Gau-Köngernheim

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Gau-Köngernheim
Local community Gau-Odernheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 25 ″  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 150 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 400  (Jun 17, 2005)
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 55239
Area code : 06733
Gau-Köngernheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Gau-Köngernheim

Location of Gau-Köngernheim in Rhineland-Palatinate

Count Ludwig von Bayern or von Löwenstein , for whom the Scharfeneck rule was re-established in 1476
The Löwensteiner Amtsschloss, in Albersweiler -St. Johann, the administrative center for Gau-Köngernheim until 1794

Gau-Köngernheim is a village in Rheinhessen and has belonged to Gau-Odernheim in the Alzey-Worms district since June 7, 1969 .

history

Early days

The first known mention of Gau-Köngernheim took place on June 2, 804 in a deed of donation for arable land recorded in the Lorsch Codex, whereby the name of the place was mentioned as Cuningeroheim . An older mention than Cuningesheim on February 27, 782 apparently refers to the neighboring Koengernheim .

Later the Lords of Bolanden owned the village; from their possession it fell to the Electoral Palatinate .

Part of the Scharfeneck rule

Elector Friedrich I, the Victorious (1425–1476) ruled the Electoral Palatinate in place of his nephew, who later became Elector Philip the Sincere . Friedrich I had two sons with his wife Clara Dett , who came from the lower nobility . Both were not entitled to inheritance in the Electoral Palatinate. The older son, Friedrich von Bayern (1460–1474), died early as a cleric. For the care of the younger son Ludwig von Bayern (1463–1523) elector Friedrich u. a. the now small Palatinate territory of the " Herrschaft Scharfeneck " , with Neuscharfeneck Castle as the center. However, it remained part of the entails of all Wittelsbach holdings. Koengernheim was proposed as an exclave village to this southern Palatinate rule Scharfeneck. The transfer was confirmed by Elector Philip the Sincere and carried out at the beginning of 1477. In 1488 Ludwig of Bavaria also received the electoral Palatinate county of Löwenstein and from that time on the family called themselves Löwenstein or Löwenstein-Scharfeneck, from which the current princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim developed with different branches of the family. Count Georg Ludwig von Loewenstein-Scharfeneck (1587-1633), last male descendant of his branch of the family and supporters of the Reformation, fell in 1622 as a partisan of the rebellious Winter King Frederick V of the Palatinate the imperial ban and the rule Scharfeneck was forfeited. In 1633 the male line died out with him.

In 1634, Emperor Ferdinand II transferred the rule of Scharfeneck to Count Johann Dietrich from the related, Catholic, ultimately princes of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort family branch (later renamed Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg ), who owned the area, including Köngernheim, until the French occupation 1794 stayed. The main seat of government was initially Wertheim am Main , then Löwenstein Castle in Kleinheubach . Neuscharfeneck Castle , which was blown up in the Thirty Years War in 1629 or 1633, was the direct administrative seat of the Scharfeneck estate . Then the administration was moved to the convent building of the closed Reuerinnenkloster St. Johann zu Albersweiler . In 1764 Prince Karl Thomas (1714–1789) had the convent (apart from the church) demolished and the rococo-style official palace built there as the seat of government of the Scharfeneck rule (now the BASF study house).

Modern times

On December 28, 1793 the princely Löwenstein administration left the Scharfeneck rule and never returned.

After 1792 the region was occupied by French troops in the First Revolutionary War and annexed after the Peace of Campo Formio (1797) . From 1798 to 1814 Gau-Köngernheim belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Alzey .

Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and a state treaty concluded with Austria and Prussia , the region came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen .

After the Second World War Gau-Köngernheim was within the French zone part of the then newly formed Rhineland-Palatinate and belonged to Alzey in the administrative district of Rheinhessen .

Varia

Historical names of the village are: Cuningeroheim (804), Chuningernheim (1190), Kungernheim (1268), Kongernheim (1323) and Konigernheim (1464). To distinguish it from the Köngernheim of the same name, which is just under eleven kilometers away , it was also called Bös-Köngernheim . In 1896 the last name was changed to the current name Gau-Köngernheim. The reason for this was that both communities were on the same railway line , which was inaugurated in the same year. Both places are also on the same river Selz .

In the Scharfeneck archives in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives , u. a. received a file from 1755 regarding a collection requested by the Protestant pastor Nötling for Köngernheim. This shows that the local church was "ruinous" at the time.

politics

  • Friedrich Wörner (SPD) 1946–1969 Mayor of Gau-Köngernheim

Buildings

The following buildings and monuments from Gau-Köngernheim have been included in the information directory of cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate for the district of Alzey-Worms , see also the list of cultural monuments in Gau-Odernheim :

  • Evangelical church, baroque quarry stone hall, probably 18th century, older in the core
  • Church tower from 1828
  • Grave stones from the second half of the 19th century in the churchyard
  • former evangelical rectory, single-storey hipped mansard roof building from 1770

traffic

The Deutsche Alleenstrasse runs through the village, which connects Gau-Odernheim with the district town of Alzey as Landstrasse 406 . The community had a stop on the Alzey – Bodenheim railway line until the mid-1980s . The local public transport is now ensured by the two bus companies BRN (Alzey – Worms) and ORN (Alzey – Mainz).

Born in Gau-Köngernheim

  • Jürgen Stark (born May 31, 1948), member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank

literature

  • Georg W. Wagner: Statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Volume 2, Rheinhessen, 1830, p. 51 ( Google Books )
  • Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present, Gießen 1905, p. 167–168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 163 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  2. ^ Karl Josef Minst: Lorscher Codex III, Lorsch 1970, document 1292
  3. ^ Website about Georg Ludwig von Löwenstein-Scharfeneck
  4. ^ Dieter Merzbacher: Letters of the Fruit Bringing Society and Supplements, 1630–1636, 2003, p. 441, ISBN 3-484-17607-5 ; Scan from the source
  5. ^ Emil Friedrich Heinrich Medicus: "History of the Protestant Church in the Kingdom of Bavaria" , Supplementary Volume Rheinpfalz, Erlangen 1865; Google Books
  6. Website of the municipality of Albersweiler with its own section on Löwenstein Castle in the St. Johann district and a photo that can be enlarged
  7. ^ Source on the withdrawal of the Löwenstein administration from the Scharfeneck rule
  8. On the history of Gau-Köngernheim on regionalgeschichte.net
  9. Link to the archival information about the requested collection for the church in Köngernheim
  10. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Alzey-Worms district. Mainz 2020, p. 49 f. (PDF; 6.5 MB).
  11. ^ Evangelical Church on regionalgeschichte.net