Wendelsheim

This article describes the municipality of Wendelsheim in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the district of the same name in Rottenburg am Neckar, see Wendelsheim (Rottenburg) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 8 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wöllstein
Height :	127 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.56 km 2
Residents:	1405 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	112 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55234
Area code :	06734
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 070
Association administration address:	St. Floriansweg 8 55599 Gau-Bickelheim
Website :	www.wendelsheim-rhh.de
Mayoress :	Christine Knuth ( SPD )
Location of the local community Wendelsheim in the Alzey-Worms district

Wendelsheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wöllstein .

geography

The Wendelsheim wine-growing community is located in the largest wine-growing district in Germany and in the middle of the Rheinhessen wine-growing region . The Wiesbach and Finkenbach (Wiesbach) flow through Wendelsheim .

history

Wendelsheim ( Wendilsheim ) was first mentioned in a document in 766 in the Lorsch Codex (other sources refer to a deed of donation for the Fulda monastery from 841). Celtic finds, however, show settlements in prehistoric times. As with all places in the region with the ending "-heim" it is likely to be a Franconian settlement.

Wendelsheim was probably one of the oldest holdings of the wild counts . It is believed that it belonged to the official property with which the Emichons as sub- counts of the Salians were endowed. Since 1370 there were demonstrably manorial rights of the Count Palatine Ruprecht I to Wendelsheim. Around 1380 the place was pledged to Count Palatine Ruprecht the Young and from 1438 to 1452 to Count Palatine Ludwig IV .

In 1398 and 1409 Wendelsheim was a feudal fief of the Rhine Count Johann von Dhaun zu Rheingrafenstein . Medieval sources describe the Count of Dhaun as the highest Vogt and legal lord of the village and the district of Wendelsheim.

From 1475 until the French Revolution, Wendelsheim was under the rule of the Counts of Salm (see Rheingrafen ).

As a result of the Congress of Vienna , Wendelsheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 . After the Second World War, the place was finally assigned to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Church history

Through the "Wörrstädter Union" in 1822, all Rheinhessen parishes were uniate confession, i. H. the Protestant churches (the Lutheran and the Reformed ), which previously existed independently side by side , merged to form the " Evangelical Church".

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Wendelsheim 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	4th	5	16 seats
2014	5	5	6th	16 seats
2009	6th	4th	6th	16 seats
2004	6th	5	5	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voter Group Wendelsheim e. V.

Local mayor

• Jakob Schwind (until 2004)
• Hans-Ludwig Kilian (2004-2019)
• Christine Knuth (since 2019)

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Christine Knuth was elected to office with 70.28% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by a curved red point of gold and silver; on the right a silver-crowned red lion, on the left in a silver field a blue bar and at the top two fish turned right and left, angled by four golden paw crosses. "
	Reasons for the coat of arms: There are three references in the Wendelsheim coat of arms: the lion of the Wild and Rhine Counts, the two Salme (fish) of the Counts of Salm and the silver bar of the Lords of Vinstingen (today Fénétrange ) on a blue background .

Partnerships

Wendelsheim maintains friendly relations with the French community of Messein in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department and with Wendelsheim (Rottenburg) .

Attractions

Castle of the Rhine Count

Neo-Gothic vineyard cottage

• Schinderhanneshöhle
• Vineyard cottage with viewing platform and trullo
• Bannmühle , Hasselmühle, beet mill
• Salm sches Schloss - built in 1758 by Johann Leonard Reichel under Rheingraf Carl Magnus
• Devil's Slide Rocks
• St. Martin Church
• Birthplace of Friedrich Christian Laukhard and the Laukhard monument
• Elsa-Schmitt-Turm, 11.8 meter high observation tower built in 2019

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wendelsheim

Economy and Infrastructure

• The high technology park Microforum is a big employer. The wine-growing plays an important role for the entire region.
• Former train station of the Wiesbachtalbahn

Born in Wendelsheim

• Heinrich Hörlein (1882–1954), chemist and military manager
• Friedrich Christian Laukhard (1757–1822), writer

literature

• Franz Irsigler: Rheingraf Carl Magnus von Grehweiler - a noble spendthrift of the 18th century . In: Curt Wolfgang Hergenröder (Ed.): Believer, Debtor, Poor . 1st edition. Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17190-6 .

Web links

Commons : Wendelsheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Wendelsheim on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Wöllstein
• Website of the local church
• SWR Hierzuland 2012 Unterwendelsheimer Straße
• SWR state show Wendelsheim
• Literature about Wendelsheim 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. ↑ Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz
3. ↑ On the history of the Protestant St. Martin Church in Wendelsheim
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections , accessed on July 17, 2019
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2014 Wendelsheim. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
6. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wöllstein, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Height according to private measurements
8. ↑ Wendelsheim now has one more landmark in the Allgemeine Zeitung from April 8, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2019