Heidesheim am Rhein

Heidenheim am Rhein is a municipality in the district Mainz -Bingen, in Rhineland -Palatinate and includes the districts of Heidenheim, Heidenfahrt and Uhlerborn. It is the administrative center of the municipality Heidenheim, who also belongs to the local church Wackernheim. Heidenheim is one of the largest communities in Rheinhessen.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 community partnerships

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Jewish Cemetery
• 4.3 Regular events

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education

• 6.1 Known sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 In the village have worked

• 7.1 documents

Geography

Geographical location

Heidenheim is located in North Rhine-Hesse, the so -called Rhine knee, west of the city of Mainz. The municipal area extends north to the middle of the fairway of the Rhine, which has one of its widest points here, and so closes the king Klinger Aue one with. It closes on the bank behind the flood dike in about 82 meters to a sandy plain, which is used especially for growing asparagus and is consisted of fruit trees. Just behind a dam is the district Heidenfahrt. From here, there used to be, before the flow of the tail Mariannenaue had been extended to the east, a ferry service to Erbach (Rheingau ). The town of Heidenheim itself is about two kilometers away from the Rhine River in flood- safe location at the foot of the Rhine-Hessian hill country. The municipal area stretches from there on the northern slopes of this hill country up and reach two kilometers east of the town location in the Höllenberg a height of 207 meters. Where permitted by the gaps in fruit trees, offers a wide view over the Rhine in the Rheingau, up to the westernmost part of the Taunus mountains main ridge, the Rheingau mountains with the cool hostel and the Hallgarter pliers as the highest peaks in the center. In the east, at Uhlerborn, on the border with Budenheim, has Heidenheim stake in one of the few Rhinehessen forest areas.

Community structure

Heidenheim includes the districts of Heidenheim, Heidenfahrt and Uhlerborn. The municipality also includes the residential places Claushof, yard Eltviller Aue, Mainzer Landstrasse, yard Nonnenaue, Rheingold peace and Sandhof.

Neighboring communities

The following cities and municipalities border on the community of Heidenheim, they are called in the North Clockwise starting at:

• Legal Rheinisch ( north of the Rhine ) Eltville
• Left of Rhine ( south of the Rhine ) the community Budenheim, the Mainz Finthen district, the community Wackernheim and the city of Ingelheim

History

Numerous finds of pre - and early history prove that the district of Heidenheim am Rhein was the Neolithic period ( the Neolithic period, 5500-2200 BC) colonized. They are mostly chance finds. In Roman times stood north of the present town center in the field an extensive villa rustica, the early 5th century AD, was abandoned after the invasion of the Germans. In its walls were erected St. George's Chapel to the settled Frankish settlers to the middle of the 7th century. The name of the church is to go back to the courtyard of a Frankish nobleman named Heisino.

The place is as Heisinisheim or Hasinisheim first mentioned in donations to the monastery of Lorsch, the earliest of which purports to date from the year 762, but may be done in reality in September of the years 765-768. The first certain date is on July 5, 768th Overall, the Codex Laureshamensis listed in Heidenheim between 765 and 768 and 794 for ten foundations Lorsch Abbey, of which, however, does not appear in later documents. This fact suggests that Lorsch had already traded or sold his possessions Heidenheim, as the Codex in the years 1183 was brought to 1195 parchment.

A broader documentary tradition to Heidenheim begins only around the year 1150. At the time, ordered the abbey Altmünster to Mainz in the community over vast land and half of all tithes. Whether this came from the Rhinegraves, should be read as always, remains to prove. In addition, the Eberbach Monastery was first owned in 1145 to in Walsheim, which laid the foundation for Sandhof. Finally, the Lords of Winter-home is first mentioned in 1158, which later after the castle called themselves lords of Windeck Winterau. In addition to these three parties that dominate the tradition possessed other Mainz monasteries and local families owned land and rights.

While the Lords of Winter-home in the first half of the 12th century, started to build the castle Windeck, the location around the St. George's Chapel settlement was apparently not, or at least not sufficiently fixed: As Archbishop Konrad I of Wittelsbach be was preparing in 1200 to set up the 1163 on the orders of Emperor Frederick I looped walled city of Mainz, he undertook numerous villages in the surrounding areas of the city to build sections. The inhabitants of Heidenheim had five battlements contribute, arm and maintain what they enjoyed in the city protection, defense, markets, free selling and buying.

In addition to property and income Altmünster held the bailiwick of Heidenheim and thus the sovereign rights at the site. The Bailiwick went over the centuries by many hands: that it was after 1250 when the Lords of bending, which they returned Altmünster on February 13, 1285 of course is not true. The relevant document is not to refer to Heidenheim but on Had home in the Rheingau. Is certain, however, that the monastery on January 31, 1326 by Werner called Winterau and his male heirs to bailiffs of the village. The family of the lords of Winterau died before April 12, 1372 from the date on which a certificate of Wilhelm Scharpenstein guaranteed as bailiff. From him the bailiwick was on July 14, 1385 as a male hereditary fief about Huth Dietrich von Sonnenberg.

