Wörrstadt

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

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 town or city mayor
• 3.3 twin city

• 4.1 Culture and Music
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 Sport 4.3.1 sporting venues
• 4.3.2 Things to Do

• 5.1 company
• 5.2 Viticulture
• 5.3 traffic 5.3.1 Road Traffic
• 5.3.2 Rail transport

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

Geography

Geographical location

Woerrstadt located in Rheinhessen on the northwestern edge of the Upper Rhine Plain. To Woerrstadt heard the district Rommersheim.

Woerrstadt is surrounded by the typical Rhinehessen cultural landscape: in the favorable areas of intensive wine production, in the less well- exposed locations agriculture. Rheinhessen landscape is largely eliminated and the natural vegetation is hardly or not to exist. Woerrstadt offers here for Rheinhessen a special feature: With the Neuborn the city has one of the few forest areas in the region. In this forest area has many natural springs, the water of the swimming pool of the community association, the Neubornbad feeds exist. By Woerrstadt flows of Mühlbach.

Woerrstadt is located on an elevation, thus allowing charming and remarkable for Rheinhessen panoramas. From Woerrstadt from the Thunder Mountain, the Wißberg, Rheingau Mountains and the Great Feldberg im Taunus is seen. In fine weather, the skyline of Frankfurt am Main can be seen from several points in the district.

The district Rommersheim, formerly calibration hole lies in a valley, and forms an impressive one in the cultural landscape. From the district Rommersheim you can enjoy beautiful views of the Wißberg and in the direction of Bad Kreuznach.

Neighboring communities

• Saulheim
• Schornsheim
• Gabsheim
• Spiesheim
• Ensheim
• Armsheim
• Sulzheim
• Vendersheim

Boroughs

• Woerrstadt
• Rommersheim

Climate

The annual rainfall is 567 mm. Rainfall is low. They are located in the lower quarter of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 14% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is January, most precipitation falls in June. In June, falling 2 times more precipitation than in January. Precipitation varies moderately. At 49% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Woerrstadt was first documented in 772, Rommersheim, whose name was in the year 824 to 1931 calibration hole.

Around 1100 the Protestant church ( St. Lawrence Church ) was built as a fortified church. There were in the 8th century already an earlier church. The second church burned down around 1600 by a lightning strike and was rebuilt. Although the previous church was higher, but still the church is the tallest building in the city. You can see it from the highway 420 in the passing. The Catholic church was built in the 18th century and stands next to the Protestant Church. The Rommersheimer church was built in 1733-1751. The old crucifix suggests a very old church.

On November 7, 1970 Rommersheim was amalgamated with then 432 inhabitants according Woerrstadt. On 4 September 2009 Woerrstadt was given by Minister President Kurt Beck, the municipal law.

Policy

City ​​council

The council Woerrstadt consists of 24 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city. In the previous election period from 2004 to 2009 the council consisted of 22 members of the Council.

The distribution of seats in the City Council:

Town or city mayor

• Hans -Günter Schweers - SPD (1982-1983)
• Günter Helmus - SPD (1983-2004)
• Ingo Kleinfelder - SPD (2004 -present) (since 2009, the city mayor)

Sister City

Since 1986 Woerrstadt maintains partnerships with Arnay -le- Duc in France.

Culture and sights

Culture and Music

• Culture Woerrstadt eV, founded in 1979; active with 15-20 events per year, theater, concerts, lectures
• Jazz Club Rheinhessen eV, founded in 1986; organized five to six concerts a year, partly with international jazz greats
• Neuborn Open Air Festival ( Metal / Rock Open Air )
• Several choral societies Glee club Liederkranz eV Woerrstadt
• Choral Society Choral Society eV Woerrstadt
• Glee club WÖ - Rommersheim

Structures

• Building of the former Thurn - und-Taxis -Post
• Laurentius Church ( Woerrstadt ) with Stumm organ from 1759
• Nine tube wells, built in 1608, renovated in 1930. Here arises from the mill stream.
• Elm ditch remains of the former fortification
• Hall of Rommersheim, built around 1600. Rommersheim is now part of Woerrstadt
• Day laborers House, a historical house of the former underclass.
• Schiller monument near the cemetery
• Smith fountain in the town center
• Five wind turbines of the type E -82, each with a hub height of 138 meters. The rotor blades reach a height of 179 m. 5 more wind turbines of the same type have a hub height of 138 meters also.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Woerrstadt

Sports

• Football Club Woerrstadt 06 eV
• Gymnastic and sporting club Woerrstadt 1847 eV ( German Football Women's Champion 1974)
• Radfahrerverein Woerrstadt 1899 eV ( three-time Gold Cup winner BDR; several German and European champion in artistic cycling )
• Table Tennis Club Woerrstadt
• Judo Club Woerrstadt eV
• Wörrstädter chess club

