Langenlonsheim is an ''

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'' – a

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belonging to a ''

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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the

Bad Kreuznach Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach (district), Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke (Bad Kreuznach), Alte Nahebrücke, ...

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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde''

Langenlonsheim-Stromberg Langenlonsheim-Stromberg is a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the Bad Kreuznach (district), district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' is in Langenlonsheim. It was formed on 1 ...

, and is also its seat. Langenlonsheim is a state-recognized

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village.

Geography

Location

Langenlonsheim lies between the southern edge of the

Hunsrück The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced mountain range, upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle (river), Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued ...

and the Nahe. Lying 7 km away is the district seat,

, while

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lies just under 10 km away. On the municipality's western outskirts, the Guldenbach flows by, while the Nahe flows by to the south. Langenlonsheim is well known for its good

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s and

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and its ''Qualitätsweine''. Fertile

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soils and the region's warm

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have been defining factors for the village.

Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Langenlonsheim's neighbours are the municipalities of Laubenheim, Grolsheim, Gensingen,

Bretzenheim Bretzenheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Langenlonsheim- ...

Guldental Guldental is an ''Ortsgemeinde (Germany), Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach (district), Bad Kreuznach Districts of Germany, d ...

, Windesheim, Waldlaubersheim and Dorsheim. Grolsheim and Gensingen both lie in the neighbouring

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district, whereas all the others likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district. Langenlonsheim also comes to within a few metres of two other neighbours: the municipality of

Rümmelsheim Rümmelsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Langenlonsheim- ...

in the northwest and the town of

in the southeast.

Constituent communities

Also belonging to Langenlonsheim is the outlying homestead of Forsthaus Langenlonsheim.

History

Even as long ago as

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times, there was

in what is now Langenlonsheim. In 769, Langenlonsheim had its first documentary mention as ''Longistisheim''. Over its long history, the village changed owners many times. Under

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rule, Langenlonsheim became the seat of a ''mairie'' ("mayoralty") in 1800, to which five municipalities belonged. This arrangement persisted even after the French were driven out and the region was assigned under the terms of the

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to the

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in 1815, although it was thereafter known as a ''Bürgermeisterei'' (also "mayoralty"). In those days, the population was still very much engaged in

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

as its main income earner.

Jewish history

Langenlonsheim had a

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ish community until sometime between 1938 and 1942. It arose sometime in the 17th or 18th century. The earliest mention of a Jewish family in the village – named Benedict – comes from 1685. In 1695 a Wendel Judt was named. In 1722, two Jewish families were named (Jud Benedict and Mayer), while in 1743 it was four (Hayum Benedict, Götz Benedict, Juda Kahn and Meyer). In 1790, the following Jewish household heads were named: Hayum Benedict (

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), Joseph Benedict, Nadan Benedict Maier, Gottschlag Jude, Benedict Joseph, Sükkind Juda, David Götz and Benedict Nadan. In the 19th century, the number of Jewish inhabitants developed as follows: in 1808 there were 45; in 1843, there were 42 (of all together 1,236 inhabitants); in 1858, 73; in 1895, 70. In 1808, the following Jewish families were listed (the names given in brackets were those borne after

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rule ended): Israel Brill, Benoît (Benedict) Goetz, Gottschalk Kahn, Widow (?) Rebekka Kuhn, Widow (of Joseph Kaufmann) Schoene Kaufmann ''née'' Kuhn, Benoît (Benedict) Natt, Mayer Natt, Jacques (Jakob) Scheier (Scheuer), Moses Schweiss (Schweig), Widow Judith Stern, Seeligmann Stern. In the way of institutions, there were a

synagogue A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as wed ...

(see Synagogue below), a Jewish school (a schoolroom at the synagogue), a

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and a graveyard (see Jewish graveyard below). To provide for the community's religious needs, a schoolteacher was hired, who also busied himself as the

hazzan A ''hazzan'' (; , lit. Hazan) or ''chazzan'' (, plural ; ; ) is a Jewish musician or precentor trained in the vocal arts who leads the congregation in songful prayer. In English, this prayer leader is often referred to as a cantor, a term al ...

and the

shochet In Judaism, ''shechita'' (anglicized: ; ; ; also transliterated ''shehitah, shechitah, shehita'') is ritual slaughtering of certain mammals and birds for food according to ''kashrut''. One who practices this, a kosher butcher is called a ''sho ...

