Dolgesheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '  N , 8 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Selz
Height :	199 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.55 km 2
Residents:	998 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	152 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55278
Area code :	06733
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 013
Association administration address:	Sant 'Ambrogio-Ring 33 55276 Oppenheim
Website :	www.vg-rhein-selz.de
Local Mayor :	Klaus Backhaus
Location of the local community Dolgesheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Evangelical parish church

town hall

Dolgesheim 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 municipality of Dolgesheim is located on Gaustraße ( Landesstraße 425) in the middle between Mainz and Worms . The closest larger city is Alzey, about 10 kilometers southwest .

Geographically the highest point is the Kreuzberg at 211  m above sea level. NHN .

history

The place "Dulgisheim" was first mentioned in a document on November 5, 769 when it was donated to Lorsch Abbey. At that time a Theo and his wife Unsetz gave the monastery two acres of farmland " in pago Wormat in Dulgisheimer Mark ". The copy book contains a total of 7 documents from Dolgesheim.

The father of the minstrel Friedrich von Hausen Walther owned in Dolgesheim, Dienheim and Gensingen . In Worms-Ibersheim and Groß-Rohrheim he had been Vogt.

By the end of the 18th century was Dolgesheim reichsritterschaftlicher owned by the Counts of Leiningen . During the so-called French era , the place was the seat of a Mairie in the canton of Oppenheim , which was part of the Donnersberg department . Eimsheim and Wintersheim also belonged to Mairie Dolgesheim . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and a state treaty concluded in 1816 between Hesse , Austria and Prussia , the region and with it the municipality of Dolgesheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen by this . After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, the place came to the newly established Mainz district in 1835 and to the Oppenheim district in 1852 .

Between 1825 and 1931, the construction of Gaustraße between Mainz and Worms brought good connections to the cities of Rheinhessen. Dolgesheim was therefore connected to the water (1907) and electricity (1913) network early on.

From 1972 to 2014 Dolgesheim belonged to the Guntersblum community and since July 1, 2014 to the Rhein-Selz community .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 417 1835 761 1871 724 1905 726 1939 643 1950 766

year Residents 1961 679 1970 754 1987 854 2005 954 2011 905 2017 1,023

politics

Municipal council

The council in Dolgesheim consists of sixteen council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Before the elections in 2019 the council consisted of twelve members, increasing the seats was to vote became necessary due to the increased population Dolgesheims.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	BL	total
2019	by majority vote		16 seats
2014	7th	5	12 seats
2009	7th	5	12 seats
2004	7th	5	12 seats

• BL = Citizen List Dolgesheim e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Klaus Backhaus (Zukunft Dolgesheim e.V.). He was elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 with a share of 81.79% of the votes; his inauguration took place on August 12, 2019. Michael Schreiber (SPD), who had previously been in office since 2004, did not run for election.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In the divided shield, above in blue a silver eagle with a lily scepter and oath, below in gold a blue plow." The municipal coat of arms was approved in 1967 by the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate .
	Justification of the coat of arms: The eagle represents the former affiliation of Dolgesheim to the County of Leiningen . The lily scepter symbolizes purity, the church. The oath staff symbolizes the community of duty and loyalty. The plow shows the ancient cultivation of the soil, the connection to agriculture.

Transport links

Dolgesheim is connected to the communities of Oppenheim, Guntersblum and Wörrstadt with the ORN bus routes 663 and 668 .

There is a connection by car via the federal highway 9 from Oppenheim via Dienheim , Uelversheim and Weinolsheim or from Guntersblum via Eimsheim . The community can be reached from the A 61 from the Alzey exit via Gau-Odernheim and Hillesheim .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The Protestant parish church (formerly St. Bonifatius) is the oldest building in town. The foundation walls go back to the 13th century. After its renovation, it is a gem among the Protestant churches in Rheinhessen .
• In the middle of the village, on Gaustraße, is the town hall , built in 1594 .
• A field cross has recently been erected on the Kreuzberg .
• Former synagogue , built in 1852

See also: List of cultural monuments in Dolgesheim

literature

• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present, Gießen 1905, p. 107-108.
• Literature about Dolgesheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

See also

• Dolgesheim murder

Web links

Commons : Dolgesheim  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Dolgesheim
• History of Dolgesheim on regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Karl Josef Minst: Document 1394, Lorscher Codex III. Lorsch, 1979
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see under Rhein-Selz, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved August 19, 2019 . 
6. ^ Kirsten Strasser: Klaus Backhaus. Allgemeine Zeitung, August 7, 2019, accessed on August 19, 2019 . 
7. ^ Dolgesheim: standard list without scribe. Allgemeine Zeitung, November 7, 2018, accessed on January 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Line timetables of the Rhein-Nahe-Verkehrsverbund