Roxheim

Geography

Location

Roxheim lies on the Katzenbach north of the Nahe.

Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Roxheim's neighbours are the municipalities of Gutenberg and Hargesheim, the town of Bad Kreuznach and the municipalities of Rüdesheim an der Nahe, Mandel, Sankt Katharinen, Sommerloch and Wallhausen, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Constituent communities

Also belonging to Roxheim are the outlying homesteads of Rollars Mühle and Schauß Mühle.^[3]

History

In old documents from the 8th century, the village's name appears as Hrocchesheim (773, 781, 785, 790), Roghesheim (813) and later, in the 9th century, Rocchesheim. It contains the name Hrocus or Hroccus and is interpreted as meaning “The

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:^[7]

Mayor

Roxheim's mayor is Reinhold Bott, and his deputies are Dietrich Braun (FWG), Klaus Niemann (CDU) and Alfred Heil (SPD).^[8]

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Chequy of sixteen azure and Or, on a chief party per pale Or a bunch of grapes slipped and leafed of one gules and Or three arrows, two per saltire and the third surmounting them in pale of the first.

The bunch of grapes in dexter

Panorama of Roxheim

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:^[10]

• Evangelical parish church, Hauptstraße 24 – quire tower towards 1300, belfry floor and hip roof possibly from the 18th century, Baroque
  nave, 1738
• Saint Sebastian’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Sebastian), Hauptstraße 71 – Romanesque Revival sandstone-block building, 1869–1871, Building Master Himpler, Wallerfangen
• Hauptstraße, graveyard – warriors’ memorial 1914-1918, steles, 1920s
• Hauptstraße 69 – Catholic rectory; Late Baroque building with hip roof, 1740; Late Baroque Crucifix, marked 1788
• Obere Kirchgasse 1 – Late Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, late 18th century
• Untere Kirchgasse 2 – Evangelical rectory; Late Baroque plastered building, about 1750

Clubs

The following clubs are active in Roxheim:^[11]

• CDU Ortsverband — Christian Democratic Union of Germany local chapter
• Deutsches Rotes Kreuz — German Red Cross local chapter
• Drachen-und Gleitsegelclub Nahetal
  e.V. — hang gliding
  club
• Evangelische Zunft Von 1864 Roxheim
  Evangelical
  “guild” (see below)
• Förderverein Roxheimer Kinder und Jugend e.V. [13] — child and youth promotional association
• Freiwillige Feuerwehr
  fire brigade
• FWG Freie Wählergemeinschaft — Free Voters association
• Katholische Zunft Von Roxheim^[15] — Catholic “guild” (see below)
• MGV “Frohsinn” — men's singing club
• Musikverein Musikfreunde — music club
• “Roxemer Theäterche” — amateur theatre group
• SPD Ortsverein — Social Democratic Party of Germany local chapter
• TUS 1906 Roxheim —
  sport club
• VfL 1976 Roxheim —
  exercise
  club

The two “guilds” mentioned in the list are associations that lend aid and comfort to the bereaved at their time of loss. The Evangelical one is in fact the village's oldest club or association of any kind, having been founded, as its name suggests, in 1864. It has stood at the ready without interruption since then, making it older than the modern, united German state itself (Unification came about seven years later, in 1871).

Sport and leisure

Roxheim has a municipal

Roxheim lies at the junction of Landesstraße 237 and Kreisstraße 51. The former also meets Landesstraße 236 in the village's east end. Both this road and Kreisstraße 51 lead southwards to a common interchange onto Bundesstraße 41, leading to Bad Kreuznach’s northeast end and the Autobahn A 61 (Koblenz–Ludwigshafen) not far beyond. Landesstraße 236 also leads northwards to meet the same Autobahn at Waldlaubersheim. Serving neighbouring Bad Kreuznach is a railway station. Branching off the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken) here is the railway line to Gau Algesheim. From Bingen am Rhein, Regionalbahn trains run by way of the Alsenz Valley Railway, which branches off the Nahe Valley Railway in Bad Münster am Stein, to Kaiserslautern, reaching it in roughly 65 minutes. Running on the line to Saarbrücken and by way of Gau Algesheim and the West Rhine Railway to Mainz are Regional-Express and Regionalbahn trains. The travel time to Mainz lies between 25 and 40 minutes, and to Saarbrücken between 1 hour and 40 minutes and 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Education

Unlike many other villages, Roxheim has retained responsibility for its own

Roxheim has a grocery shop, a butcher’s shop and a bakery. There are also two inns, one of which is at a winery.^[29][30]

Winegrowing

The following wineries can be found in Roxheim:^[31]

• Weingut Heil
• Weingut Karl Weiß
• Weingut Merz
• Weingut Werner Hartmann
• Weinhaus Weingut Siegmar Weinsheimer

Notable people

• Johann Friedrich Abegg (b. 30 November 1765; d. 16 December 1840 in Heidelberg), theologian, professor in Heidelberg

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roxheim.

• Municipality’s official webpage (in German)