Dittelsheim-Hessloch

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '  N , 8 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wonnegau
Height :	170 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.84 km 2
Residents:	2159 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	156 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67596
Area code :	06244
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 015
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Am Schneller 3 67574 Osthofen
Website :	dittelsheim-hessloch.de
Mayoress :	Elisabeth Kolb-Noack ( Greens )
Location of the local community of Dittelsheim-Heßloch in the Alzey-Worms district

Dittelsheim-Heßloch is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Wonnegau community .

geography

The wine village , which consists of the two districts of Dittelsheim and Heßloch, is located on the northeastern edge of the Alzeyer hill country in Wonnegau in Rheinhessen . It is roughly halfway between Frettenheim in the north and Monzernheim in the south and Framersheim in the west-northwest and Bechtheim in the east-southeast. The highest point in the area is Kloppberg, west of the town.

Anton Praetorius: barrel poem 1595 (title page)

history

Dittelsheim

Werner II von Bolanden received the place Dittelsheim to fiefdom from the Counts of Katzenelnbogen around 1190 . The Electoral Palatinate gradually acquired the Raugräflichen, old Bolandischen shares and those of Wachenheim and Dalberg (15th to the beginning of the 17th century). During the Middle Ages, the lords of Dalberg were bailiffs.

Anton Praetorius was the first Reformed pastor to work in Dittelsheim from 1592 to 1595 . He became known as an opponent of the witch trials . In Dittelsheim he wrote the oldest description of the first large barrel in Heidelberg Castle . In 2013, students from the Rudi-Stephan-Gymnasium in Worms initiated a memorial plaque for Anton Praetorius at the Protestant rectory.

Hessloch

On August 5, 1375, the knight Wolfgang I. Treasurer of Worms founded a hospital in Heßloch and provided it with income. The street name "Am Spital" still reminds of this facility today.

In the witch hunt against the women of Hessloch in 1599, at least three women were burned at the stake. In the witch trial against Margreth, wife of Philipp Mohr, the accused managed to escape from custody.

After the territorial reform

Today's community was created on June 7, 1969 through the amalgamation of the previously independent communities Dittelsheim (then 916 inhabitants) and Hessloch (880 inhabitants). At the same time, the spelling of the village "Hessloch" was changed.

Population development

The development of the population of Dittelsheim-Heßloch in relation to today's municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 1,124 1835 1,641 1871 1,675 1905 1,874 1939 1,753 1950 2,197 1961 1,900

year Residents 1970 1,799 1987 1,746 1997 2.176 2005 2,207 2011 2,103 2017 2.129 2019 2.159

politics

Former Dittelsheim train station

Former rectory in Dittelsheim

Municipal council

The local council in Dittelsheim-Heßloch 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	Green	FWG	total
2019	3	5	3	5	16 seats
2014	5	5	-	6th	16 seats
2009	4th	6th	-	6th	16 seats
2004	4th	7th	-	5	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Wonnegau

mayor

Mayor of Dittelsheim

Surname	Term of office
Joh. Chr. Kirschbaum	1820-1846
Philipp Deforth	1851-1881
Jakob Schiling	1881-1902
Georg Deheck	1902-1908
Adam Schiling	1909-1914
Johann Winter VII.	1920-1933
Kurt Schilling	1933-1934
Karl Deheck	1934-1940
Hans Spies	1940-1943
Gottlieb Spohrer	1944-1945
Gottlieb Spies	1945-1946
Peter Winter	1946-1951
Gg. Philipp Weber	1951-1953
Heinrich Spies IV.	1953-1956
Johann Polite	1956-1964
Fritz Deheck	1964-1969
Source: Book 1200 years of Dittelsheim-Heßloch

Mayor of Hessloch

Surname	Term of office
Peter Stephan III.	1849-1868
Hermann Heinrichs	1868-1876
Moritz Hahn	1901-1925
Martin Ruppert	1925-1933
Adolf Sauer	1933-1945
Wilhelm Blaum	1945-1946
Johann Blaum III.	1946-1960
Kurt Hofmeister	1960-1969
Source: Book 1200 years of Dittelsheim-Heßloch

