Dill, Germany
Dill is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Kirchberg (Hunsrück ).
Geography
Dill is in the valley of the brook Diller, of around 30 meters deep cuts into the plateau of the Hunsrück, in a flow loop. These flows around a mountain spur, on which the castle is situated. Parts of the village also extend over the southern slope of the spur and on the saddle, with the spur is connected to the east with the plateau. Two kilometers east of the village flows the Sohrbach in the Kyrbach. In the north of the district of the historic Ausoniusstraße runs.
History
In Reichenbach gift book is a " Landegerus de Tila " is named for the year 1090. It is unclear whether this is meant dill. Presumably this came from the city of Tiel in the Netherlands.
The first certain mention of Dill comes from the year 1107 as a Adalbert, comes de Dille, as a witness to the foundation charter of the monastery Springiersbach makes its appearance. That Adalbert II, Count of Mörsberg and dill (* 1070, † August 30, 1125 ), from the family of the resident at the western Lake Constance Nellenburger, had from the legacy of his great-grandmother, Hedwig of Egisheim originating in possession Nahegau, including dill inherited. Adalbert's daughter Mechtild of Mörsberg married Menginhard of Sponheim. This Dill fell to the County of Sponheim.
1223/1237 the Sponheim territory into a front and a back county was divided, dill remained here as well as the master Burgsponheim jointly owned by both lines. In the following years the castle Dill repeatedly served as a widow seat or posthumous sons. 1329 Dill was besieged during the Schmidtburger feud of Archbishop Baldwin of Trier and finally taken. 1338 gave the archbishopric of the Sponheimern Dill as a fief back.
Count John V., the last male descendant of Sponheim, Dill received on January 8, 1427 city rights and permission to hold a weekly market and two annual fairs. In addition, Dill was the seat of a small office. Despite these special rights Dill could not develop a central place functions: the favorable situation on the roads and the temporal lobe of the nearby town of Kirchberg, which had already in 1259 received a city charter, the small size of the office, which initially covered only dill itself until joined them in the second half of the 17th century nor the neighboring Sohrschied, ensured that dill was never about the importance of a dwarf city, and ultimately lost the title again.
In the Palatinate War of Succession Dill castle was destroyed in 1697 by a French army under General Melac. Through the intercession of the Protestant minister Christoph Besold the place itself remained spared from devastation. In the final division of the county fell Dill 1776 Baden. The small office was disbanded, Dill came to office Kirchberg. During the French occupation during the Napoleonic period dill belonged to the Mairie Sohren, after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 it came to the Prussian Rhine Province, where the circle simmering. Since 1946 it has been part of the newly founded state of Rhineland- Palatinate.
Parish council
The local council in Dill consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Castle dill
Over time, the construction of the castle dill are no sound data, but it is likely that this happened in the 11th century, possibly on the remains of a Roman or Celtic predecessor system.
At the highest point of the plant to the north, the upper castle is located. From the rectangular, four-story residential tower with an edge length of 18x12 m are three side walls present, the east wall is missing. There is a miscarriage bay on the outside of the north wall. Parts of the barrel vaults are also still available. To the west of the upper castle remains of the city walls are opened up. They have a bricklining on in a herringbone pattern. On the surface of the eastern Lower Castle are the built on the site of the former castle chapel Protestant church, a well-developed as a holiday home well house and a modern-day house.
From the west and south ' bailey ' are only remnants of the base and surrounding walls present, the area is partly used as a garden.
The castle is privately owned and is not normally accessed. But there are one or two times a year instead of public tours. The dates will be published in the Official Journal or www.arrata.de.
Historical Buildings
The small Protestant church was built in 1701 at the site and using the material of the former castle chapel. Inside, paintings of the church painter Johann Georg Engisch are from the year 1714. From 1715 to 1878, a native of the workshop of the organ building family Stumm, built by Moezenius organ was in the church. She was then replaced by a Oberlinger organ.
In the village are several renovated Hunsrücker half-timbered houses.
At the Aussoniusstraße, one kilometer north of the village, is a reconstructed Roman watchtower. Nearby located in barbecue area with the opportunity to play Roman games for children.
Traffic
Dill is about four county roads to the neighboring towns Niedersohren ( further Sohren ), dill village (go to Kirchberg ) joined Laufer Sohrschied and hamlets.
In the extreme north- east, the district of dill adjacent to the disused railway cross- Hunsrück. Irregular, but several times a day buses of line 664 of the Rhein- Mosel- transport company by simmering, Kirchberg, Sohren and Büchenbeuren. In addition, find individual rides to school and nursery locations held in neighboring communities.
Seven kilometers north-west of Dill is the Hahn Airport.