On January 17, 1414 authenticated the Archbishop of Mainz, Johann II of Nassau, that the abbess and convent of Altmünster had passed to the Archbishopric of Mainz, one third of the court to Heidenheim. Excluded were the bailiwick with all accessories as well as the income and the property that belonged to the courtyard of the monastery; they securitized the Archbishop with the consent of Domdekan and cathedral chapter of the monastery forever. Also Altmünster should in future be exempted from all contributions and taxes brought the archbishop or cathedral chapter. Both vowed to continue the monastery in his possessions and all his rights - in particular in the remaining two -thirds of the court to Heidenheim - to protect and defend. Mainz and Magdeburg Archbishop Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg confirmed the disposal of its predecessor on 22 October 1522.

Such transactions used Mainz Monasteries sovereign rights which they claim could hardly under its own power, ceded the archbishop to represent and protect their property rights were often closed as a result. In the case of Heidenheim transmission meant that henceforth the place came a steward of the archbishop next to the provost of the monastery Altmünster. As archbishop's bailiffs in Heidenheim after 1414 shows: In 1481 Johann Langwerth of simmering and from 1565 to 1584 the Mainz cathedral choirmaster Heinrich von floor home. As a fief of Altmünster bailiffs have survived: From 1468 to 1489 Philip of floor home; in the years 1489-1524 Count of Nassau Emmerich and his male heirs; 1524-1537 Knights of Raven love stone; 1537-1553 Hans Sifrid from Oberstein; and from the year 1553 initially Konrad, then Hans Georg von Bickenbach. That bailiff, and Vogt often rubbed together, occupy two processes that Heinrich fought out of stock Home and Hans Georg von Bickenbach before the Imperial Chamber Court.

When Hans Georg recognized by Bickenbach, that would be denied him male heirs, he asked the Archbishop of Mainz, Wolfgang von Dalberg on November 10, 1598 is to turn to him and his cousins ​​transmitted as a fief Heidenheimer bailiwick in a hereditary fief. His request went unanswered. When he died in 1608, the bailiff, fell back to the Old Minster. The monastery took advantage of the situation: Pointing out that they meet the requirements could no longer meet in these difficult times, which demanded them the remaining two-thirds of sovereignty in Heidenheim, offered abbess and convent to the Elector their retained two-thirds of the sovereign rights in at Heidenheim. In return, they should the Archbishop - assure ownership, rights and income on the spot - like 1414 and 1522. The Archbishop accepted the transfer to the conditions mentioned on the same day, which suggests that it was a long process agreed.

In the history of the municipality, the year 1609 represents a major disruption, Altenmuenster remained only the right of patronage of the parish church of St. Philip and Jacob; the monastery was allowed to propose pastor and Hunchback, which had to confirm the Archbishop. Otherwise, in spiritual matters, the Archbishop Vicar General was responsible. In worldly affairs Heidenheim under Sealwear the chur princely Vitztum in ... accounted for the offices of the monastic bailiff and Electoral bailiff. On ... gave the Electoral Chamber of the Burg Windeck, previously the headquarters of its bailiff, in Erbbestand from.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Heidenheim consists of 22 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

Blazon: " In red, a hub-less wheel vierspeichiges silver, covered with a continuous ground silver beams cross. "

Community partnerships

Culture and sights

Structures

See also: List of cultural monuments in Heidenheim am Rhein

The St. George's Chapel in the north of Heidenheim located between the railway line and highway from Rüsselsheim to Bingen in fruit fields.

At the station there is the tower castle Windeck Castle from the 13th century. It was extensively renovated at the beginning of the 21st century.

The Castle Mill is located on the southwestern outskirts of Heidenheim, at the foot of the hall Sommerau.

Jewish Cemetery

See: Dieter Krienke, arr, district Mainz- Bingen. Cities of Bingen and Ingelheim, community Budenheim, Verbandsgemeinden Gau- Algesheim, Heidenheim, Rhein-Nahe and Sprendlingen gene Willingen, Worms 2007 ( = memorial topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments Rhineland-Palatinate, Vol 18.1) p 322

Regular events

• First Sunday in May: Notch
• First Sunday in October: Thanksgiving

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Heidenheim is located on the motorway A 60, accessible via the two connection points No. 16 ( West) and 17 ( east).

With the stations Uhlerborn and Heidenheim ( Rheinhessen ), there are two connections to the rail transport of the left Rhine line ( KBS 470). The next two long-distance train stations are Bingen and Mainz Hauptbahnhof.

Heidenheim is also connected to the bus line Ingelheim / Mainz ( line 620) east to Bude Home → Mainz Mainz Hbf Mombach → leads west to Ingelheim, so basically the same route as the train. So far there is no direct bus service to the neighboring districts of Mainz Gonsenheim and Finthen. For this there are initiatives.

Resident companies: In the industrial estate Uhlerborn is a garden center, two supermarkets, two bakeries. In addition there are a printing company, a carpentry shop, a construction company and several small factories.

Education

• Primary school
• Montessori School
• Heilpädagogische Waldorf School

Personalities

Famous sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph Kehrein (1808-1876), teacher, scholar and historian
• Georg Lebert (1897-1974), Member of Parliament, Mayor of Heidenheim
• Gerhard Schreeb (1930-1965), youth leaders and university lecturer

In the village have worked

• Wilhelm Metternich (1788-1839) Member of Parliament and landowners on the Sandhof