Dorn-Dürkheim
Dorn-Dürkheim | |
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Location of Dorn-Dürkheim within Mainz-Bingen district  | |
  Dorn-Dürkheim  Dorn-Dürkheim | |
| Coordinates: 49°46′06″N 8°16′10″E / 49.76833°N 8.26944°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Mainz-Bingen |
| Municipal assoc. | Rhein-Selz |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Claus-Dieter Biegler[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.60 km2 (2.16 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 172 m (564 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 978 |
| • Density | 170/km2 (450/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 67585 |
| Dialling codes | 06733 |
| Vehicle registration | MZ |
| Website | www.vg-rhein-selz.de |
Dorn-Dürkheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography[edit]
Location[edit]
Dorn-Dürkheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in the “Heart of Rhenish Hesse”. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.
History[edit]
In 767, Dorn-Dürkheim had its first documentary mention in a document from the Lorsch Abbey. The municipality belonged from the 10th to 12th century to the Bishopric of Worms and passed thereafter as a fief to the Lords of Bolanden. Assigned to the Oberamt of Alzey beginning in 1457, Dorn-Dürkheim was temporarily occupied by the French, before the community, along with the whole province of Rhenish Hesse passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1897, Dorn-Dürkheim acquired a railway link on the Osthofen–Gau-Odernheim line.
Since the Second World War, Dorn-Dürkheim has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at first in the Alzey-Worms district. The municipality was incorporated into the Verbandsgemeinde of Guntersblum in 1972 and was also assigned to the Mainz-Bingen district.
Politics[edit]
Municipal council[edit]
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The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
| CDU | Wählergruppe Schmitt | Total | |
| 2004 | 7 | 5 | 12 seats |
(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)
Coat of arms[edit]
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess sable a demi-lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and azure a crozier from base issuant, the crook ending in a rose argent.[3]
Economy and infrastructure[edit]
Transport[edit]
The nearest Autobahn interchange is Biebelnheim on the A 63, some 10 km away.
- In the neighbouring centre of Hillesheim a railway connection on the Osthofen–Gau Odernheim line was once available. Service ended on 29 September 1974.
Palaeontology[edit]
In 1972, one of Europe's richest mammalian fossil fields was discovered through pedological investigation at Dorn-Dürkheim, with many species from the Miocene. In an oxbow of the ancient Rhine bone and tooth fragments were recovered from more than 70 mammalian species, among others sabre-toothed cats, hyenas, tapirs, muntjacs, dwarf deer, forest antelopes, forerunners of today's horses, and proboscideans from the time about 8.5 million years ago[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Mainz-Bingen, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Description of arms in German Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ernst Probst: Deutschland in der Urzeit, p. 283, Munich 1986)
External links[edit]
- Official website
(in German)
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