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 1279 the archbishop of Mainz fought against the Count of Sponheim in the Battle of Sprendlingen. In 1707, Sprendlingen became a
Baden holding and formed an
Amt of the Margraviate of Baden.
In the late 18th century, Sprendlingen was conquered by the France and became part of the French First Republic. At the Congress of Vienna, Sprendlingen was awarded to Grand Duchy of Hesse.
Politics
The council consists of 20 Sprendlingen Council members in the local elections on 7 June 2009 and the honorary mayor as chairman .
Coat of arms
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Gules a fess counter compony of seven azure and Or, in chief a mullet of six per fess and in base another per pale, both of the last.
The municipality's oldest known seal dates from the 15th century and yielded the current arms. The fess counter compony (that is, the horizontal stripe with a two-row chequered pattern) is the arms once borne by the Counts of Sponheim. The two mullets of six (six-pointed star shapes) were apparently added to distinguish the municipality's arms from the noble family's. Otherwise, their meaning is unknown.[ Description and explanation of Sprendlingen’s arms]
Town partnerships
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Genlis, Côte-d'Or, France
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Longecourt-en-Plaine, Côte-d'Or, France
Culture and sightseeing
Since 2004, there has been the
Wißberghalle, a cultural and sport hall. Active in the community are two
Carnival clubs and two theatre groups.
Buildings
There are a local history museum
[ Heimatmuseum Sprendlingen ] housed in an old
Timber framing house and the old Town Hall on the marketplace. The
Gertrudenviertel (neighbourhood) harbours many more older buildings. Caring for the
Via Vinea, an adventure path through the vineyards, is the Sprendlingen Farmer's and Winegrower's Club.
Natural monuments
The Steinberg (also called Napoleonshöhe) is one of the fossil-bearing places in
Rhenish Hesse with mammalian remnants that are some ten million years old from the Prehistoric Rhine's
Deinotherium Sands, so called because they have so often yielded up fossil remains of the extinct
Proboscidea Deinotherium.
Sport
In Sprendlingen there are several sport clubs, among them the successful
team handball club HSG Zotzenheim/St.-Johann/Sprendlingen, TSG Sprendlingen 1861, the Sprendlingen
Tennis Club, the Sprendlingen
Karate Dojo and the Sprendlingen
Darts Club. Facilities include a stadium, several sport halls, a tennis park, an outdoor swimming pool, a riding hall and signposted hiking trails through the region.
Music
There are a wind orchestra and a men's singing club.
Economy and infrastructure
Sprendlingen is characterized by
winegrowing, and as a midpoint community has a good retail infrastructure and several industrial employers such as the recreational vehicle manufacturer Eura Mobil and the building service provider K.H. Gaul.
Transport
Sprendlingen lies on the
Rheinhessenbahn (
railway) doing the Bingen–
Alzey station–Worms run. At the
Sprendlingen (Rheinhessen) railway station there is hourly service by
DB Regio AG
Regionalbahn trains. Furthermore, Sprendlingen is served by
Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund buses 650 and 657.
Sprendlingen lies right on Bundesstraße 50 between Bingen and Gau-Bickelheim. The Autobahn A 61 crosses the municipal area; The nearest interchange is Gau-Bickelheim.
Education
Sprendlingen has a communal
kindergarten and two others, one each Catholic and Evangelical.
There are a primary school and an integrated comprehensive school in Sprendlingen, both of which also offer all-day daycare. Moreover, there is the Elisabethenschule, a special school, which likewise has all-day daycare.
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