Dorn-Dürkheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 8 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Selz
Height :	172 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.6 km 2
Residents:	971 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	173 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67585
Area code :	06733
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 201
Association administration address:	Sant 'Ambrogio-Ring 33 55276 Oppenheim
Website :	www.vg-rhein-selz.de
Local Mayor :	Claus-Dieter Biegler ( CDU )
Location of the local community Dorn-Dürkheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Dorn-Dürkheim 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 .

Geographical location

Dorn-Dürkheim is located between Mainz and Worms , in the heart of Rheinhessen .

history

In 767 Dorn-Dürkheim was mentioned for the first time as a document from the Lorsch Monastery . The place belonged from the 10th to the 12th century to the bishopric of Worms and then fell under the fiefdom of the Lords of Bolanden .

From 1457 until the end of the 18th century, the place was subordinate to the Palatinate Oberamt Alzey . During the so-called French period , the place was the seat of a Mairie in the canton of Bechtheim , which was part of the Donnersberg department . 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 Dorn-Dürkheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen . After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, the place came in 1835 to the newly established Worms district , to which it belonged until 1969.

In 1897, Dorn-Dürkheim received a railway connection on the Osthofen – Gau Odernheim line , the station was 1 km away in the neighboring village of Hillesheim (district station) . Passenger traffic was discontinued on September 29, 1974, freight traffic was gradually discontinued, most recently on December 31, 1992 on the section from Hillesheim / Dorn-Dürkheim to Gau-Odernheim.

After the Second World War , Dorn-Dürkheim came to the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate , initially in the district of Worms , and since 1974 in the district of Mainz-Bingen .

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

religion

52% of the population are Protestant, 22% Catholic. The Evangelical Church in Dorn-Dürkheim is one of three churches in the parish of Dorn-Dürkheim - Hillesheim - Wintersheim , which belongs to the Worms-Wonnegau deanery in the Rheinhessen provost of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . The Catholic Church of St. Josef is a branch church of the parish of St. Jakobus with its seat in Dittelsheim-Heßloch , which belongs to the " parish group on the Way of St. James " in the Worms dean of the diocese of Mainz .

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  Protestant church

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  Catholic Church of St. Joseph

politics

Municipal council

The former town hall, built in 1818

The council in Dorn-Durkheim consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	WGR	total
2019	by majority vote		12 seats
2014	7th	5	12 seats
2009	7th	5	12 seats
2004	7th	5	12 seats

mayor

The local mayor of Dorn-Dürkheim has been Claus-Dieter Biegler since 2004. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 68.94% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by black and blue, above a growing, red-armored, tongued and crowned golden lion. Below is a growing crook that ends in a stylized rose. " The coat of arms was awarded to the local community in 1957 by the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• The next motorway junction is Biebelnheim on the federal motorway 63 , about 10 kilometers away.
• The next train station is in Alsheim , about 6 km away. It is located on the route from Mainz to Worms .

day care center

• The Löwenzahn daycare center is a two-group facility that works across groups. From March 2010 the facility will be expanded to include another group with a small mix of ages. The catchment area includes the municipalities of Dorn-Dürkheim and Wintersheim .

Born in Dorn-Dürkheim

• Sina Listmann, 60th Rheinhessische Weinkönigin 2009/2010

Others

In 1972 pedological investigations in Dorn-Dürkheim discovered one of the most species-rich mammal sites in Europe from the Miocene . Bones and teeth fragments of more than 70 species of mammals, including saber-toothed cats , hyenas, tapirs, muntjak deer, dwarf deer, forest antelopes, primitive horses and proboscis from around 8.5 million years ago, were found in a loop of the Urine Rhine .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Dorn-Dürkheim

Web links

Commons : Dorn-Dürkheim  - Collection of images

• Historical information about Dorn-Dürkheim at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Dorn-Dürkheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ census database
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved July 30, 2019 . 
4. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rhein-Selz, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Description of the coat of arms
6. ↑ A student is Rheinhessen's wine queen - Sina Listmann wears the crown. In: Rhein Main Presse. September 26, 2009.
7. ↑ Portrait: Sina Listmann, conveying the beauty of Rheinhessen. In: Rhein Main Presse. September 26, 2009.
8. ↑ Franzen, Jens Lorenz & Pickford, Martin (Guest eds., 2013): Dorn-Dürkheim 1, Germany: a highly diverse Turolian fauna from mid-latitude Europe (= Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, ISSN  1867-1594 , Vol. 93, Issue 2.)