Mettenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate
Mette home is a municipality in the district Alzey- Worms in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality calibration.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 3.3 community partnerships
- 4.1 Structures
- 5.1 traffic
Geography
Location
The community is located between Worms and Mainz.
Climate
The annual rainfall is 558 mm. Rainfall is low. They are located in the lower quarter of the detected values in Germany. At 12% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is January, most precipitation falls in July. In July, falling 2 times more precipitation than in January. Precipitation varies moderately. At 51% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.
History
According to a document contained in the Lorsch Codex Mette home was first mentioned in 765.
The village had originally to the possessions of the Bishop of Worms, but was already in early times the counts of Leiningen fief given who counted it among the regular goods of their house later. 1393 a castle to Mette home is called, which sold her owner, the eunuch and the Knights of Fleckenstein, then the city of Worms.
Towards the end of the 17th century the village and the castle became the property of the Frankfurt merchant Canpoing, and from that 1709 back in the hands of the Counts of Wartenberg (piston von Wartenberg ) on, until the French Revolution, over. The castle was destroyed in 1793 by French revolutionary troops.
Mette home remained until the end of the 18th century in the possession of the Counts of Wartenberg. During the so-called French period the place to Canton Bechtheim in the department of Thunder Mountain belonged. Because of the 1815 taken at the Congress of Vienna agreements concluded between 1816 and Hesse, Prussia and Austria State Treaty and thus the region Mette home came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was allocated from this province Rheinhessen. After the dissolution of Rhinehessen cantons the place came in 1835 to the recently completed Worms, to which he belonged until 1969.
The development of the population of Mette home, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Mettenheim consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
Blazon: Argent, a red upward eagle catcher.
Community partnerships
Partnerships with the community Mette 's home in Bavaria, as well as with the community Pupillin in France.
Culture and sights
Structures
2007 has been made available under the Protestant church the tomb of the Count of Wartenberg after the renovation to the public.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Mettenheim
Economy and infrastructure
About half of the agricultural land of 540 hectares are planted with vines in Mette home. The vineyards are sheltered hillside terraces of Wonnegau. 34 full -time farmers living from viticulture. Mette home is in the range Nierstein wine-growing region of Rheinhessen and performs the layer name: Michel Berg, Castle and Goldberg. On the slopes, there are still many old sunken roads which provide a special habitat for rare plants and animals.
Traffic
- In the immediate vicinity of the community the main road runs 9, Ludwigshafen, Mainz connects. Mette home has a breakpoint at the track rail line Mainz- Ludwigshafen with good connections.
Personalities
- Count Christian Carl Reinhard of Leiningen- Dagsburg (1695-1766) married on 27 November 1726 Mette home Countess Katharina Polyxena of Solms- Roedelheim ( 1702-1765 )
- Jacob Best, Sr. (1786-181); Founder of the Pabst Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin