Winkel (Rheingau)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
angle
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Winkel (Rheingau)
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 89 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 4736  (December 29, 2015)
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 65375
Area code : 06723
map
Winkel seen from the Mittelheimer Rhine ferry. In the background on the hill is Johannisberg .
Sankt Walburga Church. The 50th parallel runs diagonally across the church forecourt on the terrace. There is a monument to Rabanus Maurus in front of the terrace. Below that is the coat of arms of the former municipality of Winkel as a paving mosaic.
The old town hall of Winkel between Hauptstrasse and Kerbeplatz was the official seat of the Mayor of Oestrich-Winkel until 2005. Since then, the building has been used as a location for the European Business School.
Brentano house on the main street

Winkel formerly, also called Langenwinkel because of its length, is a district of Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse .

geography

Winkel is the westernmost of the three urban districts of Oestrich , Mittelheim and Winkel , which are located on the Rhine and merge structurally . The place has developed structurally along the old road leading in east-west direction through the Rheingau and the short lanes running across it over a length of 1.5 kilometers. The roads branching off in Winkel to Schloss Vollrads and Johannisberg were added as development lines . Due to this construction, Winkel has no recognizable center. With some justification, the place can be called the center of the village where the parish church is opposite the old town hall.

The Winkeler district stretches as a strip from the navigation channel of the Rhine over the Winkeler Aue , an island created after the Rhine regulation along a longitudinal work , more than 10 kilometers far over the Taunushauptkamm and the Ernstbach into the hinterland forest. The width of the district is about 2500 meters on the Rhine and extends in the west on both sides of the lower Elsterbach , including the Johannisberger Klause , to the locality of Geisenheim and the Johannisberger Grund , then recedes around the foot of the Johannisberg to the east and extends west of the Ansbach valley up to the seven signposts on the Rheinhöhenweg . Here the district still has a width of about 1500 to 1000 meters. Since the development of Winkel and Mittelheim merges into one another, the boundary between the two districts is completely imperceptible. It is located about 100 meters east of the Engerweg , a road connection that leads from the bank of the Rhine through a railway underpass to the building areas above the right-hand Rhine route.

Winkel is surrounded on all sides by vineyards. There are still individual vineyards between the town and the Rhine, although the terrain here is too flat to speak of vineyards, and to the west towards Geisenheim and Johannisberg and north to Schloss Vollrads and beyond to the edge of the forest, viticulture predominates as agricultural use.

history

The first documented mention that has been preserved as Winkela dates from 850. It concerns a church of St. Walpurgis , the location and shape of which is unknown.

In the course of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Winkel with about 4,000 inhabitants became a district in the town of Oestrich-Winkel, which was newly formed on July 1, 1972 through a voluntary merger with the municipalities of Mittelheim and Oestrich . Local districts with local councils and local councilors were formed for all city districts . The last mayor was Klaus Frietsch , who then became mayor of Oestrich-Winkel and then district administrator of the Rheingau-Taunus district.

Culture and sights

See also: List of cultural monuments in Oestrich-Winkel

The gray house , located in front of the locality to the south, is considered to be the oldest stone dwelling house in Germany and was owned by the Lords of Winkel, known as Greiffenclau, who have been documented since 1191.

Two kilometers above Winkel on the edge of the forest, Vollrads Castle was built from the 13th century , which was owned by the von Greiffenclau family for centuries .

In the 16th century, the Probecksche Hof was built on the southern edge of the village , which has the character of a moated castle .

The forecourt of the former Catholic parish church Sankt Walburga is located exactly at the 50th parallel according to the map series of the topographical land survey, which is based on the traditional Potsdam date . Somewhat southeast of the intersection of Greiffenclaustraße and Johannisberger Straße, the 8th degree of longitude intersects the 50th degree of latitude. This point of confluence is on private residential property and is not accessible.

At the western entrance to the town is the Brentano house , where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe stayed as a guest in 1814 .

The former Benedictine Hermitage St. Georg can be found in the Winkler district .

Personalities

literature

  • Klaus Peter Dietel: When the nobleman took the maiden. History and stories of regional reform in the Rheingau. ASSverlag, Rüdesheim am Rhein 1997. ( DNB 989393801 )

Web links

Commons : angles  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the registration office as of December 29, 2015: Population numbers Winkel.pdf
  2. ^ Hessian Land Surveying Office: District map 1: 50,000 Wiesbaden Rheingaukreis Untertaunuskreis, edition 1969
  3. ^ Municipal reform in Hesse: mergers and integrations of municipalities from June 21, 1972 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): State Gazette for the State of Hesse. 1972 No. 28 , p. 1197 , point 851 para. 3. ( Online at the information system of the Hessian State Parliament [PDF; 4.4 MB ]).
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 375 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 108 kB) §; 4. In: website. City of Oestrich-Winkel, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ↑ Individual evidence for the point of confluence