Dielkirchen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	194 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.1 km 2
Residents:	450 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67811
Area code :	06361
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 014
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Bezirksamtsstrasse 7 67806 Rockenhausen
Local Mayor :	Werner Maximilian Lieb
Location of the local community Dielkirchen in the Donnersbergkreis

Dielkirchen 2007

Dielkirchen is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Nordpfälzer Land association.

Today's community was created on June 7, 1969 through a new formation from the previously independent communities Dielkirchen (then 575 inhabitants) and Steingruben (then 87 inhabitants).

geography

The place is located in the Alsenz Valley in the North Palatinate Uplands northwest of the Donnersberg approximately in the middle between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach directly on the federal highway 48 . The community of Dielkirchen consists of the villages of Dielkirchen and Steingruben and the hamlets of Hanauerhof , Hoferhof and Giebelsbacher Hof.

etymology

There are several interpretations of the origin of the place name. While the basic word church is indisputable, the defining word, which contains a more detailed definition of the church, is interpreted differently. The man's name "Tilo" was assumed to be there. Another interpretation, according to Pastor Stock, is "Diel = del = valley = valley church, as the church in Dielkirchen was also the only one in the valley". The form of the name Tilentkiriche in the oldest document from 1144 suggests looking for the female name Diotlinda or Thiotlinda or Dietlint in the defining word.

history

Roman times

In the period around 50 AD to 400 AD, the Romans settled in the Rhine region in the Alsenz valley and thus near Dielkirchen during their occupation. This is evidenced by the finds of two monuments with inscriptions in Rockenhausen as well as an altar with images of gods near Dielkirchen, a memorial stone near Mannweiler and many coins found in the surrounding villages.

middle Ages

In the year 863/64 (according to other information 868 or 872) Duke Nantharius and his wife Kunigund founded the Benedictine convent Münsterdreisen . This foundation is in a confirmation from the year 1144 by the Roman-German King Konrad III. who handed over the monastery to the Premonstratensians , and also lists Dielkirchen ( Tilentkiriche ) among the donated goods . The Stolzenburg , located near Bayerfeld , was named in 1256 as the ancestral seat of a branch of the Raugrafen family . The villages of Dielkirchen, Steingruben, Steckweiler , Bayerfeld, Cölln and Menzweiler formed the "Herrschaft Stolzenberg" and were also called "Dielkircher Tal". Count Friedrich I von Veldenz bought part of the Stolzenberg forest and a third of the Stolzenberg rule in 1367. Dielkirchen was thus subject to two masters. In 1401 another third of the Stolzenberg rule went to Philipp von Daun . As a result, Dielkirchen was three-man . In 1444, Pfalz-Zweibrücken inherited the third of Veldenz. In 1456 Wirich von Daun-Oberstein acquired the Falkenstein rule . The Daun third at Stolzenberg was added to the Falkenstein lordship, which from 1458 was fief- dependent from the Duchy of Lorraine . Frederick the Victorious destroyed Stolzenburg Castle in 1471 , in 1514/15 Count Palatine Alexander von Pfalz-Zweibrücken acquired another third of the Raugrafen and Dielkirchen was again two-manorial . The northern part of the village up to the Grenzbach (= border, in the vernacular "Gretzbach") belonged to Pfalz-Zweibrücken, the part south of the brook to Falkenstein.

Modern times

The effects of the Reformation were noticeable in 1548, from 1621 the consequences of the Thirty Years' War , so that around 1628 only 370 people lived in Dielkirchen due to epidemics and diseases. In 1635 the area was completely depopulated, the parish "has been single for 4 years". In 1654 there was a peasant revolt in the Dielkircher valley. The cause were both heavy taxes and ongoing military raids as a result of the war. The Finnish Count Lewenhaupt sold Falkenstein (and thus part of Dielkirchen) to Duke Charles IV of Lorraine in 1667, and in 1669 his son Karl Heinrich von Vaudémont became the new owner of the Falkenstein estate. The church was built in 1738. Through the marriage of Franz Stephen of Lorraine with Empress Maria Theresia , Falkenstein, and with it part of Dielkirchen, came to the Upper Austrian Office of Winnweiler in 1736 , where it remained until 1801.

French time

In 1792, French troops occupied the Palatinate in the First Coalition War ; a year later, commissaries with military escort quartered themselves in Dielkirchen and made the swearing of the oath on the new masters a condition for their withdrawal. The high costs for the community due to billeting forced the residents to take an oath. As a result, a year later in the winter of 1793/94, both in the Falkenstein rule and in Dielkirchen, looting and pillage by French troops, who attacked the towns of the County of Falkenstein on around December 31, 1793. In a call to support the robbed, a report reads: “First the French looted the barns, the floors, the fruit and supplies, then they penetrated the stables, dragged the cattle into the street and slaughtered them in front of the wailing eyes Owner. They loaded equipment onto cars they had brought with them. What was too fragile to take away was smashed. They willfully destroyed the food that they could not take away. The wine they did not drink they drained and smashed the barrels. They demanded cash with drawn daggers or with cocked pistols. In the end they tore the poor subjects' clothes off. ”The pastor's description of Dielkirchen himself reports:“ Several days before January 6th, 1794, the feast of the Three Kings , several French officers rode down the Alsenz valley. Probably driven by compassionate feelings, they have approached individual citizens and informed them of an imminent looting with the following words: 'You dear people, try to hide as much of your belongings as possible, there is a great looting, everything will be taken away what to get. ' The Dielkirchner did as advised. The raid, military and civil, came on January 6th and crossed the valley to Hochstätten . The beds and linen, which the looters could not take with them, they gathered on the meadow and burned. "

