Eppelsheim

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German musicologist, see Jürgen Eppelsheim .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '  N , 8 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Alzey Land
Height :	189 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.57 km 2
Residents:	1198 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	215 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55234
Area code :	06735
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 020
Association administration address:	Weinrufstrasse 38 55232 Alzey
Website :	www.eppelsheim.de
Mayoress :	Ute Klenk-Kaufmann
Location of the local community Eppelsheim in the Alzey-Worms district

Eppelsheim is a municipality in the Rhineland- Hesse district of Alzey-Worms in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association.

geography

Eppelsheim

Eppelsheim is located in Rheinhessen around five kilometers southeast of Alzey . Neighboring communities are Alzey, Hangen-Weisheim , Gundersheim , Flomborn and Dintesheim .

The geological Eppelsheim Formation is known among paleontologists for its wealth of finds.

history

Eppelsheim is first mentioned in a document in 782 as Ebbelesheim . Other early forms of the name are Ebblisheim 790, Eppilrisheim (1305) and Epilinsheim (1310).

Until the end of the 18th century, Eppelsheim belonged to the Oberamt Alzey in the Electoral Palatinate .

During the French period , the place was the seat of a Mairie in the canton of Bechtheim , which was part of the Donnersberg department . Hangenweisheim also belonged to the Mairie Eppelsheim .

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 Eppelsheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen by this .

Around 1850 the local Jews built a synagogue on Blaugasse.

After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, the place came in 1835 to the newly established Worms district , to which it belonged until November 1, 1938. In the course of the regional reform at the time, he joined the Alzey district , which was renamed the Alzey district shortly afterwards .

American troops occupied the place on March 20, 1945, but it was added to the French occupation zone in the summer of 1945 and became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 . The district of Alzey continued until the administrative reform of June 7, 1969, in the course of which the majority of it was absorbed in the district of Alzey-Worms , to which Eppelsheim has belonged since then.

Eppelsheim has been part of the Alzey-Land community since 1972 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Eppelsheim 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	FWG	ProE	total
2019	3	7th	6th	16 seats
2014	7th	9	-	16 seats
2009	6th	10	-	16 seats
2004	5	11	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voter Group Eppelsheim e. V.
• ProE = Pro Eppelsheim e. V.

mayor

Ute Klenk-Kaufmann (FWG) is the local mayor. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in office with a share of 56.89% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In a shield split by black and gold, the golden Palatinate lion in front, behind a green apple tree branch with two apples."
	Justification for the coat of arms: This shield, a well-made heraldic combination between the coat of arms of the local lord and the talking local sign, brings the SEAL OF THE COURT ZV EPPELSHEY (M). The above local coat of arms was officially awarded in 1930.

Culture and sights

Cast of the Dinotherium skull, found in Eppelsheim in 1835

Museums

The Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim, which opened in 2001, shows original finds of fossil mammals from deposits of the ancient Rhine near Eppelsheim that are around ten million years old . These deposits are called Dinotheria sands because they often contain teeth and bones of the extinct proboscis Dinotherium (also Deinotherium ). One attraction in the Dinotherium Museum is the cast of a Dinotherium skull, which was discovered near Eppelsheim in 1835. In Eppelsheim 1820 and the historically first discovery of a fossil came apes ( Paidopithex rhenanus ) to light.

Former Mayor Heiner Roos (* 1934) had the idea for the Dinotherium Museum . The defining concept came from Jens Lorenz Franzen , who dug in the sediment from 1996 to 2002 and was made an honorary member of the friends' association in 2003. In 2003, the researchers at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt honored Heiner Roos for his commitment with an addition to the naming of a previously unknown small mammal, Plesiosorex roosi .

Excavations are still taking place in the Dinotherien sands near Eppelsheim, with the aim of discovering more fossils. The excavations are carried out by the Natural History Museum in Mainz .

Village ditch

Effenring

The village moat , also called Effenring , encompassed the medieval village in a heart shape and, with its high ramparts, served as a flood ditch and as a village fortification. The beginnings are difficult to determine. Only a dispute between the Dalbergers and the community at the end of the 14th century is documented in the chronicle. A member of the Dalberg family declared part of the village ditch his property. The subsequent negotiation ended with a settlement: part was awarded to the community, part to the Dalbergers.

The streets leading out of the town in the four directions were specially secured by portcullis at the four gates (Hangen-Weisheimer, Flomborner, Dintesheimer and Alzeyer gate).

