As part of an EAFRD- and LEADER-funded project, the HVV-Harxheim has carefully researched, documented and prepared the history of the village. A historical local loop trail and the Harxheim Panorama Trail were created, videos of contemporary witnesses were produced and the VinoMobil, our bar truck, was put into operation.
Numerous information boards on the circular routes provide information about the historical, geographical and architectural features in and around the village, supplemented by information about the flora and fauna in the district. These information boards are each provided with a QR code, so that the interested viewer is guided directly on site to the detailed information on this page – in different languages.
In the video recordings, contemporary witnesses recall stories, anecdotes and personal details from days gone by and provide a glimpse of the Harxheim of yesterday for the generations of the Harxheim of tomorrow.
Fence beet
The poisonous fence beet (Bryonia dioica) is deeply rooted in the ground with a beet-shaped root. The angular stem can reach a height of 4 m. With the help of tendrils it climbs up fences and other supports. Therefore, overgrowth of small trees and...
Wild carrot
Wild carrot (Daucus carota): Several pinnate, narrowly lanceolate leaves grow on a furrowed hairy stem. The umbel flower with small, white single flowers is spread flat. In the middle of them usually sits a blackish dark red flower. After...
Fragrant violet
Fragrant violet (Viola odorata) is a dainty herb and forms creeping runners that can root themselves. In a rosette close to the ground are long-stalked leaves that are roundish to cordate, finely hairy, and notched at the edges. Pleasantly fragrant...
Deadnettle
Purple deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) and white deadnettle (Lamium album): Hairy, heart-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with toothed edges grow on a square, hollow stem. The white or purple flowers sit just above the leaves around the stem. Visually, it...
Herb Robert
The tender shoots of the herb Robert (Geranium robertianum) are green to crimson in color and covered with glandular hairs. Numerous opposite, stalked, palmately divided and pinnate leaves sit between the branched stems. The light red to bright...
Sweet clover
Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis): Clover-like, three-parted, ovate leaflets grow on an erect, branched, angular stem with serrated edges. The yellow, honey-scented butterfly flowers hang in long, stalked clusters and all face one side. The...
Gallant soldier
Gallant soldier (Galinsoga parviflora): Its glabrous, erect stem grows pointed, ovate, opposite leaves with serrated margins. The flower heads consist of a yellow corolla and 5 white, short ray florets. There are large gaps between the 2-3 toothed...
Lesser burnet saxifrage
On a round, finely grooved and downy-haired stem, the leaves of the lesser burnet (Pimpinella saxifraga) grow mainly near the ground. They consist of 3 to 5 pairs of roundish and marginally coarsely serrate leaflets and a single terminal leaflet....
Blackthorn
Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is an almost impenetrable, thorny shrub that reaches a height of up to 3 meters. Its stalked, elliptical leaves are finely serrated along the margin. Before they are formed, the small white flowers appear, which are so...
Red clover
Red clover (Trifolium pratense): From a short rootstock, a multitude of flowering stems develop in a lawn-like manner. The spherical flower heads consist of many individual pink to purple butterfly flowers. The leaves consist of three ovate...
Wild parsnip
The wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a biennial umbelliferous plant and reaches a height of up to 120 cm. The angular furrowed stem, is branched from the middle. On it grow yellowish green, simply pinnate, shiny leaves. A leaf consists of 2 to 7...
Evening Primrose
Evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) is a 2-year-old plant that forms a rosette of leaves close to the ground in the first year, with long, narrow leaves that are slightly toothed at the edges. Leaves and the hairy stem often have a reddish tinge....
Milk Thistle
A striking feature of milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is its large, green-white marbled, very thorny-toothed leaves. At the ends of the angular stems sit individually the purple, globular capitulum flowers. From them develop the hard-shelled...
Wild mallow
Wild mallow (Malva sylvestris) grows long-stalked, usually five-lobed leaves on a pubescent stem. Tufts of 2 to 6 long-stalked, pinkish-purple petals, interspersed with darker leaf veins, sit in the leaf axils. The wild mallow reaches a height of...
Lesser Celandine
The perennial of lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) reaches a height of 5 to 20 cm. Its fleshy leaves are long-stalked, heart- or kidney-shaped, and glossy green on top with notched margins. The star-shaped, bright yellow flowers are also...
Garlic rocket
The leaves of the garlic weed (Alliaria petiolata) grow opposite on an angular stem, at the top of which are several small white flowers with 4 petals. The upper leaves are pointed, heart-shaped and strongly toothed at the edge. The lower leaves...
St. John’s wort
St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum): Small, egg-shaped leaves grow on a two-edged stem, arranged in opposite directions. Due to the essential oil contained in it, small black dots appear, which make the leaves look holey. The yellow flowers are...
Elderberry
Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) is a small tree or a branchy shrub, reaching a height of 3 to 7 m. On the barky branches grow opposite arranged leaves, which in turn are composed of 5 - 7 subleaves. The white flowers have a 5-part corolla and stand...
Shepherd’s purse
Shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) forms a rosette of leaves consisting of elongated, strongly notched leaves. The heart-shaped seeds are on long stalks around the stem. Small, white flowers sit at the top of the stems. The plant reaches a...
Tall buttercup
The tall buttercup (Ranunculus acris) has a hollow, weakly hairy branched stem arising from a very short rhizome, at the end of which are bright yellow flowers. Basal bottom leaves are long-stalked and palmate 5- to 7-lobed. Caution: When fresh,...
The stained glass windows of the Protestant church
The beautiful and artistically valuable stained...
The Selz position – Harxheim fortification group
The Selzstellung, now widely forgotten, was...
