Hundheim (Hunsrück)
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Dog home
Local community Bell (Hunsrück)
Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 24 ′ 48" E
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| Height : | 445–500 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 166 (December 6, 2018) | |
| Incorporation : | March 17, 1974 | |
| Postal code : | 56288 | |
| Area code : | 06762 | |
Location of Hundheim in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The village of Hundheim is located in the community of Kastellaun in the middle of the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in the Rhine-Hunsrück district , Rhineland-Palatinate . Hundheim was an independent municipality until 1974.
geography
Infrastructure
The small Hunsrück village Hundheim is located approx. 7 km south of Kastellaun and approx. 14 km northwest of the district town Simmern on the county road 23. The connection to the regional traffic is given via the Hunsrückhöhenstraße ( B 327 ) approx. 1 km from the place . The Frankfurt-Hahn airport is located about 16 km south of Hundsheim and is accessible via the Hunsrückhöhenstraße. The closest train stations are in Koblenz , Bingen , Bad Kreuznach and Mainz . In the immediate area, Hundheim is well connected to the Kastellaun hiking network and can be reached by cyclists via the Schinderhannes cycle path 1 km to the east .
location
The village is surrounded by heights and forests that offer protection against the cold weather coming from the north and south-west. It is located directly on the Moselle - Nahe watershed in the Nahe catchment area at an average altitude of 460 m above sea level. NHN , has an average annual precipitation of 700 mm and an average annual temperature of 7.1 ° C. In the middle of the field is the place Hundheim am Hundheimer Bach (called Danube), which drains the village and the field in a north-easterly direction towards the Külzbach .
Neighboring places
| Krastel and Wohnroth | Bell | Pydna and Kastellaun |
| Leideneck and Völkenroth |
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Schinderhannes cycle path , Hasselbach and Alterkülz |
| Chapel | Goßberg and Wüschheim | Michelbach |
history
Antiquity to the Middle Ages
It can be assumed that the Celts already had settlements in the vicinity of Hundheim. Celtic barrows east of Hundheim in a wooded area of the birch chest and the burial ground in Fuchshohl to the north with the wagon grave found there are definitely verifiable .
Even in Roman times there were branches in the area around Hundheim, as evidenced by the remains of Roman buildings in the area around Goßberg. A villa rustica is suspected there.
Since around 400 AD, Roman rule in the area on the left bank of the Rhine has been finally ended by the advancing Franks . They have also repopulated or only founded the villages. Hundheim has the ending –heim, which is characteristic of the first Franconian settlements. So one can assume that the village was founded between 500 and 700 AD.
Hundheim was first mentioned in 1310 in the Sponheim slope register of the county of Sponheim .
18th to 20th century
With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops in 1794 , the place became French, in 1815 the Congress of Vienna decided to reorganize the areas and assign Hundheim to the Kingdom of Prussia .
The 1840s were Europe-wide inflation, crop failures affected and some social unrest, so too Hundsheimer citizens to that emigration determined mainly by Brazil in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the area of Rio Pardinho .
Hundheim has been part of the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .
Hundheim was an independent municipality until 1974. Since March 17, 1974, the village belongs to the local parish of Bell .
Cold War
In the post-war period and during the Cold War , several NATO facilities were established in the Hundheim area . For this purpose, among other things , the Goßberg , located south of the border area to Wüschheim , was excavated 30 m deep to build a nuclear-safe military bunker inside. After completion, the NATO Metro Tango (MT) observation and control center was to move into this structure and serve as the command post for the nearby Pydna missile base . The Goßberg is eight meters higher today than before the construction of the facility, which, however, was never put into operation after its completion.
The great flood
On Friday, May 16, 1975, the great flood came in the afternoon : after a downpour to the west of Hundheim, so much rain fell that two-thirds of the area was flooded within a few minutes. Eleven fire brigade units from the neighboring villages, as well as soldiers from the nearby US military base B-Battery (stationed on the Pydna site at the time), who helped out with sandbags , tried to prevent the worst. As a result of the running water in the direction of Külzbach , road bridges were undermined, in Alterkülz several thousand chickens of a breeding farm were killed, in Neuerkirch the owner of a fairground ride , who had traveled to the upcoming Whitsun fair , waded up to his chest in the water and desperately tried his facilities to protect.
Naming
In the church registers of the evangelical parish of Bell, the village name appears as Honsheim when it was first entered on February 19, 1570. Hontam later appears in the church registers. The name explains itself as the residence of an Hon or Hun, a leader of a hundred. Among the Franks 100 families were each added to a Honschaft the center of such summarized as the smallest political unit, and dog home is obviously office district was.
church
Hundheim does not have its own churches and is therefore church connected to neighboring parishes.
politics
Politically that is local county dog shelter between the mayor and the council Bell represented, but also has its own town council and a mayor .
The local council consists of three local council members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected by majority vote.
Ulrich Franz is the mayor. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 95.92% of the votes.
economy
The traditional agriculture in this region hardly exists anymore (the last full- time farm was closed in 1992 ). There are six businesses , u. a. a company that manufactures microlight aircraft .
Description of place and special features
Hundheim's most conspicuous building is the parish hall in the center of the village, built in 1971/1972 ( inauguration took place on April 29, 1972) and renovated in 2009/2011. There is a wall painting inside the parish hall. It represents the old town hall (Rodes) , which stood a little further south and was demolished after the construction of the new town hall. The bell was installed in the new bell tower and activated again (bell inscription: "In memory of the evacuees from Saarburg in the war year 1944/45. No. 5152 Bell foundry Mabilon and Co, Saarburg. For the municipality of Hundheim, district of Simmern 1950." ). The parish hall is used in many ways: Turnverein Hundheim 1930 eV, events of the rural women, the fire brigade association Hundheim eV and the mixed choir Hundheim / Völkenroth (dissolved in late 2010).
The war memorial is framed by two (formerly three) oaks that are over 100 years old and that were planted in the year of the Three Emperors in 1888 . The old pump of the former Hundheim waterworks is another historic landmark .
The half-timbered house with a half- hipped roof at Dorfstrasse 18, dating from the 18th century, is included in the list of cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate.
In addition, Hundheim owns an airfield for ultralight aircraft (UL special landing site), which is operated privately. Since 2010, the start of May benefit event has been held annually on April 30th in the hangar of this airfield , at which several bands (to date LH-Special , Dead Horse Gap , Round the Corner and the flying band RUNWAY22 ) make live music free of charge, everyone Proceeds will be donated to charity.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bell-Hunsrück.de
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 159 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Hundheim. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kastellaun, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
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