Waldalgesheim is an
Ortsgemeinde – a
municipalityMunicipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With over than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...
belonging to a
VerbandsgemeindeA Verbandsgemeinde is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate. There are 163 Verbandsgemeinden, which are grouped into the 24 districts and subdivided into nearly 2200 Ortsgemeinden.Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name of...
, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate – in the
Mainz-BingenMainz-Bingen is a district in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuznach, Rhein-Hunsrück.- History :During the French occupation under Napoleon the...
district in
Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 federal states of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz....
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
.
The winegrowing centre belongs to the
Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-NaheRhein-Nahe is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Mainz-Bingen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated along the left bank of the Rhine, north of Bingen...
, whose seat is in
Bingen am RheinBingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.The settlement’s original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant “hole in the rock”, a description of the shoal behind the Mäuseturm, known as the Binger Loch. Bingen was the starting point for the...
, although that town is not within its bounds. Since 2003, Waldalgesheim has been part of the
Rhine GorgeThe Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km section of the River Rhine between Koblenz and Bingen in Germany...
UNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945...
World Heritage SiteA UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list that is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 state parties which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term.A World Heritage Site is a...
.
Waldalgesheim lies on the southeast edge of the
HunsrückThe Hunsrück is a low mountain range in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the river valleys of the Moselle , the Nahe , and the Rhine . The Hunsrück is continued by the Taunus mountains on the eastern side of the Rhine. In the north behind the Moselle it is continued by the Eifel...
between
KoblenzKoblenz is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz Koblenz (also Coblenz in pre-1926 German spellings; French Coblence) is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the...
and
Bad KreuznachBad Kreuznach is the capital of the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located on the Nahe river, a tributary of the Rhine...
, south of the Bingen Forest (
Binger Wald) and west of the river Nahe, some 6 km west of Bingen.
Waldalgesheim’s neighbours are
WeilerWeiler bei Bingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
,
RümmelsheimRümmelsheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
and
StrombergStromberg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Hunsrück, approx. 10 km west of Bingen....
, and towards Genheim
WaldlaubersheimWaldlaubersheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
,
RothRoth is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
and
SchweppenhausenSchweppenhausen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
.
In 784, Waldalgesheim had its first documentary mention in the
Lorsch codexThe Lorsch Codex is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 A.D. in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany. It consists of 460 pages in large format containing more than 3800 entries...
as
Alagastesheim.
On 7 November 1970, the formerly self-administering municipality of Genheim was amalgamated.
The council is made up of 21 council members, counting the parttime mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)
There is a castlelike building complex at the “Dr.
Waldalgesheim is an
Ortsgemeinde – a
municipalityMunicipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With over than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...
belonging to a
VerbandsgemeindeA Verbandsgemeinde is an administrative unit unique to the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate. There are 163 Verbandsgemeinden, which are grouped into the 24 districts and subdivided into nearly 2200 Ortsgemeinden.Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name of...
, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate – in the
Mainz-BingenMainz-Bingen is a district in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuznach, Rhein-Hunsrück.- History :During the French occupation under Napoleon the...
district in
Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 federal states of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz....
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
.
The winegrowing centre belongs to the
Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-NaheRhein-Nahe is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Mainz-Bingen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated along the left bank of the Rhine, north of Bingen...
, whose seat is in
Bingen am RheinBingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.The settlement’s original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant “hole in the rock”, a description of the shoal behind the Mäuseturm, known as the Binger Loch. Bingen was the starting point for the...
, although that town is not within its bounds. Since 2003, Waldalgesheim has been part of the
Rhine GorgeThe Rhine Gorge is a popular name for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley, a 65 km section of the River Rhine between Koblenz and Bingen in Germany...
UNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945...
World Heritage SiteA UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list that is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 state parties which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term.A World Heritage Site is a...
.
Location
Waldalgesheim lies on the southeast edge of the
HunsrückThe Hunsrück is a low mountain range in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the river valleys of the Moselle , the Nahe , and the Rhine . The Hunsrück is continued by the Taunus mountains on the eastern side of the Rhine. In the north behind the Moselle it is continued by the Eifel...
between
KoblenzKoblenz is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz Koblenz (also Coblenz in pre-1926 German spellings; French Coblence) is a city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the...
and
Bad KreuznachBad Kreuznach is the capital of the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located on the Nahe river, a tributary of the Rhine...
, south of the Bingen Forest (
Binger Wald) and west of the river Nahe, some 6 km west of Bingen.
Neighbouring municipalities
Waldalgesheim’s neighbours are
WeilerWeiler bei Bingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
,
RümmelsheimRümmelsheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
and
StrombergStromberg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Hunsrück, approx. 10 km west of Bingen....