(preserved is a whole series of job advertisements for such a position in Langenlonsheim from such publications as '' Der Israelit''). Among the religion teachers were, about 1855 David Cahn from

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, in 1857 Heinrich Hirschfeld from

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, in 1861 Julius Kappel (or Koppel) and in 1893 Michael Boreich. The Jewish household heads were active in various occupations, foremost in trading. There were several businesses and shops in Langenlonsheim belonging to Jewish families (businesses with domestic products and

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, several wine dealer's shops, men's and women's clothing and bedding shops as well as

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and

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dealerships). There were also Jewish

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s and

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s. The Jewish inhabitants were fully integrated into village life and played a lively part in public life and in the village's clubs, even as club founders and chairmen: Heinrich Natt and Siegmund Hirschberger were founding members in 1887 of the ''Verein für Leibesübungen 1887 Langenlonsheim e.V.'' (a club for physical exercise), while Siegmund Heymann, Siegmund Hirschberger, Carl Mayer and Emil Natt were, among other such endeavours, founding members in 1902 of the Langenlonsheim volunteer

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. Two members of Langenlonsheim's Jewish community fell in the

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, ''

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'' Sally Natt (b. 7 July 1889 in Langenlonsheim, d. 26 September 1914) and ''

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'' Arthur Metzger (b. 6 November 1883 in Langenlonsheim, d. May 1915). Both names appear on the monument to the fallen in the First World War that stands before the general graveyard. All together, fourteen Jewish men were in wartime service; several came back highly decorated. About 1924, when there were still some 50 persons in the Jewish community (2.5% of the total population of some 2,000 inhabitants), the community leaders were Ludwig Mayer and Fritz Natt. Then living in each of

and Laubenheim were seven Jews. In 1932, the community leader was Carl Mayer. Tending the community's religious needs was

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Dr. Jacob (

). About 1930, the following families were living in Langenlonsheim: Karl Mayer (wine dealer, Bingerstraße 2), Rudolf Mayer (men's and women's clothing, bedding and manufactured goods, Bingerstraße 11), Ludwig Mayer (livestock dealer, Hauptstraße 52), Fritz Natt (wine dealer, Hollergasse 28/corner of Weidenstraße), Moritz Weiss (butcher and livestock and wine dealer, Hauptstraße 24), Siegmund Heymann (domestic products, Hauptstraße 39), Carl Nachmann (wine and grain dealer, Hauptstraße 35), August Weiss (livestock dealer, Schulstraße 12), Gustav Kahn (

plumber A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, hot-water production, sewage and drainage in plumbing systems.

, Hollergasse 20) and the Family Blank (religion teacher, Kreuznacher Straße). After 1933 (Langenlonsheim's Jewish population that year was 40), the year when

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and the

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seized power, though, some of the Jews moved away or even

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in the face of the

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ing of their businesses, the progressive stripping of their rights and repression, all brought about by the Nazis. In the 1939 Bad Kreuznach book of inhabitants (presumably presenting 1938 figures), five Jewish families are still listed: Karl Mayer, Rudolf Mayer, Fritz Natt, August Weiss and Moritz Weiss. On

Kristallnacht ( ) or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilia ...

(9–10 November 1938), the

was utterly demolished by

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brigands from within Langenlonsheim and without. The families of Fritz Natt, Karl Mayer, Karl Nachmann and Moritz Weiss had their houses invaded and destroyed as living spaces. Several Jews were mishandled and more than slightly injured. The Jewish men were taken away to

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. After the first deportation on 10 April 1942, Langenlonsheim's last two Jewish inhabitants, August Weiss and his wife Isabella Weiss ''née'' Furchheimer, were deported on 25 April 1942. According to the '' Gedenkbuch – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945'' ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under National Socialist Tyranny") and