Sports facilities

• Großsporthalle (IGS )
• Training hall (IGS )
• Velodrome
• Shooting range " In Neuborn "
• Football "Am Neuborn "
• Tennis courts " At the swimming pool "
• Community hall at the Jahn road
• Outdoor pool
• Skate park for young people on Neubornsportplatz

Things to Do

• The Neubornbad situated in a quiet location, nestled in a valley and surrounded by meadows and vineyards, between Woerrstadt and the district Rommersheim. The swimming pool is fed by water from the Neubornquelle. A solar heating system heats the cold spring water.
• In the vicinity of Woerrstadt many marked cycling trails can be found, which are connected to an extensive network of trails.

Economy and infrastructure

Business

The main economic activity is Wörrstadts the wine.

• Three commercial areas are reported, two of them directly on the main highway 63
• The end of 2003 counted 711 Woerrstadt Gerwerbebetriebe.
• At shopping Woerrstadt provides an excessive offer for its size.

In the first half of 2008, the new headquarters of working in the renewable energy sector company Juwi originated in the industrial area near the highway. The company previously had its headquarters in Bolanden and in Mainz, but in mid-July 2008, the new headquarters based in Woerrstadt. With around 1000 employees juwi has become one of the largest employers in the area. The pillars of our company are wind energy, solar energy and bioenergy.

The Energy Park Woerrstadt a wind park with 22 wind turbines, also a solar park is available. One of the wind turbines is owned by the municipality.

Viniculture

Viticulture has a long tradition in the city and is passed in the wineries from generation to generation. All wineries are in town for several generations in the family. The vineyards in the town is divided into two vineyards tile mountain and Rheingrafenberg. In Woerrstadt the Rheinhessen typical limestone soils, loess and clay are represented.

Traffic

Road

Woerrstadt is located at the intersection of highways 420 and 271, two important regional roads. The city also has an exit to the Federal Highway 63, about which one can reach the surrounding medium, and large centers such as Alzey, Worms, Mainz, Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt very good. The distance to the main transport hub in Germany, the Frankfurt am Main Airport is, by road 45 km. A few kilometers from the city is the Alzeyer Cross, the crossroads of the motorways 61 ( Koblenz- Ludwigshafen) and 63 ( Kaiserslautern Mainz). The Paris road runs through Woerrstadt.

Rail transport

About the Alzey -Mainz railway line, which is operated in the Rhineland -Palatinate clock, can be reached from the breakpoint Woerrstadt (49 ° 50 ' 45.8 " N, 8 ° 6' 53.9 " O49.846058.11496 ) from Mainz in about a half, Alzey in around a quarter of an hour. At the breakpoint keep both regional express, as well as regional trains. The station building was built around 1871, the year the railway line Mainz- Alzey was opened. The Frankfurt airport is accessible via Mainz in about an hour and downtown Frankfurt in approximately 75 minutes. On weekend and holidays are possible trips to the Alsace - Express to Wissembourg.

Public institutions

• Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Woerrstadt
• Technical Relief - Ortsverband
• Volunteer Fire Woerrstadt
• Catholic public library Woerrstadt

Education

In Woerrstadt there are several kindergartens and one primary school, secondary school ( Realschule plus since 2009 ), secondary school and comprehensive school.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Adam Elsheimer, a painter of the 17th century, comes from Woerrstadt. According to him, Adam Elsheimer street is named. His parents emigrated to Frankfurt, it remains controversial whether Elsheimer was born in Frankfurt or Woerrstadt.
• Charles Behlen (1811-1874), former Liberal MP for the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
• Karl Doflein (1852-1944), architect
• Karl Göttelmann (1858-1928), economist and politician
• Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer (1890-1972), librarian and literary scholar
• Mathias Schüz ( born 1956 ), physicist and philosopher
• Eugene Salomon (1888-1942), co-founder and first chairman of the FSV Mainz 05, born in Woerrstadt the son of upholsterer Moritz Salomon and his wife Fanny, deported in November 1942 to Auschwitz, where he was assassinated on 14 November 1942 by the Nazis

Personalities who have worked on site

• In Woerrstadt the geologist and impact researchers Günther Graup lived († 2006), who had made ​​a name for itself in the exploration of Ries. Through his pioneering work on the Ries event could be better understood. He was also involved in the Apollo program and has investigated several lunar samples (Apollo 14 and Apollo 16).
• The pop singer Helene Fischer went into Woerrstadt to school.