Dorweiler (Dommershausen)
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Dorweiler
Local community Dommershausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 24 ″ N , 7 ° 25 ′ 18 ″ E
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| Height : | 350 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 273 (Dec. 31, 2010) | |
| Incorporation : | March 17, 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 56290 | |
| Area code : | 06762 | |
Location of Dorweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 Main street of Dorweiler
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Dorweiler , in the local dialect Dorwell , is a district of the local community Dommershausen in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 1974 Dorweiler was an independent municipality.
geography
Dorweiler lies on a ridge in the low mountain range of the northern Hunsrück between the Baybachtal and the Lützbachtal .
In addition to the historically grown town center, the village includes the settlements of Steffenshof (approx. 1.5 km east of the village) and Weidscheid (approx. 0.5 km north) as well as some houses near the medieval castle ruins of Waldeck .
The settlement on the Steffenshof has existed since the 1830s and then grew to around 10 houses. The Weidscheid area has been populated since the 1930s.
Surname
Etymologically, "the place name could be derived from a Celtic designation ": " DurY and Old High German wolari = single farm , small village."
history
The oldest evidence of settlement are several grave mounds from the Iron Age , which have been preserved in the forests south and east of the village. They probably date to the Hunsrück-Eifel culture .
Grave gardens and cremation graves date from the late Latène and provincial Roman times , which were excavated in the south-eastern part of the village or can still be seen in the area today. The associated settlement could not yet be located.
A path has been running south of today's town since prehistoric times that connected one of the supra-regional north-south routes over the Hunsrück heights with the Moselle . This side route to the roads that were built in Roman times is still called the “cart road” today. It was allegedly still used in the early modern times by the Imperial Post Office operated by the (Thurn und) Taxis and was - according to local tradition - one of the branch lines of the Brussels-Augsburg postal route .
During construction work in the area of the old road around 2001, track tracks cut deep into the existing slate were uncovered on a route of this traffic route. No scientific investigation was carried out, so the age of the route is not known. The findings were overbuilt by building new industrial plants.
In the early 1950s, a “burial chamber” lined and covered with slate stones was discovered during field work south of the town and in the immediate vicinity of the above-mentioned street. It was probably a body grave from late antiquity or the early Middle Ages, which may have been robbed in an early period. According to the literature of the regionally responsible museum, the grave is said to date to the 6th century AD.
The next evidence of today's location comes from the high and late Middle Ages and is closely connected to the history of the knightly rule and Waldeck Castle , the ruins of which are in the Dorweiler district.
The first mention of 1104 and 1147 in many books refers to Dorweiler near Nörvenich. The first reliable mention of Dorweiler (Hunsrück) comes from 1315.
From the late Middle Ages and the early modern times, the history of the place and its inhabitants can be better understood. The place belonged (from the 16th century at the latest - probably earlier) together with the villages of Mannebach and Korweiler as well as the present-day desert of Hausen to the domain of the Imperial Knights of Waldeck ( Reign of Waldeck ) - an independent micro-territory within the framework of the Holy Roman Empire of Germans Nation . Despite this affiliation, a number of the residents were considered "Willibrord children", i. H. as originally belonging to a fiefdom of the Abbey of Sankt Willibrord in Echternach . From this double affiliation, disagreements arose again and again in the early modern period with the Knights of Waldeck, which led to conflicts and comparisons. The exact ownership and responsibilities of this time could not yet be revealed.
The family relationships of the residents can be traced through the church records, which have been kept since the beginning of the 17th century.
Waldeck Castle was burned to the ground in the course of the War of the Palatinate Succession in 1689. The rule lasted for more than 100 years - although the lords of the territory had long lived in Koblenz . In the middle of the 18th century, a castle was built on the former castle grounds in Dorweiler, which served as a hunting lodge and weekend home.
