Winzenheim
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Winzenheim
City of Bad Kreuznach
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 18 ″ N , 7 ° 51 ′ 56 ″ E
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| Height : | 150 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 4300 (2010) | |
| Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 55545 | |
| Area code : | 0671 | |
Location of Winzenheim in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Winzenheim is a district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 1969 Winzenheim was an independent municipality.
history
Emergence
There is no precise information about the origin of the place. So one can only assume that Winzenheim, like so many villages that end in -heim, for example Bretzenheim , Rüdesheim , Windesheim , Hargesheim , or Langenlonsheim , was founded by the Franks as a small settlement in the 7th or 8th century AD. has been established. Probably the Franconian gender name “Wintziv” or “Wintzo” was given the final syllable “-heim”. One also suspects the connection with the Latin word “vinum” (= wine) or with the Franconian word “wetzeln” (= clearing), since the Franks, coming from Bad Kreuznach , made the land cultivable.
middle Ages
Winzenheim was first mentioned in a document in 1056, when the then archbishop Anno II of Cologne gave the two villages of Winzenheim and Bretzenheim to the Polish queen Richenza as a fief.
The "Reichsherrschaft Bretzenheim" included first Winzenheim, later also Planig, a farm near Monzingen, as well as smaller forest areas in the Soonwald. Overall, it held imperial rule for over 700 years until 1801.
An old document mentions the construction of the first chapel in Winzenheim. It stood on a small hill between the two streets of Kirchstrasse and Kendelstrasse. Today's street “Zur Kirchenpforte”, which runs over this hill, still reminds of them today. Around this chapel stood all the important community facilities, such as the town hall, the bakery, the shepherd's apartment, the cemetery, etc. The chapel received its first bell in 1450. Even today it rings in the morning, at noon and in the evening, alternating weekly with the Catholic Church of St. Peter in St. Luke's Church. Viticulture was important in Winzenheim very early on. A document from 1268 shows that Rheingraf Werner II gave a certain Werner von Winzenheim the 6th part of the fruit tithing and a load of wine.
Around this time, the old tithe barn was built in what was then the southern part of the village. It still stands today. Although it was renovated a few times, especially the roof was damaged, the masonry and the beam construction are still well preserved today. The last major renovation took place in the summer of 2002. Here the entire roof was covered and renewed again.
In 1620 Abraham Krey, a merchant from Cologne, who had previously owned land around Winzenheim and appreciated the excellent wine, bought a farm. The merchant's coat of arms with the depiction of two birds and the inscription "JK1712" can still be found in the archway of the former Zweifel property.
When Bretzenheim and Winzenheim came under the rule of Ambrosius Franz von Virmont in 1734 , he had the "subjects for their amusement" served free wine on the market square on the day of the taking possession. Von Virmont (or Virmond) was an imperial count and lord of Neersen on the Lower Rhine .
The French revolution
When French troops temporarily occupied the Rhineland after the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 , Winzenheim suffered greatly from the occupation. There were reports of very cold winters in which the French cut down around 400 fruit trees and burned them as firewood. The entire roof structure, the high altar and the benches were also burned from the previously demolished chapel, which collapsed while the project was to remove clay. From then on, the Winzenheim Christians had to celebrate their services in the rectory or in private homes.
After the victory over Napoleon , the balance of power between the victorious powers was reorganized at the Congress of Vienna . From then on Winzenheim belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia and experienced a dynamic ascent.
The two world wars
The two world wars of the past century hardly caused any material damage worth mentioning in Winzenheim. The only buildings destroyed were the houses at the lower right end of Kendelstrasse and the old weighing house. This was rebuilt, but a farmer never again weighed his truckload on it.
The death toll was not quite as low as the material damage. Many, especially young people, lost their lives in fighting or as prisoners of war. All the names of these people are on the large memorial in the cemetery.
post war period
From 1945 to 1948 there was a prisoner-of-war camp on parts of the district near Winzenheim , the so-called Feld des Jammers , which belonged to the group of Rhine meadow camps .
The political development
The political development of Winzenheim has seen many ups and downs over the centuries. The troubled times of the Middle Ages left their mark. Robber barons and highwaymen threatened the village. Finally, it was decided to dig a village moat around the village. It was built in 1405. It was densely planted with bushes and trees to keep it hidden. The two streets "Vordere Grabenstrasse" and "Hintere Grabenstrasse" ran along this ditch. However, it did not withstand major attacks. In such situations, the Winzenheim citizens preferred to flee into the protective Kreuznach city wall. In return, they had to keep the 20 meter high "Winzenheim Tower" in Kreuznach with guards every day.
The plague ravaged Europe in the 14th century . Winzenheim was largely spared from this epidemic. But in 1597 it came back and no less strong than the previous one. A third of the residents of Winzenheim perished. Many people also fell victim to the Thirty Years' War that followed shortly afterwards . The population fell by over half to 150 inhabitants.
A "decisive" event for Winzenheim was its incorporation as part of the regional reform in 1969 as a district of Bad Kreuznach .
The municipal kindergarten comprises 125 children in 5 groups, some of which are housed in a new building in the north of the village and some in the old school hall on Kendelstrasse. Since 1993 a further 50 children have attended the new Nanni-Staab kindergarten on Waldalgesheimer Straße. He is a member of the operating company of the Catholic Church. Three new playgrounds offer the smaller children a lot of play options.
The school, built in 1956, has been expanded three times. A school gymnasium was built below the municipal kindergarten for this purpose.
On June 7, 1969, Winzenheim was incorporated into Bad Kreuznach.
The sports field, built in 1954 and renewed in 1974, is not only used by the local sports club, TuS Winzenheim, but also by many private athletes. The sports center, built in 1970, is the site of many club events, as the school gymnasium can only be used to a limited extent for non-sports activities.
Church development
A new Catholic church was consecrated in 1819 and a new Protestant church in 1834. There are valuable sacred art objects in both churches. The oldest bell from 1450 in the Lukas Church has already been mentioned elsewhere. In the St. Peter church there is a late Gothic baptismal font, which is unique in the entire district, and a baroque high altar from the Mainz area (for more details see the chapter "The Catholic Church of St. Peter"). The relationship between the two Christian denominations is very good to this day. For 25 years there has been an ecumenical parish festival in June and an ecumenical church service is celebrated at the fair on Sunday mornings in September. The parish councils and lay judges have also been made up equally, with Catholic and Protestant members, since the 16th century. The Ecumenical Child and Youth House (ÖKJH) provides an important service in child and youth work. There is a weekly group lesson for the individual grades in which they do handicrafts, play and sing. For the older ones there are youth meetings and the like in the evening.
politics
Winzenheim is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor .
The local council consists of thirteen local council members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected in a personalized proportional representation. The distribution of seats in the elected local council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | FDP | Green | left | VBL | total |
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| 2019 | 4th | 6th | 1 | 2 | - | - | 13 seats |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 13 seats |
- VBL = United Citizens List
Mayor is Mirko Helmut Kohl (CDU). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 79.7% of the votes.
literature
- Literature about Winzenheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 158 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ City of Bad Kreuznach: main statute. (PDF) § 2 of the 11th amendment. City of Bad Kreuznach, February 2, 2015, accessed on September 12, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Winzenheim. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
- ^ City of Bad Kreuznach: Local council election 2014 Winzenheim. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
- ↑ City of Bad Kreuznach: City Council elections 2019 Winzenheim. Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
