Wörth am Rhein

Wörth am Rhein is a union -free city with about 17,500 inhabitants in the district of Germersheim, and to the southeast of Rhineland- Palatinate. It lies opposite Karlsruhe on the left bank of the Rhine. The settlement of the Mercedes- Benz plant in Wörth, the largest truck assembly plant in the world, and a refinery in the 1960s meant that the population rose from about 3500 in 1960 to 9000 the mid-1970s. Large residential areas and a new center on the Dorschberg subsequently resulted in the establishment of industries. Since 1977 Wörth is called "town".

Wörth am Rhein is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning.

• 2.1 administrative and territorial reform
• 2.2 Population development

• 3.1 Protestant churches 3.1.1 Maximiliansau
• 3.1.2 Wörth

• 3.2.1 Büchelberg
• 3.2.2 Maximiliansau
• 3.2.3 Schaidt
• 3.2.4 Wörth

• 4.1 City Council
• 4.2 Mayor
• 4.3 mayor of the local district Wörth am Rhein
• 4.4 Coat of Arms
• 4.5 Town twinning

• 5.1 theater
• 5.2 Museums and exhibitions
• 5.3 Structures
• 5.4 parks
• 5.5 Sports

• 6.1 company 6.1.1 Daimler AG
• 6.1.2 Palm paper mill
• 6.1.3 Other companies on the former Raffieriegelände
• 6.1.4 Other major companies
• 6.1.5 Industry Associations

• 6.5.1 road
• 6.5.2 rail
• 6.5.3 water

• 7.1 freeman
• 7.2 Sons and daughters of the town
• 7.3 Connected to Wörth

Geographical location

The largest part of the urban area takes the Bienwald a large forest area, a. To the east of the Rhine forms the border city, to the west the border to County Southern Wine Route. Directly on the Rhine is Maximiliansau. On the eastern edge of the forest, is Bien Wörth. Büchelberg is situated in a clearing in the island Bienwald, about ten kilometers west of Worth. Schaidt located on the northern edge of the forest Bien, about 15 kilometers west of Worth.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 752 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 52% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is March, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.6 times more precipitation than in March. Precipitation varies so little and are evenly distributed throughout the year. Only in 15 % of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

Boroughs

The city is divided into four local districts (population as at 31 December 2010; including total Bienwald ):

Neighboring communities

History

Look into the Ludwig street, left the Church of St. Giles

Old Town Hall, now used as a gallery

The oldest document was mentioned in the Wörth, dates back to 1280. Settlers from neighboring villages are likely to be settled in the wetlands and the place have called in reference to its location on the water, " career " ( " fenced or otherwise way protected grounds " ), later " Wörth " island.

Middle of the 17th century, the Wörth were forced by a flood disaster to abandon their settlement and settle in the deserted village Forlach which they gave the name of their submerged village.

1864 received Wörth a station on the railway line winds -Karlsruhe, which was opened at that time between winds and Maximiliansau. 1876, the railway lines Schiffer city - Worth and Worth - Strasbourg were opened.

The well-known animal painter Professor Heinrich von Rein (1850-1941) made ​​in Wörth decades of renowned artists from home and abroad. Woerth has therefore been seen as " painters' village ".

1960 bought the Daimler AG surfaces at Worth and built there in subsequent driving a truck assembly plant. 1962 Mobil Oil bought an area of ​​55 hectares for the construction of the refinery Wörth, which started production in 1970. In addition, the country built the country Wörth harbor, which was passed in 1967.

On the wings of an industrial settlement was west of the Altortes of Worth, a new district ( " Dorschberg "). 1964 sold the land to the municipality 30 hectares of land in the forest west of Bien Bien forest settlement. In an urban Competition has been the design of Albert Speer, which provided for a new city center there. 1967 sold the land to the community another 32.5 acres Bienwald, where until 1977 was mainly residential development. 1967 Dorschberg school was completed, in which also the high school was housed until 1970 a separate school building was referring. 1970/71 the Town Hall with underground parking, indoor pool, Citizens Park and 1973 the festival hall and the Catholic Church of St. Theodard were completed. Between 1974 and 1977 the Bienwald Hall was built as a multi-purpose hall. In addition, two kindergartens emerged.

