May 10, 2023 | Chronicle, Historical plot numbers
Field names “Flurnamen (…) are names for agriculturally used areas (fields, meadows, vineyards, fallow land, etc.), community-owned facilities (bakehouse, gallows) and natural objects (forest, paths), which are located outside of settlements”...
May 9, 2023 | Chronicle, Local history, Local history details
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...
May 8, 2023 | Chronicle, Local history
Harxheim emigrants in the 18. and 19th century According to documents in the main state archives in Darmstadt, 118 Harxheimers left the town in the 18. and 19th century Harxheim to start a new life in another place. The Harxheim emigrants can be divided into three...
Nov 30, 2022 | Chronicle, Local history
Harxheim and the Counts of Falkenstein What does Harxheim have to do with a dynasty of counts whose ancestral seat is at Falkenstein Castle near Falkenstein/Donnersberg, almost 60 kilometers away? The answer is simple – a long shared history. As early as 1190,...
