Eppelsheim

Eppelsheim is a Rheinhessen municipality in the district Alzey- Worms in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Alzey -Land.

• 3.1 Museums
• 3.2 Structures 3.2.1 village ditch
• 3.2.2 Dalberger tower

History

By the end of the 18th century belonged to the Palatine Eppelsheim Oberamt Alzey.

During the so-called French occupation of the city was the seat of a canton in the Mairie Bechtheim, who was part of the department Thunder Mountain. To Mairie Eppelsheim also included slope Weisheim.

Because of the 1815 taken at the Congress of Vienna agreements concluded between 1816 and Hesse, Prussia and Austria State Treaty, the region, and thus the community Eppelsheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and assigned by this province Rheinhessen.

After dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons the place came in 1835 to the recently completed Worms, where he remained until 1 November 1938. In the course of that local government reform he came to the district Alzey, which was shortly afterwards renamed the Alzey.

On March 20, 1945 American troops occupied the city, but the French occupation zone was knocked down in the summer of 1945 and 1946 came to the new state of Rhineland -Palatinate. The district Alzey was continued until the administrative reform of 7 June 1969 of which the greater part came up in the course in the Alzey -Worms, the Eppelsheim member since then.

Since 1972 Eppelsheim belongs to the municipality of Alzey -Land.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Eppelsheim consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In the split sign, turn right and the golden rotbewehrten - winning Palatine lions in black, left a green two fruity apple branch in gold."

Culture and sights

Museums

• Dinotherium at City Hall

Opened in 2001, Dinotherium Museum in Eppelsheim shows original finds of fossil mammals from about ten million year old deposits of the ancient Rhine at Eppelsheim. These deposits are called Dinotheriensande because they often contain teeth and bones of the extinct animal's snout Dinotherium (also Deinotherium ). An attraction in Dinotherium Museum is the cast of a Dinotherium skull, which was discovered in 1835 at Eppelsheim. In Eppelsheim came in 1820 also completed the first ever discovery of a fossil ape ( Paidopithex rhenanus ) to light.

The idea for the museum had Dinotherium former mayor Heiner Roos. The formative approach yielded Jens Lorenz Franzen who had dug from 1996 to 2002 in the deposits and was made ​​an honorary member of the Society Dinotherium Museum 2003. The researchers of the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt honored in 2003 Heiner Roos for his involvement with an addition in the naming of a hitherto unknown small mammal Plesiosorex Roosi ".

Today excavations in the Dinotheriensanden take place near Eppelsheim who have the discovery of more fossils to the destination. The excavations are being carried out by the Natural History Museum in Mainz.

Structures

Village ditch

The village ditch, also called Effenring, included heart-shaped the medieval village and served with its heaped high ramparts as Flutgraben and as a village fixture. The beginnings can be determined is difficult. Only a quarrel end of the 14th century between the Dalbergern and the community is occupied in the Chronicle. A member of the Dalberg family declared part of the village ditch on his property. The subsequent trial ended with a comparison: part of the community, a portion was awarded the Dalbergern.

The leading from the place in the four cardinal directions roads ( Hangen- Weisheimer, Flomborner, Dintesheimer and Alzeyer gate) by portcullis were particularly secured at the four gates. Beginning of the 20th century the ditch was covered mostly with Effen (other name for elm ) and is provided as a natural monument " Effenkranz " since March 11, 1927 under protection. The Dutch elm disease also has the "Avenue " as the village ditch is called nowadays often not spared. Between 1976 and 1981 all the elms had to be felled. 550 trees were planted again.

Dalberger tower

The Dalberger tower was built around 1500 by the chamberlains Dalberg of Worms, but never lived in Eppelsheim as defensive and residential tower for the cathedral chapter of Worms and is now in private ownership.

In old documents the Dalberger tower is called " water house", as there was a moat around the tower, which was fed from the nearby village ditch. The building is brick made ​​entirely of broken stones ( limestone ) and has a floor area of approximately 10 mx 10 m. In addition to the ground floor there are five upper floors; the walls of the ground floor are about 1.5 m thick.

Previously, the access was on the first floor and could only be reached by a ladder or a movable staircase. The tower was surrounded by an additional wall with a parapet and included in the village fortification. The renovated in 1602 the roof was originally steeper, the lower tent roof comes from a later period. Windows and loopholes have frames made ​​of red sandstone. Heating systems could not be determined, but must be its use as a residential tower, adopted at least in times of danger are (later bearing and fruit store ).

The Dalberger tower and the townscape with the Dorfumwallung are under the protection of the Hague Convention since 30 September 1988.

Personalities

• Henry Greenebaum (1833-1914), businessman and politician
• Harry Hart (1850-1929), businessman, founder and partner of " Hart Schaffner & Marx "
• Emil Knodt (1852-1924), Protestant theologian and animal rights activists
• Karl Ernst Knodt (1856-1917), Protestant pastor and poet
• Adolf engines (1874-1950), teacher in Eppelsheim 1903-1914, conductor