Gau-Heppenheim

Gau- Heppenheim is a municipality in the district Alzey- Worms in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Alzey -Land.

History

Heppenheim was first documented as Hepfanheim in the year 790, when several items were awarded to the Lorsch Abbey. The former castle, which was mentioned in 1500, was completely destroyed by lightning in 1766 and subsequent fires. By the end of the 18th century the city belonged to the Count Palatine of the Rhine. Until that time, the city also Heppenheim called in the hole. In 1903, he was renamed to distinguish two other lying in the Grand Duchy of Hesse communities called Heppenheim in Gau- Heppenheim.

Religion

The Catholic parish in Gau Heppenheim St. Urban is connected to the branch community Framersheim. The proportion of the Catholic population is only about 20 % of the total population and considers himself alive and in the Diaspora. The services not listed in the original parish church Gau- Heppenheim, but in the filial church of the Seven Dolours Framersheim instead.

Anton Spiehler here was a Catholic priest, later bishop secretary, priest and canon of the Council of the Diocese of Speyer, also chancellor of the diocesan seminary and Summus Custos (Supreme guardian ) of the Speyer Cathedral. He belonged to the so-called Mainzer circle.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Gau- Heppenheim consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Mayor

• Manfred Becker - FWG (until 2007)
• Klaus Krieger - FWG (since 2007)

Coat of arms

Blazon: Split of blue and silver; right a silver bar accompanied by three silver Awakening (2:1 ), left two blue grapes on green vines with green leaf. Reason: The site heraldic coat of arms shows the coat of arms of the family right from Heppenheim, called from the hall and heraldic left a vine with two blue grapes.

Culture and sights

• The original Romanesque Catholic church of St. Urban still has a sacristy dating from 1505. On the flat ceiling from 1726 are paintings which were renewed. Only one sheet approach in the sacristy, the north wall and the gable wall in the West are obtained from the Romanesque period. The late Gothic choir is higher than the nave and executed without buttresses. It consists of a yoke and a final 5 pages of an imaginary octagon. Inside, the fine-profiled star vault is evident, that those in the Protestant church in Armsheim (formerly Sanctuary to holy blood of Christ ) and the cath. St Alban's Church in Gabsheim similar. The organ loft of the 18th ct. with beautiful stands, on an empty organ case in 1760 in the workshop of Joseph Anton Onimus. Following the example of this housing reconstructed in 1993 Förster & Nicolaus the console of the organ at St. Walburga Onimus, Home Fries ( Rheinhessen ) and 2012 Rainer Müller organ building Merxheim (Near ) the console of the organ in Kohlhaas Großwinternheim. A very detailed Baroque figure of a saint, the attributes - chalice standing on a book - According to a St. Alban, falls on the inside.
• The ship of the Protestant parish church was built in 1726. Inside a pulpit can be seen from the year 1730.
• The stately rectory above the cath. Church was built around in 1580.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Gau- Heppenheim