From the beginning of February, the French troops had to withdraw from the Prussians; from mid-October the whole area was again in French possession . Finally, Prussia and France signed the separate peace in Basel in 1795. The Palatinate and thus Dielkirchen became French, but this armistice was broken and fighting broke out in the area. The French occupied the city and fortress of Mainz in 1797 . The areas on the left bank of the Rhine were placed under the French administration. Dielkirchen now belonged to the Département du Mont-Tonnerre (Donnersberg Department) and, after an administrative reorganization, to the canton of Rockenhausen . A year later, all residents had to swear the oath on the first French Republic again .

In 1813 Prussians , Russians and Austrians defeated the French in the Battle of Leipzig . On New Year's Eve 1814, Marshal Blücher crossed the Rhine and at the end of January 1814 the areas on the left bank of the Rhine had been cleared by the French.

Bavarian time

In 1816 the Palatinate and thus the Dielkircher Valley became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1818 the Lutherans and the Reformed were united to form a church fellowship. The Union was celebrated in church on the 1st of Advent this year. The population grew in the 19th century and the Dielkirchen volunteer fire brigade was founded.

The world wars

The First World War from 1914 to 1918 claimed 24 lives in Dielkirchen. On July 1, 1917, the church bell rang for the last time. It was removed on July 2nd and handed over to the war administration. The inscription read: “Property of the prot. evangel. Churches in Dielkirchen, cast by A. Hamm , Frankenthal 1858 ”. Their height was 46 cm, the lower circumference 167 cm and the upper circumference 95 cm. The weight was 47 kg and 387 marks were paid for it. The amount was invested as a bell fund at the district interest fund in Rockenhausen. After the defeat of Germany, the French occupied the area to the left of the Rhine again and French troops were billeted for the first time on December 7, 1918. In July 1930, after 12 years of occupation, the place was again free of foreign troops. In the local elections in 1933, the NSDAP prevented the inauguration of the already elected mayor and appointed a mayor from its own party; the town hall was rebuilt two years later. In 1939 a German Air Force aircraft crashed near Dielkirchen for an unknown cause . In 1942 a probably British bomber association hit Dielkirchen with an incendiary bomb . There was considerable damage. At the end of the Second World War , there were 47 dead and missing in Dielkirchen. Dielkirchen became part of the French occupation zone.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Dielkirchen consists of twelve council members, who were elected by majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Local mayor

Werner Maximilian Lieb became the local mayor of Dielkirchen in August 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with a share of 70.49% of the vote. Lieb is the successor to Ralf Mayer, who did not run again after 15 years in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “ Slanted on the left by black and gold; on the right a striding golden lion, armed in red and tongued in red, on the left a red slanting grid. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms shows a golden Palatinate lion for Pfalz-Zweibrücken in black as the symbol of the two former local rulers and the slanted red grid of the Lords of Daun in gold. In 1939 the community was given the coat of arms that still exists today.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Fritz Baumgärtner (1897–1957), politician (KPD)
• Gunther Kuhns (* 1961), two-time German champion in the orderly rifle

literature

• Dieter Hoffmann: Dielkirchen - The story of a village . Mainz 1985, Dieter Hoffmann publishing house.
• Erich Dudy: Dielkirchener reports - a village community work , 1954.
• Literature about Dielkirchen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Dielkirchen

Web links

Commons : Dielkirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Dielkirchen  - in the news

• Local community Dielkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ 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. 174 (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.  
3. ^ Ernst Christmann : The settlement names of the Palatinate , Part I, Speyer 1952, p. 102.
4. ↑ Martin Dagger; Albrecht Greule: Historical Settlement Name Book of the Palatinate , Speyer 1991, p. 102.
5. ^ J. Heyberger, Christian Schmitt, August Wilhelm von Wachter: Bavaria: Landes- und Volkskunde des Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 4 , part 2, 1867, p. 596 ( online ).
6. ^ Paul Kehr (ed.): Diplomata 8: The documents of Ludwig the German, Karlmann and Ludwig the Younger (Ludowici Germanici, Karlomanni, Ludowici Iunioris Diplomata). Berlin 1934, pp. 162–163 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
7. ^ Friedrich Hausmann (ed.): Diplomata 21: The documents of Konrad III. and his son Heinrich (Conradi III. et filii eius Heinrici Diplomata). Vienna 1969, pp. 184–186 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Dielkirchen. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nordpfälzer Land, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 
10. ^ The Rheinpfalz: Dielkirchen: Cramme-Renner and Fener are local officials. August 25, 2019, accessed January 11, 2020 .