In 1793/1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the areas on the left bank of the Rhine of the then Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and annexed them to France. In the course of this occupation, all lords were dissolved, the serfs were liberated and, later, uniform civil legislation was introduced through the Code Napoléon ( Code civil ). For a little more than 20 years, Dorweiler and the entire region belonged to the French Department de Rhin-et-Moselle and participated in the social changes in France during the Napoleonic period. As a result of Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Waterloo and the Congress of Vienna , the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 and was part of the Rhine Province from 1822 . The civil code remained in effect in the region until the introduction of the civil code in 1900.
As part of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform that had begun in the second half of the 1960s, the previously independent municipality of Dorweiler was dissolved on March 17, 1974, and today's local municipality of Dommershausen was formed from it and three other municipalities.
Catholic Chapel of St. Willibrord
According to Dehio , the small chapel is a "Gothic hall with buttresses". The chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1569, but it is likely to be older. It has been renovated and rebuilt several times. The roof turret is from the baroque era.
The chapel is consecrated to St. Willibrord today , but is repeatedly referred to in old documents as the “Not Gottes” chapel. This is likely to go back to the figure of "Jesus on the Mount of Olives" around 1460, which is now placed outside the sanctuary. A field cross from the 16th or 17th century is placed above the altar. Further figures show St. Augustine and St. Barbara (the latter allegedly from the castle chapel of Waldeck Castle) and St. Katharina. A Pietà that stands outside the chancel was acquired by a Baroness von Liebig around 1900.
By the 13th century at the latest, Dorweiler and subsequently the chapel belonged to the parish of St. Martin in Mannebach . There is a close connection to the later territory of the Lords of Waldeck, which probably coincided with the parish . After the parish was dissolved in 1808, the villages of Dorweiler and Mannebach were incorporated into Beltheim . Dorweiler has belonged to the parish of Dommershausen since the beginning of the 20th century .
Economy and trade
It can be assumed that the economic basis of the population consisted of agriculture and livestock farming until modern times. In the Middle Ages and the early modern period in particular, there was a feudal system with subsistence farming and the distribution of tithe to the territorial lords.
Since the soils in the region are relatively poor, it can be assumed that the local farmers have been living here since the 14th / 15th centuries. Century were quite poor.
Since the 17th century, based on the traditional house names, residents can be assumed who, in addition to their rural income, carried out various trades: tailors, white binders, locksmiths, shoemakers, blacksmiths. In addition there were millers, fishermen and hunters who were probably active in Dorweiler in the service of the territorial lords. The constantly changing shepherds came as poor - often only temporarily sedentary - servants of the village community. In the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century, iron ore mining and slate mining can be proven. When exactly the production started is still unclear. However, it cannot be ruled out that both types of income have played a role since the 17th or 18th century. From the year 1852 an annual output of 1000 to 1250 tons of brown iron stone is documented. To the south of the village, pinging , which is a site of an ore mine, can still be identified today.
Until after the Second World War, the place was dominated by agriculture. Today tourism is an additional source of income. The location benefits from the attraction that Waldeck Castle has developed as a meeting place for the former Bündische Jugend as well as a festival and conference venue, as well as from the visitors and activities of the youth education center of the Burg Waldeck Working Group .
In the second half of the 20th century, several commercial and medium-sized industrial companies were founded, which operate successfully. To date, over 120 jobs have been created in the village.
Local advisory board and mayor
The district of Dorweiler has its own local advisory board and a local councilor .
The local council consists of nine local council members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected by majority vote.
Mayor is Eugen Kochhan. In the local election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 89.74% of the vote.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ hundemer-platt.de
- ^ On the history of the Dorweiler desert (Steeg) . Website "regionalgeschichte.net" of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed on July 31, 2017.
- ^ H. Cüppers: The Romans in Rhineland-Palatinate ; Hamburg: Nikel, 2002; P. 357.
- ^ Willi Wagner: Hunsrück Museum Simmern ; Writings of the Hunsrück Museum in Simmern / Hunsrück, 7; Simmern 1993; P. 136.
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 162 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ G. Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland ; 1994 2 ; P. 223.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Dorweiler. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kastellaun, Verbandsgemeinde, 33rd result line. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
