Nieder-Olm is a town in the

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 Kre ...

district in

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

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. Until 5 November 2006 it was an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a

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belonging to a ''

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. Rhinelan ...

'', a kind of collective municipality – but it was raised to town the next day. It is still the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm, and functions as a middle centre in the region.

Geography

Location

Nieder-Olm lies some 10 km south of

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

in the heart of

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, on the east bank of the Selz in the northern part of the Rhenish-Hessian Hills (''Rheinhessisches Hügelland''), known as the Mainz Basin. The town's average elevation lies at some 150 m above

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. The highest elevation within municipal limits is the Mühlberg at 243 m in the northeast between Nieder-Olm and Mainz-Ebersheim. The landscape is strongly characterized by winegrowing and fruit growing. A wood named ''Im Loh'' can be found in the northeast of the municipal area. It is only some 11 ha in area.

Geology

Predominant here are

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soils, which are of very high quality.

Climate

Owing to the location in the Mainz Basin, the climate in Nieder-Olm is very mild and dry. The mean temperature over the year is 8 °C, making the area one of the warmest in

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. The yearly

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is, at 500 mm, rather slight.

Constituent communities

Nieder-Olm has one outlying ''

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'' called Goldberg.

Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, these are: *

Ober-Olm Ober-Olm is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Neighbouring municipalities Ober-Olm's nei ...

( ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm) * Klein-Winternheim (''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm) *

(outlying centre of Ebersheim) *

Zornheim Zornheim 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 Zornheim borders in the southwes ...

(''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm) *

Sörgenloch Sörgenloch 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 The municipality lies in Rheni ...

(''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm) *

Saulheim Saulheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in Rhenis ...

( ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Wörrstadt) *

Stadecken-Elsheim Stadecken-Elsheim 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 Stadecken-Elsheim lies just ...

(''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm) *

Essenheim Essenheim 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 Essenheim lies in Rhenish Hesse sout ...

(''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm)

History

Early Middle Ages

Since so few written documents about Nieder-Olm from the

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are available, dating Nieder-Olm founding is difficult. Finds from grave digs from the late 6th century, however, point to an early settlement in this area. It is believed that this may have been brought about by the early

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during the so-called ''Fränkische Landnahme'' (“Frankish Land-Taking”), when the Franks reconquered the lands formerly held by the Romans. The Frankish settlement called ''Reichelsheim'' lay roughly where the commercial development now lies in northwest Nieder-Olm and can still be made out in aerial photographs. The placename ending ''—heim'' is typical of names that the Franks gave places, including many other nearby places. Reichelsheim, though, was later forsaken.

Middle Ages

From the Middle Ages, Nieder-Olm was an Electoral Mainz holding. It is established by documents that in 899 Archbishop of Mainz Hatto I made over a landholding called ''Ulmena'' (Olm) to the wife of Emperor

Arnulf of Carinthia Arnulf of Carinthia ( 850 – 8 December 899) was the duke of Carinthia who overthrew his uncle Emperor Charles the Fat to become the Carolingian king of East Francia from 887, the disputed king of Italy from 894 and the disputed emperor from ...

with a lifetime term. This estate is believed to have lain in the area now occupied by

and is both municipalities’ namesake. In 994, at Emperor Otto III's behest, the estate was put back under the Archbishopric's ownership. In the late 11th century, ownership was transferred to the Mainz Cathedral Foundation, in which time also arose Saint George's

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Church, expedited by strong ecclesiastical influence. The settlement's first fortifications are believed to date from the 12th century. These were made up of walls and ditches and had four main gates. Later, in the late 13th century, supposedly as a reaction to the building of Stadeck Castle, a castle with a moat was built within the municipal boundaries, to which noble Burgmänner were given priority. In the 15th century, Nieder-Olm found itself caught between the frontlines in an archiepiscopal feud being waged by Archbishops Diether von Isenburg and Adolf von Nassau. Its consequences entailed frequent changes in rulers. In 1503, Archbishop Berthold had the castle newly built to meet the requirements of what were then modern attack techniques. From this time, the castle was known as ''St. Laurenziburg''. In the years that followed, both the castle and the fortifications were repeatedly destroyed. Today only a few remnants are left. In the early 19th century, the castle finally had to give way to a road. Quite well preserved is the defensive complex at the graveyard, which at the time surrounded the church.