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, of all Jews who either were born in Langenlonsheim or lived there for a long time, 50 were killed through Nazi persecution (birthdates in brackets): # Henriette Arnstein ''née'' Mayer (1866) # Selma Baumgarten ''née'' Kahn (1888) # Anny Blank (1895) # Lili Brück ''née'' Natt (1892) # Lotte Brück (1922) # Berthold Cahn (1871) # Else (Elsa) Groß ''née'' Mayer (1895) # Paul Groß (1883) # Hilde Hallgarten ''née'' Simon (1895) # Rosalie Herz ''née'' Mayer (1868) # Siegfried Hirschberger (1870) # Paula (Paulina) Jakobi ''née'' Natt (1876) # Elise Kahn ''née'' Natt (1862) # Gustav Kahn (1885) # Henriette Johanna Kahn ''née'' Weiss (1889) # Henriette Marx ''née'' Natt (1854) # Toni (Antoni) Marx ''née'' Weiß (1876) # Emilie Mayer (1883) # Erich Mayer (1888) # Fritz Mayer (1888) # Ida Mayer ''née'' Marx (1890) # Johanna Mayer ''née'' Heymann (1872) # Leiselotte Mayer (1910) # Ludwig Mayer (1864) # Richard Mayer (1922) # Rudolf Mayer (1885) # Jakob Nachmann (1880) # Isidor Natt (1871) # Paulina Natt (1876) # Rudolf Natt (1879) # Franziska Neuburger ''née'' Natt (1879) # Elisabeth Gertrud Schneider (1897) # Irma Schwarz ''née'' Nachmann (1900) # Regina Schweig ''née'' Natt (1870) # Selma Weil (1896) # Wilhelm Weil (1882) # August Weiss (1878) # Elisabetha Weiss ''née'' Michel (1883) # Else Weiss ''née'' Dornhardt (1914) # Isabella Weiss ''née'' Furchheimer (1878) # Klara Weiss (1885) # Kurt Weiss (1913) # Lina (Karoline) Weiss (1874) # Ludwig Weiss (1873) # Max Weiß (1887) # Max Weiss (1909) # Moritz Weiss (1880) # Sally Weiß (1908) # Sigmund Weiss (1882) # Helene Windecker ''née'' Weiss (1894) On 1 September 2011,

Gunter Demnig Gunter Demnig (born 27 October 1947) is a German artist. He is best known for his ''Stolperstein'' ("stumbling block") memorials to the victims of Nazi persecution, including Jews, homosexuals, Romani people, Romani and the disabled. The project ...

came to Langenlonsheim and laid 12 of his ''

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e'' in memory of Jews from Langenlonsheim who were

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ed in

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Population development

Langenlonsheim's population development since

ic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:

Religion

Langenlonsheim has both an

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and a

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church community. There was formerly also an important

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community before the

destroyed it. The first place of worship built in Langenlonsheim was

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's Church (''Sankt-Nikolaus-Kirche''), built about 1200, which was later mentioned as Saint John's Church (''Sankt-Johannes-Kirche'') about 1475. In 1504, in the

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, and again in 1540 when the village burnt, the

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...

was damaged. In 1588, a new church was built to serve as the Evangelical parish church. New

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(1777) and

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(1868) remodellings followed. The second place of worship built in Langenlonsheim was the

, built about 1860, which was destroyed on

(9–10 November 1938); its ruins were removed in 1958. The most recent house of worship built in Langenlonsheim has been the Catholic church,

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's Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer''), built in 1907 and 1908. As at 30 September 2013, there are 3,767 full-time residents in Langenlonsheim, and of those, 1,345 are

(35.705%), 1,305 are

(34.643%), 4 are

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(0.106%), 1 is

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(0.027%), 1 is

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(0.027%), 305 (8.097%) belong to other religious groups and 806 (21.396%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 20 council members, who were elected by personalized

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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:

Mayor

Langenlonsheim's mayor is Bernhard Wolf.

Coat of arms

The municipality's

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might be described thus: Sable a fess countercompony azure and Or between five bunches of grapes reversed slipped of the last, three and two. The composition of Langenlonsheim's arms is based on old 15th-century village seals. The fess countercompony (horizontal stripe with the two-row chequered pattern) was inspired by the arms formerly borne by the

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, who held the area for many centuries. Their arms were actually a whole shield covered in this pattern. The fess stands between five charges, each one a

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. These symbolize

's importance to Langenlonsheim. The

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sable and Or (black and gold) were inspired by the Palatinate's traditional arms. The arms have been borne since 1938.

Town partnerships

Langenlonsheim fosters partnerships with the following places: *

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since 1986

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in

's Directory of Cultural Monuments: Kath-Kirche-Langenlonsheim

parish

, Naheweinstraße 96 – Late Gothic quire, about 1500, vestry, 1588, partly Romanesque; Late Baroque

aisleless church An aisleless church () is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways on either side of the nave and separated from the nave by col ...

, 1777,

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lengthening, 1867/1868, District Master Builder Conradi,

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Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer''), Untere Grabenstraße – Late Gothic Revival aisleless church, 1907/1908, architect Josef Kleesattel,

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* Friedhofstraße, graveyard – graveyard gate, Classicist, mid 19th century; M. Eich tomb, Neoclassical

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with

relief Relief is a sculpture, sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''wikt:relief, relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give ...

