energy.

In the Rheinhessenwerkstatt of the Nieder-Ramstädter Diakonie Foundation (NRD) as a workshop for people with disabilities (WfbM) , physically and mentally disabled people are employed in various areas of responsibility.

Viticulture

Viticulture has a long tradition in the city and is passed on from generation to generation in the wineries. All of the city's wineries have been in the family for several generations. The vineyards in the city are divided into the two vineyards Kachelberg and Rheingrafenberg . In Wörrstadt the typical Rhine-Hessian soil types limestone , loess and clay are represented.

traffic

Road traffic

Wörrstadt lies at the intersection of federal highways 420 and 271 , two important regional traffic axes. The city also has an exit on the Bundesautobahn 63 , via which one can easily reach the surrounding medium-sized and large centers such as Alzey , Worms , Mainz , Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt . The distance to Germany's most important transport hub, Frankfurt am Main Airport , is around 45 km by road. The Alzeyer Kreuz, the intersection of the federal highways 61 (Koblenz – Ludwigshafen) and 63 (Kaiserslautern – Mainz), is just a few kilometers from the city . The Parisian street through Wörrstadt.

Transportation

Refurbished and newly built Wörrstadt train station, looking towards Mainz: The track that went into operation on December 14, 2014 is on the left

The Alzey – Mainz railway line , which is operated in the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle , takes around half an hour from Wörrstadt train station in Mainz and Alzey around a quarter of an hour. Both regional express trains (RE 13) and regional trains (RB 31) stop at Wörrstadt station . The station building was built around 1871, the year the Mainz-Alzey railway line was opened. The Frankfurt airport is changing at Mainz in about an hour and downtown Frankfurt reached in around 75 minutes. In the morning rush hour, individual trains run directly to Frankfurt. On weekends and on public holidays, trips with the Elsass-Express to Wissembourg are possible.

In order to achieve a higher train frequency on the Alzey – Mainz route, the Wörrstadt stop was expanded to a double-track junction station until the scheduled change in timetable on December 14, 2014 . Since then, connections from Kirchheimbolanden via Alzey and Mainz to Frankfurt am Main have been offered free of charge on working days .

Wörrstadt is also connected to the ORN regional bus service. There are currently five lines in the city; Both Alzey and the surrounding Rheinhessen communities such as Saulheim and Wöllstein can be reached.

Public facilities

• Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Wörrstadt
• Technical relief organization - local association
• Wörrstadt volunteer fire department
• Rommersheim Volunteer Fire Brigade
• Catholic public library in Wörrstadt

education

In Wörrstadt there are several kindergartens and a primary school , a secondary school (since 2009 Realschule plus ), a secondary school and an integrated comprehensive school .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Adam Elsheimer , a 17th century painter, comes from Wörrstadt. Adam-Elsheimer-Strasse is named after him. His parents emigrated to Frankfurt, so it remains controversial whether Elsheimer was born in Wörrstadt or Frankfurt.
• Karl Behlen (1811–1874), former liberal member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
• Philipp Christ (1839–1913), former liberal member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Mayor of Wörrstadt
• Karl Doflein (1852–1944), architect
• Karl Göttelmann (1858–1928), economist and politician
• Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer (1890–1972), librarian and literary scholar
• Marie Böckel-Grosch (1900–1988), lawyer and local politician in Mainz
• Mathias Schüz (* 1956), physicist and philosopher
• Eugen Salomon (1888–1942), co-founder and first chairman of FSV Mainz 05, born in Wörrstadt as the son of the upholsterer Moritz Salomon and his wife Fanny, deported to Auschwitz in November 1942, where he was murdered by the Nazis on November 14, 1942

Personalities who have worked on site

• The geologist and impact researcher Günther Graup (1940-2006), who had made a name for himself, among other things, researching the Nördlinger Ries, lived in Wörrstadt . His groundbreaking work made the Ries event better understood. He was also involved in the Apollo program and examined several moon samples ( Apollo 14 and Apollo 16 ).
• The pop singer Helene Fischer went to school in Wörrstadt.
• The bishop of Mainz, Peter Kohlgraf (* 1967), was active as parish vicar in Wörrstadt until his appointment.

literature

• Literature about Wörrstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Wörrstadt  - Collection of Images

• Verbandsgemeinde Wörrstadt
• Internet presence of the city of Wörrstadt
• regionalgeschichte.net Internet portal for regional and local history, Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V.
• Brilmayer 1905

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 - regional data
3. ↑ Yearbooks of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland, No. 74, 1882, p. 157, en ligne
4. ↑ Wörrstadt through the ages
5. ↑ 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. 202 (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.  
6. ↑ Rheinböllen and Wörrstadt are allowed to call themselves “city” in future
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Wörrstadt. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wörrstadt, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Wörrstadt (PDF)
11. ↑ The Burgunderturm in Wörrstadt's vineyards on the website of the SPD local association Wörrstadt & Rommersheim
12. ↑ JUWI on the web
13. ↑ Solar thermal system in the outdoor pool of the Wörrstadt municipality saves fuel costs every year on August 26, 2015
14. ↑ Timetable RE13 / RB31 2018 (PDF; 442 kB)
15. ↑ 6.8 million euros for the Wörrstadt junction station ( memento of the original from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on isim.rlp.de from March 19, 2014  
16. ↑ RNN route plan