Dellhofen
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Dellhofen
City of Oberwesel
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 43 ′ 35 ″ E
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| Height : | 310 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 490 | |
| Incorporation : | March 17, 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 55430 | |
| Area code : | 06744 | |
Location of Dellhofen in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 Dellhofen photographed from the Rheinsteig
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The Rheinhöhendorf Dellhofen is a district and a local district of the city of Oberwesel in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
geography
Dellhofen lies at an altitude of 280 to 300 m above the Rhine Valley , at the eastern end of the Hunsrück . The Burghof and In der Neuwies residential areas also belong to the district of Dellhofen .
history
Finds and excavations of wall remains, such as a consecration stone of Mercurius and Maia , prove the existence of a Roman temple district from around 110 AD. The first settlement is believed to have been in the Carolingian era , as a Roman road from Bingen am Rhein to Koblenz , which was still in use in the Middle Ages, passed over the heights nearby.
Dellhofen had been owned by the St. Martin Monastery since the 13th century and later belonged to the Liebfrauenstift . After the Wesel War in 1390/91, Archbishop Werner von Falkenstein of Trier had the fortifications of the place destroyed.
Wonderfully country belonged to the village by the end of the 18th century to the Electorate of Trier and the management of the shelter office Oberwesel . In 1787 the place had 185 inhabitants.
On April 3, 1973, the local council decided to incorporate it into the city of Oberwesel, which became effective on March 17, 1974.
politics
Dellhofen is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor . The local council consists of seven local council members who were elected by majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 . The mayor, Kurt Renzler (CDU), was elected in the local elections with a share of the vote of 87.09% and is the successor to Wilhelm Zimmermann, who was no longer running.
economy
The place is characterized by agriculture and viticulture . In the past, bricks were also burned in Dellhofen and slate was extracted and processed at times . The five inns are geared towards tourists.
church
There was a chapel as early as the Middle Ages. In 1875/76, the neo-Gothic Church of the Holy Cross was built for the enlarged community according to plans by the communal master builder Riemann from Simmern . In 1961 the nave was replaced by a new building based on plans by the architect Paul Johannbroer from Wiesbaden . The bell tower was preserved. The church windows were supplied by the company Glaskunst Binsfeld from Trier .
Sons and daughters of the place
- Michael Hüttner (* 1959), politician (SPD) and member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
Web links
- For the history of Dellhofen on the city's official website
- Dellhofen. Origins of the village in the Carolingian era, on regionalgeschichte.net
- Article about Dellhofen ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at Hierzuland , SWR television
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 60 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 134.
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 175 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ City of Oberwesel: main statute. (PDF) § 2. City of Oberwesel, August 27, 2019, accessed on October 1, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council elections 2019 Dellhofen. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, Verbandsgemeinde, 25th line of results. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
- ^ Church of the Holy Cross . Website regionalgeschichte.net of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz, accessed on July 8, 2017.