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18-564: Alsheim is mentioned in the Wormser wall-building ordinance from around 900 as one of the places that shared responsibility for maintaining the city wall of Worms . The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Eich , whose seat is in the like-named municipality . The village, along with the hamlet of Hangen-Wahlheim, lies amidst vineyards at the foot of

36-612: A period during which Worms established its own "foreign policy". The last two sections are exceptionally valuable sources for understanding the military resources of the city. The Annales has a complicated manuscript and publication history. The work edited under the title Annales Wormatienses in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica combines the Annales proper and the Chronicon Wormatiense . The definitive edition

54-500: A subsidy of 400 pounds of the money of Halle to this enterprise in July. ... All of the men of Worms were there as a powerful force with their battle flag and their battle wagon. They undertook very heavy expenses on account of their engines, their equipment, and their archers. They also brought considerable quantities of food from Worms. During the siege, the old steward Werner was captured along with two of his knights. The men of Worms presented

72-579: Is also one of the biggest in the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate . A peculiarity in Alsheim's landscape is to be found in its broad network of sunken lanes . They stretch on for 11.5 km within the municipal area and were carved into the surrounding land by centuries of human activity wearing the land down. They are available for hiking and walking even today. In the summer months, there are sunken lane tours on offer, and for avid photographers, also photo excursions. Alsheim lies right on Bundesstraße 9, on

90-644: Is made up of 20 council members, with the honorary mayor as chairman, and with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 7 June 2009) The municipality's arms might be described thus: Azure two bishop's croziers in saltire, each with a sudarium fringed Or. A considerable portion of Alsheim's character rests on winegrowing , and with 704 ha of vineyards currently worked, 69.3% with white wine varieties and 30.7% with red , it ranks fifth after Worms (1 490 ha), Nierstein (783 ha), Alzey (769 ha) and Westhofen (764 ha) among Rhenish Hesse's biggest winegrowing centres. It

108-535: Is one of Rhenish Hesse's most important winegrowing centres in Germany's biggest wine region. The wines, overwhelmingly from traditional white and red varieties of grape, are widely known for their quality. Hiking trails and a wine heritage trail, together with cycle paths, connect the countryside. There are several inns and winemaking estates. The village is well linked by rail and road to, among other places, Mainz, Oppenheim , Worms, Speyer and Heidelberg . The council

126-539: The Annales Wormatienses and the Chronicon Wormatiense . The combined Descriptio , Annales and Chronicon were published under the title Annales Wormatienses by G. H. Pertz . The disentangling of the medieval texts combined in Zorn's was done by Heinrich Boos  [ de ] . The Descriptio has been published three times: by Pertz, by Boos and by Van De Kieft and Niermeyer. The ordinance appears in

144-530: The Descriptio is more than a description. It is an ordinance assigning Mauerbaupflicht , i.e., the construction and upkeep of specific sections of wall, to both neighbourhoods within Worms and the villages or manors outside it. The ordinance is a unique witness for its place and time. Lynette Olson calls it "a glimpse of transalpine urban life at its nadir, but still organised". The following places are mentioned in

162-540: The Descriptio : Annales Wormatienses The Annales Wormatienses (or Annals of Worms , German : Wormser Annalen ) is an anonymous Latin chronicle of the city of Worms for the years 1226–1278. It is a civic history, a relatively new genre in German kingdom at the time. It may be the earliest German example of the type, which originated in Italian kingdom in the 11th century. The goal of such local histories

180-629: The Rhenish-Hessian Rhine terraces between Mainz and Worms . Favoured as it is by its central location between the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and the Rhine-Neckar conurbations , Alsheim has for a long time been growing into a markedly residential community. New housing developments will further strengthen this trend. Nevertheless, winegrowing still defines the village's character. With more than 700 ha of vineyard, Alsheim

198-584: The city of Worms'), also known as the Wormser Mauerbauordnung ('wall-building ordinance of Worms'), is an ordinance from about 900 concerning the maintenance of the city wall of Worms, Germany . The Descriptio , which is written in Latin , is preserved in the Wormser Chronik of Friedrich Zorn  [ de ] . Zorn's work, which dates to 1576, combines material from several sources, including

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216-573: The empire in its contest with the Papacy . The Annales can be roughly divided into three sections. The first concerns the contest between the city and the bishopric. The second concerns the wars between kings Frederick II and Conrad IV and the Papacy between 1227 and 1254, in which the city took the side of the kings. The third concerns the Great Interregnum following the death of King William in 1256,

234-537: The establishment of the free city in 1226, against the opposition of Bishop Henry II . The author was probably a layman who sat on the municipal council. He made extensive use of the municipal archives. He presents the Wormsers as a unified community seeking to uphold their rights. He presents the Jews as an integral part of this community. Although they fight constantly for the rights, the Wormsers are also portrayed as loyal to

252-448: The knights and the steward to Lord E the count of Leiningen, who led him off to Leiningen and received 400 marks from him. Lord Philip of Hohenfels was the only one in Alzey to help the people there with his men against all of the lords of the province. Soon afterward the matter was settled through the mediating efforts of Bishop Werner of Mainz. The lords and the cities were permitted to destroy

270-686: The main Worms-Mainz tangential road. Reachable within a few minutes are the Autobahnen A ;63 through the Biebelnheim interchange and A 61 through the Worms/Mörrstadt or Gundersheim interchange. In the heart of Alsheim can be found a railway station , from which travellers can ride VRN and DB trains directly to Worms and Mainz. Descriptio Wormatiensis civitatis The Descriptio Wormatiensis civitatis ('description of

288-574: The manuscript under the rubric Descriptio Wormatiensis civitatis facta a Theodolacho episcopo Wormatiensi anno 873, qui obiit in Neuweiller anno 914 kal. sept., episcopatus anno quadrageismo primo , "a description of the city of Worms made in the year 873 [ sic ] by Thietlach, bishop of Worms, who died in Neuweiler in the year 914 on 1 September, in the forty-first year of his episcopate". Issued by Bishop Thietlach ( r.  891–914 ),

306-489: Was justify the city's autonomy and self-government. In the case of Worms, independence from the bishop of Worms and the status of a free city within the Holy Roman Empire . The surviving Annales is fragmentary. The original probably extended from the 4th century, when the city was Christianized , until 1283 and the death of Bishop Frederick I . It was written in the late 13th century. As it stands, it begins with

324-456: Was published by Heinrich Boos  [ de ] in 1893. There is an English translation by David Bachrach. The following excerpt covers Worms's attack on Alzey : On the octave of St. John the Baptist 1260, the citizens of Worms advanced with numerous territorial lords to destroy that den of thieves, Alzey. This expedition cost the citizens of Worms more than 1,000 marks. The Jews provided

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