Wattenheim (Biblis)

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Wattenheim
Biblis parish
Wattenheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 6 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 33"  E
Height : 92 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.26 km²
Residents : 1107  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 260 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 68647
Area code : 06245

Wattenheim is a district of the municipality of Biblis in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse .

Geographical location

The place is in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Weschnitz just before its confluence with the Rhine . In the north, in the "Steiner Forest", also on the Weschnitz, are the excavated remains of the former Stein Castle . In the west lies the Biblis district of Nordheim, in the east lies Biblis and in the south the district of Hofheim in Lampertheim . State road 3261 runs through the village .

history

From the beginning to the 18th century

The area around Wattenheim was inhabited as early as the Neolithic Age, as archaeological finds show , due to the climatically favorable Upper Rhine Plain . After the first tribe known by name, the Celts , the Romans began the military occupation of areas on the right bank of the Rhine around 40 AD . Around 260 the Alemanni conquered the Roman Limes , pushed the Romans back over the Rhine and settled the area. After 500 AD these were again ousted by the Franks , which is documented by Franconian graves near Biblis , Wattenheim and Klein-Rohrheim .

The documented history of Wattenheim begins with Stein Castle, when on May 26th, 836 King Ludwig II, the German , Count Werner (Werinher) his goods in Biblis , Wattenheim and in the village of Zullestein (the settlement belonging to Stein Castle) and he left the three villages to the Lorsch Monastery in 846 . As early as the 4th century, the Romans had built a burgus ( small tower-like fort ) with a harbor on what was then the course of the Rhine. The square was temporarily forgotten until it was given as a Zullestein to the Lorsch Monastery as a royal property in 805. In the year 995 the place was mentioned as "place stone" when Emperor Otto III. at the request of the Lorsch abbot Salmann granted the town of Stein market rights. After 1100 the harbor seems to have silted up and the Bishop of Worms owned the place, which he converted into a castle.

The village of Zullestein has completely disappeared and of the castle only the remains of the foundations, rediscovered in 1957 and excavated from 1970 on, can be seen.

The heyday of the Lorsch Monastery was followed by its decline in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 1232, Emperor Friedrich II subordinated the imperial abbey of Lorsch to the Archdiocese of Mainz and its bishop Siegfried III. von Eppstein on reform. The Benedictines opposed the ordered reform and therefore had to leave the abbey. They were replaced by Cistercians from the Eberbach monastery and in 1248 by Premonstratensians from the Allerheiligen monastery . From this point on, the monastery was continued as a provost's office.

Under the rule of Kurmainz , the archbishops and the Mainz cathedral chapter pledged redeemable rights in Wattenheim several times. So in 1305 "village, bailiwick, court etc. and a farm that was called Burgberg" were given to Heilmann Holtmünde for 1000 pounds of Heller. In the same year the fishery in Wattenheim is pledged to him. In 1319 Archbishop Peter von Mainz pledged the village to Georg von Starkenburg for 1000 pounds of Heller. In 1350 Archbishop Heinrich von Mainz and Kuno von Falkenstein pledged the fishery to the knight Dieter Kämmerer for 500 pounds of Heller. In 1354 and 1428 the village was pledged to the Dalberg family , who held the hereditary office of chamberlain to the Bishop of Worms . In the years 1465–1521 Wattenheim was pledged to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen as an accessory to the Gernsheim office .

A church in Wattenheim was mentioned when it was donated in 846. The patronage and the associated rights, as well as the tithe , had given the Lorsch monastery as a fief and from 1275 it is known that the brothers Werner and Hugo von Starkenburg donated their rights to the cathedral in Worms. After 1300, the cathedral chapter of Worms, the Andreasstift and the Sankt Paulus monastery jointly have patronage rights.

