Dommershausen

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kastellaun
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.7 km 2
Residents:	1070 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56290
Area code :	02605
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 202
LOCODE :	DE DMH
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Kirchstrasse 1 ; 56288 Kastellaun
Website :	www.og-dommershausen.de
Local Mayor :	Dietmar Emmerich
Location of the local community Dommershausen in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Catholic parish church St. Markus, Dommershausen

Dommershausen , in the local dialect Dommasch , is a municipality in the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Kastellaun .

Community structure

The district of Dommershausen is the namesake of the local community Dommershausen. The districts of Dommershausen, Dorweiler , Eveshausen and Sabershausen belong to the local community .

Dommershausen district

geography

The district of Dommershausen with 449 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010) lies on a ridge between the Baybach and Lützbachtal .

The Gastemühle and Neumühle residential areas also belong to the Dommershausen district .

history

Dommershausen is first mentioned in 1220 as Dumershusen . The mention shows that Dumershusen is not charged with any tax. The place belonged to the condominium Beltheim court and was thus under the rule of Kurtrier , Sponheim and the Lords of Braunshorn (after their extinction Winneburg and after their extinction Metternich ). With the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops , the place became French, in 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Local advisory board and mayor

The district of Dommershausen has its own local advisory board and a local councilor .

The local council consists of nine local council members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected by majority vote.

The mayor is Dietmar Emmerich. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 88.36% of the vote. Since he was also elected local mayor of the entire municipality, he exercises both offices in personal union.

museum

Vorderhunsrückmuseum , Pies archive and library on personal and local history (since 1992) in the former rectory from 1837/38. Presence exhibitions document the surgeons and "bone tinkers" of the Pies family who have been working on the Hunsrück in and around Dommershausen since the Thirty Years' War, as well as medical instruments from two millennia.

There are also changing exhibitions on the history of the Vorderhunsrück. The library collects data from church registers from the 16th to 19th centuries from around 1400 locations, especially in the Rhine-Mosel-Nahe-Saar area and regional historical literature.

Youth room

In 2001 the youth room was opened in Dommershausen, at the same time as the new fire station. The mayor described the opening as “a big step for the community of Dommershausen”.

Son of the place

Johann Jakob Wagner (1867–1959), Roman Catholic pastor and local history researcher

Neighboring places

Development of the municipal area

The current local community was established on March 17, 1974 as part of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform, which began in the second half of the 1960s, through the formation of the dissolved and previously independent communities Dommershausen (then 421 inhabitants), Dorweiler (234), Eveshausen (115) and Sabershausen (339).

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Dommershausen consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The 16 seats are distributed among a total of four groups of voters .

mayor

The local mayor is Dietmar Emmerich. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 88.54% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Quartered, in 1 in blue a silver anchor cross, in 2 in red and silver box (4 by 4), in 3 in silver three black shells (2; 1) and in 4 in red three diagonally arranged diamond-shaped shells , silver buckles (Rincke). "
	Justification for the coat of arms: The anchor cross symbolizes the bond with history and homeland, the red and silver shaft indicates the county of Sponheim , the colors indicate membership of the Kurtrier , the shells come from the coat of arms of Metternich and the buckles that of Boos von Waldeck .

literature

Eike Pies : Dommershausen, history of a Hunsrück village. Verlag Eike Pies, Dommershausen-Sprockhövel 1993, ISBN 3-928441-07-8 .

Web links

Commons : Dommershausen - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ Hunsrücker Platt

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 57 (PDF; 3 MB).

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Dommershausen. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kastellaun, Verbandsgemeinde, 32nd result line. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
^ At the church in Dommershausen from the SWR Landesschau Rhineland-Palatinate accessed on February 12, 2014.
↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 175 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Dommershausen. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kastellaun, Verbandsgemeinde, 31st line of results. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] Hunsrücker Platt

[3] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 57 (PDF; 3 MB).