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Duchroth is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a
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belonging to a ''
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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
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in
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,
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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town. Duchroth is a
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centre and lies in the Soonwald-Nahe Nature Park.


Geography


Location

Duchroth lies 240 m above
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in the Rheingrafenstein local recreation area, south of the
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, between the
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of
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and the gemstone town of
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, not far from neighbouring
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, where the Glan empties into the Nahe.


Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Duchroth's neighbours are the municipality of Waldböckelheim, the municipality of
Schloßböckelheim Schloßböckelheim (or Schlossböckelheim) 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 ''V ...
, the municipality of Oberhausen an der Nahe, the municipality of Hallgarten, the town of Obermoschel, the municipality of Lettweiler, the municipality of
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, the municipality of Staudernheim and the municipality of Boos. All lie in the Bad Kreuznach district but Obermoschel, which lies in the neighbouring
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.


Constituent communities

Also belonging to Duchroth are the outlying homesteads of Dimrotherhof, Hof Schönblick and Montforterhof.


Climate

Yearly
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in Duchroth amounts to 633 mm, which is rather low, falling into the lowest third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. Only at 27% of the German Weather Service's
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s are even lower figures recorded. The driest month is February. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.7 times what it is in February. Precipitation varies hardly at all throughout the year. At only 15% of the weather stations are lower seasonal swings recorded.


History

From
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and early history, sporadic
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finds have come to light. The
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built their barrows, while the
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left the foundations of one of their country estates as well as a graveyard in what is now the
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location known as “Feuerberg”. From about 900 to 1100, Duchroth belonged to the Archfoundation of Mainz (''Mainzer Erzstift''), and thereafter until 1158 to the Counts of Saarbrücken. In 1128, Duchroth had its first documentary mention in a document issued by Archbishop Adalbert I, wherein Duchroth was named as ''Royde''. What is of particular interest about this document is that it deals with the time of Archbishop
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’s reign as
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, which began in 975. The terms of the document obliged Duchroth to maintain part of Saint Mary’s
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on the
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. It is thus believed that Duchroth had existed at least since 900. The first time when somebody from Duchroth was mentioned in a document was in 1107 when one of Archbishop Ruthard’s documents mentioned a man named “Wernherus de Royde”. He was some unknown lord's
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and a
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, and as such loomed up over everybody else in the village. This document is, however, not seen as the village's first documentary mention, even though it is 21 years older than Adalbert's, and “de Royde” is taken only as a description of the man's origins. From 1158 to 1274, Duchroth's inhabitants were subjects of the
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, and thereafter and until 1394, Duchroth belonged to the Knights of Montfort. Later still, from 1395 to 1410, the village found itself under Elector Palatine Ruprecht III's administration, before it passed to the Dukes of
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, under whom it remained until 1779. Duke Stephan of Zweibrücken, Elector Palatine Ruprecht's successor, demanded of his
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s an
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of
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and
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. The Montforts, however – the vassals in question – would have none of it and would not even acknowledge Stephan as their overlord, and nor would they take the oath of homage. Stephan would not tolerate this and advanced with his men from
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to Duchroth. The Montforts had shut the village gates and had ensconced themselves along with the peasants behind the village
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. The ''Duchrother Krieg'' – the Duchroth War – had begun. Since the Elector Palatine had chosen to join in, the Montforts gave in, but not before there had been deaths and other casualties on both sides as well as sacking and fires in the village. Friedrich von Montfort had wisely kept himself out of the fight, and on 9 July 1418, he was installed as ''
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'' over Duchroth. In the 16th century, the town hall was built, and it is now one of the oldest in
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. The time from 1618 to 1734 was a time of war – the
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and King Louis XIV's wars of conquest – and its attendant upheaval, including economic hardship. This led to many people from Duchroth choosing
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as the solution to their woes. Off they went to
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,
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or Southeast Europe (
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,
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). Johann Eimann from Duchroth was a pioneer among settlers and founded Bačka's settlement history. Eimann also drew the 1798 village map that accompanies this article, from memory, after he went to live in Bačka. The village structure shown in his map is to a great extent unchanged today. In the latter half of the 18th century, Duchroth was forced by its overlord,
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, to participate in the lottery for building the
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Ducal suburb. It was indeed the village's lot that came up. What was won was a building at Herzogsplatz (“Duke’s Square”). This was sold forthwith and the proceeds were used for a weeklong celebration. From 1779 to 1801, Duchroth belonged to
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, and from 1801 to 1814, it was under
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ic
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rule, followed until 1816 by two years of military rule. In that year, under the terms of the
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, Duchroth passed to the
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, which had been awarded a great
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in the Palatinate. This lasted until 1918 when the kingdom itself met its end when the
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was overthrown and along with him Bavaria's last king. Duchroth belonged to the
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, however, until after the
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, when Bavaria's Palatine exclave was grouped into the then newly founded
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of
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. At the time of the
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, a great many Duchroth inhabitants stood on the freedom fighters’ side. This national movement, which had begun with so much hope, came to a sad end. In Duchroth, the punishment took the form of a company of Bavarian riflemen being billeted in the village. Duchroth men also fought in the
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(1870-1871), the
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(1914-1918) and the
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(1939-1945). A remembrance to the war dead are the monuments near the
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. In 1868 and 1869, a new road was built to
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so that people would no longer have to take the exhausting path across the “Heath”. One of the worst catastrophes in the village's history was the great fire on Sunday 23 July 1905, in which the church, the rectory, the ''
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'' and many other buildings burnt down. The new church, built to replace the one destroyed that day, was consecrated on 4 September 1910. In 1947, the
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of
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was newly founded, which at first let all administrative bodies stand. In the course of administrative restructuring in 1969, an end was put to the local administrative arrangement that had stood since 1798 on 7 June of that year. The ''Bürgermeisterei'' (“Mayoralty”) of Odernheim was dissolved and Duchroth passed to the new ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg. There was also a change of
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, with Duchroth being transferred from the Rockenhausen district (which was itself dissolved) to the
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district. Ecclesiastically, Duchroth belongs, as it long has, to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the
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. In 2012, in the contest ''Unser Dorf hat Zukunft'' (“Our village has a future”), Duchroth placed second in the special category at the state level, being outdone only by
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.


