Inventory description: Abt. 43 Gemeindearchiv Leiselheim Scope: 214 archive cartons (= 1341/1354 units of description and 1 lfm of official records = 34 lfm) Duration: approx. 1600 - 1942 Cataloguing: Augias database (retroconversion of the mechanical finding aid a.d. J. 1990) Nov. 2009 About the local history Gut situated four kilometres west of Worms north of the Pfrimmtal; first documented in 1141; at the latest since this time part of the high monastery Worms, belonged then to the dominion Stauf, from 1422 to the county Nassau-Saarbrücken (together with the bishop of Worms) and finally to Nassau-Weilburg, about 1683 finally in Electoral Palatine possession (already at the latest since the Reformation time Electoral Palatinate was de facto local lord), 1705 the bishop of Worms renounced the three villages Hochheim, Pfiffligheim and Leiselheim in favour of the Palatinate county; The town was predominantly reformed by the Electoral Palatinate rule since the Reformation, parish church St. Laurentius (Catholic after disputes between the Reformed and Catholic sides since the division of the church in 1705, since 18th/19th century the Catholics belonged to the parish of Pfeddersheim; the Reformed who belonged to Hochheim built a new church in 1716); around 1900 approx. 970 inhabitants; 1798 - 1814 French domination, from 1816 Grand Duchy or People's State Hesse; 1816 Canton Pfeddersheim, 1835 District Worms, 1848 Administrative District Mainz, 1850 Administrative District Worms, 1852 - 1942 District Worms, incorporation into Worms as of 1.4.1942 To the inventory The Dept. V - VII of the registration plan of 1908 are not documented. Compared to the inventory of 1937, the following losses can be noted: in IX: treasure register 1739-1780; treasure records 1742, 1780; treasure accounts and files 18th century and others; in X: purchase records 1689-1797; in XI: population lists 1695, 1705, citizens' assumptions 1777-1796; in XV: expenditure books of the mayor 1722-1758; in XXI: agricultural statistics 1771-1790. To mention are the older holdings (before 1800): in VIII war accounts 1699-1817, quarters and fourages etc. 1759; in IX: Hebregister über die Bede 1694-1796; tax lists 1694-1814, Schatzungsheberegister 1696-1796, files concerning interest rights on spiritual goods and concerning tithes 17th and 18th century, further lift registers 18th centuryTreasure records about Leiselheimer and Hochheimer capital 1740-1780; in X: court records 1768-1819, promissory notes and bonds 1703-1794 (in it Gültverschreibungen, 1712, 1743, 1748, 1752, 1754, 1756), register of wills 1759-1798, inheritance and guardianship matters 1690-1796, purchase and auction files 1701-1794; in XI: Population statistics 1758-1816, serfdom affairs 1717-1811, body register approx. 1725; in XII: single sheets of the ref. church book 1732-1798 as well as cath. Church book Leiselheim, Hochheim, Pfiffligheim 1696-1798 (according to inventory 1937, now in dept. 108); Confirmed 1733-1795, church elders and charity keepers 1733-1796, records of the church account 1703-1787; in XV: community officials 1720-1818, Bürgerweide 1786-1833, baking house and smithy 1721-1820; community debts 1700-1820; community accounts from 1795 (with gaps); in XVI: Alms gradient 1711-1769; in XXI: Livestock exchange and sales records 1715-1745, various purchase and sales records, auctions 17./18th century, Damage tables 1768-1789; various lists of goods 18th century, Renovation of the estates of the Martinsstift in 1750; in XXIII: Zunftsachen 1707 Supplementary Archive Holdings Cf. Documents in Dept. 41 (Hochheim) and 45 (Pfiffligheim) as well as in Dept. 13 No. 463 (dismissals from the Hessian Untertanenverband, 1844 - 1914); in Dept. 49 (XIII) documents concerning the settlement of Jews from the 19th century can be found; see also some volumes in Dept. 30 Lit.: Spille (Bearb.), City of Worms (pp. 246-251)
Description of holdings: Dept. 42 Gemeindearchiv Horchheim Scope: 107 archive boxes, 3 m Amtsbücher, 11 m Urk.z.Rechn. (923 units = 33 m) Duration: 1710 - 1945/72 Zur Ortsgeschichte Horchheim lies approx. four km southwest of Worms in the Eisbachtal. The village was first mentioned in a deed of donation in the Lorsch Codex in 766. The name of the place is derived from the word "horac" "swampy". The marshy valley, afflicted by the floods of the Eisbach, gave it its name. Horchheim had belonged to the high monastery of Worms since the early Middle Ages. Together with some surrounding villages Horchheim and Weinsheim belonged to the dominion of Stauf, which in the 12th century was under the rule of Counts of Eberstein, from 1215 the Counts of Zweibrücken and from 1378 by purchase to the Counts of Sponheim. In 1393 the dominion was inherited by the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken; the Electorate Palatinate and Nassau-Weilburg, who had also acquired rights in Horchheim over the years, were involved in an exchange contract in 1706, with which the village returned to the high monastery (until 1798). 