Kempten on the Rhine

Kempten City of Bingen on the Rhine Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 59 ″ N , 7 ° 56 ′ 17 ″ E
Height :	83 m above sea level NN
Residents :	1899 (March 1, 2011)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1939
Postal code :	55411
Area code :	06721
	Catholic Parish Church of the Holy Three Kings

Kempten am Rhein is a district of the city of Bingen am Rhein in Rhineland-Palatinate , into which it was incorporated in 1939, and has around 1900 inhabitants.

history

Settlement in the area of Kempten since Roman times is documented by the discovery and partial excavation of Villa Rustica Kempten . Finds from the Hallstatt period , however, indicate an older settlement. The Romans called the village "Caput Montis" (Latin: head of the mountain), because the place is at the foot of the Rochusberg . The first documentary mention can be found in a deed of donation to the Lorsch Monastery . An unspecified benefactress named Imma (Emma) donated a property to Bingen an der "Chamunder Mark" ( in Binga ad Chamunder marca ) to the monastery. The document does not have a year, but falls into the government of Charlemagne , i.e. at the end of the 8th century. In a document from the year 1032 the name is "Camutin" or "Chamunder Mark". Kempten has had its current name since 1462. In that year Kempten was pledged by Archbishop Adolf together with Dromersheim and Ockenheim to the Margrave Karl von Baden . The Archbishop of Mainz, Diether von Isenburg , bought back the pledged property in 1480. The Mainz cathedral chapter came into possession of the place through barter. With the villages of Weiler , Trechtingshausen and Niederheimbach , Kempten was part of the Vizedomamt Bingen. The parish remained in the possession of the cathedral chapter until the end of the 18th century.

coat of arms

Court seal from 1462

The coat of arms comes from the oldest documented court seal of the municipality of Kempten and shows a silver double-sided comb on a red background.

Attractions

Dreikönigskirche with Romanesque tower, built around 1100. In the baptistery you can visit the early Christian tombstone of a local Franconian aristocrat, the Bertichilde tombstone . There is also a Roman spoil on the south side of the building , a so-called "Four Gods Stone", which shows reliefs of Hercules and Aesculapia among others.
Ruins of the Rhine bridge " Hindenburgbrücke ", which was blown up in the last days of the war in 1945 by German troops in retreat.

In the list of cultural monuments in Bingen am Rhein , nine individual monuments and one monument zone are listed for Kempten am Rhein .

traffic

The Bingen-Kempten stop was on the Worms – Bingen Stadt railway line . He was given up. The Bingen-Gaulsheim stop , which was called Kempten b [ei] Bingen until 1915, is located on the left stretch of the Rhine .

Web links

Picture by Kempten from JF Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (draftsman): FC Vogels Panorama des Rheines, pictures of the right and left banks of the Rhine, FC Vogel lithographic institution, Frankfurt 1833

Individual evidence

^ Yearbooks of the Verein von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande, predecessor title of the Bonner Jahrbücher, booklet LXXIV, Adolph Marcus (Ed.), Bonn 1882, p. 157, en ligne
^ New collection of geographical-historical-statistical writings , Volume 3, published by Johann Georg Friedrich Jacobi , 1784, p. 293
↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of January 20, 1934, No. 5. Announcement No. 39, p. 17.

[1] Yearbooks of the Verein von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande, predecessor title of the Bonner Jahrbücher, booklet LXXIV, Adolph Marcus (Ed.), Bonn 1882, p. 157, en ligne

[2] New collection of geographical-historical-statistical writings , Volume 3, published by Johann Georg Friedrich Jacobi , 1784, p. 293

[3] Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of January 20, 1934, No. 5. Announcement No. 39, p. 17.