War home (Monsheim)

War home Local church Monsheim
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	135 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	628  (2006)
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	67590
Area code :	06243
Location of Kriegsheim in Rhineland-Palatinate

Kriegsheim is a district of Monsheim in southern Rheinhessen , the Wonnegau in the Alzey-Worms district .

history

Kriegsheim is mentioned in the Lorsch Codex with three donations to the Lorsch Monastery . With the oldest document No. 1261, Richer donated a vineyard on April 5, 767. Kriegsheim was formerly also called Kreikesheim (766), Crigesheim (1137), Crigisheim (1276), Chrisheim (1306), Criegesheim (1335), Krysheim (1344) , Griesheim (1496). The village belonged to the old possessions of the Hochstift Worms . In 1137, Bishop Burchard II of Ahorn gave his court to the home of war with everything he owned in the village to his cathedral chapter to improve his income. The bailiwick of the place had the Lords of Bolanden , partly from the bishops, partly from his inheritance guardians.

In 1494, the place still belonged to the so-called Palatinate Ausdörfer. Later the Palatinate rights developed into sovereignty. The family of the Knights of Kriegsheim resided in the village; it lived in the solid tower which still rises up in the village and has been converted into apartments. It was stormed by the Worms in the 14th century. Kriegsheim stayed with the Palatinate until the end of the 18th century, it belonged to the Oberamt Alzey .

A church in Kriegsheim is documented for the first time in 1309. It was a parish church and in honor of St. Apostle Peter and had a St. Simon and Judah and on the left an altar dedicated to the Mother of God. It was in the Diocese of Worms , was under the Archdeaconate of the Provost of Worms and belonged to the Land Chapter of Leiningen (Bockenheim). In the Palatinate church division in 1705, the church fell to the Reformed, who set up their own parish. In 1752 the Catholics set up a chapel on the town hall, which they dedicated to St. Consecrated Joseph. From the old now Protestant church only the lower part of the tower remains, the current one was built in 1792.

The right of patronage with the parish seat originally had the bishops of Worms, who gave it to the Lords of Bolanden as a fief. But in 1309 Otto von Bolanden, imperial chamberlain, ceded the patronage to the bishop of Worms, who transferred it to his chapter.

Until recently, the cathedral monastery in Worms received the big tithe , and the reformed pastor received the small tithe.

After the Thirty Years War , Mennonites and Quakers were invited by Elector Karl Ludwig to settle in the depopulated villages; for 1656 their presence in the Kriegsheim is reported. An Anabaptist community had already formed in Kriegsheim during the Reformation, which was supplemented by the Mennonites newly arrived from Switzerland after the Thirty Years' War. On June 23 and September 27, 1677, William Penn , who later worked in the American province of " Pennsylvania " named after his father , visited his fellow believers in Kriegsheim. Since the Quakers steadfastly refused to pay taxes and duties and to do military service out of their religious convictions, they decided to emigrate.

On October 12, 1685, the first emigrants from Kriegsheimer arrived in the New World on the ship Francis & Dorothy . In Germantown they founded a district: "Krie (g) sheim". Even today there are traces of the Kriegsheimer in Philadelphia . The street names "Cresheim Valley Drive" and "Cresheim Road" as well as the restaurant name "Cresheim Cottage Cafe" are etymologically attributable to them. The Mennonite community that remained in the village still exists today. The center of the community has been in Monsheim since 1820, where the Mennonite church is also located.

During the period of the First Coalition War , the site was looted and sacked by French revolutionary troops. In 1797 a tree of freedom was planted at great expense , with the cry: “Long live the republic!” But the majority of the residents adhered to the prince and constitution.

From 1798 to 1814 the village belonged to the French department of Donnersberg and was assigned to the canton of Pfeddersheim . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815) and a state treaty concluded with Austria and Prussia , the region came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen .

After the Second World War , Kriegsheim became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone and belonged to the district of Worms in the administrative district of Rheinhessen .

On June 7, 1969, the community of Kriegsheim (579 inhabitants at the time) was dissolved and the current community of Monsheim was formed from it and the also dissolved community of Monsheim (1,603 inhabitants).

In 1985 the former town hall, built in 1890, fell victim to the excavators. The sewer system followed, and in the early 1990s the gas supply and cabling followed. A new Tränkgass bridge was built and the clay and sand works closed. In 1992 the Protestant parish received two new bells. The cemetery hall was expanded in 1994. In 1998 the church was renovated inside and out.

Former municipal coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver four black bars in a twin arrangement, in the right upper corner a black crow."

Sons and daughters of the church

• Christian Adalbert Kupferberg (born April 18, 1824 in Kriegsheim), founder of the Kupferberg sparkling wine

societies

• Customs and Kerwe community 1990 War home
• Gymnastics Community Kriegsheim

Customs and Kerwe

Despite being incorporated into Monsheim, the district of Kriegsheim continues to lead a largely independent local life. On the Friday before the third Sunday in September, the "Kriesemer Kerwe" begins with the highlight of the Sunday Kerwe parade and the Kerwered . It only ends on the following Tuesday with the burning of the "curb", an empty bottle of wine. During these days, a noticeable number of houses are decorated with their own Kriegsheimer flag, which is owned by the respective homeowner.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• Claus Bernet : Quakers and Mennonites: Early contacts in the Palatinate, in Krefeld, Friedrichstadt, Hamburg, Emden and Danzig. In: 400 years of Mennonites in Krefeld. Lectures from 26.-28. October 2007. Bolanden 2008, 49-61 ( Mennonite history sheets , 63).
• Customs and Kerwe community 1990 Kriegsheim (Ed.): 50 years Kerwered and relocation - 10 years association, Kriegsheim 2000
• Customs and Kerwe Community 1990 Kriegsheim (Ed.): Tell emol how it was ... - 1250 Johr Kriesem, Kriegsheim 2016
• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present - history of the existing and departed cities, spots, villages, hamlets and farms, monasteries and castles of the province of Rheinhessen together with an introduction , Giessen 1905
• 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. 139–145.
• Paul Michel: Anabaptists, Mennonites and Quakers in the war home near Worms, The Anabaptism up to the 30 Years War , in Der Wormsgau 1965
• Paul Michel: The Quakers in Kriegsheim , in "Wonnegauer Heimatblätter", 14th year No. 8, 1969
• Paul Michel: Chronicle of Monsheim. History of a Rheinhessen village , Monsheim 1981
• Turngemeinde 1904 Kriegsheim (Ed.): 1904–2004 / 100 years Turngemeinde Kriegsheim, Kriegsheim 2004
• Felix Zillien: Kriegsheim: Many owners and gentlemen - 140 years ago the foundation stone was laid for the Catholic Church , in: Heimatjahrbuch Alzey-Worms 2005, pp. 98–100

Web links

• Stock Gemeindearchiv war home in the city archives Worms

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Josef Minst: Lorscher Codex III, Lorsch 1970, documents 1259–1261
2. ^ Walter Fellmann: Kriegsheim (Monsheim) . In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
3. ↑ 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. 187 (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.