Dühren (Sinsheim)

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Dühren
City of Sinsheim
Coat of arms of Dühren
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 170  (170-220)  m
Residents : 2170  (December 31, 2017)
Incorporation : April 1, 1971
Postal code : 74889
Area code : 07261
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Location of Dühren in Sinsheim

Dühren is a village in the south of the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg , which has belonged to Sinsheim since 1971 .

history

Town hall in Dühren

Archaeological finds from Dühren show that the place was settled in pre-Christian times. Dühren was first mentioned in a document in 769 in the Lorsch Codex. In the high Middle Ages, ownership of the local court was distributed among various noble families, including the Lords of Weinsberg , whose share was sold to King Albrecht I in 1303 . The lords of Massenbach , von Öwisheim, von Katzenelnbogen and von Venningen had further possessions . The Venninger later acquired further property and the Hessian landgrave enfeoffed the entire place; The Reformation of the place goes back to them in 1552 .

During the Thirty Years' War Dühren was often affected by marches and billeting and almost depopulated at the end of the war. The Lords of Venningen settled the place with Mennonites from Switzerland who had already fled to Alsace and protected them against attempts to expel the Mennonites from the Palatinate. In 1710 there were 170 Lutheran and 60 Mennonite inhabitants. Around this time, after the previous Lutheran local lords had died out, Dühren fell to a Catholic Venningen line, which also increasingly settled Catholics, which led to religious tensions in the place throughout the 18th century. From 1806 Dühren was an independent municipality within Baden .

The adverse living conditions in Dühren, which had resulted from billeting, bad harvests, epidemics and the failed Baden revolution, initially led to a population decline around 1850, as in many surrounding places, which, however , halted after the settlement of two cigar factories that existed until the First World War could be. After the end of cigar production, Dühren was temporarily back to purely agricultural activities; in 1939 there were 153 farms.

In 1939 there were 760 inhabitants, at the end of 1945 there were 699. After the Second World War , Dühren took in around 570 evacuees and refugees, some of whom settled in the building areas created after the currency reform in 1948. In the second half of the 20th century, Dühren turned into a residential area for commuters. On April 1, 1971, Dühren was incorporated into Sinsheim. In 1990 1849 inhabitants were counted.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Dühren shows in silver on a green ground a continuous red wall with an open gate, above it two diagonally crossed black lilies that refer to the coat of arms of the Lords of Venningen .

Buildings

Protestant church
Schumacher birthplace
  • The Protestant Nikolauskirche was built in 1494 instead of an older chapel. After being destroyed in the wars of the late 17th century, the nave was renewed after 1700. In the years 1895/96 the building was renovated in the neo-Gothic style, whereby the nave was enlarged and the tower raised and a stair tower was added. The church was hit by incendiary grenades in 1945 and burned down except for the choir and sacristy. Medieval frescoes were uncovered in the choir during the reconstruction. In 1952 the church was consecrated in its present form. The nearby rectory from 1771 has an ornate rococo portal, on one of the gable sides of the house there is a coat of arms from 1569. The Lutheran school house was built in 1845 at the entrance to the village according to plans by Christoph Arnold .
  • The Catholic Marienkirche was built in 1972 instead of a chapel consecrated in 1853.
  • The town hall is a simple new building from the time after the Second World War.
  • Several very old residential and farm buildings have been preserved in the village. The half-timbered house Ebert-Nickel on Karlsruher Strasse from 1514 is one of the oldest buildings in the town. Karl Schumacher's birth house, built in 1747, is also a half-timbered house.
  • On the village square and in Karl-Schumacher-Strasse, draw wells are a frequent reminder of this in Dühren, but in the area of ​​the large district town of Sinsheim, there are no other types of fountain.
  • The mill in Wiesengrund was built in 1806 and renovated after a fire in 1900. Mill operation was carried out here until 1970, and since the local sewer system was installed in 1958, it was last powered by electricity instead of water power.
  • The former synagogue of the Dühren Jewish community, which was dissolved in 1877 .

  • House Ebert-Nickel from 1514

  • Draw well on the village square

  • Lutheran schoolhouse

  • Catholic Marienkirche

Personalities

literature

  • Hermann Lau: Dühren. Development of a Kraichgau village from 1600 to 1900 . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 7, 1981, pp. 29–39.
  • Wolfgang Vögele: Dühren. From the story of a Kraichgau village. Dühren 1988
  • Käthe Zimmermann-Ebert: Large district town Sinsheim - around the Steinsberg. Sinsheim 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communications from the Württ. And Bad. State Statistical Office No. 2: Results of the population census on December 31, 1945 in North Baden
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 478 .

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