Wachenheim, Alzey-Worms

Home Guard is a municipality in the district Alzey- Worms in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Monsheim.

• 6.1 Agriculture
• 6.2 traffic

Geography

Home Guard is in Rheinhessen on the Pfrimm and is embedded in the valley region Zellertalstraße. The site is bordered to the west directly to the Palatinate with the neighboring Zellertalstraße, district Niefernheim on. Throughout the Zellertalstraße the federal highway attracts 47

History

Numerous archaeological finds in Pfrimmtal point out that even in prehistoric times were settlements in the climatically favorable landscape. In the districts Guard Home, Mölsheim and Monsheim evidence of a settlement from the Neolithic menhir group were found to La Tène period. 1896 small pots were found, together with a ring made ​​of baked clay in a grave in Sülzer way, which has been dated to about 2000 years BC.

Irregular grain nursery was in the summer of 1905 rise to ground excavations in the area between Harxheimer Road (national road 47) and the Pfrimm. Well-preserved foundations of a villa rustica occurred in this exercise. The excavations were documented by sketches and photographs, then the location was leveled and re-used as arable land. The terrain was built in 1972. The parallel to Haxheimer road running " Roman Road " is reminiscent of the Roman villa. In the summer of 1992 a millstone was recovered in an excavation in this area along with shards of Roman finds.

Home Guard was first mentioned on August 29, 765 in a deed of the monastery Lorsch ( Lorsch codex ). It was the seat of the " District Court on the Kaldenberg " above the town, a gaugräflichen court in Wormsgau. Bishop Burchard of Worms, the builder of the Worms Cathedral, confirmed in 1141 the brothers of Worms Andreas pin their rightful income from fields and vineyards in Home Guard, Mölsheim and Florsheim. From the 12th century the family of the Leininger rule and dish on the " Cold Mountain by home guard off the prym " exercised.

1689 Home Guard was how the whole Palatinate destroyed in the Nine Years' War.

At the baptism of Friedrich von Botzheim on November 28, 1766 King Frederick II of Prussia and Crown Prince Wilhelm were registered as godparents. The Botzheim'sche of family, at that time owner of the so-called Wachenheimer upper castle was the highest Prussian nobility and the Prussian court in relationships.

After the Congress of Vienna Home Guard came in 1816 with the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the westerly neighboring communities in Zellertalstraße ( Niefernheim, Harxheim and cell ) are assigned to the Kingdom of Bavaria. 1919 Home Guard part of the People's State of Hesse ( province Rheinhessen ), the western part of the Zellertales is associated with the Palatinate province of Bavaria. Even after the formation of the state of Rhineland -Palatinate in 1946, the Zeller between the administrative district of Rheinhessen and the District of Palatinate remained divided. To date, Home Guard belongs to the district Alzey- Worms, while the western Zellertalstraße located in the Thunder Mountain district.

Home Guard currently

Reported by developed in the years 1999-2003 development areas " in the creek Staden, " Harxheimer way " and still some vacant lots in the older development area " Mühlbrunnen ", 1968-1970, is expected in the coming years with a slight increase in population yet. Through the convenient location guard home, on the one hand the leadership of the B 47 through the village and on the other by the proximity to the Federal highway 61 near Worms Worms Pfeddersheim or at Mörstadt guard home is within easy reach. to the district town Alzey is 16 kilometers to the city of the neighboring Donnerberg circle Kirchheimbolanden also 16 km and the center of the Nibelungen and Luther Worms 17 km.

In the east adjacent Monsheim, the seat of the municipal administration of the same name, the federal road crosses 47 by the federal highway 271 which is from Bockenheim called in its course German Wine Route.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Home Guard consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Mayor

Coat of arms and flag

In Wachenheimer local coat of arms in gold three black quail.

The crest is modeled on the local aristocratic families of the Druschel of Home Guard. Three birds, black in golden field come as early as 1280 before on the coat of arms of guard Druschel home. But here it is in reference to the name " Druschel " reactors, which later were quails. The " Druschel of home guard " were a long-established race that has died out later. The origin of the name Wachenheim is associated with these birds. Home Guard is first mentioned as 765 Wacchanheim documented.

In the approval of the local flag by the district government Rheinhessen-Pfalz on June 6, 1990, the flag is described as follows: " The flag is divided by yellow and black and yellow, black and yellow four times in the ratio 1:1:1:1:1 or divided, in the coat of arms is described as follows: In three black gold quail 2:1 ".

Dialect

The language spoken in Wachenheim represents the Rheinhessen with strong strikes the Palatine represents the dialect of a guard -heimer and a resident of Palatine neighboring town Niefernheim to distinguish this is certainly possible, although the two places are just slightly more than a kilometer apart.

Economy and infrastructure

Agriculture

Home Guard is still a classic wine village with five full purchase wineries and four sideline wineries. In addition, there are seven agricultural full-time farms with mixed structure as well as a main acquisition operation settled with pure agriculture. The entire field of management extends to 311 hectares, on the wine which accounts for 80 hectares.

The inhabitants are predominantly home guard to make a living activities in space and Worms in the Rhine -Neckar and the Rhine- Main area.

Traffic

The former train station is three kilometers west from the railway junction Monsheim, the lines Worms- Alzey and Monsheim Green city -Neustadt. The " Zeller Valley Railway" ( Monsheim Guard Home Langmeil - Kaiserslautern) eV been used since 2006 in the summer months on Sundays and public holidays from the Patrons Eistalbahn after the regular service was discontinued in the 1970s.

Home Guard is the eastern entrance to Zellertalstraße and is crossed by the busy state road 47 in the local area to 1.5 kilometers. 2006 is amplified been working on the part of local and community association for calm through traffic with competent over local authorities. According to traffic counts in 2005, the B 47 is driven on at the field station home on average 24 hours of currently around 7,000 vehicles.