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24-671: Sprendlingen lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach on the Wiesbach. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Sprendlingen-Gensingen . These are Badenheim , Pfaffen-Schwabenheim , Zotzenheim , Mainz-Bingen and Gau-Bickelheim . 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

48-459: A large number of specialities, with Weck, Worscht un Woi , not least through the Mainz carnival , has achieved supra-regional fame. Rhine Hesse is the largest of 13 regions producing German wine . Outside Germany, it is best known as the home of Liebfraumilch . Most is made from white varieties such as Riesling , Silvaner , Müller-Thurgau , Kerner , and Scheurebe . The best-known white wine area

72-652: A total length of about 40,000 km. German Bundesstraßen are labelled with rectangular yellow signs with black numerals, as opposed to the white-on-blue markers of the Autobahn controlled-access highways . Bundesstraßen , like autobahns, are maintained by the federal agency of the Transport Ministry . In the German highway system they rank below autobahns, but above the Landesstraßen and Kreisstraßen maintained by

96-633: 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. Sprendlingen lies on the Rheinhessenbahn ( railway ) doing the Bingen – Alzey – Worms run. At the Sprendlingen (Rheinhessen) railway station there is hourly service by DB Regio AG Regionalbahn trains. Furthermore, Sprendlingen

120-551: 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 . 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

144-569: Is the Elisabethenschule , a special school, which likewise has all-day daycare. Rhenish Hesse Rhenish Hesse or Rhine Hesse ( German : Rheinhessen , pronounced [ʁaɪnˈhɛsn̩] ) is a region and a former government district ( Regierungsbezirk ) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is made up of territories west of the Upper Rhine river that were part of

168-500: Is the Rhine Terrace near Oppenheim and Nierstein . Some red varieties are grown, particularly around Ingelheim and Gundersheim , including Pinot noir , Blauer Portugieser , Dornfelder , and the recently established Regent . Bundesstra%C3%9Fe Bundesstraße ( German for "federal highway"), abbreviated B , is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways . Germany's Bundesstraßen network has

192-509: Is unknown. Since 2004, there has been the Wißberghalle , a cultural and sport hall. Active in the community are two Carnival clubs and two theatre groups. There are a local history museum housed in an old timber-frame 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

216-612: The French and became part of the French First Republic . At the Congress of Vienna , Sprendlingen was awarded to Grand Duchy of Hesse . The council consists of 20 Sprendlingen Council members in the local elections on 7 June 2009 and the honorary mayor as chairman . 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

240-837: The Grand Duchy of Hesse and its successor in the Weimar Republic , the People's State of Hesse from 1816 to 1945. The hilly countryside is largely devoted to vineyards, comprising the Rheinhessen wine region. Rhine Hesse stretches from the Upper Rhine Plain on the west bank of the Rhine up to the Nahe and Alsenz rivers in the west and down to the mouth of the Isenach in the south. The region borders on

264-728: The Rhineland in the northwest, on the Palatinate in the southwest, and on South Hesse beyond the Rhine. The Rhenish-Hessian Hills along the Selz river, also called the "land of the thousand hills", reach up to 358 m (1,175 ft) at the summit of the Kappelberg and about 330 m (1,080 ft) in Rhenish-Hessian Switzerland . The Mainz Basin , a Cenozoic marine basin , covered

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288-537: The administrative districts of Mainz-Bingen and Alzey-Worms . Other towns include Bingen , Alzey , Nieder-Olm , Ingelheim , Nierstein , Oppenheim , and Osthofen . Many inhabitants commute to work in Mainz or Wiesbaden and Frankfurt in the neighbouring state of Hesse . The importance of the Rhine Hessian lands increased when they were allotted to King Louis the German by the 843 Treaty of Verdun . The region

312-701: The federal states ( Bundesländer ). Therefore, officially classified as Landesstraßen , they are still colloquially called Bundesstraßen and have retained their "B" designation (except for Vorarlberg ), followed by the number and a name. They are marked by a blue square sign with white number and are per se priority roads. Before 2002 there has been a further category of Bundesstraßen with circular yellow sign and black number that shows that this road has no fixed priority (right of way for users). A few yellow signs lived longer than 2002. Germany and Austria have plans to reconstruct and/or replace Bundesstraße as/by motorways (Autobahn), outside built-up areas, especially

336-441: The federal states and the districts respectively. The numbering was implemented by law in 1932 and has overall been retained up to today, except for those roads located in the former eastern territories of Germany . One distinguishing characteristic between German Bundesstraßen and Autobahnen is that there usually is a general 100 km/h (62 mph) speed limit on federal highways out of built-up areas , as opposed to

360-700: 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 Badish holding and formed an Amt of the Margraviate of Baden . In the late 18th century, Sprendlingen was conquered by

384-672: The Protestant Electoral Palatinate . Rhine Hesse was occupied by the First French Republic in 1792, during the War of the First Coalition . At the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15, Grand Duke Louis I of Hesse was obliged to give up his Westphalian territories. In compensation, he received the district on the left bank of the Rhine. Because of this addition, he amended his title to Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and

408-557: The area about 38 to 12 million years ago. The landscape is characterised by large Loess and Marl deposits. Due to the favourable climatic conditions of Rhenish Hesse, agriculture covers most of the region. As the Hunsrück and Taunus ranges protect it from cold winds, wine and fruit production is practised on a large scale. The region comprises the cities of Mainz – the Rhineland-Palatinate capital – and Worms , surrounded by

432-641: The federal highways are only single carriageway with one lane for each direction and no hard shoulder pull-out area. The closest equivalent in the United States would be the U.S. highway system . In contrast to Germany, according to a 2002 amendment of the Austrian federal road act, Bundesstraßen is the official term referring only to autobahns ( Bundesstraßen A ) and limited-access roads ( Schnellstraßen, Bundesstraßen S ). The administration of all other former federal highways ( Bundesstraßen B ) has passed to

456-456: 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

480-523: The merely advisory speed limit ( Richtgeschwindigkeit ) of 130 km/h (83 mph) in unmarked sections of the autobahns. However, a number of Bundesstraßen have been extended as expressways ( dual carriageways ) (colloquially called "Yellow Autobahns"), which can be compared to motorway-grade A roads in the U.K. like the A1(M) . Many of these have speed limits of usually 100–120 km/h, others have only an advisory speed limit like autobahns. Most sections of

504-416: The name of the region was created. In Allied-occupied Germany , the Rhine Hessian lands were incorporated as a district into the newly established state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. Each region has developed its own cuisine dependent on geography, climate, soils, seasons and wealth. These vary from plain home cooking with simple dishes to culinary specialities for festive occasions. Rhine Hesse also has

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528-619: The successful team handball club HSG Zotzenheim/St.-Johann/Sprendlingen, TSG Sprendlingen 1861, the Sprendlingen Tennis Club, the Sprendlingen Karate Dojo and the Sprendlingen Dart 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. There are a wind orchestra and a men's singing club. Sprendlingen

552-562: The vineyards, is the Sprendlingen Farmer's and Winegrower's Club. 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 proboscid Deinotherium. In Sprendlingen there are several sport clubs, among them

576-813: Was part of the core territory of Rhenish Franconia . It comprised the Imperial Cathedrals of Worms and Mainz which were erected in the High Middle Ages . The Worms Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery count among the oldest in Europe. Devastated by the Thirty Years' War , the area became a patchwork of possessions of the Catholic Electorate of Mainz and the Prince-Bishopric of Worms as well as of

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