Population development

Duchroth's population development since
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ic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
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Religion

As at 31 August 2013, there are 560 full-time residents in Duchroth, and of those, 410 are
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(73.214%), 68 are
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(12.143%), 5 belong to the Palatinate State Free Religious Community (0.893%), 11 (1.964%) belong to other religious groups and 66 (11.786%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.


Politics


Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by
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at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.


Mayor

Duchroth's mayor is Jörg Schneiß.


Coat of arms

Duchroth's
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have only one
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, namely
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, on a gold field. He is the village's patron saint.


Culture and sightseeing


Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in
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’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: * Village core, Naheweinstraße 29–37 and others (monumental zone) – contiguous historical village arrangement with two-floor buildings, among them a few
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houses, 16th to 20th centuries *
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parish
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, Kirchenstraße – Gothicized
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-block building, Heimatstil, 1908–1910, architect Karl Schenkel,
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; warriors’ memorial 1866/1870/1871, lion, last fourth of the 19th century; warriors’ memorial 1914/1918, sandstone-block, 1920s ( see also below) * At Kirchenstraße 4 –
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, about 1600 * Naheweinstraße 22 –
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timber-frame house, 18th century * Naheweinstraße 29 – “Haus Schumacher”; post-Baroque building with half-hip roof, partly timber-frame, gateways, marked 1802 and 1790 (1796?) * Naheweinstraße 31 – ''Einfirsthaus'' (house with single roof ridge) of a farmstead, partly timber-frame, essentially possibly from the 17th century, marked 1846, gateway beam marked 1801, other gate facility from the late 18th or early 19th century * Naheweinstraße 33 – Late Gothic town hall; third fourth of the 16th century, conversion on the side towards the street, 19th century ( see also below) * Naheweinstraße 35 – estate complex, building with half-hip roof with timber-frame additions, gateway arch marked 1802 * Naheweinstraße 37 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century; house door marked 1846 * Naheweinstraße 40/42 – “Haus Lindemann”; Late Baroque complex with single roof ridge, marked 1786, barn, partly timber-frame, marked 1786 * Naheweinstraße 46 – Baroque timber-frame house, to a great extent plastered, 18th century, ground floor made over in
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style * Naheweinstraße 70 –
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, four-sided estate; quarrystone buildings, Heimatstil, about 1910 * Naheweinstraße 72 – former
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; house, Classicist plastered building with seven-part ribbon windows, mid 19th century * Obere Wassergasse 14 – small house, partly timber-frame, earlier half of the 19th century * At Pfarrgasse 6 – house door, Classicist, marked 1863 * At Pfarrgasse 7 – house door, door leaf, mid 19th century * Pfarrgasse 8 – Evangelical rectory; villalike building with hip roof, Heimatstil, about 1900 * At Schlossstraße 1 – house door, Late Classicist, 1864 * At Schlossstraße 4 – two pieces of spolia, about 1600 (?) * Untere Wassergasse 16 – former complex with single roof ridge; earlier half of the 19th century * Untere Wassergasse 10, 12, 14, 16 (monumental zone) – four complexes with single roof ridge from the 19th century forming an estate-like arrangement at the end of a
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. * Wassergasse 12 – house door, marked 1815 * At Weinbergstraße 2 – Classicist skylight portal, marked 1835 * Montforterhof (monumental zone) – essentially presumably “new ''
