Weinolsheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '  N , 8 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Selz
Height :	183 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.93 km 2
Residents:	676 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	114 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55278
Area code :	06249
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 064
Association administration address:	Sant 'Ambrogio-Ring 33 55276 Oppenheim
Website :	www.weinolsheim.de
Mayoress :	Gabriele Wagner ( CDU )
Location of the local community Weinolsheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter

Protestant church

Weinolsheim is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Selz community , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Oppenheim .

geography

Weinolsheim is located in Rheinhessen between Mainz and Worms .

Neighboring communities are Bechtolsheim , Dalheim , Dolgesheim , Friesenheim and Uelversheim .

The Weißmühle residential area also belongs to Weinolsheim .

history

Around 500 francs lived in the area of ​​today's Weinolsheim . Presumably there was a Frankish village here that was a royal domain, i.e. a royal estate. On October 22nd, 789 Weinolsheim was first mentioned as Winolfesheim in a deed of donation from the Lorsch Abbey. The place name is probably derived from a Frankish clan elder named Winolf, who founded the place.

From 1972 to 2014 Weinolsheim belonged to the Guntersblum community and since July 1, 2014 to the Rhein-Selz community .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 452 1835 651 1871 621 1905 573 1939 555 1950 636 1961 531

year Residents 1970 502 1987 522 1997 682 2005 706 2011 733 2017 706

politics

Municipal council

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

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	-	7th	5	12 seats
2014	-	7th	5	12 seats
2009	-	5	7th	12 seats
2004	2	5	5	12 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group of the Local Community Weinolsheim e. V.

mayor

The previous mayor Gabriele Wagner (CDU) was confirmed in office on May 26, 2019 with a share of 82.82% of the votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in the divided shield in the upper half in silver the growing, blue-clad figure with a golden halo of St. Peter in front view, in the right hand carrying a golden walking stick and in the left hand a golden key; in the lower half, in gold, a black, red-armored eagle looking to the right .

Parish partnership

• Brochon , Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region

Culture and sights

On Gaustraße there is a war memorial made of Flonheim sandstone , which commemorates the dead from Weinolsheim in the Prussian-French War of 1870/71. The obelisk was created between 1875 and 1880 and is decorated with the grand ducal Hessian lion. On the flanks are the names of the fallen and a reference to the battle of Gravelotte .

See also: List of cultural monuments in Weinolsheim

Economy and Infrastructure

Weinolsheim is strongly influenced by winegrowing from the Rhine-Hesse region. Thirteen full-time winegrowers can still be found in the relatively small town. The local vintners cultivate locations along the Rhine front, but also to a large extent on the level of the Rhine terrace. The Güldenmorgen and Krötenbrunnen locations are in the Nierstein area .

traffic

Weinolsheim can be reached via the state roads 425 and 437 as well as the district road 39. Local public transport is taken over by Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe , which connects Weinolsheim with line 662 to Undenheim on the one hand and Nierstein and Oppenheim on the other. In the morning, connections in the direction of Mainz for commuters are maintained at the Nierstein train station. In the afternoon the line 662 runs to Oppenheim Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung .

Public facilities

In 2007, the Weinolsheim volunteer fire brigade joined forces with its neighboring fire brigade from Uelversheim to form the Uelversheim-Weinolsheim fire brigade unit. In the course of this voluntary restructuring, a new, modern fire station with a practice yard was built between the two local communities.

Personalities

• Philipp Simonis (1532–1587), notary of the Speyer Cathedral Foundation , chronicler of the Principality of Speyer .

Web links

Commons : Weinolsheim  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Weinolsheim
• History of Weinolsheim on regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Weinolsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 170 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
5. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, individual results. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .