Wolfsheim (municipality)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Height :	215 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.99 km 2
Residents:	777 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	156 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55578
Area code :	06701
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 202
Association administration address:	Elisabethenstrasse 1 ; 55576 Sprendlingen
Website :	www.wolfsheim-rheinhessen.de
Local Mayor :	Erich Hofmann ( SPD )
Location of the local community Wolfsheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

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

geography

climate

The annual precipitation is only 536 mm and is thus in the lower tenth of the average measured values recorded in Germany. Only 8% of the German Weather Service's measuring stations register lower values. The driest month is February, with the highest rainfall in August. In August there is 1.8 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation hardly varies and is evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 22% of the measuring stations .

history

The place name probably goes back to the settlement of a Franconian named Wulfilo. In the world atlas of the geographer Gerhard Mercator from 1595 the place was recorded as WOLFZIM .

In 1844 an important gold find was made in the Wolfsheimer district from a prince's grave from the migration period. The gold find from Wolfsheim dates from the beginning of the 5th century and can now be seen in the Wiesbaden Museum in the Nassau antiquities collection.

A late Roman Nuppenglas , in the form of a kantharos , was found in 1934 when ditches were being dug in the corridor "In the hamlet". It is located in the Landesmuseum Mainz .

On May 15, 1950, Südwestfunk SWF (now Südwestrundfunk SWR ) put the Rhine transmitter near Wolfsheim into operation. The 150 m high mast was the tallest structure in Rheinhessen until it was blown up on February 19, 2013 .

Since 1972 Wolfsheim has been a member of the association of the then newly formed Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen, but it was not until April 16, 1974 that the municipality was incorporated from the Alzey-Worms district into the Mainz-Bingen district.

politics

Municipal council

The former schoolhouse, today the seat of the municipal administration

The local council in Wolfsheim consists of twelve 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	WWG	Per	total
2019	3	5	4th	12 seats
2014	-	7th	5	12 seats
2009	1	7th	4th	12 seats
2004	by majority vote			12 seats

WWG = Wolfsheimer Wahlgemeinschaft e. V.
Pro = Pro Wolfsheim e. V.

mayor

Local mayor is Erich Hofmann (SPD). In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he was elected with a share of 85.85% of the vote after the second candidate, the previous mayor Johannes Holzmann (Wolfsheimer Wahlgemeinschaft e.V.), expressly waived re-election in advance.

Sons and daughters of the place

Johann Eberle (1879–1932), liberal Hessian member of the state parliament

literature

Local history working group Wolfsheim (publisher): Wolfsheim - life, people and views from a village in Rhine-Hesse in old pictures , Edition Schneider, Bingen 1992.
Dieter Quast : Wolfsheim. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 34, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-018389-4 , pp. 209-210.
Literature about Wolfsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Wolfsheim - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
^ Map of the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Sprendlingen-Gensingen, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
↑ Johannes Holzmann: about the runoff election on June 16, 2019. Wolfsheimer Wahlgemeinschaft eV, accessed on September 30, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] Map of the Verbandsgemeinde Sprendlingen-Gensingen

[3] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections

[4] The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Sprendlingen-Gensingen, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .

[5] Johannes Holzmann: about the runoff election on June 16, 2019. Wolfsheimer Wahlgemeinschaft eV, accessed on September 30, 2019 .