Dickenschied
Dickenschied | |
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Location of Dickenschied within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
Municipal assoc. | Kirchberg |
Government | |
• Mayor (2019–24) | Volker Bender-Praß[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 5.86 km2 (2.26 sq mi) |
Elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 697 |
• Density | 120/km2 (310/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 55483 |
Dialling codes | 06763 |
Vehicle registration | SIM |
Website | www |
Dickenschied is an
Geography
Location
The municipality lies on a ridge in the Hunsrück five kilometres south of Kirchberg. To the east lies the Simmerbach valley, to the west lies the Kyrbach valley and to the south looms a hill region called the Lützelsoon.
History
Prehistory and early history
The Dickenschied area was settled as early as the
Middle Ages
Although such a founding date is assumed, there is no actual document to confirm Dickenschied's existence until the one that crops up from 1186, namely a bull from Pope Urban III within the framework of a directory of holdings at the Karden Collegiate Foundation. Landholdings and rights in Dicheset were confirmed in this document. Other early spellings of the village's name were Dickesceit, Dickenszeit, Dickescheit and Dickenschiedt, until the village settled on Dickenschied in 1481. This form appeared mostly in bills of sale. Early estates were the Meisterhof, Ginemanshof and Filmanshof. These estates, and the village itself, at first belonged to the Collegiate Foundation, then later to the greater parish of Kirchberg. From the 8th to the 12th centuries, Dickenschied was under Kostenz's care. Until 1124 it belonged to the Count of Dill, and in the end it passed to the Counts of Sponheim and the Barons of Schmidtburg.
Early modern times
In the 17th century, Dickenschied sustained a great fire in 1649 during the
Early 20th century and world wars
Local developments in the 20th century were at first characterized by great infrastructural measures such as the waterworks, electricity, sewer laying and roadbuilding. Also, the outlying settlement of Scheidbachsiedlung vanished “from the face of the earth”. The
Postwar era
Since the Second World War, the village's appearance has changed somewhat with new building developments, and there have been great structural changes in working life, particularly in agriculture.[3]
In a dale southwest of the village, slate was mined at the “Auf Allern” mine until the mid-20th century. Today, it is a demonstration mine.
Vanished villages
Werschweiler
Dickenschied once had outlying settlements that now no longer exist. Werschweiler, which lay northeast of the village, had its first documentary mention in 1299: a knight named Sibido von Schmidtburg donated his holdings at Werschweiler to the Ravengiersburg Monastery. The settlement was obliged, together with Rohrbach, Kerweiler (another ghost village, this one formerly part of Kappel) and Dickenschied, to see to the maintenance of the priest who had come to live at the rectory in 1317. Werschweiler vanished in the Thirty Years' War. The bell from 1686 still bore the inscription: “Dickenschied und Werschweiler ließen mich gießen” (“Dickenschied and Werschweiler had me poured”).
Scheidbach
Even today, a street name in the village recalls the Scheidbach, a settlement at the forks of the two streams that also bear this name, about 1.5 km east of the village. The earliest attestation of this place comes from 1778, when Jakob Schein “von der Schißbach bey Dickenschied” (“from the Schißbach near Dickenschied”) asked the
Religion
By 1317, there was already a chapel in Dickenschied when the village was raised to a parishlike status called Pfarrvikarie with its own priest.
Today’s church was consecrated in 1844 as a
Dickenschied, which belongs to the Evangelical church district of Simmern-Trarbach, was where from 1934 to 1937 Paul Schneider worked as an Evangelical clergyman. He was murdered on 18 July 1939 at Buchenwald.
Today, the Evangelical and Catholic Churches each count some 340 members in Dickenschied.
Population
In 2008 the population was reported to be 739 residents .[5]
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Mayor
Dickenschied's mayor is Volker Bender-Praß.[1]
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: Schild geteilt, oben gespalten, vorne in Gold ein grünes Eichenblatt, hinten in Schwarz ein goldenes schwebendes Passionskreuz; unten blau-golden geschacht.
The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess, in chief per pale Or an oakleaf vert and sable a cross Latin of the first, and in base chequy of the first and azure.
The
Town partnerships
Dickenschied fosters partnerships with the following places:
Felsőtárkány lies near Eger. The partnership arose from the aftermath of Hurricane Wiebke, which in late February and early March 1990 wrought untold destruction in Germany. To deal with the great amount of cleaning up that lay before the authorities in the local woodlands, the Soonwald and the Lützelsoon, many workers were brought in from Sweden, Austria and Hungary, and in particular from Felsőtárkány, who were lodged in Dickenschied's holiday houses for a whole year. From the first private contacts grew a relationship that in the end turned into a partnership between the villages. There are relations between several clubs. Dickenschied also supports a music club, two kindergartens and a school in Felsőtárkány.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[7]
- Catholic Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (Kirche Vierzehn Nothelfer), Kirchstraße – Romanesque Revival aisleless church, 1842-1844
- Evangelical church, Lindenschieder Straße – Baroque Revivalquarrystone aisleless church, 1914-1918; whole complex of buildings
- Graveyard – cast-iron grave cross, Rheinböllen Ironworks, latter half of the 19th century
Economy and infrastructure
The formerly defining economic sectors of agriculture and slate mining have almost completely disappeared. Two full-time agricultural operations and seven roofing businesses, some specializing in slate roofing, are a far cry from the way things once were. All together, there are 35 businesses in the municipality.
Further reading
- Wolfgang Grabe, Herbert Piroth: Dickenschieder Buch. Chronik einer Hunsrückgemeinde 1186–1986; Dickenschied: Ortsgemeinde Dickenschied, 1986
- Albert Rosenkranz: Das Evangelische Rheinland, Band 1; Schriftenreihe des Vereins für rheinische Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 3; Düsseldorf: Kirche in der Zeit, 1956; S. 535f;
- Dieter Diether: Die Gotteshäuser im Evangelischen Kirchenkreis Simmern-Trarbach; Kirchberg (Hunsrück): Kirchenkreis Simmern-Trarbach, 1998; S. 28f
- Nanny Lambrecht: Armsünderin. Roman; Berlin: Borngräber, 19188
References
- ^ a b Direktwahlen 2019, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
- Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Dickenschied’s history Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ zitiert nach Herbert Piroth: Algemeinde Dickenschieder Geschichte; in: Dickenschieder Buch, S. 62
- ^ https://citypopulation.de/en/germany/settlements/rheinlandpfalz/rhein_hunsr%C3%BCck_kreis/07140028x0__dickenschied/
- ^ "Description and explanation of Dickenschied's arms". Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-01-09.
- ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Rhein-Hunsrück district
External links
- Municipality's official webpage Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine (in German)