Ensheim

Ensheim is a municipality in the district Alzey- Worms in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Woerrstadt.

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 mayor
• 4.3 Coat of Arms
• 4.4 community partnership

• 5.1 Cultural Monuments
• 5.2 Sound
• 5.3 Regular events

Geography

Climate

863 mm, which is within the upper third of the detected by the measuring points of the German Weather Service values ​​. 74 % indicate lower values. The driest month is February; most rains in November. The wettest month falls about 1.4 times more rain than in the driest month. The seasonal fluctuations in precipitation are in the lower third. In only 14% of all places in the monthly rainfall varies less.

History

By the middle of the 4th century the Franks broke through the Roman fortifications along the Rhine to win a new home. Rheinhessen was occupied by the Franks in the 5th century.

The oldest and still existing written message from Frankish times over Ensheim dates from the year 769 On September 12, 769 gave a Almahar, probably the reason Mr. Ensheim, the monastery Lorsch a Wingert in the district Aoenisheim, today Ensheim. This Almahar also occurs on June 12, 791 as a witness in a Flonheimer certificate and has the monastery Lorsch considered in further gifting. The first written reference from the year 769 also provides evidence that the Roman wine-growing was further maintained.

Later place names in documents are:

Ensheim originally belonged to Wormsgau and came up with the formation of the territorial rule in the 12th century for the county palatine. In formation of the Palatine Principality by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa probably the castle Stromberg ( Soonwaldsteig ) has come to the Count Palatine. For Stromberg included, in addition Ensheim also the estate Kronkreuz and villages Appenheim, Angel City, Grolsheim, Horrweiler, Weinheim and Schimsheim.

In the division, which undertook the Count Palatine Otto among his sons Louis and Henry in 1255, Ludwig was also the village Ensheim. It was conceived with the pledge shaft of castles and villages, which the Count Simon of Sponheim -actuated his son Rudolf and his wife Mathilde in 1311 to 2,000 pounds Heller. This pledge shaft was redeemed by the widow Mathilde and their son Adolf in 1320, so that Ensheim fell back to the Palatinate, where it remained until the French Revolution.

In Ensheim the St. John's Monastery possessed at Alzey, a Cistercian monastery, a Hofgut that is mentioned in 1357. This was posted on February 28, 1357 by the Count Palatine Rupprecht II of the control and estimation - except the Korngülte - free, which had to be supplied to him by the Hofgut. After Weistum the Palatine had in this Hofgut the hostel right with stabling for their horses. Eating and drinking and the fodder for the horses had to deliver the Ensheimer citizens.

Religion

• The Protestant church Ensheim was until 1998 an independent parish with its own parish, which co-administered, the Protestant inhabitants of the neighboring community Spiesheim. As of 1999, the municipalities Bechtolsheim, Biebelnheim, Ensheim and Spiesheim form a common parish seat in Bechtolsheim.

• The Catholic inhabitants form a branch of the Catholic church. Parish Spiesheim and are also managed by the parish Woerrstadt.

Policy

Parish council

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

Mayor

Coat of arms

The local arms of Ensheim was approved on 25 February 1985 by the District Government in Neustadt. It has no local history tradition, but has been elaborated on the basis of territorial belonging.

Blazon: " Across from silver and red split elevated sign foot, in the right a blue lily, left a silver Sesel, split of red and silver, on the right a silver heel and a silver crosier with Sudarium, crossed, left a blue crown with a growing out of the blue Shamrock Cross. "

The coat of arms depicts the membership Ensheims to Electoral Palatinate and has received the Rhine-Hesse and of Mainz colors red and silver. Crown and Cross provide a hint to the yard Kronkreuz in the district Ensheim is, who passed over in 1299 St. to the cathedral Martin in Mainz, while the town itself the Marian monastery Flonheim rights and possessions owned, as indicated by the blue lily, the symbol of Mary is expressed; Ownership and rights of the Bishop of Mainz church are also expressed by the crosier. Hoe and Sesel refer to the agriculture and viticulture. So the coat of arms combines the current economic situation with its historical past as well as with the interpretation of the name located in the district cloister Good Kronkreuz.

Community partnership

• Dommartemont (France)

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

See: List of cultural monuments in Ensheim

Music

• Glee club

Regular events

• Tile Mountain Festival, Fountain Festival

Personalities

• Karl Georg angle plate (1810-1865), economist