, about 1924; Pies tomb, Historicized stele, about 1868/1872; Sara Muff tomb, stele with antique design, about 1862; Joh. Nic. Lorenz tomb, Gothicized stele, about 1861; M. Lorenz tomb, Stele crowned with an urn in a fenced-in complex, about 1900 * Heddesheimer Straße – warriors' memorial 1914-1918,

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

cube, about 1930 * Heddesheimer Straße, graveyard – Family Müller (hereditary estate, Tesch) tombs: in a small complex, about 1865 and 1928; M. Müller tomb, Late Classicist grave column * Heumarkt 11 – three-sided estate;

timber-frame Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the struc ...

house, partly solid, 18th or early 19th century * Hintergasse 21 – one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, 16th century (?) * Hintergasse 22 – estate complex; one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, essentially from the 18th century, brickwork about 1900 * Naheweinstraße 9 – former ''Mühle Kloninger'' (mill); four-wing complex, red-

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

-block buildings, early to latter half of the 19th century * Naheweinstraße 90 – Baroque building with half-hip roof, timber framing plastered and slated, possibly from the earlier half of the 18th century * Naheweinstraße 97 – Closheim winery; Historicized brick building, marked 1867 * Naheweinstraße 101 – former ''Gasthaus "Zum Hohenzollern"'' (

inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway. Before the advent of motorized transportation, they also provided accomm ...

); Late Classicist house, about 1860/1870 * Naheweinstraße 109 – estate complex; plastered timber-frame house, 18th or early 19th century * Naheweinstraße 109 – Baroque timber-frame house, plastered, possibly from the 18th century * Naheweinstraße 112 – shophouse; timber-frame about 1700 * Naheweinstraße 115 – estate complex; Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century * Naheweinstraße 122 – estate complex; timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1585 * Naheweinstraße 130 – three-sided estate; gateway arch marked 1711; Baroque building with half-hip roof, timber framing plastered and slated, marked 1843; Baroque side building, partly timber-frame * Naheweinstraße 131 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially possibly from the 18th century * Naheweinstraße 133 – three-sided estate; Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century * Naheweinstraße 137 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, about 1700, gateway arch marked 1712 * Naheweinstraße 142 – Evangelical rectory; stately Late Classicist façade, about 1840/1850 * Naheweinstraße 143 – timber-frame house with access balcony, possibly from the 17th century * Naheweinstraße 169 – estate complex; timber-frame house, partly solid, earlier half of the 19th century * Naheweinstraße 195 – Höhn-Zimmermann winery; one-and-a-half-floor brick

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, mixed forms Late Classicist/

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, latter half of the 19th century; winepress marked 1797 * Naheweinstraße 209 – former winery (?); long

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plastered façade, about 1880/1890 * Naheweinstraße 131–147 (monumental zone) – closed building structure with one- and two-floor houses, partly timber-frame or

clinker brick Clinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings. Clinker bricks are produced when wet clay bricks are exposed to excessive heat during the firing process, sintering the surface of the brick and forming a shi ...

façades *

graveyard (monumental zone) – area with 46 gravestones from 1868/1869 to 1938 (see also below)

Jewish graveyard

Records bear witness to the

graveyard in Langenlonsheim as far back as 1742. The graveyard's area comprises 2 521 m², and this is bordered by a wooden fence. Striking is the more lavish and bigger gravesite of the wine-dealing family Natt. The last burial at the graveyard took place in May 1938 (Regina Kahn ''née'' Sommer, d. 5 May 1938). Preserved here are 45 gravestones, some of which are heavily weathered or now only partially readable. All that is left of several is the pedestal. The graveyard lies in part of the Langenlonsheim forest rather far from the village itself (rural cadastral name "In den Judenkirchhofschlägen"). Not far off, but bordering both the forest and

s, lie the Waldhilbersheim (roughly 30 m away) and Windesheim (roughly 500 m away) Jewish graveyards.

