Dill (municipality)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Height :	356 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.55 km 2
Residents:	199 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	36 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55487
Area code :	06763
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 029
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 5 ; 55481 Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Website :	www.gemeinde-dill.de
Local Mayor :	Gundolf Kurz
Location of the local community Dill in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Dill from the south

Dill is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchberg (Hunsrück) community .

geography

location

Dill is located in the valley of the Dillerbach , which cuts about 30 meters deep into the Hunsrück plateau , in a loop of the river. This flows around a mountain spur on which Dill Castle lies. Parts of the place also extend over the southern slope of the spur and over the saddle with which the spur is connected to the plateau in an easterly direction. Two kilometers east of the village the Sohrbach flows into the Kyrbach . The historic Ausoniusstraße runs in the north of the district .

Neighboring communities

Low ears	Low cost	Dillendorf
Niederweiler		Hedges
Laufersweiler	Gosenroth	Sohrschied

history

In the Reichenbacher donation book a "Landegerus de Tila" is mentioned for the year 1090. It is unclear whether this refers to dill. Presumably this came from the city of Tiel in the Netherlands.

The first reliable mention of Dill comes from the year 1107, when an Adalbert, comes de Dille, appears as a witness to the founding deed of the Springiersbach monastery . That Adalbert II, Count von Mörsberg and Dill (* around 1070 - † August 30, 1125), from the family of the Nellenburg resident on western Lake Constance , owned property in the Nahegau from the inheritance of his great-grandmother, Hedwig von Egisheim , including Dill , inherited. Adalbert's daughter Mechtild von Mörsberg married Meginhard von Sponheim . As a result, Dill fell to the County of Sponheim .

In 1223/1237 the Sponheim territory was divided into a front and a rear county, Dill and the ancestral castle Sponheim remained in the joint ownership of both lines. In the years that followed, Dill Castle was used again and again as a widow's seat or the seat of later-born sons. In 1329 Dill was besieged by Archbishop Balduin von Trier during the Schmidtburg feud and finally captured. In 1338 the archbishopric returned dill to the Sponheimers as a fief .

Under Count Johann V , the last male descendant of the Sponheimers, Dill received city rights on January 8, 1427, as well as permission to hold a weekly market and two annual markets. In addition, dill was the seat of a small office . Despite these special rights, Dill was unable to develop any central local functions: the more favorable location on the traffic routes and the time advantage of the nearby town of Kirchberg , which had already received town charter in 1259, the small size of the office, which initially only extended to Dill itself In the second half of the 17th century, the neighboring town of Sohrschied was added, ensuring that Dill never got beyond the importance of a dwarf town and ultimately lost the title again.

During the Palatinate War of Succession , Dill Castle was destroyed in 1697 by a French army under General Melac . Thanks to the intercession of the Protestant pastor Christoph Besold, the place itself was spared from devastation. When the county was finally divided up, Dill fell to Baden in 1776 . The small office was dissolved, Dill came to the Kirchberg office. During the French occupation at the time of Napoleon , Dill belonged to Mairie Sohren , after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 it became part of the Prussian Rhine Province and there the Simmern district . Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

The local mayor of Dill is Gundolf Kurz. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with a share of the vote of 83.58%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In a split shield to the right of silver and red in five rows, covered with an upright golden key with a square handle and an inwardly turned beard with a cross incision, left floating in blue a tinned, golden castle tower with a red pointed roof and golden knob, open gate and two open window hatches on top of each other. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The silver-red chess, topped with a golden key, points to the granting of city and freedom rights by Johann V of the rear county of Sponheim in 1427 . The color of the golden castle tower also characterizes Dill Castle in the front county of Sponheim.

Dill Castle

There is no reliable knowledge about the time of the construction of Dill Castle, but it can be assumed that this happened in the 11th century, possibly on the remains of a Roman or Celtic predecessor complex.

At the highest point of the facility in the north is the upper castle. Of the rectangular, four-storey residential tower with an edge length of 18 × 12 m, there are still three side walls, the east wall is missing. There is a lavatory bay on the outside of the north wall . Parts of the barrel-shaped cellar vault are also still accessible. In the west of the upper castle remains of the curtain wall have been developed. They have brickwork in a herringbone pattern . On the area of the Niederburg to the east are the Protestant church built on the site of the former castle chapel, a well house that has been converted into a holiday home and a modern residential building.

Of the 'outer bailey' to the west and south, only remnants of the basic and surrounding walls remain, the area is partially used as a garden.

The castle is privately owned and usually not accessible. However, there are public tours once or twice a year.

Historical buildings

Roman tower near Dill

The small Protestant church was built in 1701 on the site and using material from the former castle chapel. Inside there are paintings by the church painter Johann Georg Engisch from 1714. From 1715 to 1878 an organ from the workshop of the Stumm family, built by Moezenius, was in the church. It was then replaced by an Oberlinger organ .

There are several renovated Hunsrück half-timbered houses in the village.

On Ausoniusstrasse, one kilometer north of the village, there has been a 9 m high reconstructed Roman watchtower since 1985 , from whose battlements at a height of 5 m you have a good all-round view of the Hunsrück plateau. Inside the tower, two rung ladders lead over an intermediate level to the viewing level, from which a door leads to the battlement, which as of 2015 is locked.

There is a barbecue area nearby with the possibility of playing Roman children's games.

traffic

Dill is connected to the neighboring towns of Niedersohren (further to Sohren), Dillendorf (further to Kirchberg), Sohrschied and Laufersweiler via four district roads .

In the far northeast, the district of Dill borders on the disused Hunsrückquerbahn . Buses on route 664 of the Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft to Simmern, Kirchberg, Sohren and Büchenbeuren run irregularly, but several times a day . In addition, there are individual trips to school and kindergarten locations in neighboring communities.

Hahn Airport is seven kilometers northwest of Dill .

literature

C. Castendyck: Excavations at Dill Castle. In: Hunsrücker Heimatblätter 9 (1969), pp. 258 ff.
Dieter Diether: The houses of worship in the evangelical church district Simmern-Trarbach. Kirchberg: Evangelical Church District Simmern-Trarbach, 1998, p. 70 f.
Jacob Röhrig: Castle and Village of Dill. Contribution to the history of the Hunsrück. Simmern 1897.
Fritz Schellack: Dill - a castle village in the middle of the Hunsrück. Dill 2008.
Willi Wagner: Castles and palaces in the Hunsrück. In: Rheinische Kunststätten. Booklet 2/3; Neuss 1966; P. 16 ff.
Klaus-Eberhardt Wild: Castle, Village and Office Dill. In: The Hunsrück. 1979.

Web links

Commons : Dill (Hunsrück) - Collection of images

Internet presence of the community of Dill
Entry by Jens Friedhoff zu Dill in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Josef Heinzelmann: Where did Landegerus de Tila come from?
Model of Dill Castle on www.schnitzler-aachen.de (from the Hunsrück Museum Simmern )
Literature on dill in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

References and comments

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

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Dill. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchberg, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
^ Verbandsgemeinde Kirchberg in the Hunsrück
↑ Römerturm on outdooractive.com
↑ Height according to private measurements

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