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Guckheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''
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'' – in the
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in
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,
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.


Geography


Location

Guckheim, mainly a residential community with a well-developed club life, lies in the low mountain range of the
Westerwald The Westerwald (; literally 'Western forest') is a low mountain range on the right bank of the river Rhine in the States of Germany, German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a part of the Rhenish Ma ...
, part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains, roughly 330 m above
sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an mean, average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal Body of water, bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical ...
. The community's highest point at 657 m above sea level is the
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in the northeast Westerwald. Its lowest point at about 150 m above sea level is found in the Gelbachtal Valley between Kirchähr and Dies. The community belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality. The Elbbach flows right by Guckheim and empties into the river
Lahn The Lahn () is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the States of Germany, federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). ...
near
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Geology

As a legacy of a sea that once covered the area in
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times, a great deal of
clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...
underlies Guckheim, having also been
quarried A quarry is a type of open-pit mining, open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock (geology), rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some juri ...
for decades in the immediate vicinity. After clay quarrying is finished, affected areas are recultivated. The quarrying leaves typical traces on the land, such as loss of surface vegetation, unsightliness, and recultivation perceived as inadequate, which have been publicly controversial for years in Guckheim. In the past, there has also been limited
brown coal Lignite (derived from Latin ''lignum'' meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, Combustion, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It has a carbon content around 25–35% and is considered ...
mining (first mentioned in documents in 1746, lasted until 1847) and
basalt Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial ...
quarrying (until 1928).


Constituent communities

Guckheim's ''
Ortsteil A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located ...
e'' are Wörsdorf and Guckheim. Both these once autonomous communities have over time have grown together into today's united community. Nevertheless, in speech, the distinction between the two is still made. Older Guckheimers even still make the distinction between inhabitants who are ''Guggemer'' (from the old Guckheim) and those who are ''Werschdörfer'' (from the old Wörsdorf). The old placename Wörsdorf hardly ever appears on maps anymore (Google Maps is an exception), and is thereby dying out.


History


Settlement and placenames’ origins

It is believed that the first settlers came sometime between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. As to the origin of the name ''Guckheim'', there are various theories and clues. The word "guggjon" from the
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, meaning "watch" or "look at" (the verb "gucken" means "look" in Modern High German) was used for a place of especial esteem and status. The name ''Guckheim'' could also stem from
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times (750–900). Old names for Guckheim, such as ''Cochem'', ''Gocheim'' and the local
dialect A dialect is a Variety (linguistics), variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standard language, standardized varieties as well as Vernacular language, vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardize ...
al form still heard today, ''Guggem'', point to this time. Often, placenames refer to the first settler in the place, which in this instance might have brought a ''coc, coch, goch, guco, gogo'' into the name. German placenames that end in ''—heim'' or ''—em'' most often began as single homesteads (''Heim'' is still German for "home" today, and is
cognate In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language. Because language change can have radical effects on both the s ...
with the
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word), whereas places whose names end in ''—dorf'' ("village"; the word is cognate with the English "thorpe") refer to groups of these homesteads. As excavations for the new Mother of God Chapel (''Muttergottes-Kapelle'') went forth on the Rothenberg, a layer of earth about 2.5 m thick was dug up. Under the forerunner building's foundation a layer of clay
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s about 5 cm thick and about 4 or 5 m2 in area was found, which according to investigations came from about AD 1000. It is believed, therefore, that there might have been a place of worship on the Rothenberg around the turn of the second millennium. There is no agreed spelling for the Rothenberg, a hill in the community. On current maps it is sometimes also called the Roterberg. In the local dialect, it is called the ''Ruurebersch''.