High-rise buildings and water tower

Skyscrapers in Wörth

By deed dated 14 May 1977, the local church Wörth am Rhein was elevated to town. The former Rhineland-Palatinate Minister President Helmut Kohl called Wörth in 1972 due to the rapid economic growth as a "calling card of Rhineland- Palatinate ."

On 30 June 1996, Mobil Oil closed the refinery. After dismantling the refinery until 2000 and the renovation of the city Wörth bought back the land. As of 2001, the Palm paper mill is settled on the eastern part of the site. In addition, other companies settled. In 2007, Daimler AG is a development and test center with test track on the port road running south of the former refinery.

Administrative and territorial reform

As part of the initiated in the second half of the 1960s, Rhineland-Palatinate, functional and territorial reform was based on the " Thirteenth state law on administrative simplification in the land of Rhineland -Palatinate " dated 1 March 1972 entered into force on 22 April 1972 the municipality Wörth formed, which included the independent villages Büchelberg, Maximiliansau, Schaidt and Wörth.

June 8, 1979, the community was incorporated into Büchelberg Worth and 10 June 1979, the municipality Wörth, the city Wörth am Rhein, as well as local churches and Schaidt Maximiliansau dissolved and formed a union free from this community. At the same time a part of the territory with 60 inhabitants of Wörth was umgemeindet after Scheibenhardt on the Rhine. Also on June 10, 1979, the new church was raised Wörth am Rhein to the city.

Population Development

The industrial development in the 1960s meant that the population of the Woerth rose from around 3,500 in the early 1960s to more than 9000 in 1980.

Based on the present territory of state, the population rose from 10,294 in 1963 to almost 72% to 17,698 in 1978, dropped to 16,880 in 1986, and has since risen slightly to 17,411 in 2012.

The development of the population of Wörth am Rhein, based on the current urban area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Religion

In 2007, 46.8 percent of the population Catholic and 26 percent Protestant. The other belonged to a different religion or no religious affiliation were.

Evangelical churches

Maximiliansau

Protestant church congregation Maximiliansau

Wörth

The Protestant Church of Christ is located in the center of the old part.

The Protestant Church of Peace was between 1981 and 1984 by the architect Peter Roth, head of the Building Department of the Prot Church in Speyer, built. It is a two storey building with an octagonal church hall on the upper floor, which can be extended by two Zuschalträume. In the basement underneath are the community rooms. In the church rooms are leaded by Johannes Schreiter, which were built 1986-2007. The community Wörth supported the construction of 100,000 marks and put the plots available.

Church of Peace in Wörth

Catholic churches

Büchelberg

Church of St. Lawrence

Maximiliansau

Church of the Assumption

Schaidt

Church of St. Leo

Wörth

Tower of the Church of St. Giles

Church of St. Theodard

The Catholic Church of St. Giles was built in 1961. Before that was the old Catholic Church, which had been inaugurated in 1837 and heavily damaged during World War II in the same place. It has a free-standing tower.

The Church of St. Theodard on the Dorschberg was consecrated in 1973. The church, the youth center and rectory were built in 1970 to plans by Alois Atzberger from the Episcopal Building Authority Speyer. The community Wörth supported the construction of 100,000 marks and put the plots available.

Islam

The mosque named Ulu Camii Wörth ( Worth Ulu Mosque) was built in 1993. The building at Bahnhofstrasse was purchased in 1990 and rebuilt from 1992 to the mosque. It is supported by the Association eV Turkish Islamic Community of Wörth, which belongs to the federation DİTİB. The first predecessor organization was founded in 1976, prayer rooms were initially provided by the municipality Wörth available and used halls and churches. End of the seventies, the club moved to Maximiliansau.

Policy

1972 formed the communities Büchelberg, Maximiliansau, Schaidt and Worth the municipality Wörth. First Mayor was in personal union of the mayor of Worth, Karl -Josef Stöffler. 1979 from the municipality a union -free city in the four local districts were set up in place of the local churches previously existing.

City ​​council

The city council in Wörth consists of 32 volunteer council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the elected City Council:

City Council election results 1979 to 2009 ( voting shares ):

Mayor

Mayor of the local district Wörth am Rhein

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Azure, a fallen golden anchor with a darumgeschlungenen black characters in the form of a lower left marked with an apostrophe S and beseitet right of a golden goose foot, left of a rooted golden beech ".

