Grain sand

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German-American painter see Luise Kornsand .

Grain sand Trebur municipality Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 27 ″  E
Height :	80 m
Postal code :	65468
Area code :	06147

Kornsand is a Rhine crossing. There was a permanent ferry there as early as 1373. The living space grain of sand in the district of Geinsheim is now part of the greater community Trebur in southern Hesse Groß-Gerau .

geography

Landskrone Rhine ferry - 2011

The settlement, comprising a few houses, is located directly on the Hessian bank of the Rhine between Geinsheim and Nierstein in the floodplain in front of the summer and winter dykes and is part of the Hessian Ried .

In addition to rural houses, there is a snack bar and the loading silos of the local sand and gravel trading company Hahn und Wedel . A footpath leads south on the Rhine dam, past Höfen to the Wächterstadt pumping station. On the other side of the Rhine you can see the castle ruins Landskrone and also to Oppenheim counting Catherine's Church .

The Kornsand is the landing point on the right bank of the Rhine for the Landskrone Rhine ferry and a meeting point for motorcyclists and cyclists as well as wine lovers who take the ferry to the numerous wineries and taverns in Oppenheim and Nierstein.

history

Landing of the zeppelin on the Rhine on the grain sand

Corn sand crime memorial stone

The Romans already used this point on the Rhine to cross the Rheinaue and the river. They set up their legion camps here. The archaeologists have so far excavated the traces of seven camps in the Trebur-Geinsheim area .

From the 14th century, the place was provided with a ferry connection, as can be seen in a document.

In 1375, Emperor Charles IV pledged the entire Ingelheim imperial territory as well as the imperial city of Oppenheim and the places Nierstein, Dexheim and Schwabsburg as well as the grain sand to the Palatinate Elector .

In December 1631, the Swedish army crossed here to Oppenheim, after having previously fought down a Sternschanze that had been laid out by Imperial Spanish troops on the grain sand .

With the Treaty of Lunéville in 1801, the areas on the left bank of the Rhine fell to France. As compensation for lost territories, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt was awarded grain sand in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The administration takes place initially from Leeheim and from 1860 from Geinsheim.

In 1896 the construction of a Rhine bridge to Oppenheim opposite was discussed. A steam tram should also run over the bridge , which was to connect Darmstadt to Oppenheim via Groß-Gerau . The project was not implemented.

The grain sand became known nationwide in 1908 when the Zeppelin LZ 4 carried out a safety landing on the Rhine on its journey from Friedrichshafen to Echterdingen via Mainz on August 4th . To commemorate this incident, the Zeppelin monument was erected in Trebur .

At the end of the Second World War , on March 21, 1945, six defenseless people were shot in a field during a grain sand crime . A memorial stone was later erected in their honor. On March 22nd and 23rd, American troops continued their advance with a pontoon bridge over the Rhine . On March 27, the American units were in Lorsch, Bensheim and Heppenheim and a day later Aschaffenburg am Main and the western and northern parts of the Odenwald were occupied. The war in Europe ended with the unconditional surrender of all German troops, which came into effect on May 8, 1945 at 11:01 p.m. Central European Time.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipalities of Astheim , Geinsheim (and with it the Kornsand residential area), Hessenaue and Trebur were merged into one municipality with the name Trebur on January 1, 1977 by the law on the reorganization of the Groß-Gerau district .

About 950 meters upstream of the ferry ramp there is a concrete access to the Rhine for military purposes, a so-called NATO ramp , which continues on the other bank through an alluvial forest in the direction of Oppenheim.

Web links

• Historical overview of Trebur and its districts. In: Internet presence of the municipality of Trebur. 
• Grain sand, Groß-Gerau district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Nierstein and the Kornsand. History Association Nierstein 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Path of the Golden Road through Germany
2. ^ Irmgard Schäfer: Geinsheim / Our village in old times Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1987, ISBN 3-89264-061-0 , p. 12
3. ^ Franz flat: Gerauer stories. 600 years of city and market rights. Groß-Gerau 1997, p. 58f.
4. ↑ Kornsandverbrechen: Documentation and memorial page
5. ↑ Memorial stone on Kornsand in the portal for Groß-Gerau and Rhein-Main (gg-online.de)
6. ↑ Series of articles in the Bergstrasse Gazette from 2005 about the end of the war on Bergstrasse. Bergstrasse and XXX. Bergsträßer Anzeiger, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the district of Groß-Gerau (GVBl. II 314–32) of July 26, 1974 . In: The Hessian Minister of the Interior (ed.): Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Hesse . 1974 No. 22 , p. 314 , § 6 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 1.5 MB ]).