Hochborn

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '  N , 8 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Alzey-Worms
Association municipality :	Wonnegau
Height :	270 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.56 km 2
Residents:	433 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55234
Area code :	06735
License plate :	AZ
Community key :	07 3 31 011
Association administration address:	Am Schneller 3 67574 Osthofen
Website :	www.hochborn.de
Mayoress :	Ute Balz
Location of the local community Hochborn in the Alzey-Worms district

Hochborn (until 1971: Blödesheim ) is a municipality in Rheinhessen in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Wonnegau community .

The Protestant parish church in Hochborn.

The Hochborn war memorial.

geography

location

Hochborn lies in the Alzeyer hill country , part of the Rheinhessen table and hill country . It is located about 6.5 km south-east of Alzey and 15 km (as the crow flies ) north-west of Worms . Located at about 263 to 278  m above sea level. NHN with the town center in the area of ​​the village church at an altitude of 270  m , it is one of the highest villages in the Rheinhessen table and hill country. The Kloppberg ( 293.4  m ) lies just under 1.5 km (as the crow flies) north of the church . The Blödesheimer Bach rises on the southern edge of the village .

Climate and hydrology

The annual precipitation is 541 mm. The rainfall is very low. They are in the lower tenth of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 9% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February. Most precipitation falls in July, 90% more than in February. The rainfall varies moderately. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 34% of the measuring stations . Despite its altitude, the village area is rich in water, which was taken into account when it was renamed Hochborn (Born =  fountain ).

history

The first documentary mention was on April 23, 782, in the Lorsch monastery record book it says "Theodo and Authilde von Blatmarsheim" gave the monastery "15 acres of farmland and a meadow" . In later documents the place name was Blatmarisheim (788), Blittersheim 789, Blettenesheim 1071, Bleidinsheim 1261, Blendinsheim 1348 and since 1613, according to other information since 1631, the village was called Blödesheim .

Bishop Adalbero III. von Metz states in a document from 1070 that he has a church here in honor of St. Redeemer, which the Free Gerard from Epelensheyn ( Eppelsheim ) gave a local allodial good . In 1230 the Metz property rights in Hochborn fell to the Worms Cathedral monastery .

From the 15th to the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and was under the administration and jurisdiction of the Alzey District Office .

After taking the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the region in 1797 was supported by France annexed . From 1798 to 1814 Blödesheim belonged to the canton of Bechtheim in the Donnersberg department . Blödesheim was assigned to the Mairie Monzernheim .

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, including the municipality of Blödesheim, became part of 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 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 .

In 1945 American troops occupied the place, which however was added to the French zone of occupation in the summer of 1945 and in 1946 became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate . The district of Alzey continued until the administrative reform of June 7, 1969, in the course of which the overwhelming part of it was absorbed in the district of Alzey-Worms , to which Blödesheim has belonged ever since.

On March 1, 1971, the place was renamed from Blödesheim in Hochborn after a survey of the citizens had taken place. In addition to Hochborn and the original Blödesheim, the residents also had the opportunity to vote for "Bergborn" or to suggest their own name.

From 1972 to 2014, Hochborn belonged to the Westhofen community , and since then to the Wonnegau community .

The local community received media coverage throughout Germany when it was renamed in 1970 in Der Spiegel magazine and in TV coverage by SWF and ZDF, and from February 13, 2001, as a TV report from the 1970s on what was then Südwestfunk by Stefan Raab in its TV total was picked up on the place Blödesheim . Stefan Raab then visited the place during Mardi Gras and advertised for a few weeks in his TV show and in the local community for the renaming in Blödesheim.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hochborn consists of eight council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Mayors or local mayors were:

• 1832–1837 Georg Ochs
• 1837-1853 Christian Jene
• 1843-1853 Jacob Claß
• 1853–1882 Georg Ochs, son of the 1st Mayor Georg Ochs
• 1883–1899 Philipp Schaffner
• 1899–1914 Peter Schaffner, son of Philipp Schaffner
• 1914–1930 Jacob Jene II
• 1930–1945 Friedrich Class
• Jacob Flörsch (provisional after the end of the war)
• Peter Blum (provisional after the end of the war)
• 1946–1974 Johann Georg Dürkes (CDU)
• 1974–1999 Ludwig Abel
• 1999-2004 Kurt Knell
• 2004–2019 Herwarth Mankel
• since 2019 Ute Balz

In the local elections on May 26, 2019, Ute Balz was elected with 65.56% of the vote and is the successor of Herwarth Mankel, who was no longer running.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided by black and silver, above the growing golden Palatinate lion , below five green oak leaves offset next to each other."

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The Protestant Laurentius Church was built in 1070 as the "Chapel of Blettenesheim" or was first mentioned.
• At the corner of Langgasse and Stielgasse stands the war memorial for those who died in the Wars of Unification. On the front you can see a relief medallion of Kaiser Wilhelm I, on the base there is a replica of the Germania of the Niederwald monument . The monument, a foundation of the "Warrior Association Blödesheim" and financed by the collection of voluntary donations, was executed in yellow sandstone by the stonemason J. Sipp from Gundersheim and ceremoniously unveiled in 1892. Later, the war memorial was dedicated to the fallen of the world wars by adding more inscriptions.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Hochborn

Economy and Infrastructure

Hochborn wind farm

Hochborn is one of the three localities in Rheinhessen in which no viticulture takes place on their own territory.

traffic

The federal motorway 61 can be reached via Alzey.

energy

In 1998, a wind farm with 14 Nordex N43 wind turbines on 77.5 m high steel lattice towers was built in Hochborn . Each of these systems has an output of 600 kW.

Personalities

• Peter Stephan (politician, 1818) (1818–1888), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
• Friedrich Class (1882 in Blödesheim – 1964), member of the Hessian state parliament (NSDAP)

literature

• 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. 232-236.
• Herwarth Mankel: Blödesheim - a place changes its name . In: Heimatjahrbuch 2012 , published by the Alzey-Worms district, vol. 47, pp. 200–201.
• Johann Goswin Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral prince. Pfalz am Rheine , Volume 3, 1787, p. 91 ( Google Books )
• Literature about Hochborn in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
• "History and Stories of Hochborn" by Dr. Mathilde Gründewald, 2019

Web links

• Official website of the Hochborn community
• Local community Hochborn on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Wonnegau
• History of Hochborn at regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
3. ↑ Communities / Blödesheim: Schimpf and ridicule . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1970, pp. 71 ( online ).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Herwarth Mankel: Blödesheim - a place changes its name; Heimatjahrbuch 2012, 47th year, publisher: Alzey-Worms district; Pp. 200-201
5. ↑ ^{a b} Internet presence of the local community Hochborn
6. ^ Website on the church history of Hochborn
7. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945: Worms
8. ↑ ^{a b} Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 158 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
9. ↑ Communities / Blödesheim: Schimpf and ridicule . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1970, pp. 70-71 ( online ).
10. ↑ Hysteria about Raab's “total TV nonsense” coped well - community portrait of the Rhein Main Presse on Friday, March 11, 2005, p. 14
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Hochborn. Retrieved September 8, 2019 . 
12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wonnegau, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Dr. Otto Kuntzemüller, The monuments of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great, Bremen undated (1903), p. 399
14. ↑ A breath of fresh air in the fields and in people's heads - Hochborn focuses on quality of life and village community / fame as "Blödesheim" in the Rhein Main Presse on July 29, 2008