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'' in the dale” of the family Boos von Waldeck, as of 1480 (
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spolia, 16th to early 18th centuries), 16th to 19th centuries; now four farmsteads; main building (no. 3/5): building with half-hip roof with gateway arch, essentially possibly from the 18th and early 19th centuries


More about the church

There are about 800 parishioners all together, counting those from both Duchroth and neighbouring Oberhausen an der Nahe. Duchroth's old
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burnt right down in the great fire that struck the village in 1905, making a new one necessary. This was built between 1908 and 1910 to plans by
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architect Karl Schenkel, and on 4 September 1910, it was consecrated. The 30 m-tall belltower and the onion-vaulted roof make it visible across a great distance. One peculiarity is the clock mechanism, which has to be wound up by hand every day. Slightly older than the church itself is the rectory, built in 1906, standing across the street from the church. Built out of
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, it affords its occupants comfortable coolth in the summer months. In the winter, however, its high ceilings (3.25 m) can make it necessary for them to don one or more extra layers of clothing. Also falling victim to the blaze in 1905 were the old parish hall and the parish barn. A new parish hall (without a barn) has only in recent years been built. This can comfortably accommodate 80 to 100 people. Church community groups meet here.


More about the town hall

The town hall (''Rathaus'') is surely one of Duchroth's oldest buildings. It is believed to have been built in the 16th century, although there are no documents establishing this. Undertaken in 1982, at a cost of some €225,000, was a thorough renovation led by the Didion architectural agency. On the strength of the structural survey by the architects, the time of building was reckoned to be the 11th or 12th century, not the 16th. This is likelier, since the town hall was built in the Gothic style. According to Didion, the building comes from the oldest time of the Gothic period. All buildings in the area built in the Gothic style that still stand today are made of quarrystone and
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material. The back and gables are in typical Gothic style and well preserved. Regrettably, the windows on the street side have been enlarged and the Gothic façade no longer appears in its original form. On the righthand gable side is found a round-arched window. It is richly moulded and the keystone bears an image of a mask hewn into the stone. The column with the top beam, which is still standing near the entrance, suggests that there was once a great space, opened to the outside here. Once sitting on the roof was a
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that held one of the Palatinate's most interesting bells. The bell's shape alone suggests that it was very old, likewise the puzzling inscription upon the rim: “+ O A S O +”, likely standing for ''OMNIA AD SALVTEM OMNIVM'', meaning “Everything to everyone’s Salvation”. The bell is believed to have come from
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Abbey, whose six bells were shared out after
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to villages that had in bygone times been subject to the old abbey. The bell measured 68 cm across and was made of prime
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. Akin in shape was a bell from
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, which was cast in 1261. In 1894, the bell was fetched down from the ridge turret and sold for a few ''Pfennig'', because it had cracked. The turret itself was torn down after the
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because it had fallen into disrepair. In its long, eventful history, the ''Rathaus'' has served not only for meetings and consultations of the municipal representatives and the clubs, but also as a
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(windows with
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grilles), a prison camp, a courthouse, a
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house, a dwelling, a shelter in case of war, a storehouse, a garage for the
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(in a leanto shed) and a communal bakehouse.


