Welgesheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 7 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Height :	105 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.03 km 2
Residents:	577 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	284 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55576
Area code :	06701
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 065
Association administration address:	Elisabethenstrasse 1 55576 Sprendlingen
Website :	www.welgesheim.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Leisenheimer ( CDU )
Location of the local community Welgesheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Welgesheim is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Sprendlingen .

geography

Welgesheim is located in Rheinhessen between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach .

history

Welgesheim is located at the point where the old Heerstraße used to cross the Wiesbach . During excavation work, several grave sites were uncovered, which suggest a Roman settlement on the soil of the current district. The place "Wellingesheim" itself was first mentioned in the year 770 in the Lorsch Codex . In 874 it appears under the name "Willengisheim" and in 1178 as "Wellengesheim". It appears under its current name around the year 1194, when Werner von Bolanden received the church treasure of Welgesheim as a fief from Count Lon. Welgesheim later belonged to the rulership of the Count Palatine near Rhine , with whom the place remained until the end of the 18th century. Under Napoléon Bonaparte , Welgesheim in the Département du Mont-Tonnerre (Donnersberg) belonged to France from 1801 to 1814 with the corresponding laws such as B. the Code civil . As a result of the Congress of Vienna (1815), the later Rhine-Hessian areas of Hessen-Darmstadt were awarded. Welgesheim belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which was surrounded by the Bavarian Rhine District (Palatinate) in the south, the Prussian administrative district of Koblenz in the west and the Duchy of Nassau in the north. This was the case for a hundred years until the Grand Duchy of Hesse was dissolved in the course of Germany's defeat in World War I. From then on, the province of Rheinhessen belonged to the People's State of Hesse , which existed until 1945. After the Second World War , Welgesheim came to the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 , to which it still belongs today, in the Mainz-Bingen district.

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Welgesheim (1896)

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Welgesheim consists of twelve council members, who were re-elected in a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until the 2009 election, the council members were elected in a personalized proportional representation.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	by majority vote			12 seats
2014	by majority vote			12 seats
2009	2	6th	4th	12 seats
2004	2	3	7th	12 seats

mayor

Michael Leisenheimer became the local mayor of Welgesheim in 2004. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 88.46 percent.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In gold a slanted black arrow, top left a blue lily crown ."

Other in the community

music

In addition to the Welgesheim music and singing group "Alle für Alle" 1997 e. V. there are also individual guitar players.

Buildings

Welgesheim has three holy houses , a monument, a Protestant and a Catholic. Church.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Welgesheim

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  Catholic Church Welgesheim

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  Evangelical Church Welgesheim

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  View over Welgesheim

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  Aerial view of Welgesheim

Sports

In addition to table tennis, gymnastics, badminton and dancing, people from Welgesheim can also play handball. Most do this in the handball community Zotzenheim / St.Johann / Sprendlingen.

Honorary citizen

• Adelbert Lukas (1939–2016) ,, local mayor from 1984 to 2004, and subsequently to 2016 in the Welgesheim council, was honored for his above-average commitment to the community.
• Josef Alfons Schnorrenberger (1939–2019), local mayor from 1974 to 1984, and subsequently on the local council until 2009, was made an honorary citizen in 2005 due to above-average commitment in the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• The federal highway 61 runs through the municipality. The next junction Bad Kreuznach is about 3 km away.
• Welgesheim is located in the area of ​​the Rhein-Nahe local transport network . The Welgesheim- Zotzenheim station is located on the Rheinhessenbahn Bingen - Worms in the municipality . Regional trains operated by DB Regio AG stop there every hour .

Public facilities

• Catholic kindergarten " Edith Stein "
• Weindorfhalle near the old school building (seat of the local mayor with council chamber and the community library)
• Weedestubb (which housed the volunteer fire brigade before its renovation ; the name originated in the village usage due to its location on the central square in Welgesheim, the Weedeplatz)

literature

• Literature about Welgesheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• Joachim Köhler, Sandra Hummel: Historic Welgesheim . Independently published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-07-291621-5 .

Web links

Commons : Welgesheim  - collection of images

• Website of the local community Welgesheim
• Local community Welgesheim on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City and municipal council elections 2019. Accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Park-and-Ride-Platz in Welgesheim is now being built. Constitution of the municipal council 2019. Allgemeine Zeitung, June 29, 2019, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Individual elections 2019. Accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
5. ↑ VRM: Obituary notice Adelbert Lukas. Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main GmbH & Co. KG, April 23, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
6. ↑ VRM: Obituary notice Josef Alfons Schnorrenberger. Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
7. ^ Official Journal: Obituary Joseph-Alfons Schnorrenberger. In: Official Journal of the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, edition 26/2019, accessed on May 22, 2020 .