Weinheim (Alzey)

Weinheim City of Alzey
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 11 ″ N , 8 ° 3 ′ 54 ″ E
Height :	200 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	April 22, 1972
Postal code :	55232
Area code :	06731
Location of Weinheim in Rhineland-Palatinate

Weinheim is the largest district of the city of Alzey with over 1,900 inhabitants, 772 already mentioned in a document. Agriculture and especially viticulture were already highly developed, so it can be assumed that people settled here much earlier.

Weinheim has a Protestant and a Catholic church, old mills: like the Neumühle, the Poppenschänke or the Würzmühle. Today there are four restaurants, three bakeries, a butcher, a pharmacy, banks, a kindergarten, a primary school, and a sports hall. Club life is very pronounced in Weinheim. The Rheinhessische Weinkönigin 1999 is from Weinheim, furthermore Weinheim has already produced seven Alzeyer wine queens, including the reigning Alzeyer wine queen Katharina Matheis.

geography

geology

Weinheim became famous for the natural monuments “ Trift ” and “Zeilstück” as well as the former natural monument “Wirtsmühle”. During the sand extraction in the former sand pits, a rich spectrum of exceptionally well-preserved fossils came to light, which demonstrate the optimal living conditions around 30 million years ago on the subtropical coasts of Weinheim Bay. The shells of oysters, velvet clams and other sea clams and snails, traces of rays and the ribs of a manatee can be discovered on the steep face of the "Trift". As has been the case for over 150 years, the “Trift” and “Zeilstück” natural monuments are still the destinations of scientific excursions to this day. One fossil, the sea snail Cerithium Weinheimense, has only been found in the Weinheim Bay so far and is the name given to the 10 km long circular hiking trail "Weinheimense Route". The starting and finishing point of the circular hiking trail is the Trift natural monument. Along the hiking trail, 13 information boards provide insights into the regional geology and geological history as well as the local flora and fauna. The first section of the circular hiking trail was opened in September 2012, on June 2, 2013 the entire circular hiking trail was officially opened.

City structure

Along with Dautenheim , Heimersheim and Schafhausen, Weinheim is one of four Alzey districts.

history

On April 22, 1972 the community of Weinheim was incorporated into the district town of Alzey.

politics

Local advisory board

Weinheim is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor .

The local council consists of fifteen local council members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected in a personalized proportional representation. The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	4th	5	6th	15 seats
2014	4th	5	6th	15 seats
2009	5	3	7th	15 seats

FWG = Free Voter Group Alzey e. V.

Mayor

The mayor is Uwe Frey (CDU). In the election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office with a share of 75.49% of the votes.

coat of arms

The shield is divided and split at the bottom. The golden head of the shield shows a green, leafy grape , at the bottom left in silver a black cross ( Teutonic Knights ), at the bottom right in black a red-crowned and reinforced golden lion ( Electoral Palatinate ).

The arrangement of the individual fields deviated from the old seal shape because the slender cross would appear too massive compared to the other two parts.

Culture and sights

Heiligenblut Tower

Buildings

The Heiligenblut winery is located on the eastern edge of Weinheim with three monumental buildings that are well worth seeing . The late Classicist Villa Heiligenblut built in 1887, the chapel of the Holy Blood (1889/90) above the villa , which has housed a registry office since 2008, and the vineyard and observation tower Heiligenblut Tower built in 1887 .

literature

Karl Müller: History and church history of Weinheim near Alzey: Erd- u. Early history, medieval history and Protestant church history of a Rhine-Hessian village, Offenheim 1975.

Web links

Commons : Weinheim (Alzey) - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 168 (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.
^ City of Alzey: main statute. (PDF) § 2. City of Alzey, June 26, 2019, accessed on September 4, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Weinheim. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
^ City of Alzey: Local council election 2014 Weinheim. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey, association-free municipality, fourth row of results. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
↑ Coat of arms of the Weinheim district. In: alzey.de. City of Alzey, accessed on October 13, 2015 .

[1] 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. 168 (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.

[2] City of Alzey: main statute. (PDF) § 2. City of Alzey, June 26, 2019, accessed on September 4, 2019 .

[3] The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Weinheim. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .

[4] City of Alzey: Local council election 2014 Weinheim. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .

[5] The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey, association-free municipality, fourth row of results. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .

[6] Coat of arms of the Weinheim district. In: alzey.de. City of Alzey, accessed on October 13, 2015 .