Early modern times

During the

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, Nieder-Olm was repeatedly overrun by the enemy and in 1632 it was occupied by Swedish troops. Some 60 years later, in the

Nine Years' War The Nine Years' War (1688–1697), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, was a conflict between Kingdom of France, France and a European coalition which mainly included the Holy Roman Empire (led by t ...

, Nieder-Olm was sacked by

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troops. Once again in the late 18th century, Nieder-Olm was occupied. This time it was

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ary troops. The French put a Liberty pole up in 1792 and made Nieder-Olm a part of the

Republic of Mainz The Republic of Mainz was the first democratic state in the current German territoryThe short-lived republic is often ignored in identifying the "first German democracy", in favour of the Weimar Republic; e.g. "the failure of the first German ...

, which was the first democratic republic on German territory. Only a short time later – the Republic of Mainz only lasted 100 days – Nieder-Olm was reconquered by Imperial troops. As soon afterwards as 1797, though, French troops managed to take Nieder-Olm once again, and it thus became part of the

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ic Empire. After this fell, Nieder-Olm became in 1816 part of the newly founded province of

(''Rheinhessen''), which also made it part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. With the opening of the

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from

Alzey Alzey () is a ''Verband''-free town – one belonging to no ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the fifth-largest town in Rhenish Hesse, after Mainz, Worms, Ingelheim am Rhein and Bingen. ...

in 1871, Nieder-Olm was linked to the

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network.

First and Second World Wars

After the

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, Nieder-Olm once again became French-occupied under the terms of the

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. A border station of the occupied

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was set up in an inn at that time, the ''Gasthaus zur schönen Aussicht''. Having been returned to German sovereignty in 1929, Nieder-Olm was no more spared

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than any other part of Germany. After

Kristallnacht () or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) paramilitary and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation fro ...

(9 November 1938), in which Jewish houses and shops were looted and destroyed, there were no more

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ish inhabitants in Nieder-Olm. Into the history of the

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went Nieder-Olm when during the Allied advance, scattered German troops in the Selz valley put up considerable resistance. Bearing witness to this time are

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emplacements west of the Selz, which have, however, for safety's sake, been filled in.

Postwar to present

From 1946, Nieder-Olm belonged to the newly founded

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. In the decades that followed, the infrastructure was under ongoing expansion: new schools arose (in 1957 the new

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''Burgschule Nieder-Olm'', in 1974 the

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and special school and in 1981 the Gymnasium, as well as two schools for physically handicapped pupils and those with learning difficulties), a gymnasium and festival hall (1961) and the indoor and outdoor swimming pool (1968) were built. In 1980 the town acquired a connection to the A 63. Also in the last two decades, development was steadily furthered: new residential areas were laid out and older ones continually expanded. The commercial area was amply expanded and three new bypasses were built. In 1997 the old festival hall was torn down and replaced with the new ''Ludwig-Eckes-Halle''. Likewise, the indoor and outdoor swimming pool was expanded into an adventure pool. Further upgrading is planned with a view to barring all through traffic and doing further building work, especially in the area around the primary school and Pariser Straße. Today, Nieder-Olm has over 9,200 inhabitants and the number is growing. The Rhineland-Palatinate Cabinet decided on 24 October 2006 to grant Nieder-Olm the designation “town” (''Stadt'' in

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). Nieder-Olm has been allowed since the delivery of the granting documents on 6 November 2006 by Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Karl Peter Bruch to call itself the “Town of Nieder-Olm” (''Stadt Nieder-Olm'').

Politics

Town council

The council is made up of 24 council members, counting the mayor, with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 7 June 2009)

Mayor

In 2019, Dirk Hasenfuss was elected as mayor of Nieder-Olm.

Town partnerships

Recey-sur-Ource Recey-sur-Ource () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Geography The village lies in the middle of the commune, on the right bank of the Ource, which flows northwest through the middle of the commune. Population Inte ...