Church in Hessloch

Mayor of Dittelsheim-Heßloch

Surname	Political party	Term of office
Kurt Hofmeister		1969-1971
Werner Spies	FWG	1971-1989
Herbert Morch	SPD	1989-2004
Rainer Fuhrmann	CDU	2004-2014
Elisabeth Kolb-Noack	Green	since 2014

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Elisabeth Kolb-Noack was confirmed in her office with a share of 56.32% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In a square shield top right in silver a silver spring erupting from a round red vault, surrounded by two green deciduous trees growing on a green background, top left in blue with three points rising into the golden head of the shield three silver lilies 1: 2, below roughened to the right by silver and blue, at the bottom left a green hazel branch with four red fruits. "

Foundation of the coat of arms: By the fifth state law on administrative simplification of February 14, 1969, §37, the communities of Dittelsheim and Heßloch were dissolved and merged into a new community, which was named Dittelsheim-Heßloch. Both communities had an approved coat of arms before the merger. That of the former municipality of Dittelsheim returns in the first field at the top right. The origin of the name Heßloch is controversial, but according to the law it is appropriate to use a hazel bush for the name form, as has been attested in court seals since 1524. This old court seal is used in the fourth field at the bottom left, revising both the incomprehensible representation of a rose bush at Demandt-Renkhoff and the individual hazel leaves in the coat of arms of the former municipality of Hessloch, approved on August 18, 1958. The approved coat of arms of the former municipality of Heßloch as well as the court seal from 1524 each combine the hazel tree emblem in the lower half of the shield with the coat of arms of the Lords of Dalberg as the owners of the local rule in Heßloch in the upper half of the shield. As in these forerunners, Dalberg's coat of arms appears above the hazel branch in the coat of arms of the new municipality of Dittelsheim-Heßloch. Accordingly, Dittelsheim zur Kurpfalz is partially documented in the field at the bottom left. The former municipal coats of arms and the territorial affiliation of the two districts are thus each diagonally opposite.

Town twinning

• Humboldt (Argentina) , Santa Fe Province , Argentina

Culture and sights

Saracen tower

Cut through the tower

Cuts through the tower on three levels

• Saracen tower : Tower of ev. Church in the district Dittelsheim, created by older conception in 1200, popularly known as " Heidenturm called". Dendrochronological studies of the timbers in the octagonal tower floors have shown that they were erected around 1080. The church itself was demolished in 1729 and replaced by a baroque building, only the vestibule and the tower remained. Allegedly, Moorish or Byzantine style influences are a determining factor in this Romanesque tower; it is often referred to as the most beautiful of its kind in Rheinhessen. The spire with the 16-fold dome roof indicates the relationship between the Hohenstaufen Rhineland and the east and belongs to a group of similar spiers in Rheinhessen (cf. Alsheim, Guntersblum and St. Paul in Worms). The name "Heidenturm" (Saracen tower) refers to the crusaders who are said to have built it.
• Old Catholic Christ Church
• Roman Catholic Church of St. James
• Kloppbergturm , around 14 m high observation tower with an attached tower restaurant on the Kloppberg

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Dittelsheim-Heßloch
• List of natural monuments in Dittelsheim-Heßloch

Largest wine-growing communities in the growing area	Rank according to vineyard area (within RLP)	Planted vineyards in 2017	Grape varieties
			White wine	red wine
		Ha	%
Rheinhessen		26,617	61	29
Worms	03	01,564	63	37
Westhofen	07th	00.787	75	25th
Alzey	08th	00.778	63	27
Nierstein	09	00.742	77	23
Alsheim	10	00.707	63	27
Bechtheim	11	00.660	73	27
Flörsheim-Dalsheim	12	00.646	68	32
Ingelheim am Rhein	13	00.642	51	49
Bingen am Rhein	15th	00.566	74	26th
Saulheim	16	00.523	76	24
Source: Leaflet Viticulture 2018. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Bad Ems, May 2018

Economy and Infrastructure

wine growing

Viticulture has a long tradition here. Dittelsheim-Heßloch covers around 1,350 hectares, of which 446 hectares are planted with vines.

Differences in altitude, various small climatic conditions and very different soil conditions, ranging from heavy, loamy soils to light sandy soils, are good prerequisites for viticulture and therefore many different grape varieties thrive in Dittelsheim-Hessloch, making a wide range of wines possible.

As a VDP member, the Winter winery is a top quality producer in Dittelsheim.

traffic

Former station building

The Gaustraße (L 425) running through the district of Heßloch connects the municipality with Mainz in the north and Worms in the south. From Gaustraße, the L 414 branches off in Heßloch to Gau-Odernheim , which also connects the two districts.

The former common station was located between the two districts on the Gau Odernheim – Osthofen railway line, which was closed for passenger traffic in 1974 . It was called Dittelsheim . A loading crane for freight transport was put into operation there in early 1917.

Personalities from Dittelsheim-Hessloch

• Anton Praetorius was the first reformed pastor in Dittelsheim from 1592 to 1596. In 1595 he wrote the oldest description of the first large barrel in Heidelberg Castle . In it he praised the barrel as a symbol of the superiority of the Calvinist faith. He later became known as a committed opponent of the witch trials and torture .
• Margreth, wife of Philipp Mohr, accused in the witch trial in 1599, managed to escape from custody
• Jakob Becker (born March 15, 1810 in Dittelsheim, † December 22, 1872 in Frankfurt am Main) painter, etcher and lithographer as well as art professor at the Städelschule
• Conrad Egid Heinrichs (born January 20, 1786 in Heßloch; † November 12, 1849 in Heßloch), farmer, member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Mayor of Heßloch
• Peter Stephan (1818–1888), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the State Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Mayor of Hessloch
• Karl Stephan (1853–1927), liberal politician and member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
• Karl Baas (1866–1944), medical historian and ophthalmologist
• Julia Metzler was Rheinhessen Wine Queen 2006/2007 and German Wine Princess 2007/2008
• Jan Metzler (* 1981), politician ( CDU ) and Member of the Bundestag

literature

• Dieter Krienke and Ingrid Westerhoff: Alzey Worms district. Verbandsgemeinden Eich, Monsheim and Wonnegau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 20.3. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2018. ISBN 978-3-88462-379-4 , pp. 192–197 (Dittelsheim), pp. 198–205 (Heßloch).

Web links

Commons : Dittelsheim-Heßloch  - collection of images

• Official website of the local community of Dittelsheim-Heßloch
• Brief portrait of Dittelsheim-Heßloch on SWR television  ( page no longer available )
• Historical information about Dittelsheim at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature on Dittelsheim-Heßloch in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Rudi Stephan pupils recall the persecution of witches. Unveiled plaque to honor a pastor from Dittelsheim . In: Nibelungen Kurier, June 25, 2013 (accessed April 28, 2016).
3. ^ Evangelical Church Dittelsheim-Heßloch, June 23, 2013. Unveiling of a memorial plaque at the rectory for Pastor Anton Praetorius (1560–2013), fighter against witch trials and torture, on the 400th year of death . (PDF; 4 MB), accessed on April 28, 2016 .
4. ^ Johannes Bollinger: 100 families of the eunuches of Worms and the lords of Dalberg . Bollinger, Worms-Herrnsheim 1989. Without ISBN, p. 20.
5. ^ List of names of the victims of the Hessloch witch trials (PDF; 9 kB) (accessed on April 28, 2016).
6. ↑ 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 and 175 (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.  
7. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 4, 2020 . 
8. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections . Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 
9. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Accessed on September 9, 2019 (see Wonnegau, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results). 
10. ↑ Certificate of approval from the Rheinhessen-Pfalz district government dated September 6, 1989
11. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kotzur : The Rhine-Hessian »Heidentürme« ( memento from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), regionalgeschichte.net, Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed July 18, 2016
12. ↑ Website of the Catholic Church of St. James. April 16, 2015, accessed April 25, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of February 3, 1917, No. 8. Announcement No. 81, p. 39.