Bomber crash August 17, 1943 – Harxheim escapes disaster
On the return flight from a heavy American...
Tough post-war years and “Harxheim tomatoes
Spring 1945 - Germany had surrendered. After a...
Turn of the times – Harxheim from 1933 to 1945
National Socialist ideas fell on fertile ground...
Stroll through the history of Harxheim
The first documented mention of the community of Harxheim is found in a deed of donation to the Lorsch Monastery from the year 776. The year 767 mentioned in another document, which in the past was always assumed to be the first mention, almost certainly refers to Harxheim/Pfrimm, 40km to the...
Rheinhessen’s history before 1816
Favorable climatic conditions and the Rhine as a traffic artery have attracted people to Rheinhessen at all times. Thus, the region called Rheinhessen since 1816 has also experienced eventful times long before that.First settlements existed in Rheinhessen already between 4000 - 2000 B.C. Around...
Rhinehessen
In 1816, after the repartition of Europe at the Congress of Vienna, our region was added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was given the name Province of Rhinehesse. Today, Rheinhessen is no longer an administrative unit, but now denotes an evolved cultural region and Germany's largest wine-growing...
The Harxheim coat of arms
The current Harxheim coat of arms was certified in 1967 by the Ministry of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate and goes back to an old court seal from 1636. The Harxheim local coat of arms is precisely defined in the official description of the coat of arms:"In gold, a green ear of corn and a...
Economic center “Old Hashem”
Until the later decades of the last century, there were still many small commercial enterprises in the old center of Harxheim, which offered products for daily needs or services. The following article is dedicated to them.The Rhine-Hessian Gaustraße used to lead as an important long-distance...
The Harxheim Wine Yard Festival
The Harxheimer Weinhöfefest was first celebrated in 1980 and quickly became the most important festival in the village. Since 2014, it has carried the "Rheinhessen AUSGEZEICHNET" seal of quality. With the exception of the Corona year 2020, a new wine princess has been crowned every year since....
Excerpts from the postal history
The municipality of Harxheim acquired a rural mailbox as early as 1861, which was ordered daily by the letter carrier from Bodenheim. From 1904 to 1996 there was also a post office in Harxheim, which was first located in the Obergasse and from 1987 in the Untergasse. Since then, there is a postal...
Saint Laurent
An almost disappeared red wine variety that convinces as a rarity and specialty with a strong...
Cabernet Sauvignon
This vine represents the most cultivated grape variety in the world and produces powerful wines...
Blue Portugieser
A vine that produces simple wines by the glass and rosé, as well as white herbs to expressive red...
Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir is the king among red wines, but it is also winning more and more wine lovers as rosé...
Dornfelder
The high flyer among the red wines in our region. By far the most commonly grown red wine variety...
Gewürztraminer
The centuries-old grape variety is capable of producing fine wines even in difficult years due to...
Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon Blanc, the second most popular white wine variety in the world, surprises wine lovers...
Jewish population in Harxheim
Jewish life was part of the culture and history...
Jewish life in Harxheim: Fritz Mayer
The eldest son of Ferdinand Mayer, Moritz Fritz,...
Jewish life in Harxheim: Judith Mayer
Ferdinand's widow Judith prepared her emigration...
Jewish life in Harxheim: Johanna Mayer
Johanna Mayer was born in Harxheim on June 9,...
Jewish life in Harxheim: Simon Mayer
Simon, born in Harxheim on April 20, 1919, was...
Jewish life in Harxheim: Family Ferdinand and Judith Mayer
In today's Untergasse 19 lived for generations...
Jewish life in Harxheim: Family Moritz and Katharina Gutha Mayer
In Untergasse 13 lived another family named...
Jewish life in Harxheim: Other Jewish persons
According to research by Rüdiger Gottwald, the...
Hashemer Stories
The landmark of Harxheim
Tanja Reßler
Three buildings vie for the title of Harxheim's landmark. Which one is it really?Is it the typical view along Gaustraße...
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In addition to the Harxheim local scales in Untergasse, there was another scale in Bahnhofstraße directly at the former railroad...
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The local scales – the scales in the lower lane
Siegfried Schaefer
Every community in Rheinhessen had a functioning community scale until the mid-1990s. The old weighing house still reminds of the...
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“Michel Michel” – the last Harxheim original
Siegfried Schaefer
Michel Michel was a truly oddball representative of the genre of village originals. He and his bicycle were inseparable, garden...
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“Es Spritze-Heisje”
Siegfried Schaefer
Every community in Rheinhessen had, in some cases until the 1960s, a central point in the village for mixing sprays...
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“Es Brockelche” – village servant, field gunner, and delivery man
Siegfried Schaefer
Every community in Rheinhessen had people who were somehow special in their own way. Lovable, but sometimes very quirky. Unfortunately,...
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About the goodness and many of the wine from the year 1558 to 1862
Siegfried Schaefer
A privately owned handwritten documentation reports on the basis of short comments of the author about the annual wine harvests...
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The project
"Harxheim: circular routes, local documentation and contemporary witnesses": This is the somewhat unwieldy name of the largest HVV project to date after the Weinhöfefest. Within the framework of the project, which was predominantly supported with European LEADER...
Acknowledgement
A project of this dimension could only be implemented with active support. We would like to thank all Harxheimers who supported us with their knowledge, photos, interviews, video interviews, old documents, photo albums and their willingness to help. And of course the entire team that researched, documented, produced, dug, concreted, screwed on, implemented and technically enabled all this with and for the HVV.
Without all of you this would not have been possible. Thank you very much!
The Board
HVV-Harxheim
