Rümmelsheim
Rümmelsheim | |
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Coordinates: 49°56′04″N 07°51′43″E / 49.93444°N 7.86194°E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
District | Bad Kreuznach |
Municipal assoc. | Langenlonsheim-Stromberg |
Subdivisions | 2 |
Government | |
• Mayor (2019–24) | Hartmut Merkelbach[1] (FW) |
Area | |
• Total | 3.08 km2 (1.19 sq mi) |
Elevation | 180 m (590 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 1,366 |
• Density | 440/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 55452 |
Dialling codes | 06721 |
Vehicle registration | KH |
Website | www.ruemmelsheim-burg-layen.de |
Rümmelsheim is an
Geography
Location
Rümmelsheim lies southwest of Bingen am Rhein and north-northwest of Bad Kreuznach in the Trollbach valley, west of the Nahe, just upstream from where it empties into the Rhine. The Trollbach itself flows through the village.
Neighbouring municipalities
Clockwise from the north, Rümmelsheim's neighbours are the municipalities of Münster-Sarmsheim, Dorsheim, Waldlaubersheim and Waldalgesheim, the first and last of which lie in the neighbouring Mainz-Bingen district, while the other two likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district. Rümmelsheim (Bad Kreuznach district) also comes within several metres of Langenlonsheim, but does not actually touch it, while the village of Weiler bei Bingen (Mainz-Bingen district) lies roughly as far away to the north as the village of Münster-Sarmsheim does to the northeast, but Münster-Sarmsheim's municipal area lies between the two.
Constituent communities
Rümmelsheim's
History
Rümmelsheim and Burg Layen have been bound to each other throughout the ages. In 1125, Rümmelsheim had its first documentary mention as Rimilisheim. Rimilisheim and the castro Leiga ("fortified house of Layen") then belonged, together with
Jewish history
Rümmelsheim had a
- From Rümmelsheim:
- Hedwig Eis née Stern (1879)
- Lina Goldschmidt née Stern (1888)
- Eugenie Marx née Marx (1881)
- Leo Marx (1886)
- Heinrich Stern (1888)
- Rudolf Stern (1876)
- Bertha Wetzler née Stern (1875)
- Selma Zacharias née Grünewald (1888)
- From Waldalgesheim:
- Isabella Kaufmann née Stern (1881)
- Dina Müller née Stern (1870)
- August Adolf Stern (1877)
- Julius Stern (1883)
- From Weiler bei Bingen:
- Simon Berg (1869)
- Isabella Kahn née Berg (1898)
- Luisa Kann née Berg (1864)
- Lilly Löwenthal née Berg (1902)
Population development
Rümmelsheim's population development since Napoleonic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:[6]
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Religion
As at 31 January 2014, there are 1,376 full-time residents in Rümmelsheim, and of those, 343 are
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[8]
SPD | CDU | FWG | Total | |
2009 | – | 6 | 10 | 16 seats |
2004 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 16 seats |
Mayor
Rümmelsheim's mayor is Hartmut Merkelbach.[1]
Coat of arms
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per pale Or a cross Patriarchal mounted on one degree azure and sable in chief a chevron argent under which a bunch of grapes slipped of the first.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:[9]
Rümmelsheim (main centre)
- , about 1900
- Saint Lawrence's Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Laurentius), Hauptstraße – aisleless church, essentially Classicist, 1834, Baroque Revival transept with west tower, 1919/1929, architect Peter Marx, Trier
- Flurstraße 1 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, possibly from the 17th century
- Hauptstraße – warriors' memorial 1914–1918; cast-stone sarcophagus, lower structure with fountain, 1920s, expanded after 1945
- Hauptstraße 11 – town hall, former school; Baroque Revival plastered building, hipped mansard roof, marked 1911
- Hauptstraße 15 – Late Baroque timber-frame house, plastered, possibly from the late 18th century
- Hauptstraße 23 – estate complex; timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1832, commercial building, partly timber-frame
- Oberstraße 32 – Catholic rectory; cube-shaped building with hip roof; Bauhaus, Neoclassical and Heimatstil motifs, 1931
- Lookout tower; quarrystone building, 1909/1910
- Jewish graveyard, "Auf dem Horet" (monumental zone)[10] – opened before 1808 (?), six gravestones, from 1848 to the 20th century (see Jewish graveyard below)
Burg Layen