Documentary mentions

In written records from the Seligenstatt
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from the years 1213-1215, the placename Wörsdorf crops up twice. The records contain the text fragments ''... auch in Wyrßdorff...'' (''auch'' means "also") and ''... Item Diderich von Wyrßdorff...'' (a name; the character "ß" is a double S). Wörsdorf's first documentary mention from 25 September 1285 indicates that the abbot of the St. Pantaleon Monastery in
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of the
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, as the "Conservator of the
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’ privilege" appointed by the
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, "complains about Count Otto of Nassau and his son Heinrich as well as their helper Heinrich of Wörsdorf to pronounce
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against those named after an earlier admonition". Further written references to Wörsdorf date from 1315, 1346 and 1525. The knight Ludwig Scherre from Waldmannshausen endowed an everlasting light in the monastery church at Seligenstatt in 1315 from his estates here, and the Rödels of Reifenberg were feoffed in 1346 by Molsberg with an estate here. Furthermore, there is this: "...Wirsdorf, where the Lords of Westerburg, those of Ottenstein, Reifenberg, Brambach and Riedesel had estates in 1525." In 1299, Guckheim had its first documentary mention. "14 December 1299 "Elisabeth called von Dorndorf. Widow of the knight Heinrich of Sottenbach, donates all her movable (''bona mea mobilia, utensilia affernalia'') and immovable property in the villages and rural areas of Stenbach (Steinbach), Dorringdorf (Dorndorf) Hausen, Vridekobin (Frickhofen), Gocheim (Guckheim) and Wermolderode (Willmenrod) at farms, houses, estates, gardens, meadows, grazing lands, forests, fisheries, tax income or other to the abbess and the convent of the nuns in Gnadenthal (''in valle gracie'') for the healing of her soul, and her parents’, and all her forebears’ before the Schultheißen (roughly, "sheriffs"), Schöffen (local justices) and other villagers and transfers the goods to the convent to its procurator's hands as property. - Sgg. of the Count Gerhard von Diez, Gottfried called im Hof (in Curia), Friedrich called Stayl and Hiltwin von Elkershausen, knight. "- Actum et d. 1299 in crastino beate virginis (Lucie). 19 kalendas Januarii" In the Annals of Nassau (''Nassauische Annalen'') is found the following record: "In 1299 Gocheim, the von Piesports had an estate in 1735. Goods came here from Elisabeth von Dorndorf, widow of Sottenbach, in 1299 to the in Gnadenthal Convent, in 1305 to the Ritz von Dehrn family and in 1334 to the von Schönborns. Meadows here have the von Mudersbachs, which by way of the von Brambachs in 1694 came to the von Walderdorfs. The mill was owned by Leiningen-Westerburg in 1511 and still in 1786. A brown coal pit was in operation here in 1746." The
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at Guckheim was first mentioned in a document in 1511. It was still working until 1980.


History into modern times

As of the 13th century, the community belonged to the County of Diez. From 1490, Guckheim, together with Wörsdorf (Wersdorf), was assigned to the Salzer Zech. On 27 July 1564, Guckheim, along with the parishes of
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, Meudt, Nentershausen and
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was ceded to the
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in the Treaty of Diez, and thereby also ended up in the ''
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'' of
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. The
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also left its mark on Guckheim. In 1666, the only family names left in Guckheim were Göbel, Fasel and Gleser. In Wörsdorf, the names Kiep, Schumacher, Born, New (Neu), Fritz, Zeis, Göbel and Fasel can be confirmed from that time. Stories handed down by word of mouth tell of inhabitants being
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d during the war years in the constituent community of Guckheim opposite the village cross. As of 1748, there was organized
schooling A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of fo ...
in Guckheim, held at various people's houses at different times. Once Matthias Fasel, a teacher from Wörsdorf, was appointed, instruction began in 1820 in a schoolroom rented by the community at the so-called ''Perersch Haus''. On the
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government's instructions, Matthias Fasel began the Guckheim school chronicle. In 1832 came a community decision to build a school building, which was dedicated on 4 November 1833.


Population development

Exact population figures for Guckheim are only available for the time since 1787. Until the late 18th century, there were only data about the number of hearths (households/estates) or families. Trustworthy figures about population development only go back to 1525. In that year, 7 hearths were counted. For 1562, the County of Diez service register names 7 names (families) for Wörsdorf. A year later there were 8 hearths. In 1589, 7 Electoral service personnel and one ''Vogtmann'' (roughly, "reeve") were mentioned in a record also including both communities’ inhabitants. Until 1653, the population figure did not rise appreciably, as the Thirty Years' War had its consequences even in Guckheim. Eight families were counted in Wörsdorf, and in Guckheim two. In 1684, 9 hearths were mentioned in Wörsdorf, and in Guckheim 4. The
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likewise left its mark. Even among Guckheimers there were losses. The number of inhabitants in 1939 compared to that in 1950 differs only slightly.


Culture


Dialect/accent

The
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spoken in Guckheim belongs to the
Moselle Franconian Moselle Franconian (; ) is a West Central German language, part of the Central Franconian languages area, that includes Luxembourgish. Overview Moselle Franconian is spoken in the southern Rhineland and along the course of the Moselle, i ...
dialect group. As an everyday speech, it is dying out, and is often no longer mastered by younger people. Moreover, the facts of economic life have changed and thereby brought about a loss of a great deal of the dialect. For instance, the dialectal vocabulary for variations in the weather is much less often heard now that the economy has moved away from activities that depended on the weather, such as, most obviously, farming, as those who customarily used these expressions for their everyday lives are growing fewer.


