Dorn-Dürkheim
Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorn-Dürkheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Dorn-Dürkheim | |
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Location of Dorn-Dürkheim within Mainz-Bingen district | |
Coordinates: 49°46′06″N 8°16′10″E | |
Country | Germany |
State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
District | Mainz-Bingen |
Municipal assoc. | Rhein-Selz |
Government | |
• Mayor (2019–24) | Claus-Dieter Biegler[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 5.60 km2 (2.16 sq mi) |
Elevation | 172 m (564 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 978 |
• Density | 170/km2 (450/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 67585 |
Dialling codes | 06733 |
Vehicle registration | MZ |
Website | www.vg-rhein-selz.de |
Dorn-Dürkheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in the “Heart of Rhenish Hesse”. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.
In 767, Dorn-Dürkheim had its first documentary mention in a document from the Lorsch Abbey. The municipality belonged from the 10th to 12th century to the Bishopric of Worms and passed thereafter as a fief to the Lords of Bolanden. Assigned to the Oberamt of Alzey beginning in 1457, Dorn-Dürkheim was temporarily occupied by the French, before the community, along with the whole province of Rhenish Hesse passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1897, Dorn-Dürkheim acquired a railway link on the Osthofen–Gau-Odernheim line.
Since the Second World War, Dorn-Dürkheim has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at first in the Alzey-Worms district. The municipality was incorporated into the Verbandsgemeinde of Guntersblum in 1972 and was also assigned to the Mainz-Bingen district.
This section needs to be updated. (August 2021) |
The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
CDU | Wählergruppe Schmitt | Total | |
2004 | 7 | 5 | 12 seats |
(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess sable a demi-lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and azure a crozier from base issuant, the crook ending in a rose argent.[3]
The nearest Autobahn interchange is Biebelnheim on the A 63, some 10 km away.
In 1972, one of Europe's richest mammalian fossil fields was discovered through pedological investigation at Dorn-Dürkheim, with many species from the Miocene. In an oxbow of the ancient Rhine bone and tooth fragments were recovered from more than 70 mammalian species, among others sabre-toothed cats, hyenas, tapirs, muntjacs, dwarf deer, forest antelopes, forerunners of today's horses, and proboscideans from the time about 8.5 million years ago[4]
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