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since 1967 * Bussolengo,

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since 1984 * L'Alcúdia,

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since 1989

Coat of arms

The town's arms might be described thus: Per fess argent a cross moline gules and gules a wheel spoked of six argent. The earliest seal, from 1519, shows the cross moline (that is, cross with pointed split ends turned out), whereas later ones show a cross pattée (that is, cross whose arms broaden at the ends, which are flat). The original form was chosen for inclusion in the modern arms. The reason for the cross's inclusion as a

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is unclear, although it has been suggested that it refers to Saint George, who is the patron saint. The wheel is the

Wheel of Mainz The Wheel of Mainz or ''Mainzer Rad'', in German, was the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Mainz and thus also of the Electorate of Mainz (Kurmainz), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It consists of a silver wheel with six spokes on a red bac ...

, and refers to Nieder-Olm's allegiance to Electoral Mainz until 1803. The

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s are also Mainz's.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

*The

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Parish Church from the Late

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period was completed in 1865. It harbours a pulpit and altar table from 1808, both from the now demolished ''Welschnonnenkirche'' in Mainz. *Saint George's

Parish Church comes from the year 1779. The quire tower on the east side is a remnant of the old

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church from the 12th century; it was given a greater height and modified later in the 19th century.

Regular events

*Fire brigade's New Year's Ball on the first Saturday in January *''Sebastianus-Theatertage'' in January *''Rathausstürmung'' (“Town Hall Storming”) on Fat Thursday *Street Festival on the first weekend after

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*Collective Municipality's Wine Culture Days (''Weinkulturtage der Verbandsgemeinde'') on the third weekend in June *Wind Ensemble's Summer Night Festival (''Sommernachtsfest des Bläserchores'') in the summer holidays * Kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the ''Kerb'') on the first weekend in September *Christmas Market in the first two weeks of Advent

Economy and infrastructure

The head office of Eckes AG, a financial holding company, has been in Nieder-Olm since 1857.

Transport

Roads

The

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A 63 from

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passes Nieder-Olm in the west and is linked to the town through two interchanges. On the one hand it is easy to reach the important north–south connection, the A 61 along this road, and on the other, it serves as a feeder to the urban agglomeration of the

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and the other Autobahnen that lead there. Over several ''Landesstraßen'' (State Roads), Nieder-Olm is linked with neighbouring municipalities.

Local public transport

= Bus

= Nieder-Olm is connected to local public transport by the ORN (''Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe GmbH''), a bus company: *Route 66: Nieder-Olm -

-Ebersheim - Mainz-Hechtsheim (ORN and ''Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH'') *Route 640: RegioLinie

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- Nieder-Olm Mitte - Nieder-Olm Bf. - Nieder-Olm Schulzentrum *Route 652:

- Nieder-Olm Mitte - Nieder-Olm Bf. -

*Route 657:

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/ Budenheim /

- Nieder-Olm Schulzentrum (school transport) *Route 667: Nieder-Olm Schulzentrum- Friesenheim (school transport)

= Rail

= In the east of downtown is found the

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. On weekdays, it is served strictly by half-hourly regional trains ( RE/ RB) in both directions on the Alzey–Mainz line. Even on Sundays and holidays, the service is only slightly less. In the morning rush hour there are two direct connections to

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by way of

. In the summer months, a few trains go through to Kirchheimbolanden. On weekends and holidays, journeys on the ''Elsass-Express'' (“Alsace Express”) to

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are possible.

Public institutions

Nieder-Olm is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Nieder-Olm.

Education

* Burgschule Nieder-Olm,

* Gymnasium Nieder-Olm * Regionale Schule Nieder-Olm,

and

Realschule ''Realschule'' () is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), ...

, beginning in the 2008/2009 school year, an integrated

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* Selztalschule, special school with the emphasis on “Learning” * Schule für Körperbehinderte Nieder-Olm, special school for physically handicapped pupils

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

* Ludwig Eckes (b. 28 April 1913, d. 14 January 1984), entrepreneur * Wilhelm Holzamer (b. 28 March 1870, d. 28 August 1907), writer * Jean Metten (b. 9 May 1884, d. 26 June 1971), painter * Richard and Hilda Strauss, founders of Strauss Group.

Famous people working in town

*Werner von Moltke (b. 1936), 1966 European champion in decathlon and today president of the ''Deutscher Volleyball-Verband e. V.'' *Liesel Metten, sculptor

References

External links

*
Town’s official webpage
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