At the beginning of the 20th century the ditch was mainly overgrown with effen (another name for elms ) and has been under protection as a natural monument "Effenkranz" since March 11, 1927. The Dutch elm disease did not spare the “ avenue ”, as the village moat is often called today. Between 1976 and 1981 all elms had to be felled. 550 trees were replanted.

Dalberger Tower

The Dalberg Tower was built around 1500 by the Dalberg treasurers from Worms , who never lived in Eppelsheim, as a defense and residential tower for the Worms cathedral monastery and is now privately owned.

In old documents, the Dalberg tower is referred to as the "water house", as there was a moat around the tower that was fed by the nearby village moat. The building is made entirely of quarry stones ( limestone ) and has a floor area of ​​around 10 m × 10 m. In addition to the ground floor, there are five upper floors; the walls of the first floor are about 1.5 m thick.

The entrance used to be on the first floor and was only accessible via a ladder or movable staircase. The tower was surrounded by an additional wall with a battlement and included in the village fortifications. The roof, which was rebuilt in 1602, was originally steeper, the lower tent roof comes from a later period. Windows and loopholes are framed with red sandstone . Heating systems could not be identified, but its use as a residential tower, at least in times of danger, must be assumed (later storage and fruit storage).

The Dalberg Tower and the townscape with the village wall have been under the protection of the Hague Agreement since September 30, 1988 .

Cultural and natural monuments

• List of cultural monuments in Eppelsheim
• List of natural monuments in Eppelsheim

Village beautification

Eppelsheim has been involved in the competition Our village should be more beautiful since 1961 , from 2007 our village has a future . The achievements of the local community for a remarkable appearance of their historically valuable village were honored with numerous honors:

• 1993 gold medal at federal level
• 2003 gold medal at state level
• 2007 silver medal at the federal level

Economy and Infrastructure

Eppelsheim train station

Viticulture

In Rheinhessen, the largest wine-growing region in Germany, traditional viticulture is also practiced in Eppelsheim . About 100 years ago around 1910 the area under vines was 14 hectares.

traffic

The station Eppelsheim (Rheinhess) is located on the railway line Worms-Bingen city and managed by the RB 35 served. Eppelsheim is also directly on the federal motorway 61 , which gives a connection to Bingen am Rhein and Worms .

Personalities

The place name Eppelsheim has been in use as a family name ( Eppelsheimer ) since at least 1615.

• Henry Greenebaum (1833–1914), businessman and politician
• Harry Hart (1850–1929), businessman, founder and partner of Hart Schaffner & Marx
• Emil Knodt (1852–1924), theologian and animal rights activist
• Karl Ernst Knodt (1852–1924), poet
• Adolf Trieb (1874–1950), teacher in Eppelsheim 1903–1914, conductor

literature

• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present. Giessen 1905, pp. 128-129.
• Henning Kaufmann: Rheinhessische Ortnames , Munich 1976, pp. 56–57.
• Erwin Zimmer: Eppelsheim in the past and present. Eppelsheim, September to November 1992
• Ernst Probst: When Mainz was in the sea, a mecca for prehistoric researchers on the Rhine and Main. Rhein-Main-Presse, October 28, 1992
• Literature about Eppelsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• Wilhelm Müller: Rheinhessisches Heimatbuch , 2nd part, Darmstadt 1924, there Eppelsheim pp. 46, 65, 113, 127, 135.

Web links

Commons : Eppelsheim  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the Eppelsheim community
• The discovery of the terrifying beast of Eppelsheim
• History of Eppelsheim on regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ http: //www.jüdische-gemeinden.de/index.php/gemeinden/eg/569-eppelsheim-rheinland-pfalz
3. ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/eppelsheim_synagoge.htm
4. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874–1945: Worms
5. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 147 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Eppelsheim. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, eighth result line. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
9. ^ Karl Ernst Demandt and Otto Renkhoff : Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. C. A. Starke Verlag, Glücksburg / Ostsee 1956, p. 91.
10. ^ Hans-Jörg Koch: Weinparadies Rheinhessen . Verlag der Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte / Alzey, 1982, ISBN 3-87854-029-9 .
11. ↑ Hessischer Weinbau-Verband, Oppenheim: The Rheinweine Hessens, Rheinhessen and the Bergstrasse , Mainz 1927, p. 110
12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )