Monsheim

Monsheim is a municipality in the district Alzey- Worms in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Monsheim, who also belongs. Monsheim is recognized as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 mayor
  • 4.3 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 Cultural Monuments
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Education

Geography

Monsheim is located on the southern Pfrimm Wonnegau in Rheinhessen.

The parish includes the hamlets of Monsheim and war home.

The hamlet Monsheim includes the residential places elm mill and Rehhof; to the hamlet of war home to the living space Wiesenmuhle.

History

Prehistory

The Pfrimmtal one of the altbesiedelten landscapes. Also from the district Monsheim are numerous archaeological sites. Important are the findings from the hallway menhir. 1866 was discovered here at Roden a field to plant a vineyard, a burial ground. There originally was a about two meters high menhir, the popularly called " menhir ", now kept in the courtyard of Monsheim. The finds were by the Mainz prehistorians Louis Lindenschmit (1809-1893) studied and described in 1868. The Worms doctor and prehistorians Karl Koehl (1847-1929) proposed in 1898 for the finds from Monsheim the term menhir type before - today the sentence Hinkelstein group is common. This culture of Neolithic existed about 4900-4800 BC The menhir group was distributed mainly in parts of Baden -Württemberg, Rhineland -Palatinate and Hesse.

History

The first written mention of the town is found in the Lorsch codex in the 8th century.

Today's church was established on June 7, 1969 by recharge from the communities Kriegsheim and Monsheim.

Religion

There are churches of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, the Roman Catholic Church ( Diocese of Mainz) and the Mennonite In Monsheim.

The two located in the municipality Monsheim Protestant churches are the Church of Saint George ( first mentioned in 766 ) and the church in Kriegsheim ( first mentioned 1309). In war home is also a Catholic church ( built in 1864, renovated in 2004 ), whose community is managed by the pastor in Pfeddersheim from. Furthermore, there is a Mennonite church ( built in 1820, renovated in 2007 ) in Monsheim. The Mennonite Church is historically back to the Baptist church in war home, which has already passed in the Reformation period.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Monsheim consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Mayor

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " In a divided shield above in red a golden cross, down in a blue rotbewehrter silver eagle ".

The coat of arms dates back to a court seal from 1590.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

  • Castle: in the 17th century, the old castle into a Renaissance castle was remodeled
  • In the courtyard there is the menhir, a well jungneolithischer Menhir.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Monsheim

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

In Monsheim the Federal Highway 271 and State Road 47 intersect Monsheim The station is located on the Rheinhessen Bingen by train to Worms. In addition, in Monsheim begins Zellertalstraße train to Langmeil, take the summer excursion trains to high Speyer, and the Palatine Northern Railway to Neustadt on the Wine Route. On weekends and public holidays in summer are possible trips to the Alsace - Express to Wissembourg. Furthermore begins in Monsheim the bus line 921 to Kirchheimbolanden.

Education

The Heinrich -von- Gagern Elementary School is also known as all-day schools in operation since 2005.

Personalities

  • David Möllinger (1709-1787), German agrarian reformers
  • Friedrich Georg Philipp von La Roche -Stark rock (1729-1802), Hesse- Kassel and shear Privy Government President
  • Ernst von Gagern (1807-1865), an important priest in the Diocese of Speyer
  • Henry of Gagern (1799-1880), significant German politicians
  • Friedrich Freiherr von Gagern Baldwin (1842-1910), member of the Reichstag
  • Frank Nonnenmacher, (* 1944), German professor of Didactics of Social Sciences and Political Education
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