Dalheim (Rheinhessen)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '  N , 8 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Selz
Height :	179 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.34 km 2
Residents:	1015 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	160 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55278
Area code :	06249
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 010
Association administration address:	Sant'Ambrogio-Ring 33 55276 Oppenheim
Website :	www.dalheim-rheinhessen.de
Mayoress :	Gertrude Hennig
Location of the local community Dalheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Evangelical parish church

Dalheim is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Selz community , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Oppenheim .

geography

The community lies between Mainz and Worms and is a place shaped by agriculture. The wine village is located in the Rheinhessen wine-growing region .

Neighboring communities are Köngernheim , Dexheim , Weinolsheim and Uelversheim .

history

Dalheim was first mentioned in a document dated June 10, 766 listed in the Lorsch Codex . In addition to Lorsch Abbey, Fulda Abbey was also wealthy in the village. There were vineyards here as early as the 8th century.

In the 13th century the place came to the County of Falkenstein and with this in 1667 to the Duchy of Lorraine . With the marriage of Duke Franz Stephan to Maria Theresa of Austria in 1736, the county fell to Habsburg , Dalheim now belonged to the part of the empire Front Austria and from 1782 was subordinate to the Oberamt Winnweiler .

After 1792 the region was occupied by French troops in the First Revolutionary War and annexed after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 Dalheim belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Oppenheim .

Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and a state treaty concluded with Austria and Prussia , the region came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen .

After the Second World War Dalheim was within the French zone part of the then newly formed Rhineland-Palatinate and part of the district of Mainz in the administrative district of Rheinhessen .

The Jewish community

In the 19th century there was a small Jewish community in Dalheim. In 1861 the maximum number of 30 Jewish residents was counted. A synagogue is mentioned for the first time in 1847 . It was desecrated by unknown perpetrators in July 1890 and probably closed a little later. Most of the Jewish inhabitants had moved to the cities or emigrated by then. A small Jewish cemetery , inaugurated in the summer of 1858 and preserved to this day, is the only reminder of Jewish history today.

Population development

The development of the population of Dalheim, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 527 1835 1.009 1871 843 1905 741 1939 693 1950 903 1961 739

year Residents 1970 747 1987 881 1997 1,035 2005 1,024 2011 1,020 2017 1,001

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Dalheim 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 distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	BfD	total
2019	-	3	7th	6th	16 seats
2014	-	3	9	4th	16 seats
2009	5	3	8th	-	16 seats
2004	6th	4th	6th	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voters Dalheim
• BfD = Citizens for Dalheim e. V.

Local mayor

Local mayor since the formation of the Rhein-Selz community:

• Edmund Spindler (FWG, until 1974)
• Ewald Bootz (SPD, 1974–1979)
• Georg Adolf Rupp (FWG, 1979–1984)
• Wolfgang Kauth (CDU, 1984–1999)
• Alfred Kalbfuß (FWG, 1999–2009)
• Willhard Leib (FWG, 2009-2019)
• Gertrude Hennig (BfD, since 2019)

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Gertrude Hennig was elected to her post with 59.08% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Saint George in blue, in silver armor, standing on a red dragon and piercing it with a golden lance."

Regular events

• The Dalheimer Curb always takes place on the second weekend in May (Mother's Day weekend) .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Dalheim

Web links

Commons : Dalheim (Rheinhessen)  - Collection of images

• Website of the local community Dalheim
• Historical information about Dalheim at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Dalheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Information on Jewish history
3. ↑ Information and photos on the Jewish cemetery
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
6. ^ Local community Dalheim: Local council. List of local mayors. Retrieved September 29, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rhein-Selz, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .