Dorsheim is an ''
Ortsgemeinde Ortsgemeinde may refer to:
* Ortsgemeinde (Austria), a type of municipality in Austria
* Ortsgemeinde (Germany)
A (; plural ) is a low-level administrative division, administrative unit in the Germany, German States of Germany, federal states ...
'' – a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
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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, ...
district
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) 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 sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
,
Germany
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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 ...
, whose seat is in
Langenlonsheim
Langenlonsheim 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'' Langenlon ...
. Dorsheim is a
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, ...
centre.
Geography
Location
Dorsheim lies on a slope in the Trollbach valley, west of the
Nahe, shortly before it empties into the
Rhine
The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...
. The Trollbach valley is a place with extensive
vineyard
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s and marked
hiking
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"Hi ...
trails, and above it is the ''Naheblick'', a lookout point that affords the visitor an outstanding view of the surrounding geography:
Rhenish Hesse
Rhenish Hesse or Rhine HesseDickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, p. 542. . (, ) is a region and a former government district () in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is ...
’s plains, the
Rhine
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and the uplands beyond, namely the
Taunus
The Taunus () is a mountain range in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located north west of Frankfurt and north of Wiesbaden. The tallest peak in the range is '' Großer Feldberg'' at 878 m; other notable peaks are '' Kleiner Feldberg' ...
and 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 also the
Donnersberg
The Donnersberg (; literally: "thunder mountain") is the highest peak of the Palatinate () region of Germany. The mountain lies between the towns of Rockenhausen and Kirchheimbolanden, in the Donnersbergkreis district, which is named after th ...
. To Dorsheim’s south lies
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, ...
, while to the north lies
Bingen am Rhein
Bingen am Rhein () is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The settlement's original name was Bingium, a Celtic languages, Celtic word that may have meant "hole in the rock", a description of the shoal behind the ...
.
Neighbouring municipalities
Clockwise from the north, Dorsheim’s neighbours are the municipalities of
Münster-Sarmsheim
Münster-Sarmsheim 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
Münster-Sarmsheim lies betw ...
,
Laubenheim,
Langenlonsheim
Langenlonsheim 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'' Langenlon ...
,
Waldlaubersheim and
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- ...
. All but the first lie in the Bad Kreuznach district. Münster-Sarmsheim lies within the neighbouring
Mainz-Bingen
Mainz-Bingen is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuzn ...
district.
History
As
archaeological
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finds show, the lands around what is now Dorsheim were settled quite early on. From the
Old Stone Age
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(100,000–10,000 BC) comes a whole series of various artefacts, which are now in private ownership. Known to be from the
New Stone Age
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide- ...
(4000–1800 BC) are a great many
small hatchets and points, the 12
flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start ...
blades from the hoard on the street “Am Rebstock” and
Rössen finds (
ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcela ...
) from the countryside lying east of Dorsheim. Unearthed from the
Hallstatt times that followed have been all kinds of
bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
rings from former
barrows on the Dorsheim
Heath
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a coole ...
, as well as ceramics from not only the Hallstatt culture but also the
Urnfield culture
The Urnfield culture () was a late Bronze Age Europe, Bronze Age culture of Central Europe, often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition. The name comes from the custom of cremation, cremating the dead and placin ...
and the Hunsrück-Eifel culture, once again in the countryside lying east of Dorsheim.
Roman
Roman or Romans most often refers to:
*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of Roman civilization
*Epistle to the Romans, shortened to Romans, a letter w ...
finds (3rd century AD) have come to light at two sites in the municipality. Various archaeological objects that have been found are now in
museum
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s in
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, ...
,
Mainz
Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...
,
Bonn
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and
Berlin
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, although many are in private ownership. It can be said with certainty that Dorsheim was one of the villages founded in
Frankish
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* Franks, a Germanic tribe and their culture
** Frankish language or its modern descendants, Franconian languages, a group of Low Germanic languages also commonly referred to as "Frankish" varieties
* Francia, a post-Roman ...
times (500–750), bearing witness to which are finds from
Merovingian
The Merovingian dynasty () was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until Pepin the Short in 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the ...
graves unearthed right near the community centre. On 30 March 1349, Dorsheim had its first documentary mention in a document issued by
Count Palatine Ruprecht. For almost 650 years, Dorsheim was a Comital-Palatine or
Electoral Palatinate
The Electoral Palatinate was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire until it was annexed by the Electorate of Baden in 1803. From the end of the 13th century, its ruler was one of the Prince-electors who elected the Holy Roman Empero ...
village. It is therefore not surprising that the main
charge
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in the municipality’s
coat of arms
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is the Palatine
lion
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. From 1796 to 1814, the village lay under
French
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** French language, which originated in France
** French people, a nation and ethnic group
** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices
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* The French (band), ...
rule, first
Revolutionary French, and later
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career ...
ic. Dorsheim lay within the
Department of
Rhin-et-Moselle
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. After the
Napoleonic Wars
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and the
Congress of Vienna
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, the region passed to the Kingdom of
Prussia
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in 1815. After the municipality had celebrated its 600th anniversary in 1986 based on the first mention of Dorsheim in documents from 1386, Dorsheim citizen Herrmann Gellweiler delved deeper into the local history and discovered that Dorsheim had already been mentioned in previous documentation from a few decades earlier, in 1349. Too late, the erratum was put to the commemorative plate made for the “600th anniversary” that depicted Count Palatine Ruprecht making a gift of a
vineyard
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in the “Dorsheimer Berg” to his daughter Else. After the new information came to light, Dorsheim was able to mark its 650th anniversary in 1999 based on the now oldest documentation only 13 years after the 600th anniversary.
Municipality’s name
Nobody can say where the name Dorsheim comes from. Over the ages, the name has appeared in so many different forms, such as ''Dunrsheim'' and ''Donrsheim'', that working out a derivation has proved impossible.
Population development
Dorsheim’s population development since
Napoleon
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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:
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Religion
As at 31 August 2013, there are 730 full-time residents in Dorsheim, and of those, 226 are Evangelical
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(30.959%), 268 are Catholic
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(36.712%), 15 (2.055%) belong to other religious groups and 221 (30.274%) 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 proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman. In the 2004 elections, council members were elected by majority vote
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. No parties vied for seats in the municipal election, but rather two voters’ groups. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
The official figures for the 2004 municipal election rather unhelpfully lumped all voters’ groups’ results together into a single sum. Since they were the only bodies that fielded candidates in Dorsheim, the results simply show an uninformative figure of 100% and a seat count of 12. The two voters’ groups active in Dorsheim are the ULD (''Unabhängige Liste Dorsheim e.V.''), headed by mayor Marlene Hölz, and the FWAD (''Freie Wählergemeinschaft Aktives Dorsheim e.V.''), headed by council member Udo Wirth.
Mayor
Dorsheim’s mayor is Marlene Hölz, and her deputies are Rainer Nies, Rositha Mutter and Harald Schröder.
Coat of arms
The municipality’s arms
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**Fi ...
might be described thus: Sable a lion rampant with tail fourché Or armed, langued and crowned gules, in his sinister paw a bunch of grapes
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of the second, in his dexter paw an inescutcheon of the same charged with the Dorsheim court seal symbol of the first.
The main charge
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Music
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is the Palatine Lion
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, the heraldic
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device once borne by Electoral Palatinate
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, which ruled Dorsheim up until French Revolutionary troops occupied the region in the late 18th century. The grapes represent Dorsheim’s 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, ...
tradition, and the inescutcheon
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* as a sim ...
bears a symbol that once appeared in Dorsheim’s court seal, dating from 1653. The arms have been borne since 1974.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate
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’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
* Saint Lawrence’s Catholic
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Church
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* Church (building), a place/building for Christian religious activities and praying
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* Church service, a formalized period of Christian comm ...
(''Kirche St. Laurentius'') and Evangelical
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church, Weinbergstraße – 1923, architect Algesheimer, 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- ...