In the year 1300 the cathedral chapter of Worms and the Andreasstift zu Worms agreed to jointly appoint a vicar in Wattenheim. In the following period the Palatine came into the possession of the patronage law and part of the tithe , because in 1450 the archbishop allowed Dieter von Mainz , the incorporation of Wattenheim parish church in the pen cell at Worms. The Zell monastery belonged to the Hornbach monastery, which had been under the jurisdiction of the Electoral Palatinate since 1395 when the County of Zweibrücken was taken over. The reason for the donation of the parish of Wattenheim with its slopes to the monastery of Zell by the Palatinate Elector Ludwig IV was the birth of the heir to the throne Philip . On a pilgrimage to the grave of St. Philip of Zell there , he and his wife Margarethe von Savoyen prayed for the birth of a tribe holder. With the introduction of the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate, the Zell monastery was abolished in 1553 and its rights and inclines were transferred to the University of Heidelberg . In the same year, the Count Palatine introduced the Reformation in the towns of Nordheim and Wattenheim, despite objections from the Bishop of Worms and the Archbishopric of Mainz. A Reformed pastor lived in Wattenheim and looked after Nordheim as a branch. In the period up to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War in 1618, the Palatinate electors switched several times between the Lutheran , Reformed and Calvinist faiths.

During the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), Spanish troops of the Catholic League conquered Stein Castle in 1621 and occupied the entire Bergstrasse from here. Nordheim, Biblis and Wattenheim were sacked in the process. In 1631 the Spaniards withdrew from the advancing Swedish troops who had intervened in the war since 1630. When they retreated to the western bank of the Rhine, they set the castle on fire and destroyed the ship bridge they had built . The horror of this war was far from over for the people of Wattenheim. After the catastrophic defeat of the Evangelicals near Nördlingen on September 6, 1634, the Swedish troops withdrew from Bergstrasse in 1635. Ultimately, the Catholic victory at Nördlingen prompted France to intervene in the Thirty Years' War alongside the now weakened Swedes. With the Swedish-French War, the bloodiest chapter of the Thirty Years' War began in 1635. From the region around Wattenheim the chroniclers report from that time: "Plague and hunger rage in the country and decimate the population, so that the villages are often completely empty".

After the end of the Thirty Years' War through the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Palatinate Elector Karl Ludwig and the neighboring Elector of Mainz, Johann Philipp von Schönborn , agree on a number of contentious legal positions in the “Regensburg Recess” in 1653 . So it was determined that the Catholic faith would be reinstated in Wattenheim and that a Reformed parish with branches in Hofheim and Bobstadt would be established in Nordheim. As a result, the Protestant pastor had to leave Wattenheim and moved to Nordheim, while the population was completely re-Catholicized again. The church, destroyed in 1623, was only rebuilt in 1658.

In the years 1688–1697, the Palatinate War of Succession provoked by France raged, which exposed the area between the Rhine and Bergstrasse to various types of destruction, thus undoing the reconstruction efforts after the Thirty Years' War. In 1689, French troops destroyed the rectory in Wattenheim, which was not rebuilt in the following years. It was not until the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697 that the French withdrew behind the Rhine again.

In 1787 the administration was organized in such a way that Wattenheim belonged to the office of Gernsheim of the upper office of Starkenburg , which was located in the "lower archbishopric" of the Electorate of Mainz .

In 1787 Wattenheim was hit by several floods. The Rhine ice broke on February 17th, which resulted in the Rhine dam breaking seven times in the Biblis district. On June 13th, July 31st and September 19th floods again, with Lampertheim, Bürstadt, Hofheim, Wattenheim, Nordheim, Biblis and Groß-Rohrheim being flooded.

From the 19th century until today

Wattenheim becomes Hessian

The late 18th and early 19th centuries brought far-reaching changes to Europe. As a result of the Napoleonic Wars , the left bank of the Rhine and thus also the left bank of the Rhine were annexed by Kurmainz in 1797. After France's renewed victories, the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation) was reorganized by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 and ceased to exist with the laying down of the imperial crown on August 6, 1806. As a result of this reorganization and dissolution of Kurmainz, the "Amt Gernsheim" and with it Wattenheim came to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt , which in 1806 became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , which was also formed under pressure from Napoleon .

