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Eich (Verbandsgemeinde)
Eich is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district Alzey-Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Eich. The ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Eich consists of the following ''Ortsgemeinden'' ("local municipalities"): # Alsheim # Eich # Gimbsheim # Hamm am Rhein # Mettenheim It is mentioned in the Wormser wall-building ordinance from around 900 as one of the places that shared responsibility for maintaining the city wall of Worms Worms may refer to: *Worm, an invertebrate animal with a tube-like body and no limbs Places *Worms, Germany Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had ....C. Van De Kieft and J. F. Niermeyer, eds. (1967), ''Elenchus fontium historiae urbanae'' (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. 43–44. References Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate {{AlzeyWorms-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde (; plural Verbandsgemeinden) is a low-level administrative unit in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. Rhineland-Palatinate The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 163 Verbandsgemeinden, which are municipal associations grouped within the 24 districts of the state and subdivided into 2,257 Ortsgemeinden (singular Ortsgemeinde) which comprise single settlements. Most of the Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name for an administrative unit was ''Amt''. Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centrally from a larger or more central town or municipality among the group, while the individual municipalities (Ortsgemeinden) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy. Saxony-Anhalt The 11 districts of Saxony-Anhalt are divided into ''Verwaltungsgeme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alzey-Worms
Alzey-Worms () is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the district Groß-Gerau (Hesse), the city of Worms and the districts of Bad Dürkheim, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Kreuznach and Mainz-Bingen. History The territory was in Roman times part of the province of Germania Superior. The towns of Worms and Alzey go both back to Roman military camps. In medieval times the region was part of the Electorate of the Palatinate. After the French occupation (1797–1814) it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Hesse and formed a part of its province Rhenish Hesse. Two districts named Alzey and Worms were established in 1835. In the reorganisation of the districts of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969 the new district of Alzey-Worms was formed by merging parts of the former districts. Geography The district is named after the city of Worms (which is neighboring, but not belonging to the district) and the town of Alzey (which is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, Worms and Neuwied. It is bordered by North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse and by the countries France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Rhineland-Palatinate was established in 1946 after World War II, from parts of the former states of Prussia (part of its Rhineland and Nassau provinces), Hesse ( Rhenish Hesse) and Bavaria (its former outlying Palatinate kreis or district), by the French military administration in Allied-occupied Germany. Rhineland-Palatinate became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 and shared the country's only border with the Saar Protectorate until the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alsheim
Alsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. History Alsheim is mentioned in the Wormser wall-building ordinance from around 900 as one of the places that shared responsibility for maintaining the city wall of Worms.C. Van De Kieft and J. F. Niermeyer, eds. (1967), ''Elenchus fontium historiae urbanae'' (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. 43–44. Geography Location The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Eich, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. The village, along with the hamlet of Hangen-Wahlheim, lies amidst vineyards at the foot of the Rhenish-Hessian Rhine terraces between Mainz and Worms. Favoured as it is by its central location between the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and the Rhine-Neckar conurbations, Alsheim has for a long time been growing into a markedly residential community. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eich, Rhineland-Palatinate
Eich is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse, and is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Eich. It lies roughly 15 km north of Worms, and 25 km southwest of Darmstadt. History In 782, Eich had its first documentary mention. It has developed itself from a fishing village to a municipality based on agriculture that also serves as a residential community for workers in nearby cities and towns. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 20 council members who were elected 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: Mayors * 1946-1966 Rudolf Becker (SPD) * 1966-1979 Hans Ludwig Menger (FWG), Bearer of the Ring of Honour of the Municipalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimbsheim
Gimbsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse between Worms and Mainz. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Eich, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Neighbouring municipalities Gimbsheim borders in the north on the municipality of Guntersblum, in the west on the municipality of Alsheim and in the south on the municipality of Eich. In the east, the municipality of Gimbsheim is bordered by the Rhine. History Gimbsheim is believed to have been founded about 500 while the Franks were settling the land under Clovis I by a Frank named Gimmund. In the beginning, the place was called ''Gimmundheim''. Over the course of the years, the name changed in historical sources, yielding the current name ''Gimbsheim'' from ''Gimmundheim''. On 13 May 766, Gimbsheim, then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamm Am Rhein
Hamm am Rhein is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Eich, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. The municipality's special charm finds its roots in its location right on the Rhine, or rather on a sidestream called the Schadegrawe, which is cut off from the Rhine's mainstream by an island, the Wörth (this word is a local variant of the German word ''Werder'', which often means, as in this case, an island in a river; its English equivalent might be “ ait” or “ holm”). The name “Schadegrawe” is a dialectal pronunciation of the Standard High German “Scheidegraben” (“Parting Dyke”) between Hamm's and Ibersheim's municipal areas. Within the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Eich, Hamm am Rhein has the longest stretch of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mettenheim, Rhineland-Palatinate
Mettenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse between Worms and Mainz. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Eich, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Climate Yearly precipitation in Mettenheim amounts to 558 mm, which is low, falling into the lowest fourth of the precipitation chart for all Germany. Only at 12% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations are even lower figures recorded. The driest month is January. The most rainfall comes in July. In that month, precipitation is twice what it is in January. Precipitation varies moderately. At 51% of the weather stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded. History Mettenheim was mentioned as early as 873 in the '' Descriptio Wormatiensis civitatis'' as a Roman colony. It was originally held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Descriptio Wormatiensis Civitatis
The ''Descriptio Wormatiensis civitatis'' ('description of the city of Worms'), also known as the ''Wormser Mauerbauordnung'' ('wall-building ordinance of Worms'), is an ordinance from about 900 concerning the maintenance of the city wall of Worms, Germany. Manuscript and editions The ''Descriptio'', which is written in Latin, is preserved in the ''Wormser Chronik'' of . Zorn's work, which dates to 1576, combines material from several sources, including the ''Annales Wormatienses'' and the ''Chronicon Wormatiense''. The combined ''Descriptio'', ''Annales'' and ''Chronicon'' were published under the title ''Annales Wormatienses'' by G. H. Pertz. The disentangling of the medieval texts combined in Zorn's was done by .David S. Bachrach, ed. (2014), ''The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000–c. 1300: Translation and Commentary'' (Farnham: Ashgate), pp. 25–26 and 40 n44. The ''Descriptio'' has been published three times: by Pertz,G. H. Pertz, ed. (1861), "Annales W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Wall
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. From ancient to modern times, they were used to enclose settlements. Generally, these are referred to as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China, Walls of Benin, Hadrian's Wall, Anastasian Wall, and the Atlantic Wall, which extended far beyond the borders of a city and were used to enclose regions or mark territorial boundaries. In mountainous terrain, defensive walls such as '' letzis'' were used in combination with castles to seal valleys from potential attack. Beyond their defensive utility, many walls also had important symbolic functions representing the status and independence of the communities they embraced. Existing ancient walls are almost always masonry s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worms, Germany
Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 82,000 inhabitants . A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It was the capital of the Kingdom of the Burgundians in the early fifth century, hence is the scene of the medieval legends referring to this period, notably the first part of the '' Nibelungenlied''. Worms has been a Roman Catholic bishopric since at least 614, and was an important palatinate of Charlemagne. Worms Cathedral is one of the imperial cathedrals and among the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in Germany. Worms prospered in the High Middle Ages as an imperial free city. Among more than a hundred imperial diets held at Worms, the Diet of 1521 (commonly known as ''the'' Diet of Worms) ended with the Edict of Worms, in which Martin Luther was declared a heretic. Worms is also one of the historical ShUM-cities as a cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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