Weinsheim (near Bad Kreuznach)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Rudesheim
Height :	189 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.28 km 2
Residents:	1786 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	192 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55595
Area code :	06758
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 112
Association administration address:	Nahestrasse 63 55593 Rüdesheim
Website :	www.weinsheim.de
Local Mayor :	Heiko Schmitt
Location of the local community Weinsheim in the Bad Kreuznach district

Place view

Protestant church

Weinsheim is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rüdesheim .

geography

Weinsheim is located in the Soonwald-Nahe Nature Park west of Bad Kreuznach . The Ellerbach , a left tributary of the Nahe, flows through the village . In addition, the Hasselbach flows into the Ellerbach here.

The residential areas Ackva's Mühle, Kapuskirch and Scholländerhof also belong to Weinsheim .

history

The place was first mentioned in 770 as Wigmundisheim . During the time of the tribal duchies, Weinsheim belonged to the Duchy of Franconia .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 581 1835 925 1871 996 1905 1,112 1939 1,129 1950 1,257 1961 1,362

year Residents 1970 1,562 1987 1,633 1997 1,723 2005 1.933 2011 1,854 2017 1,811 2019 1,786

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Weinsheim consists of 16 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	FWG	total
2019	7th	9	-	16 seats
2014	6th	5	5	16 seats
2009	6th	6th	4th	16 seats
2004	7th	5	4th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Community Weinsheim e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Heiko Schmitt (independent, supported by the CDU). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 60.95% of the vote, making him the successor to Thomas Fischer (SPD), who had not run again after ten years in office.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Old Town Hall and Backes, Renaissance building, marked 1576, ground floor renovation in the second half of the 18th century; Community baking house, marked 1597
• Evangelical parish church, classical four-cone building with double tower facade, 1823–25
• Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche, neo-Gothic brick building, 1907/08

See also: List of cultural monuments in Weinsheim

Trivia

Up until the 1990s there was a synagogue organ in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Weinsheim, which was built by the Wilhelm Sauer company in the 19th century and is now in the Villa Seligmann in Hanover.

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a kindergarten and a primary school in Weinsheim. The federal highway 41 runs in the south .

The Bad Kreuznach station is the nearest today Station . From 1895 to 1936 Weinsheim had its own train station on the narrow-gauge railway line Bad Kreuznach-Winterburg . Omnibuses and a truck replaced their traffic.

Personalities

• Schnuckenack Reinhardt (* 1921 in Weinsheim, † 2006) violinist
• Angelina Vogt (* 1994), German Wine Queen 2019/2020

Web links

Commons : Weinsheim  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Weinsheim
• Literature about Weinsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 25 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved June 27, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Weinsheim. Retrieved September 16, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections.
6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on September 16, 2019 (see Rüdesheim, Verbandsgemeinde, third from last line of results). 
7. ↑ Wolfgang Bartels: In Weinsheim, harmonic tones should dominate. Allgemeine Zeitung, May 31, 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Simone Benne: The sound of the synagogues. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine. October 17, 2011, accessed June 27, 2020 .