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Sprendlingen-Gensingen
Sprendlingen-Gensingen is a '' Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district Mainz-Bingen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approximately south-east of Bingen, and south-west of Mainz. Sprendlingen is the seat of the municipality. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Sprendlingen-Gensingen consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): # Aspisheim # Badenheim # Gensingen # Grolsheim # Horrweiler # Sankt Johann # Sprendlingen # Welgesheim # Wolfsheim # Zotzenheim Zotzenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse. It be ... References Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate {{MainzBingen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zotzenheim
Zotzenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. Culture and sightseeing Sport On Kreuznacher Straße is found a cinder team handball court and a clubhouse. HSG Zotzenheim/St. Johann/Sprendlingen is a successful team handball club that grew out of TV Zotzenheim 1901 (gymnastic club) and has already played several times in the third handball league. Regular events *On 1 May near the Napoleonshöhe mountain, or Gipfel des Horns, or in the local speech also “Hörnchen” (“Little Horn”), the so-called Fire Brigade Festival (''Feuerwehrfest'') takes place. *In May on the weekend at Ascension Day, a folk festival for the region and beyond is held. In 2006, among others, the bands Paddy Goes T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aspisheim
Aspisheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Aspisheim lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach. The municipality is administered by the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus: * FWG = Freie Wählergruppe Aspisheim e.V. Coat of arms The municipality's arms Arms or ARMS may refer to: *Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to: People * Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader Coat of arms or weapons *Armaments or weapons **Fi ... might be described thus: Per pale Or a yarn swift sable palewise and sable a lion rampant Or armed argent and langued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badenheim
Badenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. Geography The municipality lies west of ''Bundesstraße'' 50 at the northwest outliers of the Rhenish Hesse hills some 10 km east of the town of Bad Kreuznach. Culture and sightseeing Badenheim has a Catholic church from the Baroque period as well as an Evangelical church in the Classicist style. Also worth seeing are timber-frame Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ... houses and wineries. References External links Municipality’s official webpage Municipalities in R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gensingen
Gensingen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Gensingen lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach on the river Nahe. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. Neighbouring municipalities The municipality's neighbours are Grolsheim, Langenlonsheim, Horrweiler, Laubenheim, Welgesheim, Aspisheim, Biebelsheim, Ockenheim, Bretzenheim, Zotzenheim, Dorsheim, Sprendlingen and Bad Kreuznach-Ippesheim. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 21 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004) Coat of arms The municipality's arms might be described thus: or, the letter G between three mullets of six sable. While the letter G could stand for Gensingen, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grolsheim
Grolsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a '' Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Grolsheim lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach on the river Nahe. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004) On 7 July 2008, the serving mayor (''Bürgermeister'') Frank Nauheimer tendered his resignation on grounds that were then unexplained. It later became known that the Mainz State Prosecutor (''Staatsanwaltschaft Mainz'') was investigating Frank Nauheimer on suspicion of his having misappropriated monies. On 3 November 2008, charges were laid against Grolsheim's former mayor by the Mainz State Prosecutor. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horrweiler
Horrweiler is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Horrweiler lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach. It belongs to the Sprendlingen-Gensingen, ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. History In the 12th century, Horrweiler was Salian dynasty, Salian, and then passed into Electorate of the Palatinate ownership and was annexed to the ''Amt (country subdivision), Amt'' of Stromberg (Hunsrück), Stromberg as a subfief, with which it remained until the French Revolution. The tithes and patronage rights over the church were originally held by the Counts of Leiningen, who further conferred them upon members of the lower nobility. Owing to frequent conflicts, ever more mediation was needed. From 1518 to 1802, Saint Peter’s Monastery in Mainz held tithing righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankt Johann, Mainz-Bingen
Sankt Johann is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. History The typical Rhenish-Hessian wine village was known in the Middle Ages as ''Weiler Megelsheim'' (''Weiler'' means “hamlet” in German) and had its first documentary mention in 1220. Culture and sightseeing Buildings The municipality's landmark is the High Gothic Evangelical ''Johanniskirche'' (Saint John's Church) with an important Oberndörfer organ from 1793. This church was built as a pilgrimage church in the latter half of the 14th century by the Counts of Sponheim. It is consecrated to John the Baptist. Worth seeing are the church's mediaeval wall paintings and the modern church windows by Heinz Hindorf. Sport Up above the comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sprendlingen
Sprendlingen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Sprendlingen lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach on the Wiesbach. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen. Neighbouring municipalities These are Badenheim, Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, Zotzenheim, Mainz-Bingen and Gau-Bickelheim. History In 767, Sprendlingen had its first documentary mention in a record from the Lorsch Abbey. King Charles the Bald donated the village in 877 to the Monastery of Saint Gertrude at Nivelles in Brabant. In later times, the place ended up in the ownership of the County of Sponheim. In 1707, Sprendlingen became a Badish holding and formed an ''Amt'' of the Margraviate of Baden. In the late 18th century, Sprendlingen was conquered by the French. At the Congress of Vienna, the whole region was aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welgesheim
Welgesheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Welgesheim lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen. History Welgesheim lies on the spot where once the old military road crossed the river Wiesbach. During excavation work several graves were unearthed, leading to the conclusion that there was once a Roman settlement in what is now Welgesheim's municipal area. The place called ''Wellingesheim'' itself had its first documentary mention in 770 in the Lorsch codex. In 874 it appeared under the name ''Willengisheim'' and in 1178 as ''Wellengesheim''. Under its current name it appeared about 1194, when Werner von Bolanden was enfeoffed with the church treasure at Welgesheim by Count Lon. Later, Welgesheim belonged to the lordl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz-Bingen
Mainz-Bingen is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuznach, and Rhein-Hunsrück. History During the French occupation under Napoleon the district was part of the departement Donnersberg (fr.:Mont-Tonnerre). After the Congress of Vienna, the area north of the Nahe river went to the Prussian Rhine province, the biggest part however became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was called Rhenish Hesse. In 1835 the Mainz district was created when the province Rheinhessen was abolished. In 1852 the Oppenheim district was created, and took some of the area of the Mainz district; in 1938 this district was abolished again. The current area of the district was formed in 1969, when the districts of Mainz and Bingen were merged. Geography The main river in the district is the Rhine, which marks the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfsheim, Germany
Wolfsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse. History The placename likely goes back to a Frankish settler named Wulfilo. In the geographer Gerardus Mercator’s 1595 world atlas, the place was catalogued under the name ''WOLFZIM'' In 1844, within Wolfsheim’s limits, an important gold find was made at a princely grave from the time of the Migration Period (''Völkerwanderung''). The find comes from the early 5th century and today can be found in the Wiesbaden Museum in the collection of Nassau antiquities. A Late Roman “knob glass” – crafted with glass knobs on it – shaped like a kantharos, was found while some drainage pits were being dug in the ''Im Weiler'' rural area. That can be found in the ''Landesmuseum Mainz''. On 15 May 1950, the ''Rheinsender'' (“Rhine Transmitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhineland-Palatinate The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 163 Verbandsgemeinden, which are municipal associations grouped within the 24 districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ... of the state and subdivided into 2,257 Ortsgemeinden (singular Ortsgemeinde) which comprise single settlements. Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name for an administrative unit was '' Amt''. Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
