- Ginsheim-Gustavsburg
Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen = Wappen_Ginsheim-Gustavsburg.png
lat_deg = 49 |lat_min = 59
lon_deg = 08 |lon_min = 20
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Bundesland = Hessen
Regierungsbezirk = Darmstadt
Kreis = Groß-Gerau
Höhe = 85
Fläche = 13.94
Einwohner = 16036
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 65462
Vorwahl = 06134 (Gustavsburg), 06144 (Ginsheim)
Kfz = GG
Gemeindeschlüssel = 06 4 33 005
Straße = Schulstraße 12
Website = [http://www.ginsheim-gustavsburg.de www.ginsheim-gustavsburg.de]
Bürgermeister = Richard von NeumannThe double community of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg in the northwest of Groß-Gerau district inHesse has about 16,000 inhabitants.Geography
Location
Ginsheim-Gustavsburg lies south of the
Main and north of theRhine in the so-called "Mainspitze" triangle, a narrow piece of land between the Main and Rhine where the former empties into the latter. Across the Rhine from the community liesMainz .Wiesbaden is also nearby.Neighbouring communities
Ginsheim-Gustavsburg borders in the north on the district-free city of
Wiesbaden and the town of Hochheim (Main-Taunus-Kreis ), in the east on the community of Bischofsheim and the town ofRüsselsheim , in the south on the community ofTrebur , and in the west on the community ofBodenheim (Mainz-Bingen ) and thedistrict-free city ofMainz .Constituent communities
As its name suggests, Ginsheim-Gustavsburg consists of two centres, named Ginsheim and Gustavsburg.
History
Ginsheim
The placename is believed to go back to the Frankish Gimmo family and had its first documentary mention in 1211 as "Ginnensheim" in the "Oculus Memorie" (Eberbach Monastery's goods directory). After the former Imperial village was pledged to Count Dieter von
Katzenelnbogen in 1248, history yields other noble families' names such as Falkenstein, Sayen and Isenburg as the village's overlords changed. In 1600, the village ended up in the Hesse-DarmstadtLandgrave Ludwig V's hands. In theThirty Years' War , the community was so badly battered that from 1634 to 1642, hardly anyone lived there.Typical trades in Ginsheim in bygone ages are said to have been
farmer ,fisherman andmiller . Milling developed itself into a proper line of industry. At any one time, up to 15 floating watermills were anchored at Ginsheim, with the last one being withdrawn from service in 1929. It was towed to Mainz Harbour where it was placed under protection as a monument until it was destroyed in an air-raid late in theSecond World War . This and some other interesting chapters in the local history are on display at the "Heimatmuseum".Gustavsburg
The constituent community of Gustavsburg owes its name to the Swedish King Gustav Adolf, who in 1632, during the Thirty Years' War had a
fort built on the Mainspitze. Found during work on this was, among other things, a Roman horseman's gravestone, a copy of which now graces the Town Hall's lobby. In 1635, the Swedes quit the Gustavsburg, as the fort was known ("Gustavsburg" literally means "Gustav's castle" in German), which after changing hands several times in the war at last fell into French hands. In 1673, Mainz ElectorJohann Philipp von Schönborn had the complex razed. Until 1740, according to one municipal map, the only resident business in what is now Gustavsburg was a tiler's workshop.When the
railway was opened in 1858, so was the "Hafenbahnhof Gustavsburg" (Gustavsburg Harbour Railway Station). A year later, the Nuremberg firm Klett & Co. (which later became Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, or MAN) began building work on abridge across the Rhine. An assembly area was set up in Gustavsburg as part of the project, and workers and their families moved into this area. Quickly there arose an industrial community.Creation of the community of Ginsheim-Gustavsburg
In 1806,
Napoleon placed Kastel, Kostheim, the "Maarau" (floodplain ) and the islands just offshore under French administration. The Rhine's left bank (the other side) had been brought under French sovereignty in 1801. The French had no interest in that part of Kostheim's municipal area that lay south of the river Main, and so the area where Gustavsburg lies today passed to the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt who in turn gave it to Ginsheim. On30 December 1808 , the Ginsheim "Schultheiß " (roughly "sheriff "), confirmed this new acquisition. In the years that followed, Kostheim townsfolk who still owned land south of the Main sold their fields to Ginsheim farmers, thus making 1808 Ginsheim-Gustavsburg's actual time of birth.On
28 September 1929 , the double community's councils voted to be amalgamated with the city of Mainz. In November 1929, the Hessian "Landtag " approved the separation of the Ginsheim municipal area and the Ginsheim Rhine floodplains from Groß-Gerau district and Starkenburg province so that they could be assigned to Mainz district andRheinhessen province.Thus it remained until the end of the Second World War in 1945, when the Rhine became a boundary between two zones of occupation, the French and the American, splitting the communities on the "Mainspitze" triangle away from Mainz and grouping Ginsheim-Gustavsburg and Bischofsheim once again with Groß-Gerau district. They have never been reincorporated into Mainz, and indeed the two municipalities nowadays lie in two different "Bundesländer", with Ginsheim-Gustavsburg in Hesse and Mainz in
Rhineland-Palatinate .Politics
Partnerships
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Bouguenais ,France , since 1989
*Ballou ,Senegal , since 1989Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Ginsheim-Gustavsburg is directly reachable by
Autobahn en A 60 and A 671. In Gustavsburg there are arailway station called Mainz-Gustavsburg (recalling Gustavsburg's former status as a Mainz constituent community) and aharbour on the Rhine.Culture and sightseeing
Ginsheim
The idyllic location on the Old Rhine with the offshore islands Nonnenau (reachable by the ferry "Johanna"), Langenau and Rabenwörth, and the picturesque "Rheinauen" (Rhine floodplains) have made Ginsheim into a well visited local recreation area. Worth seeing is the Evangelical
church , which was built in 1746 as aBaroque hall with a three-sided end. The "Altrheinfest" (Old Rhine Festival) – on the first weekend in June, organized by local clubs – draws many visitors, even from outside.Other things to see include a
yacht marina, a local history museum ("Heimatmuseum") and an historical industrial crane.Gustavsburg
Worth seeing in Gustavsburg are the two churches, the Main Sluice, the "Mainspitze" and the Cramer-Klett-Platz workers' neighbourhood, which now stands under protection as a monument. Every year, a Christmas Market is held there. The greatest yearly festival is the "Burgfest" ("Castle Festival"), held at Whitsun.
There is also a new park built where King Gustav Adolf's fort once was.
References
External links
* [http://www.gigu.de Ginsheim-Gustavsburg]
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