Waldalgesheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ' N , 7 ° 50' E |
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State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Mainz-Bingen | |
Association municipality : | Rhine-Nahe | |
Height : | 293 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 16.01 km 2 | |
Residents: | 4093 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 256 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 55425 | |
Area code : | 06721 | |
License plate : | MZ , BIN | |
Community key : | 07 3 39 062 | |
LOCODE : | DE 84E | |
Community structure: | 2 districts | |
Association administration address: | Koblenzer Strasse 18 55411 Bingen am Rhein |
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Local Mayor : | Stefan Reichert ( CDU ) | |
Location of the local community Waldalgesheim in the Mainz-Bingen district | ||
Waldalgesheim 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 .
Waldalgesheim has been part of the Middle Rhine Unesco World Heritage Site since 2003 .
geography
location
The wine town of Waldalgesheim is located on the southeast edge of the Hunsrück between Koblenz and Bad Kreuznach, south of the Binger Forest and west of the Nahe and approx. 6 km west of Bingen.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities of Waldalgesheim are hamlets near Bingen , Rümmelsheim and Stromberg (Hunsrück) and towards Genheim , Waldlaubersheim , Roth and Schweppenhausen .
Community structure
Genheim is a district of the municipality of Waldalgesheim.
history
There is evidence of Celtic settlements from the La Tène period (5th - 1st century BC), in particular the Celtic princely grave on the outskirts of Waldalgesheim , the finds of which are in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn .
The first documentary mention in the Lorsch Codex comes from the year 790 (or possibly 780) with “in pago Nachgowe, in Alagastesheim” (“in Nahegau, in Waldalgesheim”) on the occasion of a donation to the Lorsch monastery .
The original name of Waldalgesheim was Algesheim . The name researcher Albrecht Greule explains that by adding the forest name in the place name to the name of Algesheim ( Gau-Algesheim ), also in the Mainz-Bingen district, a distinction should be made. Apparently, according to Greule, the male personal names Alagast or Alagwin are used as meaning for the place name , in the sense of "home of Alagast" or "home of Alagwin".
When American troops moved into Waldalgesheim at the beginning of March 1945, the community acquired a relative importance for the victorious powers. Due to the strategically good location, the attack on the neighboring town of Stromberg was planned from there, the capture of which had to precede that of Bad Kreuznach.
On November 7, 1970, the previously independent community of Genheim was incorporated.
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Waldalgesheim consists of 20 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 | GREEN | FDP | FWG | total |
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2019 | 4th | 7th | 3 | 2 | 4th | 20 seats |
2014 | 4th | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 20 seats |
2009 | 4th | 11 | - | 2 | 3 | 20 seats |
2004 | 5 | 11 | - | 2 | 2 | 20 seats |
- FWG = Free Voting Community Waldalgesheim and Genheim e. V.
mayor
The local mayor is Stefan Reichert (CDU). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with a share of 54.65% of the votes.
Community partnerships
A partnership exists with the municipality of Ratten in Styria .
Buildings
The same castle complex of the ore and manganese mine Dr. Geier (built 1917 to 1919), Knappensiedlung
Sports
The local sports club SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim was founded in 1910 and consists of football , tennis , basketball , children 's gymnastics , aerobics , mother-child gymnastics and jazz dance . The club's flagship is the football department, whose first team rose from the association league to the Oberliga Südwest in the 2007/08 season . By winning the Southwest Cup 2014, the team qualified for participation in the DFB Cup games 2014/15 .
traffic
- The federal motorway 61 is reached after approx. 4 km at the junction Waldlaubersheim . The Stromberg junction (also A 61) is about the same distance .
Personalities associated with Waldalgesheim
- Stephan Lück (born January 9, 1806 in Linz am Rhein , † November 3, 1883 in Trier ), theologian, cathedral music director of Trier and publisher , was a pastor in Waldalgesheim from 1831 to 1835.
- Hanns Geier (born February 25, 1902 in Waldalgesheim; † 1986), racing car driver
Others
- A new concept is opened with the Route of Industrial Culture Rhine-Main . It is intended to link industrial structures on the 160 kilometers between Miltenberg and Bingen am Rhein via Frankfurt am Main to form an adventure route through the industrial culture in the Rhine-Main area .
literature
- Albrecht Greule , Hans-Eckart Joachim : Waldalgesheim. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 33, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018388-9 , pp. 120-122. (on-line)
- Literature about Waldalgesheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Web links
- Web presence of the local community Waldalgesheim
- Michael Schönherr: The Prince's Grave in Waldalgesheim: Scientific evidence for the localization and preservation of the Celtic burial site on the edge of the "Upper Middle Rhine Valley" world cultural heritage . October 2006 (pdf, 5.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 4), Certificate 2022, June 28, 790? - Reg. 2841. In: Heidelberg historical holdings - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 21 , accessed on January 13, 2018 .
- ^ On the onenological Albrecht Greule : Waldalgesheim. (§1). In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 33, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018388-9 , pp. 120-121. (on-line)
- ↑ 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. 199 (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.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rhein-Nahe, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results. Retrieved September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim is in the DFB-Pokal rhein-Zeitung.de, accessed on May 16, 2014
- ↑ New ways to the old industrial culture also to Waldalgesheim . Frankfurter Rundschau from Nov. 27, 2006