When the Amt of Gernsheim came to Hesse in 1803, it was initially continued as the Hessian district bailiwick , which from 1806 belonged to the newly founded Grand Duchy of Hesse. Until 1821, the Grand Duchy of Hesse was divided into offices. The former Mainzische Amt Gernsheim is described in 1821 in volume 22 of the newest countries and ethnology for all classes as follows:

»Office Gernsheim am Rhein with 1 city, 8 localities 410 H. u. 3192. E.
Gernsheim, city with 1 ferry on the Rhine, lies in a mire, has an official seat and 1 castle, 1 Rhine customs, 2 churches and with the nearby village of Kleinrohrheim 284 H. u. 2255 E., by the way, important viticulture and fishing. Villages: Rodau and Wattenheim. "

The historical-topographical-statistical description of the principality of Lorsch, or the church history of the Upper Rhinegau, reports on Wattenheim in 1812:

“Wattenheim. This mediocre village, called Watinheim and Wadtinheim in old documents, is located on the Weschnitz, 1 ⁄ 4  hours from the Rhine, and the former Veste Stein, 2 1 ⁄ 4   St. from Gernsheim, 2 small St. from Worms and 6 1 ⁄ 2   hours from Darmstadt, in a completely flat, fertile, but partly also swampy region. As early as 842, King Ludwig the German gave Count Wernher his goods and the churches at Wattenheim and Biblis etc. which the same Count soon gave to the Lorsch Monastery and then received it back as a fief for life. King Conrad I also donated his goods at Wattenheim and Virnheim, which his chaplain Werinolf owned as a fief after his death in the Lorsch Monastery in 916. Through this and other donations, the Lorsch Monastery gradually acquired full ownership of Wattenheim. In 1232 this village and the other possessions of Kl. Lorsch came to the Archbishopric of Mainz; But already at that time several Güther had probably strayed from it, because in 1262 a certain Hezelo, singer of the St. Martinsstift in Worms, donated half of his court and his Güther zu Wattenheim to the Kl. Schönau [...] In 1305 that moved After the death of Archbishop Gerhard von Mainz, the cathedral chapter ruled the Heilmann Holtemünde because of a debt of 1,100 pounds Heller, the village of Wattenheim with court, bailiwick, fishery, woad, etc. there, together with a farm estate, called the Burgberg. This pledge seems to have been redeemed soon, because as early as 1319 Archbishop Peter von Mainz sold the said village to the knight Georg Solgin von Starkenburq with all rights, as fish water core and penny money, meadows and fields etc. for 1000 pounds Heller, however resale. But this pledge was also redeemed. Because the village of Wattenheim was pledged to the Gernsheim office, the latter in 1465 by the elector Adolf of Mainz to the count Philipp von Katzenelnbogen. We know this from a document from 1470 in which Count Philipp reserved his fisheries in Wattenheim and Gernsheim in the pledge of the said office. After the redemption of the office of Gernsheim in 1520, Wattenheim came back to the ore monastery Mainz and from there to Hessen Darmstadt in 1802. […] Wattenheim has 51 houses in which 283 souls live, all of whom profess the Catholic religion. Except for the church, the town hall, and the school there are no stately or common buildings there. […] From the big toe, gracious lordship receives two thirds and the University of Heidelberg one third. The sovereign receives two thirds of the little toe and the pastor one third. In addition, the sovereign as well as the pastor each have to move a partial toe of certain fields alone. The hunt, as well as the fishing there, belongs to the most gracious lordship. The first belonged to the Hochstifte Worms (from contracts from 1741). Wattenheim does not have its own forest, only 32 acres of Waideklauer. The whole district consists of 1404 acres. "

After Napoleon's final defeat, the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 also regulated the territorial situation for Hesse, and in 1816 provinces were established in the Grand Duchy. The area previously known as the “Principality of Starkenburg”, which consisted of the old Hessian territories south of the Main and the territories on the right bank of the Rhine that were added from 1803, was renamed “Province of Starkenburg” .

In 1814 serfdom was abolished in the Grand Duchy and with the constitution of the Grand Duchy of Hesse introduced on December 17, 1820, it was given a constitutional monarchy , in which the Grand Duke still had great powers. The remaining civil rights magnificent as Low jurisdiction , tithes, ground rents and other slope but remained composed until 1848.

In 1821, as part of a comprehensive administrative reform, the district bailiffs in the provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse of the Grand Duchy were dissolved and district councils were introduced, making Wattenheim part of the Heppenheim district . As part of this reform, regional courts were also created, which were now independent of the administration. The district court districts corresponded in scope to the district council districts and the district court of Lorsch was responsible as the court of first instance for the district of Heppenheim . This reform also regulated the administrative administration at the municipal level. The mayor's office in Wattenheim was one of 12 mayor's offices in the district. According to the municipal ordinance of June 30, 1821, there were no longer appointments of mayors , but an elected local council, which was composed of a mayor, aldermen and council.

