Sörgenloch

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 8 ° 12'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Nieder-Olm
Height :	223 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.43 km 2
Residents:	1264 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	520 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55270
Area code :	06136
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 054
Association administration address:	Pariser Strasse 110 55268 Nieder-Olm
Website :	www.soergenloch.de
Local Mayor :	Bernd Simon (FWG)
Location of the local community of Sörgenloch in the Mainz-Bingen district

Sörgenloch is a municipality in Rheinhessen south of the city of Mainz . It is the smallest municipality within the Nieder-Olm association . Sörgenloch is located in the middle of vineyards on the Selz and is a place of pilgrimage of the diocese of Mainz .

geography

Geographical location

Sörgenloch is located on the banks of the Selz in the wine-growing region of Rheinhessen , about 14 km south of the city of Mainz . The landscape is heavily influenced by wine and fruit growing. Extensive renaturation measures on the Selz and Zornheimer Berg have, however, greatly enhanced the natural environment.

Neighboring communities

The following communities border Sörgenloch, they are named starting in the north in clockwise order:

• Nieder-Olm
• Anger home
• Hahnheim
• Udenheim
• Saulheim

history

View from Udenheim to Sörgenloch

The first documented mention of the place Sörgenloch comes from the year 1190. Little is known about the early history of the place, in the 13th century the monastery of Sankt Alban in Mainz probably owned the local authority over Sörgenloch.

Origin of name

The name Sörgenloch developed from the term “Saligenloh”, which dates back to Roman times and is made up of the Latin “salis” (= pasture ) and Old High German “Loh” (= forest). The name means “willow forest”.

The following variations of the place name were common in the past:

• Sulegloch (1190)
• Surgenloch (1200)
• Sulgeloch and Sörgenloch (1293)
• Selgenloch (1432)

Early days

In 1880 an iron hoe and two vessels were found that date from the Iron Age and suggest that Celts had already settled in the area of ​​today's Sörgenloch. Remains of a vangion settlement were also found.

In the 19th century, several coin and grave finds from Roman times were made while clearing the vineyards . These finds are kept in the Worms Museum. The field name "Hundertmorgen" also refers to a Roman settlement, as 100 acres was the amount of land that a Roman soldier received after his service.

Sörgenloch belonged to the Franconian Urmark "Olm". When settlements were formed around the courtyards where churches stood, the towns of Ober-Olm , Nieder-Olm , Klein-Winternheim and Sörgenloch emerged in the Mark Olm . As a demarcation and fortification, the places received earth walls , which were reinforced by a hedge . Field names like "Oberheck" and "Im Bock" (from Bock = to bend a hedge) refer to this time. A burial ground from this period (6th and 7th centuries) was found just above Sörgenloch .

Religions

Sörgenloch is a place of pilgrimage . The population is predominantly Roman Catholic .

Pilgrimage

Sörgenloch celebrates a Marian pilgrimage on September 8th ( Mary's birth ) . During the Palatinate War of Succession in the 17th century, the Sörgenloch had to leave the village and hide in the area. The image of grace is a clay sculpture, created on the Middle Rhine around 1420. It shows Our Lady sitting on a bench and playing with the Jesus boy in a soft style . To save the church's statue of Mary , they buried it outside the village. When the war ended, no one could remember the exact place where the statue was buried. The Sörgenloch people prayed to God that he would reveal the place to them. There was an apparition over a meadow near the Selz and it was there that the statue was found buried. Since then, a pilgrimage to Sörgenloch has been celebrated for the birth of Mary. On the Sunday after September 8th, St. Mary is commemorated with a service and a procession through Sörgenloch and the statue of the Virgin is carried through the streets.

Judaism

See: Sörgenloch Jewish Community

politics

Municipal council

town hall

The municipal council in Sörgenloch consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	GAL	total
2019	6th	4th	6th	-	16 seats
2014	5	5	6th	-	16 seats
2009	4th	3	6th	3	16 seats
2004	5	5	6th	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group in the Nieder-Olm community
• GAL = Green Alternative List Nieder-Olm e. V.

mayor

Local mayor is Bernd Simon (FWG). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 54.30% of the vote, making him the successor to Frieder März (FWG), who no longer took office after ten years.

Partner municipality

• Ludes ( France , Region Grand Est , department Marne )

Culture and sights

Sörgenloch Catholic parish church

Sörgenloch Catholic parish church

Sörgenloch Castle

Architectural monuments

• The Catholic parish church has dominated the townscape since the 13th century. It got its present appearance from the reconstruction after a fire in the 17th century, the baroque interior construction dates from the 18th century. The parish church houses the Sörgenloch miraculous image , a late Gothic Madonna .

• Sörgenloch Castle is located on the eastern edge of the old town center . The Renaissance castle was built by the Sörgenloch local lords of the 18th century, the von Köth-Wanscheid family, in the second half of the 18th century. Today it is used as a restaurant under the name "Sörgenloch Castle".

• The old Jewish cemetery is in the northeast of the community. In the past it was also used by the surrounding communities, but today only four tombstones remain.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Sörgenloch

Folk music

Sörgenloch is a center of the Rheinhessen folk scene . Several well-known groups rehearse there or recruit their musicians from the town:

• Wild rovers
• Goo Birds Flight
• Ilwetritsch
• To Thor

St. Patrick's Day will also be celebrated on one of the following weekends in the clubhouse near the castle.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community of Sörgenloch was predominantly agricultural until the last few decades. Today it is a modern residential community on the edge of the Rhine-Main conurbation .

In agriculture, fruit and wine growing dominate. The Moosberg vineyard in Sörgenloch has around 39 hectares of cultivated land.

traffic

• Sörgenloch is on state road  432, through which the A 63 can be reached in a few minutes by car.
• A bus connection in the direction of Nieder-Olm / Mainz or Oppenheim exists in the form of line 652 of the ORN (Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe GmbH).
• The closest Deutsche Bahn station is in neighboring Nieder-Olm. From here Mainz and Alzey can be reached every half hour .

Personalities

• Friedrich Ludwig Dael von Köth-Wanscheid (1808–1883), landowner on Sörgenloch
• Gideon Georg Emil Dael von Köth-Wanscheid (1840–1899), landowner on Sörgenloch
• Gideon Hugo August Ernst Baron Dael von Köth-Wanscheid (1874–1954), landowner on Sörgenloch

literature

• Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present, Sörgenloch, Gießen 1905, pp. 416–417
• Literature about Sörgenloch in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Sörgenloch  - Collection of Images

• On the history of Sörgenloch - by Sigrid Schmitt
• Sörgenloch - by Karl Johann Brilmayer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ From Past Times, Issue 6 - Contributions to the local history of Sörgenloch, pp. 2–5, ed. Verbandsgemeinde Nieder-Olm, Nieder-Olm 1983
3. ↑ Liebfrauenland
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections , accessed on July 27, 2019
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Nieder-Olm, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .