Osthofen

Osthofen is a union -free city in the middle of Wonnegau in Rhineland-Palatinate Alzey- Worms. She was raised on 24 October 1970 on the city. Osthofen is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

• 3.1 Structures

• 4.1 Wonnegauer Wine Festival 4.1.1 Wonnegauer wine Majesties

• 5.1 Public bodies
• 5.2 Viticulture
• 5.3 company
• 5.4 traffic

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 personalities who have worked on site

History

Through archeological findings could be confirmed that the Osthofener district on Seebach has been inhabited at least four thousand years ago. The present town was mentioned in the Lorsch codex in a dated to 784 certificate as Ostowa first time. Presumably, at a Osthofen from today eingemeindeten Mülheim and from the former Merovingian royal palace in Neuhausen outgoing founding.

On the Osthofener Goldberg possibly a Remigius chapel was built in the 6th century. Here was the first large estate, which developed until 1195 to the imperial castle. In Mülheim 1215 the Knights Templar built also a castle.

By the end of the 18th century belonged to the Palatine Osthofen Oberamt Alzey. During the so-called French occupation of the city was the seat of a canton in the Mairie Bechtheim, who was part of the department Thunder Mountain.

Because of the 1815 taken at the Congress of Vienna agreements concluded between 1816 and Hesse, Prussia and Austria State Treaty, the region came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and assigned by this province Rheinhessen. The cantons have been retained, the Canton Bechtheim in 1822 renamed Canton Osthofen after the seat of the Peace Court already in 1804, therefore, was laid already in the French period, in fact to Osthofen. After the dissolution of Rhinehessen cantons Osthofen came in 1835 to the recently completed Worms, where it stayed until the administrative reform in 1969.

From 1933 to 1934, a concentration camp in Osthofen, the Osthofen, the venue was by Anna Seghers 's novel The Seventh Cross.

The development of the population of Osthofen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

City ​​council

The council consists of 24 Osthofen volunteer 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 City Council:

Mayor

• Wendelin Best (1822-1831)
• Johann Weißheimer II (1831-1843)
• Georg Friedrich Knierim I. (1843-1850)
• Peter Berger (1851-1853)
• Knierim Friedrich I. (1853-1862)
• Nicholas Nagel (1862-1864)
• Georg Friedrich Best II (1864-1867)
• James Beckenbach (1867-1870)
• Johann Rissler III. (1870-1883)
• Simon Friedrich Schill (1883-1892)
• Johann Rissler III. (1892-1897)
• Georg Jakob Konrad (1897-1912)
• William Schmitt (1912-1923)
• Carl Brenner (1924-1933)
• Wilhelm transit countries (1933-1935)
• Kurt Mildner (1935-1944)
• Heinrich dog village (1944-1945) (acting)
• Heinrich Rhine (1945-1946)
• Ludwig Knobloch (1946-1948)
• Walter Assmann (1948-1956)
• Albert Fischer (1956-1972)
• Günter Metzler (1973-1987)
• Klaus Hagemann (1987-1994)
• Bernd Müller (1994-2012)
• Wolfgang Itzerodt since 6 May 2013 ( honorary city mayor)

Wolfgang Itzerodt was elected on 14 April 2013 in a turnout of 44.3 percent with 56.4 percent of the valid votes.

Fusion

The city Osthofen merged on 1 July 2014 with the Association Westhofen the new municipality " Wonnegau ". The municipal entity will be headquartered in Osthofen. Some departments remain in Westhofen.

Culture and sights

Structures

• The Protestant Church Mountain is probably due to a certificate from the 6th century, Remigius chapel, next to which is a settled throughout history to the castle fortified manor. Today's mountain church grew out of the castle and chapel, the church tower probably built on the foundations of the keep. The church was rebuilt several times and received its present form after a fire in the 19th century. The mountain cemetery is occupied continuously since 1648.
• The Catholic Remigiuskirche has its origin in a chapel of the Knights Templar, which was taken over by the Knights Hospitallers later, in 1713 went to the cath. Parish over, the remodeled the building in 1792 decisively. The altar of the church was originally located in the Worms Carmelite Church.
• The future hall of the municipality Wonnegau on Fast was built in 1902 as a financial office in the neo-renaissance style.
• The Old Town Hall dates from 1739 and served until 1972 as the Town Hall of Osthofen. After that, the administration moved to the old tax office at Faster.
• The miniature castle pin leakage was built in 1891 in appeal to Lichtenstein Castle. The building stands on the vineyard "leak journal " above the old town of Osthofen.
• In the so -called Little Church that connects directly to the old town hall, went to parts of the first town hall of 1581.
• The 1933/34, operated by the National Socialists Osthofen is a memorial today. The building was immortalized by the German writer Anna Seghers in her novel The Seventh Cross, which was filmed with the American actor Spencer Tracy in the title role.
• The Jewish cemetery on the Mettenheimer road was built in 1832 and commemorates the Jewish community of the town.
• The Schill - tower is a malt silo built in the early 1960s with a no longer accessible viewing platform. Similar to almost the same time also as a malt silo built Henninger -Turm in Frankfurt, the building has now become a widely visible landmark of the city.

