Hamm on the Rhine

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 8 ° 26'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Calibration
Height :	87 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.89 km 2
Residents:	2028 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	257 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67580
Area code :	06246
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 038
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 26 67575 Eich
Website :	www.hamm-am-rhein.de
Local Mayor :	Frank Ritterspach ( SPD )
Location of the local community Hamm am Rhein in the Alzey-Worms district

Hamm am Rhein is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Eich Verbandsgemeinde .

geography

Geographical location

Hamm am Rhein belongs to the Rheinhessen Wonnegau and borders on the districts of Worms-Ibersheim and Eich (Rheinhessen) . The area is located in a former floodplain of the Rhine within the Upper Rhine Plain and has been part of the Rhine-Hessian Rhine landscape protection area since 1977 .

The Rhine is 7.3 Power kilometers Gemarkungs - and border to Hesse . On the other side of the Rhine is the town of Gernsheim , connected to the Gernsheim Rhine ferry . Since January 1, 2002, the municipality has had the additional place name "am Rhein". In the south, the bank of the Rhine begins at the boundary with Ibersheim , on the road to the Rhine (former Schmittel inn ) at km 458.4. The northern end is at the large and well-known local recreation area Eicher See . The district boundary is there shortly before the boat entrance to the lake in the Steinswörth district at km 465.7. The sharpest bend in the Rhine is also here, called the Black Place . Hamm is located in the easternmost part of Rheinhessen.

As a former row village , the residential area is idyllically located on a former arm of the old Rhine , separated from the Neurhein by the river island Ibersheimer Wörth . The branch is partly a border water between the districts of Hamm and Ibersheim. Logically it is called Scheidegraben there , dialectly Schadegrawe . Another name is an appendix . This means part of the Rhine.

Until 1816, the Hammer Aue , with approx. 230 hectares on the right bank of the Rhine, still belonged to the district of Hamm. The site is now the FFH area of Gernsheim and Groß-Rohrheim .

history

Medieval district with old and new Rhine

Place name

The place names Hamm is the site name hamna , as secondary Nebenform to germ. Habna , is based. This means bay on the beach or in the outer, larger curve of a river bend. The Hamm is therefore origin standard with the port to be set. Elsewhere it is explained that the name comes from the curvature-induced inhibition of the flow of the river. Here was a natural harbor or a ship landing on a loop of the Rhine in the area of ​​today's Dörrlache . There is still a level difference of approx. 3 m in the area today. According to the historical maps of the Rhine by Johann Heinrich Hass (1799) and Friedrich Wilhelm Delkeskamp (1842), there was a biotope typical of the Old Rhine at the former loop of the river and the stream.

First mentions

In Lorsch Codex six donations are noted, referring to Hamm. They are the oldest surviving written mentions of the place:

• October 14, 782, with a certificate from 1860, Eberhold gave court riding, fields, houses, serfs - also in other places
• 0June 8th, 788, with a certificate from 1449 Erlulf donated a riding school
• August 11, 789, with document 1452, Rubert donates all supplies, now and later
• April 22nd, 791, with a certificate from 1965, Erlulf gives horse riding, vineyards, houses, serfs - also in other places
• 0June 4, 793, with a document from 1450, Bruno gives court riding, fields, meadows, houses, serfs - also in other places
• 0June 1, 870, with document 1451, Rudeger donates one acre of land and exchanges one acre

Former districts

The former districts ( desert areas ) Steinswörth and Lochheim were still within the current district . Eight donations from Lochheim are known from the Lorsch Codex, divided into upper (superior) and lower (inferior) Lochheim. It can be assumed that Oberlochheim was located in today's Hammer area and Unterlochheim in the Eicher district.

Modern times

Until the end of the 18th century, Hamm was part of the Alzey District Office . 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 . Ibersheim also belonged to Mairie Hamm . 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 Hamm 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 in 1835 to the newly established Worms district , to which it belonged until 1969.

Presumably Nibelungen Treasure Grounds

The only known place where the famous and legendary Nibelungenhort was archaeologically searched is in the district of Hamm am Rhein. In the 1970s, architect Hans Jörg Jacobi , based in Mainz, used various methods to search near the landing on the left bank of the Rhine ferry in Gernsheim .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hamm am Rhein 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	CDU	FDP	WGR	total
2019	7th	4th	-	5	16 seats
2014	8th	2	5	1	16 seats
2009	9	3	4th	-	16 seats
2004	10	3	3	-	16 seats
1999	11	2	3	-	16 seats

mayor

• 2009-2014 Volker Luckas (SPD)
• 2014–2019 Helmut Seibel (FDP)
• since 2019 Frank Ritterspach (SPD)

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Frank Ritterspach was elected with 63.54% of the vote. He is the successor to Helmut Seibel, who was no longer a candidate.

coat of arms

In the local coat of arms , three silver pikes are depicted on red , which are reminiscent of the pronounced fishing in the surrounding waters and on the Rhine.

Partner municipality

• Varois-et-Chaignot , Département Côte-d'Or , France (since 1983)

Culture and sights

Natural and architectural monuments

Hamm's landmark is a peace oak in memory of the Franco-German War . The oak tree was planted on Easter Monday 1872 opposite today's town hall and is under nature protection . The war memorial with the lion on it no longer exists today.

Between 1939 and 1945 there was the Gernsheim Rhine Bridge , which was primarily of strategic military importance.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Hamm am Rhein

The local recreation area for the Hammer population is the Ibersheimer Wörth . It is on the other side of the Scheidegraben (Grenzgraben) in the Ibersheim district and in the very north of the Worms urban area.

