Assenheim is one of the two former

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

that were combined to form the municipality of

Hochdorf-Assenheim Hochdorf-Assenheim is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a member of the Dannstadt-Schauernheim collective municipality, together with Dannstadt-Schauernheim and Rödersheim-Gronau Rödersheim-Gronau ...

Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis The Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) the district-free city Worms, the district Bergstraße, district-free Mannheim, Frankenthal and Ludw ...

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 ...

, Germany. It is located in the north-eastern part of the municipality, with the Marlach river flowing through it.

History

Until the

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, Assenheim belonged to the House of Leiningen-Dagsburg. From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the

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(which became the

Napoleonic Empire The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire (; Latin: ) after 1809, also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Eur ...

in 1804), Assenheim was in the . After the

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in 1815, Assenheim initially belonged to the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire (german: link=no, Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling , ) was a Central-Eastern European multinational great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs. During its existence, ...

and then moved to the

Kingdom of Bavaria The Kingdom of Bavaria (german: Königreich Bayern; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German E ...

in 1816. From 1818 to 1862, it belonged to the . From 1886, Assenheim was part of the newly created ''Bezirksamts Ludwigshafen''. In 1928, Assenheim had 524 inhabitants, who lived in 109 households. At the time, the Catholics belonged to the parish of Hochdorf, while the Protestants belonged to that of . Since 1938 the village has been part of the Ludwigshafen district (''Landkreis Ludwigshafen''), which has been called

since 2004. After the

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, Assenheim was part of the then newly formed state of

within the

French occupation zone The French occupation zone in Germany (, ) was one of the Allied-occupied areas in Germany after World War II. Background In the aftermath of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met at the Yalta C ...

. On June 7, 1969, during the course of the Assenheim was merged with the neighboring municipality of Hochdorf to form

References

External links

Official Website of Dannstadt-Schauernheim
which contains Assenheim. Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis Former municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate {{RheinPfalzKreis-geo-stub