Buildings


Mother of God Chapel on the Rothenberg

The former building on the
Chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...
’s current site stood until 1948 on the Rothenberg and faced the same way. The exact time when the old building came into being cannot be confirmed, but it is believed that it was built in two sections. A clue to the building's origins can be said to be a stone with the year 1771 chiselled into it. This was found while the building was being torn down. The decision to build a new and bigger chapel was made in 1947. Grounds for a new building were the old chapel's great repair needs, an endowment of about 6,000 ''Reichsmark'' – it had been pledged towards the construction before currency reform – and the hope that on some occasions church services could be held within the community, which did not have its own church. Building began on 27 September 1948, and the cornerstone was laid on 22 May 1949. The topping-out ceremony was held on 26 September 1949. As the architect who designed the chapel, Rudolf Hack from
Westerburg Westerburg () is a small town of roughly 6,000 inhabitants in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The town is named after the castle built on a hill above the medieval town centre (''Burg'' is German for “castle”) Geograph ...
was trusted with the planning work. On 12 November 1950, the ''Muttergottes-Kapelle'' received ecclesiastical consecration. Since the building project had to be financed through the community's own resources, the needed funds were raised on the one hand by monthly door-to-door collections, in which even neighbouring communities took part, and on the other hand by the community's donation of a greater sum as well as the lumber. Further funds were raised by producing plays on the Römmel. There, plays were staged between 1948 and 1952 with presenters from the community itself.


St. Johanneskirche

In the late 1950s, the seating room in the Mother of God Chapel was becoming less and less adequate to serve the growing community's needs. A proposal to hold two services on Sundays and holidays could not be fulfilled owing to a dearth of priests. Given this, plans were made with the architect Hans Busch from
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, who was well known for his sacral buildings, to enlarge the chapel and add a new belltower. Hans Busch was trusted with the planning, but only the third proposal won the Bishop's blessing. On the Church's recommendation, it was decided to forgo the belltower and the planned youth centre owing to cost. Building began in the summer of 1961 on the Weltersbitz meadowlands. The cornerstone was laid on 1 October 1961. Until early 1962, the building shell was being put up. The topping-out ceremony was held on 17 May 1962. The consecration was finally done on 16 June 1963, although the first services had already been held the foregoing Christmas.''ibid.'' The ''St. Johanneskirche'' ("Saint John’s Church") is a markedly plain building with a rectangular plan, a shed roof that drops off towards the west and a sacristy in the side building adjoining it to the north. Owing to the roof's shape, the east-facing altar has the highest headroom. The one-naved church room with gallery is girded with thick walls made out of quarried
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, a typical local building material. The church room is lit through one horizontal and several vertical banks of windows with glass mosaics. The south-facing horizontal bank of windows has mosaics depicting the story of
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’s suffering. The belltower was never built.


Economy and infrastructure


Transport

Lying roughly 35 km east of
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, halfway between the agglomerations of
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and
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, Guckheim has at its disposal a good transport infrastructure with the new
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in
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and
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, the A 3 (
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;
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at Diez/Nentershausen) and ''
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n'' 8 and 255, all found nearby.


Sightseeing and recreation

Guckheim is framed by nearby broadleaf and fir forests in which it is worth going for a walk. Worthy of special mention are the nature trail for forestry and ornithology on the Rothenberg and the nearby ruins of the Weltersburg (castle), built after 1100, both of which can easily be reached on foot from Guckheim. The Elbbach flows right by Guckheim to the
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. With its water power, the mill was powered centuries ago. Some 5 km away is found Schloss Westerburg (residential castle), first mentioned in 1192. Furthermore, lying roughly 10 km away, between Pottum und
Stahlhofen Stahlhofen is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is not to be confused with Stahlhofen am Wiesensee, another community in the same district, but i ...
is the Wiesensee (lake) and its accompanying recreation area. The lake is some 450 m high and has an area of about 80 ha. About 750 m from Guckheim, an 11-km-long, popular hiking trail leads from the direction of
Wallmerod Wallmerod is an ''Ortsgemeinde''—a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde''—in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Wallmerod lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Rennerod. The community is th ...
to the former railway area in
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. The trail, which is also used by cyclists and skaters, is to be extended in the next few years by 10 to 20 km towards
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/
Rennerod Rennerod is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Rennerod, a kind of collective municipality. Within the municipal area, until German Reunification on 3 Octobe ...
across the railway bridge, a protected monument, in Westerburg.


Further reading

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; ''Guckheim, Geschichte und Geschichten aus einem Westerwald-Dorf'', publisher: Ortsgemeinde Guckheim, 318 pages,


External links


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References

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