May 9, 2023 | Chronicle, Hiking around Harxheim, Local history, Local history details
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...
May 9, 2023 | Chronicle, Hiking around Harxheim, Local history, Local history details
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...
May 9, 2023 | Chronicle, Local history, Local history details
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...
May 9, 2023 | Chronicle, Local history
Archaeological finds in Harxheim Harxheim was first mentioned in documents in the second half of the 8th century. Archaeologiscfindings, however, provethat in the Harxheim as in the rest of Rheinhessen, people lived in the Harxheim area much earlier.. Again and again,...
May 8, 2023 | Chronicle, Churches in Harxheim, Local history
Johannes Würth – pastor and chronicler Johannes Würth was a Lutheran pastor in Harxheim from 1909 to 1920. During this time he also worked as a diligent community chronicler and recorded the important events in the village in the chronicle of the Protestant...