; both parts of the building use the north wall of the former, Classicist
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building, about 1830 (see also below)
* Binger Straße 9 – plastered timber-frame
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house of a three-sided estate, early 19th century
More about the church
Standing in the middle of Dorsheim is the village church
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, which was originally a pilgrimage
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church. The church had its first documentary mention in 1481 in the Stromberg taxation register. After the Thirty Years' War
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, there is no further record of it. The old church ruin
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became municipal property in 1820. In 1833 and 1834, the municipality used the rubble and stones that were lying there to build a building containing two schoolrooms and a prayer room. The cost was 3,400 Reichsthaler
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. Since Evangelical
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fellow villagers had contributed to the funds to cover the building cost, they too were allowed the use of the prayer room. Nevertheless, time and again there was friction between them and the Catholics
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, leading to a governmental decision to declare a simultaneum
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at the village church. To this day, a wall down the middle of the nave cleaves it into two naves: one Catholic and the other Evangelical. The church is under monumental protection. Still found in the Catholic section are pews and carvings from the 17th century. The church stands on Weinbergstraße.
Municipal hall
The ''Bürgerhaus'' – the municipal hall – is housed in the building that was once used as the local Catholic
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school
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. The schoolroom was on the ground floor, and accommodated all grade levels up to year 8, while upstairs was the teacher’s dwelling. In 1915, the school got electric light
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* Electric Light (album), ''Electric Light'' (album), a 2018 album by James ...
ing, and in 1950 it was renovated, although there was no longer any money to pay for a furnace. In 1966, the school was dissolved, whereafter the schoolroom was used for events, singing rehearsals and municipal council meetings. In 1990 and 1991, a big event hall was built onto the old schoolhouse and this is now used for various public and private events. It is built in such a way that the old schoolroom has now become the stage, but this can be walled off with a retractable partition so that it can also be used for municipal council meetings and other meetings held by various boards, as well as such things as choir
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practice, theatrical productions, preschool play groups and flute
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instruction. The upper floor, where the teacher once lived, now houses the mayor’s office and rooms for clubs. The ''Bürgerhaus'' stands at the corner of Weinbergstraße and Lindenstraße, and indeed is called ''An den Linden''.
Natural monuments
Several “bizarre” crags stand in the Trollbach valley.
Regular events
Each year in Dorsheim at the Feast of the Assumption of Mary
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It leaves open the question of w ...
(15 August), the mixed choir
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holds the ''Lindenfest''. The kermis
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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) is always held on the second weekend in August. The event ''Von Tal zu Tal'' (“From Dale to Dale”) is a cycling
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event open to all in the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Langenlonsheim. It is held on the last Sunday in August. On the third Thursday of each month, a seniors’ coffeehouse
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(''Seniorenkaffee'') is held at 1530, with venue and theme announced beforehand.
Clubs
The following clubs are active in Dorsheim:
*''Bauern- und Winzerverband'' — farmers’ and winegrowers’ association
*''Dorsheim Highlanders e.V.''
*''Förderverein Floriansjünger e.V.'' — firefighters’ promotional association
*''Freiwillige Feuerwehr'' — volunteer fire brigade
A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and ...
*''Gemischter Chor Liederkranz e.V.'' — mixed choir
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*''Theatergruppe Schinderhannes e.V.'' — theatrical group (named after a notorious outlaw)
Economy and infrastructure
Winegrowing
Dorsheim 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 seven winegrowing operations, and the area of vineyard
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planted is 71 ha. Some 83% of the wine grown here (as at 2007) is 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 ...
varieties. In 1979, there were still 24 winegrowing operations, and the vineyard area was slightly greater at 80 ha.[Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz](_blank)
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Public institutions
Dorsheim does not have its own daycare
Child care, also known as day care, is the care and supervision of one or more children, typically ranging from three months to 18 years old. Although most parents spend a significant amount of time caring for their child(ren), childcare typica ...
, but the centre in neighbouring Laubenheim is intended for children from both villages. Found in Dorsheim itself are a village square with an oversize chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...
set, a playground, 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 outdoor basketball
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court. Paragliding
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended be ...
is common at the ''Naheblick'', the local lookout point from the cliffs.Public institutions
/ref> The municipal hall ( see above) is used for various events.
Transport
Dorsheim lies right near the Autobahn
The (; German , ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track'.
Much of t ...
A 61 and has its own Autobahn interchange
Interchange may refer to:
Transport
* Interchange (road), a collection of ramps, exits, and entrances between two or more highways
* Interchange (freight rail), the transfer of freight cars between railroad companies
* Interchange station, a rai ...
. The noise pollution
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rates an arithmetic mean according to measurements of roughly 63 dB/24 h.
References
External links
Municipality’s official webpage
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Bad Kreuznach (district)
Districts of the Rhine Province