The statistical-topographical-historical description of the Grand Duchy of Hesse reports on Wattenheim in 1829:

»Wattenheim (L. Bez. Heppenheim) cath. Filialdorf, is located in a somewhat swampy area on the left Welchnitz side, 3 1 ⁄ 2  hours  from Heppenheim and 3 ⁄ 4 hours  from the Rhine. The place has 60 houses and 426 catholic. Residents. - Count Wernher or Werner had received Waltenheim as a gift from King Ludwig the German, and gave the place together with the church to the Lorsch monastery in 846. With this monastery, Wattenheim came to Mainz in 1232 and in 1305 the cathedral chapter relocated the place to the Heilmann Holtemünde because of a debt of 1100 pounds sterling. The pledge has been redeemed again because as early as 1319 the place was sold to the knight Georg Solgin von Starkenburg for 1000 pounds of Heller. The repurchase took place; because the place was at the office of Gernsheim, as such was pledged from Mainz in 1465 to Count Philipp von Katzenellenbogen. After the redemption of this office in 1520, Wattenheim came to the Archbishopric of Mainz. There was already a parish church here in 846. It burned down in 1623, was only rebuilt in 1658 and completely renovated in 1805. Wattenheim came to Hessen in 1802. "

In 1832 the administrative units were further enlarged and circles were created. After the reorganization announced on August 20, 1832, there should only be the districts of Bensheim and Lindenfels in the future in Süd-Starkenburg; the district of Heppenheim was to fall into the Bensheim district. Before the ordinance came into force on October 15, 1832, it was revised to the effect that instead of the Lindenfels district, the Heppenheim district was formed as a second district alongside the Bensheim district. Wattenheim was assigned to the Bensheim district. In 1842 the tax system in the Grand Duchy was reformed and the tithe and the basic pensions (income from property) were replaced by a tax system that still basically exists today.

In the newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities of the German federal states from 1845 the following entries can be found:

“Wattenheim near Heppenheim. - Village with a Catholic parish church, regarding the Evangel. belonging to the parish of Nordheim. - 60 H. 426 Catholic E. - Grand Duchy of Hesse. - Starkenburg Province. - Bensheim district. - Gernsheim Regional Court. - Darmstadt Court of Justice. - The village of Wattenheim, which lies in a somewhat swampy area on the left side of the Weschnitz, was transferred to Hesse in 1802. "

As a result of the March Revolution of 1848, with the "Law on the Relationships of the Classes and Noble Court Lords" of April 15, 1848, the special rights of the class were finally repealed. In addition, in the provinces, the districts and the district administration districts of the Grand Duchy were abolished on July 31, 1848 and replaced by "administrative districts", whereby the previous districts of Bensheim and Heppenheim were combined to form the administrative district of Heppenheim . Just four years later, in the course of the reaction era, they returned to the division into districts and Wattenheim became part of the Bensheim district again.

The population and cadastral lists recorded in December 1852 showed for Wattenheim: Wattenheim, a Catholic parish village 3/4 hour from the Rhine on the left side of the Weschnitz had 450 inhabitants. The district of Wattenheim consisted of 1694 acres , of which 1129 acres were arable land, 433 acres of meadows and 66 acres of forest.

In the statistics of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, based on December 1867, the parish village of Wattenheim with its own mayor's office, 81 houses, 417 inhabitants, the district of Bensheim, the district court of Gernsheim, the Protestant parish of Nordheim of the dean's office in Zwingenberg and the Catholic parish of Wattenheim of the dean's office of Bensheim specified.

In 1870, the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck provoked the Franco-German War with the so-called Emser Depesche in which the Grand Duchy of Hesse took part as a member of the North German Confederation on the side of Prussia . Even before its official end on May 10, 1871, the southern German states joined the North German Confederation and on January 1, 1871 its new constitution came into force, with which it was now called the German Empire . On the German side, this war claimed around 41,000 deaths.