“Ring path”

From time to time in the
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, the Knights of Montfort drew their subjects in Duchroth into their disputes with other nobles. In the 1335
feud A feud , also known in more extreme cases as a blood feud, vendetta, faida, clan war, gang war, private war, or mob war, is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially family, families or clans. Feuds begin ...
with St. Stephen's Collegiate Foundation in
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, for example, the villagers were armed and led into battle as a militant cohort. The Montforts, for their part, assumed a duty to protect their subjects, by giving the village ''Pfortenrecht'' (“gate rights”), whereby the villagers were allowed to build two fortified gates and to gird their village with a
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and an
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. Even the churchyard was fortified with a mighty wall and incorporated into the defensive complex. Also belonging to this was a hefty stone defensive tower, actually the churchtower, with arrowslits, which the municipality built. This tower even withstood the pickaxe after the great fire in 1905 and had to be demolished with explosives. The mediaeval village court was always anxious to keep the fence around the village gapless. The defensive system herein described likely proved its worth during the “Duchroth War” in 1418, for Duke Stephan of Zweibrücken, in the agreement of atonement, reserved to himself the right to avail himself of the two villages of Duchroth and
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along with their churchyards in case of feud. The moat that the villagers dug around their village defined its shape as a clump village. The only ways into the village then were the two gates, the ''Untertor'' (Lower Gate) and the ''Obertor'' (Upper Gate). The former stood where the ''Ringpfad'' (“ring path”) now crosses Naheweinstraße. Except for the village thoroughfare, then known as the ''Große Gasse'' (“Great Lane”), running from one village gate to the other, all village streets were dead ends, ending at either a yard or the village's edge. The mediaeval fortifications around Duchroth, and the two gates no longer exist. Nevertheless, the ''Historischer Ringpfad'' still follows the alignment of the now long gone moat.


“Grape variety teaching path”