Synagogue

At first, there was a prayer room available to Langenlonsheim's

residents in one of the community's houses. One such place was mentioned in 1823. Beginning in the 1840s, the village's Jews wanted to build themselves a

, and in 1856, Samuel Weiss managed to acquire a plot on Hintergasse (a lane) for just such a thing. It is believed that the synagogue was built about 1860, for the building is shown in the 1863 cadastral plan. It was a simple plastered building built out of brick and quarrystone. There was seating inside for roughly 50 worshippers, and there was a women's gallery. For some 70 years, the synagogue was the hub of Jewish life in Langenlonsheim. On

(9–10 November 1938), the synagogue was overrun by

thugs from within Langenlonsheim and without. Doors, windows and the indoor furnishings (pews, the bimah, cabinets, tables, chairs, the ark and so on) were broken up, the floor was torn out and the walls were damaged. The Judaica, including three

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scrolls, three sets of

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ceremonial jewellery, two silver candlesticks, an eternal lamp, a menorah and more were destroyed or stolen. On 24 April 1940, Rudolf Mayer, a Jew still living in Langenlonsheim, was forced to sell the synagogue for only 427.50

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to a non-Jewish private citizen as the Jewish community found itself undergoing dissolution. In 1950, the sale was annulled, whereupon there was a change in ownership. In 1958, the synagogue building was torn down. Another building was built on the plot. The synagogue stood where the building whose address is Hintergasse 30 now stands.

Regular events

Once each year, Langenlonsheim holds a wine festival and a

kermis Kermesse, or kermis, or kirmess, is an outdoor fair or festival usually organized for charitable purposes. The term was derived from 'kerk' (church) and 'mis' (mass) in the original Dutch language term, and was borrowed in English, French, Spa ...

(church consecration festival).

Sport and leisure

Found in Langenlonsheim are an outdoor

swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable Human swimming, swimming and associated activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built abo ...

, a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

pitch and an

aerodrome An aerodrome, airfield, or airstrip is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use. Aerodromes inc ...

. This last facility, the ''Flugplatz Langenlonsheim'', offers opportunities for

gliding Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sports, air sport in which pilots fly glider aircraft, unpowered aircraft known as Glider (sailplane), gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmospher ...

, motorized flight and

balloon A balloon is a flexible membrane bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, or air. For special purposes, balloons can be filled with smoke, liquid water, granular media (e.g. sand, flour or rice), ...

flight. The ''Verein Aero-Club Rhein-Nahe'', which operates out of the aerodrome, is

's second biggest

flying club A flying club or aero club is a non-profit organization, not-for-profit, member-run organization that provides its members with affordable access to aircraft. Many clubs also provide flight training, flight planning facilities, pilot supplies and ...

and had 274 members in 2010. It arose from a merger of two former flying clubs in 2008, the ''Flugsportverein Bad Kreuznach'' and the ''Aero-Club Bingen-Langenlonsheim''. In 2007, the

wrestling Wrestling is a martial art, combat sport, and form of entertainment that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset. Wrestling involves di ...

club ''Langenlonsheimer SC'' merged with the football club from Laubenheim to form ''TSV Langenlonsheim/Laubenheim'' ("TSV" stands for ''Turn- und Sportverein'' –

gymnastic Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sho ...

and

sport club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

). There are also a fitness path (called the ''Trimm-Dich-Pfad'' – the "Trim-Yourself Path") and a

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facility, which were restored in 2006 and furnished with new equipment.

Clubs

The following clubs are active in Langenlonsheim: *''Aero-Club Rhein-Nahe e.V.'' —

*''Angelsportverein Langenlonsheim/Laubenheim'' —

angling Angling (from Old English ''angol'', meaning "hook") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated with a fishing rod, although rodless te ...

club *''Bauern- und Winzerverband'' — farmers' and winegrowers' association *''BdP Pfadfinder-Förderkreis'' — scout/guide promotional association *''DRK Ortsverband Langenlonsheim'' —

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, local chapter *''Evangelische Frauenhilfe'' —

women's aid *''Evangelischer Kirchenchor'' — Evangelical church

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*''Evangelische Kirchengemeinde'' — Evangelical church community *''Förderverein Kita Schatzkiste Langenlonsheim'' — daycare centre promotional association *''Förderverein Regionale Schule im Nahetal e.V.'' — Regionale Schule promotional association *''Förderverein Seniorenzentrum der VG Lalo e.V.'' — seniors' centre promotional association *''Förderverein St. Johannes der Täufer Langenlonsheim-Laubenheim e.V.'' — Saint John the Baptist's promotional association *''Freiwillige Feuerwehr Langenlonsheim 1902'' — volunteer

*''Freizeitmaler'' — leisure painters *''Freunde und Förderer der Grundschule e.V.'' —

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promotional association *''Freundeskreis des evangelischen Kindergartens'' — Evangelical kindergarten promotional association *''Gemischter Chor des KMGV 1877 e.V. Langenlonsheim'' — ''Kölner Männer-Gesang-Verein'' mixed choir *''Hilfe für Tschernobyl e.V. Langenlonsheim'' — aid for

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*''Karnevalfreunde'' —

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( ''Fastnacht'') club *''Katholischer Kirchenchor "Cäcilia"'' —

church choir *''Katholische Kirchengemeinde'' — Catholic church community *''Landfrauenverein'' — countrywomen's club *''Musikverein 1921 e.V.'' — music club *''Partnerschaftskreis Langenlonsheim-Potton'' — Langenlonsheim-Potton partnership circle *''Pierothchor'' — choir *''Sängervereinigung'' — singers' association *''Schützenverein 1963 e.V.'' —

shooting sport Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such ...

club *''Tani Projekt - Zukunft für Kinder in Kambodscha e.V.'' — *''Tennis-Club-Rot-Weiß'' *''TSV Langenlonsheim/Laubenheim'' —

and

*''TV Langenlonsheim 1994 e.V.'' — gymnastic club *''VdK Bretzenheim und Umgebung'' — social advocacy group local chapter (Bretzenheim and area) *''Volksbildungswerk Langenlonsheim'' — "people's education" *''Wanderfreunde Untere Nahe e.V.'' —

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club There is also an association of the village's clubs (''Ortsvereinsring'').

Economy and infrastructure

Economic structure

Over the years, an industrial park with firms in various fields has arisen. These include dye and lacquer production, above- and below-ground construction, wine bottling and processing, car dealerships, garden centres, fitter's shops, storage facilities and shipping companies.

Winegrowing

Langenlonsheim is considerably characterized by

and with 187 ha of planted

s is the Nahe wine region's biggest winegrowing centre after

and Wallhausen. Langenlonsheim's website lists three wineries in the village. The village has also had three local ladies chosen as Wine Queen or Wine Princess: Carolin Klumb (Nahe Wine Queen 2011/2012), Maren Müller (Nahe Wine Princess 2005/2006) and Judith Honrath (Nahe Wine Queen 2001/2002 and German Wine Queen 2002/2003)."Wine Majesties"

Transport

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'' 48 runs straight through the village, while the

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A 61 (

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–

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) is roughly 5 km away. Langenlonsheim can be reached by rail on the

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( Bingen–

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). Currently, no other

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

serves Langenlonsheim station, although the now disused ''

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'' once served the village, too. There is, however, talk of reactivating this railway as a quick transport link for

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, a former

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military facility,

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, most of whose military functions ceased on 30 September 1993. Until 1 December 1938, a

tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

way ran from

Kornmarkt to Langenlonsheim

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

. The so-called ''Elektrisch'' ran in the early days (1911) as many as 20 times each day. At the former Kloningersmühle stop (on Langenlonsheim's outskirts), travellers from the

could ride straight to Bad Kreuznach. Owing to shrinking ridership after the

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, the tram had to give way to the bus. The tracks and overhead wiring were removed.

Education

Scholastic endeavours are undertaken by the ''Grundschule Langenlonsheim'' (

) and the '' Realschule plus im Nahetal Langenlonsheim'', where students can earn either the

Hauptschule A ''Hauptschule'' (, "general school") is a secondary school in Germany, starting after four years of elementary schooling (''Grundschule''), which offers Lower Secondary Education (Level 2) according to the International Standard Classification ...

or the

Realschule Real school (, ) is a type of secondary school in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It has also existed in Croatia (''realna gimnazija''), the Austrian Empire, the German Empire, Denmark and Norway (''realskole''), Sweden (''realskola''), F ...

certificate.

Famous people

Sons and daughters of the town

Ernst Ludwig Pies (1885–1942),

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Member of the Reichstag from Langenlonsheim * Willi Schweinhardt (1903–1978), politician and wine estate owner

Famous people associated with the municipality town

Matthias de Zordo Matthias de Zordo (born 21 February 1988) is a German Athletics (sport), athlete who was the World Athletics Championships, World Champion in the men's javelin throw in 2011. With a throw of 87.81 metres, he won the silver medal at the 2010 ...

(b. 21 February 1988 in

), German

javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown as far as possible. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's de ...

References

External links

official webpage

Video portrait of Langenlonsheim
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