Ober-Flörsheim

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

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor ( list incomplete )

• 4.1 Music
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 Sport

• 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geographical location

Upper Florsheim lies on a high plateau in the Rhine-Hessian wine growing area.

History

Flarlesheim superiori was first mentioned in 776 in a donation directory of Lorsch. From 1237 until the late 18th century, the German Order of operating a Coming in the village. Since 1506 belonged to upper - Florsheim to Electoral Palatinate and was subordinate to the chief official Alzey. In the Thirty Years' War, Swedish troops devastated the Coming and the village. 1689 pulled the Palatinate devastation by French troops under King Louis XIV the place again in severe affected.

During the wars following the French Revolution, it came on 30 March 1793 a battle of top - Florsheim, in which the Prussians defeated the French. This victory could not prevent the ultimate success of the French, so that the upper Florsheim annexed with the rest of the left bank of the Rhine and in 1798 part of the department of Mont Tonnerre ( Thunder Mountain ) was.

After the defeat of the French Empire in 1816 Ober- Florsheim part of the newly created province Rheinhessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.

After dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons the place came in 1835 to the recently completed Worms, where he remained until 1 November 1938. In the course of that local government reform he came to the district Alzey, which was shortly afterwards renamed the Alzey.

On March 20, 1945 American troops occupied the city, but the French occupation zone was knocked down in the summer of 1945 and 1946 came to the new state of Rhineland -Palatinate. The district Alzey was continued until the administrative reform of 7 June 1969 of which the greater part came up in the course in the Alzey -Worms, the upper Florsheim member since then.

Since 1972 high - Florsheim belongs to the municipality of Alzey -Land.

Religions

In the 16th century reformed, 1698, the Catholic worship was reintroduced. The Reformed obtained in 1705 with the Palatine church division again dominion over the parish church. In the long run passed both faiths side by side. 1747 was built a church in the village of the Lutheran Confessions as a third denomination. In 1876 the Freiprotestantische community, founded a spin-off of the Evangelical.

Population Development

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Upper Florsheim consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Mayor ( list incomplete )

Culture and sights

Heritage Museum in Mansion ( former mansion in the Kommenturei ), manager Hans -Jürgen Rudy, opening times by appointment. In 2002, the local history and culture club top Florsheim was founded, in the meantime, around 80 members counts.

Music

In addition to the glee club Sängerkranz of 1855, which also has a women's choir, there is also the Catholic Church Music Association of 1912 and an evangelical church choir.

Structures

Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul, built 1776/1777 instead of the old parish church, which was awarded the Reformed Church after the Palatine division in 1705. The German Order, which held the patronage of the Catholic community, however, opposed this decision and preserved in a long legal dispute the ownership of the Catholics. As a result of the dispute, however, fell apart the old church, so that the held in Renaissance style building was necessary. The bell tower was not built until 1930.

The Protestant church was 1887/88 built in the Gothic Revival style, it was renovated in 1961-65 and 1976-78, followed by a sandstone blocks indicating on the west side of the tower.

Particularly worth seeing is a late baroque courtyard in the Alzeyer road, separated from the town hall by the Weedegasse, with a typical hipped mansard roof. This emerged at the end of the 18th century.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Upper Florsheim

Sports

The TSG 1863 Upper Florsheim offers among other things to the sports gymnastics, ballroom dancing, taekwondo, tennis and football.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Sebastian Walter, * 1848 in Ober- Florsheim; † 1922 Milwaukee, producer ( emigrated in 1866 to Milwaukee / USA)
• Willy German man, * 1880 upper Florsheim, painter, worked in Petersbächel in Wasgau, where he died in 1960. He is regarded as the most important painter of the central Wasgau, the boundary line between the Palatinate and Alsace.