Grape A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began approximately 8,0 ...
growing has a centuries-long tradition in Duchroth. Just as varied as the structure of the lands are the
vineyard A vineyard ( , ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. Many vineyards exist for winemaking; others for the production of raisins, table grapes, and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is kno ...
soils in Duchroth's outlying countryside. What is found here mostly is weathered minerals of
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origin, but also mixtures of
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,
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s and
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. To the northwest, sheltered by the
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’s heights, the most varied of
white wine White wine is a wine that is Fermentation in winemaking, fermented without undergoing the process of Maceration (wine), maceration, which involves prolonged contact between the juice with the grape skins, seeds, and pulp. The wine color, colou ...
grape varieties thrive in a dry climate favourable to grapevines:
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,
Silvaner Silvaner or Sylvaner () is a variety of white wine grape grown primarily in Alsace wine, Alsace and German wine, Germany, where its official name is Grüner Silvaner. While the Alsatian versions have primarily been considered simpler wines, it ...
,
Müller-Thurgau Müller-Thurgau () is a white grape variety (sp. ''Vitis vinifera'') which was created by Hermann Müller from the Swiss Canton of Thurgau in 1882 at the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute in Germany. It is a crossing of Riesling with Made ...
, Kerner,
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,
Pinot blanc Pinot blanc () or Pinot bianco is a white wine grape. It is a point genetic mutation of Pinot noir. Pinot noir is genetically unstable and will occasionally experience a point mutation in which a vine bears all black fruit except for one cane wh ...
,
Pinot gris Pinot gris, pinot grigio (, ), or ''Grauburgunder'' is a white wine grape variety of the species ''Vitis vinifera''. Thought to be a mutant clone of the pinot noir variety, it normally has a pinkish-gray hue, accounting for its name, but th ...
,
Faberrebe Faberrebe or Faber is a grape variety used for white wine. It was created in 1929 by Georg Scheu at the ''Landesanstalt für Rebenzüchtung'' in Alzey and was released with varietal protection in 1967. Scheu created Faberrebe by crossing Pinot bl ...
,
Chardonnay Chardonnay (, ; ) is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine. The variety originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern France, but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand. For new a ...
,
Scheurebe Scheurebe () or Sämling 88 is a white wine grape variety. It is primarily grown in Germany and Austria, where it often is called Sämling 88 (''English'': Seedling 88), and some parts of the New World. Scheurebe wines are highly aromatic, and th ...
,
Sauvignon blanc Sauvignon blanc () is a green-skinned grape variety that originates from the city of Bordeaux in France. The grape most likely gets its name from the French words ''sauvage'' ("wild") and ''blanc'' ("white") due to its early origins as an ind ...
and
Ehrenfelser Ehrenfelser is a white wine grape variety of German origin. It was created by Dr. Heinrich Birk (1898-1973) at the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute in 1929, by crossing Riesling with what was thought at the time to be Silvaner, but DNA marke ...
. Also grown here for making
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and
rosé A rosé () is a type of wine that incorporates some of the wine color, color from the grape skins, but not enough to qualify it as a red wine. It may be the oldest known type of wine, as it is the most straightforward to make with the Macerati ...
are
Pinot noir Pinot noir (), also known as Pinot nero, is a red-wine grape variety of the species ''Vitis vinifera''. The name also refers to wines created predominantly from Pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French language, French words fo ...
,
Dornfelder Dornfelder () is a dark-skinned variety of grape of Germany, German origin used for red wine.
and
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. The ''Rebsortenlehrpfad'' (“Grape variety teaching path”) teaches the visitor all about these varieties.


Clubs

The following clubs are active in Duchroth:Clubs
/ref> *''Angelverein'' —
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club *''Förderverein Aktionsräume'' — “Home Ranges” promotional association *''Förderverein Feuerwehr'' — fire brigade promotional association *''Förderverein TuS Duchroth'' — ''TuS Duchroth'' promotional association *''Freiwillige Feuerwehr'' — volunteer
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*''Kultur und Landschaft Duchroth'' — “Duchroth Culture and Landscape” *''Landfrauen'' — countrywomen's club *''TuS Duchroth'' —
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and
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.


Economy and infrastructure


Winegrowing

Duchroth belongs to the “Nahetal
Winegrowing Viticulture (, "vine-growing"), viniculture (, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ...
Area” within the Nahe wine region. In business in the village are eleven winegrowing operations, and the area of
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planted is 35 ha. Some 85% of the wine grown here (as at 2007) is
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varieties. In 1979, there were still 36 winegrowing operations, and the vineyard area, at 59 ha, was almost twice what it is now.Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz - Infothek
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Transport

To Duchroth's north runs ''
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'' 41. Serving Norheim and Staudernheim are
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s on the
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( Bingen
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).


Famous people


Sons and daughters of the town

* Johann Eimann (1764–1847), German colonist in the
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* August Geib (1842–1879), early socialist lyricist, book dealer and Member of the Reichstag, founding member of the
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and its first treasurer.


References


External links


Municipality’s official webpage

Video portrait of Duchroth
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