Westhofen

Westhofen is a municipality in the district Alzey- Worms in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality, which it also belongs. Westhofen is recognized as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

Geography

Westhofen located in Rheinhessen between Worms, Mainz and Alzey. In Westhofen Seebach, the strongest source of Rheinhessen springs. It is also the only source in the region, which originates on the valley floor. Groundwater from the area of Mount Thunder feeds them.

To Westhofen includes the living space Neumühlestrasse.

History

Westhofen was first mentioned already in the Carolingian period and received in 1324 the market rights. The importance of Western Hofens in earlier times is shown by the surviving base enclosure with a stain walls and multiple trenches.

By the end of the 18th century Westhofen belonged to the Palatine 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. After the dissolution of Rhinehessen cantons the place came in 1835 to the recently completed Worms, to which he belonged until 1969.

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

Parish council

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

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Culture and sights

Structures

On one of the most beautiful market places in Rheinhessen lined up not only half-timbered houses and monuments, but also the Protestant and the Catholic Church, under the an ossuary was discovered on October 3, 1981.

• See also: List of cultural monuments in Westhofen

Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul

Old half-timbered houses on the market square

Source of Seebach

Natural Monuments

West Mayrhofen is one of the sites in Rheinhessen with about ten million year old mammal remains from the Dinotheriensanden of the ancient Rhine. The term Dinotheriensande based on the fact that these deposits often contain teeth and bones of the animal 's trunk Dinotherium.

Events

Westhofen waits with annual festivals such as the grape blossom festival (usually on the second weekend after Pentecost ), the Westhofener market ( vorletzer Sunday in August ) and the Epiphany threshing ( the first Sunday after Epiphany ).

Economy and infrastructure

Westhofen is significantly influenced by winegrowing and with 764 hectares under vine, of which 68.7 percent is white and 31.3 percent red wines, to Worms ( 1490 hectares), Nierstein ( 783 hectares) and Alzey ( 769 hectares) largest wine growing district of Rheinhessen. The Morstein is classified as " first position " the most prestigious single vineyard and German by the Association predicate and quality wineries. The wineries Wittmann and KF Groebe wear with their quality approach to the reputation of the place.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Fritz Huxel (1892-1972), winery owners and Rebpionier in Rheinhessen
• Walter Beyer (1920-2012), economist, civil servant and local politician (SPD )