Dorn-Dürkheim
Dorn-Dürkheim | |
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Coat of arms | |
Location of Dorn-Dürkheim
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Location of Dorn-Dürkheim | |
Dorn-Dürkheim Dorn-Dürkheim | |
| Coordinates: 49°46′06″N 8°16′10″E / 49.76833°N 8.26944°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Mainz-Bingen |
| Municipal assoc. | Rhein-Selz |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Claus-Dieter Biegler[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 5.6 km2 (2.2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 172 m (564 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 969 |
| • 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 (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʁn ˈdʏʁkhaɪm]) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
Dorn-Dürkheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in the “Heart of Rhenish Hesse”. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.
History
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.
Politics
Municipal council
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)
Coat of arms
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]
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
The nearest Autobahn interchange is Biebelnheim on the A 63, some 10 km away.
- In the neighbouring centre of Hillesheim a railway connection on the Osthofen–Gau Odernheim line was once available. Service ended on 29 September 1974.
Palaeontology
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] Palaeoecological analysis suggests that the site of Dorn-Dürkheim 1 was a temperate forest.[5]
References
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Mainz-Bingen, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2023" (in German). Federal Statistical Office of Germany. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Description of arms in German Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ernst Probst: Deutschland in der Urzeit, p. 283, Munich 1986)
- ^ Saarinen, Juha; Liu, Liping (19 November 2024). "Quantitative paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on large mammal communities in Björn Kurtén's work and since then — revising the case of later Late Miocene Old World "Hipparion faunas"". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 61 (1). doi:10.5735/086.061.0115. ISSN 0003-455X. Retrieved 7 September 2025 – via BioOne Digital Library.
External links
- Official website (in German)