In the 19th century, too, Wattenheim suffered from floods again, on 28/29. December 1882 the Rhine dam near Rosengarten and the places Hofheim, Nordheim, Wattenheim and Bürstadt were under water. The industrial age heralded itself for Wattenheim on the Rhine when a company from Worms started operating steam boats, known as the “Eagles of the Upper Rhine”, between Mannheim and Mainz from 1842. Further improvements to the infrastructure resulted from the construction of the Darmstadt – Worms railway line, the Ludwig Railway , which began in 1869 and was completed in 1877. Further infrastructure improvements were reported for 1900, so near Worms both the Ernst Ludwig Bridge for road traffic and the railway bridge over the Rhine were opened to traffic. The numbers of emigrants show that the times were also marked by a lot of poverty. From 1881 to 1900, 529,875 German emigrants were counted. On January 1, 1900, the Civil Code came into force throughout the German Empire .

Time of world wars

On August 1, 1914, the First World War broke out, which put an end to the positive economic development here as in the entire German Empire . When the armistice was signed after the German defeat on November 11, 1918, the war had cost a total of around 17 million human lives. The end of the German Empire was sealed and the troubled times of the Weimar Republic followed. In the period from 1921 to 1930 there were 566,500 emigrants in Germany who tried to escape the difficult conditions in Germany. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, which marked the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship.

In Hesse, on July 3, 1933, the "Law for the implementation of field clearing for the purpose of creating jobs in the course of the redevelopment " was passed. In 13 municipalities in the Starkenburg province, including Wattenheim, the field clearing procedure was ordered over an area of ​​200,000 ha. In the course of this amelioration and settlement program, the two places Riedrode and Worms-Rosengarten were created .

The Hessian provinces of Starkenburg, Rheinhessen and Upper Hesse were abolished in 1937 after the provincial and district assemblies were dissolved in 1936. On November 1, 1938, a comprehensive regional reform came into force at the district level. Oppenheim was dissolved in the area around Worms . The communities on the right bank of the Rhine, Lampertheim , Bürstadt , Hofheim , Biblis , Nordheim and Wattenheim, were incorporated into the newly created Worms district , which emerged from the Worms district.

On September 1, 1939, when German troops marched into Poland, the Second World War began , the effects of which were even more dramatic than the First World War and the number of victims estimated at 60 to 70 million people. In the final phase of the Second World War in Europe, the American units reached the Rhine between Mainz and Mannheim in mid-March 1945. On March 22nd, the 3rd US Army crossed the Rhine near Oppenheim and occupied Darmstadt on March 25th. In the first hours of March 26, 1945, American units crossed the Rhine near Hamm and south of Worms, from where they advanced on a broad front towards the Bergstrasse. On March 27, the American troops 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.

The Grand Duchy of Hesse was a member state of the German Confederation from 1815 to 1866 and then a federal state of the German Empire . It existed until 1919, after the First World War, the Grand Duchy for was republican written People's State of Hesse . In 1945 after the end of the Second World War , the area of ​​today's Hesse was in the American zone of occupation and by order of the military government, Greater Hesse was created , from which the state of Hesse emerged in its current borders.

With the establishment of Greater Hesse, the areas on the right bank of the Rhine and thus also Wattenheim were assigned to the Bergstrasse district . The district on the left bank of the Rhine became part of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 in the administrative district of Rheinhessen .

Post-war and present

As the population figures from 1939 to 1950 show, Wattenheim also had to cope with many refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern regions after the war .

After the war, the volunteer fire brigade and later other associations were founded in 1950. In 1982 the parish church of St. Christophorus in Wattenheim was placed under monument protection.

In 1961 the size of the district was given as 426  hectares , of which 3 hectares were forest. After the population lived largely from agriculture until after the Second World War, the structural change in agriculture and the designation of new building areas from the 1970s onwards meant that this no longer played a role today. Today, the vast majority of the working population of Wattenheim are employed outside the village.

On December 31, 1970, as part of the regional reform in Hesse, the previously independent municipality was incorporated together with Nordheim to Biblis on a voluntary basis. For Nordheim and Wattenheim, local districts with a local advisory council and local council were established by the main statute . The boundaries of the local districts follow the previous district boundaries.