Old Town Hall

Miniature castle leak journal

Memorial Osthofen

Seat of the municipality Wonnegau

Schill Tower

Regular events

Wonnegauer Wine Festival

Since 1949, the annual Wonnegauer Wine Festival takes place in Osthofen. Among the highlights of the multi-day event will include the crowning of the Wonnegauer Wine Queen and the Prince of bubbly, as well as the traditional Monday tasting.

Wonnegauer wine Majesties

Economy and infrastructure

Public institutions

The clubs and schools Osthofens and the environment is the gym Wonnegau - hall. The hall is also used with the adjoining space for large events.

Viniculture

Osthofen part of the " wine field Wonnegau " in the Rheinhessen region. In the city 35 wineries operate, the area under vines is 465 hectares. About 68 % of the cultivated wine are white wine varietals ( 2007). In 1979, 116 farms were still active, the former vineyard was 429 acres.

Business

• Osthofen since its founding in 1859, the seat of the central administration of the malting Schill Malz. Production at the plant Osthofen was discontinued at the end of 2005.
• In Osthofen the Nestlé HealthCare Nutrition produces special drinking and building food for those with special dietary needs. The work emerged from the German headquarters of the Swiss Wander AG, its founder, Dr. Georg Wander, was born in 1841 in Osthofen.

Traffic

Osthofen has a railway station on the railway line Mainz- Ludwigshafen. Previously, there were also connections to the Old Rhine railway routes ( freight today to Worms Rheindürkheim ) Gickelche and railway Osthofen - Gau or home. Gickelche and railway Osthofen - Gau or home were shut down and dismantled in the meantime.

It is close to a motorway junction to the A61 and towards the Rhine is the main road 9

People

Sons and daughters of the town

• Margaret of Osthofen († July 19, 1418 ), wife of the knight Hamman of SICKINGEN, grandmother of Reinhard I of SICKINGEN Prince-Bishop of Worms ( 1445-1482 )
• Georg Helwich ( born July 21, 1588 Osthofen, † 1632 in Mainz ); Vicar and earlier historians of the Archbishopric of Mainz
• Friedrich Magnus fword ( born March 8, 1792 in Osthofen, † April 22, 1871 in Speyer ), a high school teacher, surveyor, astronomer and physicist
• Johann Weißheimer II ( born October 25, 1797 † 1883 in Osthofen ), landlords, mayors and chronicler of Osthofen, sponsors of the composer Richard Wagner
• Friedrich August von Pauli ( born May 6, 1802 in Osthofen, † June 26, 1883 in Bad Kissingen ), chief architect and pioneer of the railway bridge construction, inventor of the fish belly carrier ( named after its inventor, also Paul Bearer )
• Wendelin Weißheimer (* February 26, 1838, † 10 June 1910 in Nuremberg), composer, conductor, musicologist, friend of the composer Richard Wagner
• Dietrich Gruen ( born February 22, 1847 in Osthofen, † April 10, 1911 at sea in Italy), watchmaker, founder and owner of the Gruen Watch Company, a pioneer in the production of pocket watches and wristwatches
• Franz Best (* October 12, 1853, † October 16, 1939 ): Hessian Liberal Member of Parliament
• Carl Schill ( born November 5, 1862 in Osthofen, † October 22, 1944 ibid ), entrepreneurs, Commerce and Rheinhessen " father of gymnastics "
• Charles d' Angelo ( born September 9, 1890 in Osthofen, † March 20, 1945 probably in Gernsheim ): Head of Osthofen, officer in charge of the Dachau concentration camp, police director in Cuxhaven and Heilbronn
• Christian Philip ( born November 22, 1981 in Osthofen ), German poet, playwright and essayist

Personalities who have worked on site

• Georg Baselitz ( born January 23, 1938 in German Baselitz, today a district of Kamenz in Upper Lusatia in Saxony, real name Hans- Georg Kern ), important contemporary German painter and sculptor, living in Osthofen 1966-1975
• Klaus Hagemann ( born December 31, 1947 in Wölkau, Landkreis Merseburg ), German politician ( SPD), former mayor of Osthofen and from 1994 to 2013 Member of the German Bundestag