- Burg-Layen, Burg-Layer Straße – about 1200; Romanesque keep, bits of ringwall, small round tower, gable wall of a house, 16th century; no. 16: Late Gothic lintel marked 1534, way into cellar marked 1530
- Village core (monumental zone),[10] Burg-Layer Straße 1–8 – historic central area with wineries, 18th century to earlier half of the 20th century
- Burg-Layer Straße 3 – estate complex; house with hipped mansard roof, marked 1732, alterations in the 19th century
- At Burg-Layer Straße 15 – spolia, Baroque relief, 18th century
Synagogue
In Rümmelsheim, the synagogue is believed to have been built in 1808, although by 1848 it had fallen into a very poor state. According to Waldalgesheim's then mayor, the house of worship was a "cabin on the point of falling down". This might also have been why the Jews living in Waldalgesheim began attending synagogue in Schweppenhausen and those living in Weiler bei Bingen began attending synagogue in Bingen. In 1852, the Rümmelsheim synagogue was renovated. It was closed permanently no later than the time when the Rümmelsheim Jewish community was dissolved in 1906. In the 1920s, after the lasst Jews had left Rümmelsheim, Moritz Marx (formerly living in Rümmelsheim, now in Bingen) worried about the synagogue, which had now been left to go to ruin. It became a storehouse for equipment, automotive supplies and chemical fertilizers, and was falling ever further into disrepair. In August 1928, Bingen lawyer Richard Strauss acquired trusteeship over the former Rümmelsheim synagogue community's property. In March 1929, he arranged the synagogue's sale, which was completed in December 1930. In 1931, the former synagogue building was torn down. Its location was the street An der Bach (a name that no longer appears on maps).[11]
Jewish graveyard
Rümmelsheim's Jewish graveyard was laid out no later than 1808. Laid to rest here were not only Jewish inhabitants from Rümmelsheim but also those from Waldalgesheim. Only six gravestones, in varying states of preservation, still stand at the graveyard. Of these, only one is still fully legible (the stone for Wolfgang Stern, 1844–1913). The graveyard's area is 975 m2 spread over two parcels of 790 m2 and 185 m2. The graveyard lands were not sold off in the time of the Third Reich. Even in 1958, the Rümmelsheim cadastral register still listed the Rümmelsheim synagogue community, which had ceased to exist more than half a century earlier, as the owner of those parcels. The graveyard lies 2 km northwest of the village in the woodland known as Horet, not far from the Waldlaubersheim Jewish graveyard.[12]
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Running through Rümmelsheim's southern outskirts is the
Winegrowing
Rümmelsheim belongs to the Nahetal Winegrowing Area within the
- Gutsausschank Weinheimer Hof*
- Höfer's Weingarten und Burgkeller*
- Schloßgut Armin Diel
- St. Barbarahof*
- Weingut Georg Forster
- Weingut Helmut und Michael Eckes
- Weingut Hof Breitenstein
- Weingut Johann Baptist Schäfer
- Weingut Michael Schäfer
- Weingut Otto Schäfer
- Weingut Schloßmühle Dr. Höfer
- Weingut Weinheimer Hof
- Weingut Winfried Finkenauer
Established businesses
Winegrowing is the municipality's foremost income earner, and besides that, there are some smaller businesses, mostly in the service sector. Rümmelsheim's outlying centre of Burg Layen is also home to WIV Wein International, a wine marketing company, whose turnover in 2012 was €540,600,000.[14]
Education
Rümmelsheim has an all-day
Famous people
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jakob Diel (1886–1969), German politician and winemaker, operator of Burg Layen
References
- ^ a b Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
- Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Amtliches Verzeichnis der Gemeinden und Gemeindeteile Archived 2015-11-25 at the Wayback Machine, Seite 15 (PDF; 2,3 MB)
- ^ History
- ^ Jewish history
- ^ a b Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
- ^ Religion
- ^ Der Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz: Kommunalwahl 2009, Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen
- ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Bad Kreuznach district
- ^ a b Landkreis Bad Kreuznach: Inhaltsverzeichnis des Kreisrechtes Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today, retrieved 31 October 2011.
- ^ Synagogue
- ^ Jewish graveyard
- ^ Winegrowing
- ^ WIV Wein International
External links
- Official website (in German)