1798 - 1814 French domination, from 1816 Grand Duchy and Volksstaat Hessen respectively; 1816 Canton Pfeddersheim, 1835 District Worms, 1848 Regierungsbezirk Mainz, 1850 Regierungsbezirk Worms, 1852 - 1942 District Worms, incorporation into Worms on 01.04.1942. The municipalities Horchheim and Weinsheim are closely connected in their history. In 1715 Weinsheim appears for the first time as an independent municipality with its own mayor. After 1792, Weinsheim was administered from Wiesoppenheim, while it had always been a church branch of Horchheim. Due to the close connection, files from Weinsheim are also part of the Horchheim collection. From the middle of the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century Horchheim was predominantly Protestant, since 1635 (until today predominantly Catholic) again (parish church Heilig-Kreuz, patronage and tenth right of the cathedral monastery). In 1496 about 200 inhabitants lived in Horchheim. By 1900 the population had grown to about 1,800 inhabitants, 7 of them Jews, and in 2002 it was 4,475 inhabitants. Worth mentioning are the charitable foundations in Horchheim: the Elendenbruderschaft, the Hospital Neuhausen and the branch of the Order of Merciful Sisters. The brotherhood of the wretched was established in 1448. In 1726 a new altar for the church was procured from the funds of the foundation and a contribution to the purchase of an organ was shown. The money from the interest was used to build and maintain the school building and to pay the school teachers, to care for the local poor and poor travellers and to pay the school fees for poor children. In 1824 the fund was placed under the control of the administrative commission of the Neuhausen Hospital by the provincial government in Mainz. In 1825, at the request of the Horchheim municipal council, the so-called brotherhood house with garden was auctioned off. The proceeds were used to build the new school and community centre. The Neuhausen Hospital was founded in 1729/30 by the bishop of Worms, Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg (1694-1732) in the form of a foundation and equipped with rich property. In a document dated 22 August 1730 (Dept. 61 No. 112), the bishop bought the manor and former monastery Liebenau for 12,000 guilders with an associated mill and numerous possessions in order to guarantee the existence of the foundation. Before his death he bequeathed a large part of his assets to the foundation to complete the newly built hospital building so that the Pfründner could finally move in. At the beginning of the French period (1798), when the buildings were destroyed, they were converted into a civil hospital, which was united with other hospitals in the canton of Pfeddersheim. By decree of 1801 the Hospital Neuhausen regained its independence and its name. Horchheim was chosen as the seat of the foundation, which was chaired by the mayor of Horchheim. Furthermore, the 14 member municipalities on the left bank of the Rhine were defined, whose citizens benefited from the funds and whose envoys formed the Administrative Commission. These were: Beindersheim, Bobenheim, Dirmstein, Hettenheim, Leidelheim (later Hettenleidelheim), Horchheim, Laumersheim, Mörsch, Neuhausen, Neuleinigen, Rheindürkheim, Roxheim, Weinsheim and Wiesoppenheim. In 1855, a revised monastery statute came into force, which was replaced by a new statute in 1948. The former hospital - under the supervision of the hospital commission on the basis of a hospital property consisting of agricultural land in 20 local markings in and around Worms - still exists today as a foundation. As a result of the incorporation into Worms on 01.04.1942, the archival material was added to the city archives in 1943 (cf. tax register of the municipality of Horchheim, Dept. 20 No. 22). On 17.03.2004 the city archive took over the remaining files, which had been kept in the municipality. The inventory was already indexed by a preliminary list (rough drawing). Distortion began in March 2008. The duration, the structure of which corresponds to the registration plan of 1908, ranges from (1614) 1710 to 1972. Particularly worth mentioning are the Horchheimer Flur- und Güterbuch with border description of the district of Horchheim from 1710-1773 (no. 0043) as well as the Schatzungsbuch 1710-1798 (no. 0001); Gerichtsprotokoll über Tausch-, Kauf- und Verkaufsgeschäfte 1769-1791, Vormundschaften 18. (alph.); stock book, renovation protocol 1753; renovation of the Korngülte of the Andreasstift (Perg. Urk. 1614), various renovations and Gülten of the 18th century. With the inhabitant maps are excerpts from the birth, marriage, punishment and death registers, offerings, church exits for the period from 1853 to 1972 (use after arrangement). As an almost complete series, the Mayor's Office invoices and the corresponding documents, in which plans for the construction of the school building, 1827, (No. 793/2), situation plan for the supervision or approval of new buildings on the lower eastward part of the village of Horchheim, 1847 (No. 793/2), are presented, are almost complete (No. 793/2). 322), draft for the construction of the bridge over the Eisbach at the lower mill at Horchheim, 1846 (No. 802/4) as well as cost estimates for the construction of a mortuary, catering and quartering of the troops. The local companies are also important: Pfeiffer