, and towards Genheim
WaldlaubersheimWaldlaubersheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
,
RothRoth is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
and
SchweppenhausenSchweppenhausen is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
.
History
In 784, Waldalgesheim had its first documentary mention in the
Lorsch codexThe Lorsch Codex is an important historical document created between about 1175 to 1195 A.D. in the Monastery of Saint Nazarius in Lorsch, Germany. It consists of 460 pages in large format containing more than 3800 entries...
as
Alagastesheim.
On 7 November 1970, the formerly self-administering municipality of Genheim was amalgamated.
Municipal council
The council is made up of 21 council members, counting the parttime mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
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SPDThe Social Democratic Party of Germany is Germany's oldest political party. The party governed at the federal level in a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union until conceding defeat in the federal election of September 2009...
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CDU |
FDP The Free Democratic Party is a classical liberal, pro-business political party in Germany. International counterparts include the Liberal Democrats of the United Kingdom, Yabloko in Russia and the Democratic Alliance in South Africa. It is a member of the Liberal International...
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FWG Free Voters is a German concept in which an association of persons participates in an election without having the status of a registered political party...
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Total |
| 2004 |
5 |
11 |
2 |
2 |
20 seats |
(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)
Buildings
There is a castlelike building complex at the “Dr. Geier” ore and
manganeseManganese is a chemical element, designated by the symbol Mn. It has the atomic number 25. It is found as a free element in nature , and in many minerals...
pit, built between 1917 and 1919, as well as a miners’ village.
The municipality is known for its vineyards, and as the site of a late 4th-century BC chariot burial that defines a stage in the
La Tène cultureThe La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857....
that is generally known as "Waldalgesheim style". The lack of weapons recovered from the tomb and the fine gold
torcA torc, also spelled torq or torque, is a rigid piece of personal adornment made from twisted metal. It can be worn as an arm ring, a circular neck ring, or a necklace that is open-ended at the front...
, bracelets and anklets, have led archaeologists to infer that the deceased was a woman. The finds from this elite burial, stumbled upon by a farmer in 1869, are preserved in the
Rheinisches Landesmuseum,
BonnBonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990...
.
Sport
The local sport club
SV Alemannia Waldalgesheim was founded in 1910 and is made up of football,
tennisTennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court....
,
basketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
, children’s gymnastics,
aerobicsAerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness...
, mother-and-child gymnastics and jazz dancing departments. The “flagship” department is the first-named one, whose first team in the 2007/08 season managed for the first time to advance from the
VerbandsligaThe Verbandsliga is the 6th tier of football in Germany, played on a regional basis by Bundesland. In Sachsen, Thüringen, Hamburg, Bremen and Bavaria the 6th tier is called Landesliga, which is the 7th tier in some of the other Bundesländer...
to the
Oberliga SüdwestThe Oberliga Südwest is the highest regional football league for the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland state of Germany. It is the fifth tier of the German football league system....
.
Transport
The
AutobahnAutobahn is the German word for a major high-speed road restricted to motor vehicles capable of driving at least 60 km/h and having full control of access, similar to a motorway or freeway in English-speaking countries.In most countries, it usually refers to the German autobahn specifically...
A 61is an autobahn in Germany that connects the border to the Netherlands near Venlo in the northwest to the interchange with A 6 near Hockenheim. In 1965, this required a re-design of the Hockenheimring....
can be reached through the
Waldlaubersheim interchangeIn the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which...
, roughly 4 km away. Alternatively, lying roughly the same distance away is the
Stromberg interchange, also on the A 61.
Famous people
- Stephan Lück (b. 9 January 1806 in Linz am Rhein
Linz am Rhein is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the river Rhine near Remagen, approx. 25 km southeast of Bonn and has about 6000 inhabitants...
, d. 3 November 1883 in TrierTrier is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC. Trier is not the only city claiming to be Germany's oldest, but it is the only one that bases this assertion on having the longest history as a city, as opposed to a mere...
), theologian, Cathedral Music Director at Trier and publisher, worked from 1831 to 1835 as a clergyman in Waldalgesheim.
Other
A new concept was opened with the
Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main (“Rhine-Main Industrial Culture Route”), along which industrial building works are to be brought together into an adventure route highlighting industrial culture in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region, running the 160 km between
MiltenbergMiltenberg is the seat of the like-named district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.- Location :...
and
BingenBingen may refer to:* Bingen am Rhein, Germany* Bingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany* Bingen, Washington, United States* Bingen Hauptbahnhof...
by way of
Frankfurt am MainFrankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000. The urban area had an estimated population of 2.26 million in 2001...
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