Genheim

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Location of Genheim in Rhineland-Palatinate

Genheim is a district of the municipality Waldalgesheim in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland- Palatinate.

Geography

Genheim is located on the southeastern slope of the Hunsrück between Koblenz and Bad Kreuznach south of Binger forest and west of the Near and about seven kilometers west of Bingen. Genheim lies on the route of Naheweinstraße.

Neighboring communities:

History

From about 750 BC, the region was settled by the Celts. The Celtic burial mounds between Genheim and Schweppenhausen and the car grave of Princess Waldalgesheim prove that there must have been near important Celtic settlements. Where exactly were these settlements and whether the origins of the village establishment ultimately go back to a Celtic settlement, it can not be proven.

Since the time of Christ Roman troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine. For 500 years, the area remained under Roman rule and Roman influence. The Romans brought the road and especially the cultivation of wine from Italy into Germany. Just for the wine they found in the steep, facing the sun hills of the foothills of the Hunsrück before good acreage.

In the time of the great migration around 500 AD, the Roman Empire and the Franks disintegrated occupied the area. 767 AD is mentioned for the first time in a document of winegrowing in Genheim in the Lorsch codex. The Frankish Empire retained control of the area until its division and disintegration around 840 AD

On 7 November 1970, until then independent municipality Genheim was incorporated as a village in Waldalgesheim.

Old name of Genheim are Goganheim and Gaginheim.

Karl May can play a part of his novel Waldröschen in Genheim.

Dialect

The language in the villages around Genheim is associated with the large -speaking countries of the West Central German. Here, the local dialect of different Franconian and Palatine languages ​​is affected. Specifically, this means that one speaks a variant of the Rhine Hessian dialect in Genheim.

Structures

  • Old school: the former Genheimer school building, now the village hall
  • Protestant Church: The single- sacred building was inaugurated on May 9, 1871, and is the successor of an older church.
  • Monumental war memorial: The memorial was built in 1914 and placed as a single monument.
  • Baroque half-timbered house in the Bergstr. Asked 9 from the early 18th century, as a single monument under protection
  • Remischenstein: On the Genheimer village square is home to one of twelve Remischensteinen along the Naheweinstrasse.

Economy and infrastructure

There are small workshops and side and full acquiring farming. Here, especially wine and agriculture play a role in animal husbandry is no longer operated appreciably. Those managed by Genheimer winemakers, vineyards belong to the Nahe region / Nahe, the major site castle chapel. The cultivated areas are located in the individual layers Liesenberg and Otter Mountain ( to Waldlaubersheim belonging ) and in the Genheimer location Rossel. On Genheimer district, between Waldalgesheim, Roth and Genheim, one of the largest ground-mounted solar installations was inaugurated in Rhineland Palatinate on 22 November 2008. The solar energy park which was built in cooperation with the Wörrstädter Juwi Group has an annual capacity of 2.5 million kilowatt hours, covers the annual needs of about 700 households. The facility is located on an approximately 9.3 -acre former farmland and consists of approximately 36,000 thin-film modules of First Solar GmbH (USA / Germany ). The total area of the modules is about 25,920 square meters. The energy generated is fed into the medium-voltage network of the Rhine-Ruhr distribution GmbH.

Tourism is mainly for local taverns and rooms for rent of importance.

The village is known about its borders mainly through three annual festivals.

  • The Nahe wine festival which takes place in August
  • The Forest Festival
  • The Romantic Christmas Market on the first Saturday of Advent.

Traffic

  • The Federal Highway 61 is reached after about two kilometers to the junction Waldlaubersheim. Alternatively, in about the same distance as the connection point "Stromberg" is ( also A61 ).

Clubs

  • Oldtimerfreunde Genheim (old farm equipment and cars)
  • Männergesangverein MGV Liederkranz Genheim 1925 eV
  • Rural women Genheim
  • Theater group The winemakers Children eV

Policy

Mayor is Franz Josef Eckes (CDU ) (as of December 2009).

Earlier Schultheiße / mayor / mayor were:

  • About 1809: Gerhard Kärcher ( Genheimer ), listed as mayor in Genheimer storage or morning book
  • 1946-1989: Kurt Roth Bach ( Genheimer ), mayor, mayor from 1970
  • 1989-1999: Oskar Hartwein ( Genheimer ), mayor
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