Dommershausen

Dommershausen, in the local dialect Dommersch, is a municipality in the highlands of the Hunsrück in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kastellaun.

• 4.1 municipal
• 4.2 Coat of Arms

Community structure

The district Dommershausen is the namesake of the local church Dommershausen. To the local community include the districts Dommershausen, Dorweiler, Eveshausen and Sabershausen.

District Dommershausen

Geography

The district Dommershausen with 449 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2010) is situated on a mountain ridge between the Baybach and the Lützbachtal.

The hamlet Dommershausen includes the residential places Gastemühle and Neumühlestrasse.

History

Dommershausen is first mentioned in 1220 as Dumershusen documented. From the mention suggests that Dumershusen is used to no control. The place belonged to the condominium Beltheimer court and was thus under the rule of the Electorate of Trier, Sponheim and the Lords of Braunshorn (after their extinction Winneburg and after their extinction Metternich ). With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops, the place was French, 1815, he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate.

Museum

Vorderhunsrück Museum, Pies archive and library to the people and history (since 1992) in the former parsonage of 1837 /38. Presence exhibitions document the operators in the Hunsrück since the 30 - year war surgeons and " bone flicker " of the Pies family and medical instruments from two millennia.

These exhibitions are on the history of the front Hunsrück. The library collects data from church records from the 16th to the 19th century by about 1,400 places especially the Rhein- Mosel- Saar - Nahe and regional historical literature.

Youth Room

2001 Dommershausen the youth room was opened at the same time with the new fire station. The mayor called the opening "When a big step for the community Dommershausen ".

Neighboring towns

• Heyweiler
• Sabershausen
• Lahr
• Lie
• Lütz
• Eveshausen
• Dorweiler
• Macken
• Beulich

Development of the municipal area

The present municipality was created on March 17, 1974 from projects launched in the second half of the 1960s the first Rhineland -Palatinate administrative and territorial reform by recharge from the resolved and until then independent municipalities Dommershausen (then 421 inhabitants), Dorweiler (234) Eveshausen (115) and Sabershausen (339).

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Dommershausen consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. After the election of the members are spread over a total of four groups of voters

Coat of arms

Blazon: " square, 1 in blue with a silver anchor cross, in 2 red- silver geschacht ( 4 times 4), 3 in silver three black shells (2, 1) and oblique beams, in 4 in Red three pushed together (diagonally strung ), diamond-shaped silver buckles ( Rincke ). "

Coat Explanation: The anchor cross is a symbol of solidarity with history and home, the red- silver chess Tung points to the County of Sponheim, the colors on the affiliation to the Electorate of Trier, the mussels are from the coat of arms of Metternich and the buckles the Boos von Waldeck.