Regular events

• Hammer market : after the former annual fair , as a cattle and grocer's market, on the Sunday after the exaltation of the cross .
• Open Air Hamm : One of the oldest annual open air festivals in Germany on the Rhine meadows with the 12 Apostles .
• Eichbaumfest : Annual festival of the Rheingold 08 sports club at the sports fields .
• Maibaumfest : Annual festival of the volunteer fire department with a Maypole , in addition to the peace oak and the Town Hall .
• Potato Festival: Annual festival of the men's choir around the potato on Corpus Christi with the coronation of the Rhineland-Palatinate potato queen

Economy and Infrastructure

Business

At the beginning of the 20th century the basket making trade was the main source of income for the population. Benefiting from its location on the willowy Old Rhine, the village developed into a well-known center for the wickerwork. After the Second World War, the chip basket factory continued to produce for a few years. The traditional weaving trade came to a standstill because of the plastic products. There is also a wire processing factory today.

traffic

From 1900 Hamm had a station for passenger and goods traffic on the Osthofen – Rheindürkheim – Guntersblum railway line . In 1969, passenger trains on this line were replaced by buses to Worms and Guntersblum . The nearest train stations are on the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line .

Hamm is connected to its neighboring towns of Eich and Ibersheim by two district roads . Via the Gernsheim Rhine ferry you can get to the right bank of the Rhine with the Gernsheim motorway junction from your own area. The next bridge over the Rhine is the Nibelungen Bridge in Worms .

education

The secondary school plus in Eich (formerly Hauptschule and Realschule) can be reached by school buses. Secondary general education schools are three grammar schools in Worms.

Personalities

• Heinrich / Henry Kappes (born September 19, 1824 Hamm am Rhein, † October 25, 1915 in Evanston (Illinois) ). He comes from a well-known Rhenish Hesse reformed family of teachers. After his emigration , "Kappes Street" was later named after him in Indianapolis .

literature

• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present . Giessen 1905, pp. 198-199.
• Population register for the city and district of Worms 1927 . Worms, pp. 66-70.
• Volker Gallé : Rheinhessen, Art Travel Guide, Verlag Kehl Hamm 2004, pp. 157–159.
• Albert Geipert: 1933–1945 - but the Rhine continued to flow, Riedstadt 2003.
• Hamm community: 1200 years of Hamm am Rhein 782-1982 . Hamm 1982.
• Henning Kaufmann, ( German Language Prize ): Rheinhessische Ortnames, Munich 1976, pp. 93–94.
• Dieter Krienke and Ingrid Westerhoff: Alzey Worms district. Verbandsgemeinden Eich, Monsheim and Wonnegau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 20.3. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 2018. ISBN 978-3-88462-379-4 , pp. 71–76.
• Karl Josef Minst: Lorscher Codex, German, Vol. III, Documents No. 1449–1452, 1860, 1965, Lorsch 1970.
• R. Kilian, Fr. Neumer, O. Poller: Subject registers of the Kurpfälzisches Oberamtes Alzey, Vol. I, Ludwigshafen 1995, pp. 19-20.
• Edmund Ritscher: Nibelung Treasure in the Old Rhine Region, Mannheim 2017.
• Karl Anton Schaab : The History of the Grand Duke. Hess. Rheinprovinz , In: History of the City of Mainz . Vol. 4, 2nd Abb., 1851, pp. 206-209.
• Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete Geograph.-Histor. Description of the Elector Pfalz am Rheine , Vol. 3, Frankf. 1787.
• Literature about Hamm am Rhein in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Hamm am Rhein  - Collection of images

• Website of the local community Hamm am Rhein
• History of Hamm am Rhein at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 187 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
3. ^ Henning Kaufmann: Rheinhessische Ortnames, Munich 1976, p. 93
4. ↑ Philipp Wirtgen : A Walk to Coblenz, In: Die Natur, 17th volume, Halle 1868, p. 190.
5. ↑ List of places for the Lorsch Codex, Hamm (Rhine) , Archivum Laureshamense - digital, Heidelberg University Library.
6. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [transl.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Reg. 1805. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 327 , accessed on April 12, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Lorscher Codex: Documents nos. 186–193 from 770–799
8. ^ Klaus Rädle: Der Nibelungenenschatz, Berlin Pro Business 2011, ISBN 978-3-86805-904-5
9. ↑ Georg Graffe: The Nibelungen Code, Kriemhilds death game. Terra X (1982-2007) first broadcast in 2007
10. ↑ http://www.worms.de/de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/wüsten-sie-es/liste/2012-03_nibelungenschatz.php
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 19, 2019 . 
12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Eich, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results. Retrieved September 8, 2019 . 
13. ↑ 1200 years of Hamm am Rhein : The fishing in Hamm, pp. 502–504
14. ^ GW Justin Widder: Description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Province of Rheinhessen, Darmstadt 1830, p. 39
15. ↑ Joseph Jerome: Statistical Yearbook of the Province of Rheinhessen for 1824, Mainz, p. 287
16. ^ Wormser Zeitung: Open Air again in Hamm, June 18, 2014
17. ↑ Emigrants: Henry Kappes from Hamm frequented the most influential political circles in America ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Hans-Dieter Graf for wormser-zeitung.de on April 24, 2014 
18. ^ Picture of the tombstone: J. Henry Kappes