It was approved in 1981 by the District Government Neustadt and shows the four main elements of the historic coat of arms of Worth (anchor), Büchelberg (beech), Pfortz / Maximiliansau (S) and Schaidt ( goosefoot ).

Twinning

• Local district Maximiliansau: Cany- Barville (France)
• Local district Schaidt: Geltendorf ( Bavaria )
• City Wörth am Rhein: Drezdenko (Poland )

Culture and sights

Theater

• Festhalle with up to 886 seats
• Tullahalle - Culture Hall
• Bienwald Hall - Multipurpose Hall

Museums and exhibitions

• Heinrich von Rein Memorial Gallery in the Old Town Hall ( district Wörth )
• Kunstverein eV Wörth (regular exhibitions in the Old Town Hall)
• Cattle dash Museum ( local history museum ) in the district Schaidt

Structures

• Church of St. Leo in Schaidt
• Sculpture Garden in 2000, citizens of Worth Park

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wörth am Rhein

Parks

• Citizens Park in Wörth
• Promenadeweg in Wörth
• Altrhein plant in Wörth
• Cany- Barville plant in Maximiliansau

Sports

In Wörth there is a water park, a large swimming pool complex and a stadium. In Schaidt a sports center there with a DFB football base.

Economy and infrastructure

Business

Daimler AG

The largest employer in the city is the Mercedes -Benz plant in Wörth, the largest truck assembly plant in Europe. It types the Unimog, Econic, Zetros, Atego, Axor, Actros and Antos are manufactured. The plant has about 11,000 employees and is the second largest employer in Rhineland- Palatinate. 1960 bought the then Daimler- Benz AG, the " Wörthersee island " on the Rhine by the community Wörth and built a plant in which from 1963 with 100 employees, truck cabs were mounted. In the following years the work of the largest truck assembly plant in Europe was expanded. The first truck rolled off the assembly line in 1965, moved in 1967 Daimler -Benz truck assembly of Mannheim and Gaggenau to the Wörth plant. The factory site is 2.4 million square meters, of which 480,000 m² are production area. The production capacity is up to 470 trucks per day. Since 1965, more than three million vehicles were built. Recent expansion of the site is a more than 50 -acre development and test center for commercial vehicles of Daimler AG, which went into operation in 2007 and the establishment of the industrial park in several phases since 2000. The recent expansion of the industrial park was completed in late 2010.

Palm paper mill

As of 2001, built on the site of the former refinery Wörth (1996 Closed ) Palm paper mill with the world's largest paper machine. From 2006, a corrugated board plant was built at the paper mill. The installation of the corrugator began in November 2006. The plant was the end of February 2007. In addition, a power plant was built on the premises.

Other companies on the former Raffieriegelände

Furthermore, two trucking companies, the seat manufacturer SKA seats GmbH, a plant of ThyssenKrupp, a distribution of Netto Marken-Discount settled. The construction of a beverage plant of the Central German soft drinks was approved in March 2012. The required ground water is to be taken about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the site from wells. For this purpose, six wells have been built. The total amount withdrawn will amount to 1.5 million cubic meters / year. Construction began in May 2012. Investing is more than 100 million euros, it will create around 150 jobs.

Other major companies

The automotive supplier Faurecia produced in Wörth on the grounds of Daimler AG plastic parts such as dashboards for different car manufacturers. " Schaidt Innovations' manufactures in Schaidt car radios and navigation systems in the earlier work by Harman / Becker. In addition, several automotive and trucking companies and a larger metal processing company exist.

Commercial clubs

In the local districts Wörth, Maximiliansau and Schaidt there each trade associations. In total, nearly 200 retailers, traders, self- employed and freelancers have joined in the three trade associations.

Media

The Rhenish Palatinate maintains in Wörth am Rhein editorial extension.

As the Official Journal of the city publishes the Official Journal Wörth am Rhein, which appears weekly on Thursdays since 1972 and is distributed free of charge to all households in the catchment area in an edition of 8000 copies. It contains all the official notices and official dates of the city Wörth, but in addition also a contributing editor to cultural events and references to the activities of clubs and churches. It has a circumference of 16 pages in the rule.

Public institutions

In Wörth there is a police inspection. The service district includes the town of Wörth and the Association of Municipalities Hagenbach, Jockgrim and Kandel.

Education

In the city are located next to kindergartens and primary schools and a secondary school ( Gymnasium Europe ), a comprehensive school, a junior high school plus a vocational school and a school for the learning disabled students ( Bienwald school).

Other institutions of education and training are the CJD Maximiliansau and the Institute for Education Promotion Wörth.

Traffic

Road

On " Woerth junction " meet the federal highway 65 from the direction of Neustadt on the Wine Route and the federal highways 9 ( Kranenburg - Lauterbourg ) and 10 ( Lebach - Augsburg ). In Maximiliansau there is a road bridge and a railway bridge over the Rhine. (Rhine bridge Maximiliansau / Karlsruhe).

Rail

In Wörth station ( Rhine ), the railway lines Schiffer City Wörth, Wörth - Strasbourg -Karlsruhe and winds meet. From Wörth station a light rail route runs westward through the development area Dorschberg. Along the route, which is operated as a tramway, are the breakpoints Wörth Old railroad board, Wörth Bienwald Hall, Worth citizens Park, Worth City Hall, Worth and Worth Badallee water park. The route is served by the rail line S5 Albtal - transport company, which over the city distance by Wörth leads from Wörth beach park to the Wörth station and from there on the railway line winds - Karlsruhe via Maximiliansau and Knielingen via a link in the Karlsruhe tram network passes. The light rail line was built in sections from 1996 to 2003, the section between the station and the town hall was opened in 1997, the section from the town hall to the water park in 2003.

A more direct connection with the urban rail lines S51 and S52 operating between Germersheim and Karlsruhe city on the Wörth station. For the S51 and S52, the breakpoint Wörth rein Street between Abtswaldstraße and the Heinrich - Schütz-Straße was opened in December 2011.

Is the breakpoint Wörth Mozart Street, in operation since March 2009 on the railway line winds -Karlsruhe.

Maximiliansau, in addition to the stations of the Stadtbahn ( Maximiliansau Eisenbahnstraße, Maximiliansau West) also a stopping point for regional trains ( Maximiliansau In the race ) on the railway line Wörth - Lauterbourg.

The breakpoint Schaidt lies on the railway line Neustadt on the Wine Route - Wissembourg ( Maximiliansbahn ). It was built near the town center on Vollmer Road Weiler 1997. However, the district station Schaidt where the former station had found belongs to the municipality of Steinfeld.

1964 industry through route between the railway station and the Wörth harbor country was built. There are sidings of Daimler AG, the Palm paper mill and the port.

Water

At the port Wörth loading and unloading terminals are for containers, cars and for paper. The port area is 186 hectares. There are three container bridges, the storage area is 153,000 square meters. 2004 provided a freight center was opened. The port has to Duisburg, the second highest container throughput under German inland ports.

Cranes for container handling at the port Wörth

Personalities

Freeman

• Max Bergmann ( painter) ( 1884-1955 )
• Dr. Hans Mohr, head of port operations Rhineland -Palatinate, honorary citizenship awarded in May 1969
• Karl -Josef Stöffler (1915-1995), mayor from 1960 to 1980, honorary citizenship awarded in April 1980
• Heinrich von Rein (1850-1941), painter

Sons and daughters of the town

• Ferdinand Brossart (1849-1930), 1915-1923 Bishop of the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, USA.
• Martin Waltz (1883-1958), priest, prelate
• Ludwig dam Ingersoll (1913-1981), football player

Connected to Wörth

• Walter Engelhardt (1947-2010), Retired Colonel, lived in Wörth
• Friedel Griitzmacher ( b. 1942 ), former Member of Parliament ( Alliance 90/The Greens ), lived in Wörth
• Tobias Lindner ( b. 1982 ), member of the Bundestag ( Alliance 90/The Greens ), lives in Wörth
• Amelie Solja (* 1990), table tennis player
• Petrissa Solja (* 1994), table tennis player
• Herbert Wetterau ( b. 1957 ), artist and author, lives in Wörth
• Marlene Zapf ( * 1990), grew up in Wörth, plays for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Handball Bundesliga