From 1945 to 1970 Jakob Geschwind (1895–1972) was mayor of Wattenheim. Jakob Geschwind was appointed honorary mayor after 1970.

Wattenheim Castle

Southeast of the Wattenheim town center was a moated castle whose moat was fed by the Weschnitz. The remnants of the moats that still exist were leveled in 1825, so that no building remains have survived today. The lords of the castle are presumed to be the Lorsch ministerials from Starkenberg, who are known to have been wealthy in Wattenheim between 1275 and 1319. But there are also a noble family "von Wattenheim" in question, which appeared in a document in the years 1272-1454 in Wattenheim and which later had their residence in Grünstadt .

Courts in Hessen

In the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the judicial system was reorganized in an executive order of December 9, 1803. The “Hofgericht Darmstadt” was set up as a court of second instance for the Principality of Starkenburg. The jurisdiction of the first instance was carried out by the offices or the landlords. The Gernsheim Office was responsible for Biblis . The court court was the second instance court for normal civil disputes, and the first instance for civil family law cases and criminal cases. The superior court of appeal in Darmstadt was superordinate. With the formation of the regional courts in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Lorsch regional court in the Heppenheim district was the court of first instance from 1821 . On December 16, 1839, at the instigation of the Grand Ducal Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Justice, the Gernsheim district court was set up, to which Großrohrheim, Biblis, Wattenheim and Nordheim were assigned from the Lorsch district court district.

On the occasion of the introduction of the Courts Constitution Act with effect from October 1, 1879, the previous grand-ducal Hessian regional courts were replaced by local courts in the same place, while the newly created regional courts now functioned as higher courts. As a result, it was renamed the Gernsheim District Court and assigned to the district of the Darmstadt District Court .

With effect from October 1, 1934, the district court of Gernsheim was repealed and the districts Biblis, Groß-Rohrheim, Hammer-Aue, Maulbeer-Aue, Nordheim and Wattenheim were assigned to the district court of Worms , and the remaining districts to the district court of Groß-Gerau .

With the assignment of the right bank of the Worms district to the Bergstrasse district in 1945, the district court district also changed and Wattenheim came to the Lampertheim district court .

Territorial history and administration

The following list gives an overview of the territories in which Wattenheim was located and the administrative units to which it was subordinate:

Population development

• 1806: 279 inhabitants, 50 houses
• 1812: 283 inhabitants, 51 houses
• 1829: 426 inhabitants, 60 houses
• 1867: 417 inhabitants, 81 houses
Wattenheim: Population from 1806 to 2016
year     Residents
1806
  
 279
1812
  
 283
1829
  
 426
1834
  
 443
1840
  
 472
1846
  
 483
1852
  
 450
1858
  
 413
1864
  
 406
1871
  
 422
1875
  
 452
1885
  
 414
1895
  
 387
1905
  
 406
1910
  
 406
1925
  
 415
1939
  
 410
1946
  
 460
1950
  
 539
1956
  
 506
1961
  
 550
1967
  
 625
1970
  
 716
1980
  
 930
1996
  
 1,069
2002
  
 1,146
2011
  
 1,077
2012
  
 1,132
2016
  
 1.107
Data source: Historical municipality register for Hesse: The population of the municipalities from 1834 to 1967. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt, 1968.
Further sources:; Biblis parish; 2011 census

Religious affiliation

• 1829: 426 Catholic (= 100%) residents
• 1961: 6 Protestant (= 1.09%), 537 Catholic (= 97.64%) residents

politics

Local advisory board

For Nordheim there is a local district (areas of the former municipality of Nordheim) with a local advisory board and a local mayor according to the Hessian municipal code . The local advisory board consists of seven members. Since the local elections in 2016, it has had three members of the SPD and four members of the CDU . The head of the village is Heinrich Ochsenschläger (CDU).

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver, four red bars with two gold fishes placed on top of each other in the opposite direction of movement in a blue heart shield."
The coat of arms was approved on May 15, 1957 by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior.

Others

Wattenheim golf course
  • In Wattenheim there is a golf course with an 18 + 9-hole field.
  • The current church was built in 1848 and is consecrated to St. Christopher.
  • The football club founded in Wattenheims in 1976 is called "FC Boys Wattenheim".

Personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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