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43-641: The Kahlheid near Morscheid-Riedenburg in the Idar Forest ( Hunsrück ) is a mountain , 766 m above  sea level (NHN) , on the boundary between the counties of Birkenfeld and Bernkastel-Wittlich in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate . The mountain is the third highest in Rhineland-Palatinate after the Erbeskopf (816.3 m), 2.6 km to the southwest and its southwestern subpeak,

86-510: A Jew still living in Langenlonsheim, was forced to sell the synagogue for only 427.50  ℛℳ to a non-Jewish private citizen as the Jewish community found itself undergoing dissolution. In 1950, the sale was annulled, whereupon there was a change in ownership. In 1958, the synagogue building was torn down. Another building was built on the plot. The synagogue stood where the building whose address

129-460: A Jewish family in the village – named Benedict – comes from 1685. In 1695 a Wendel Judt was named. In 1722, two Jewish families were named (Jud Benedict and Mayer), while in 1743 it was four (Hayum Benedict, Götz Benedict, Juda Kahn and Meyer). In 1790, the following Jewish household heads were named: Hayum Benedict ( widow ), Joseph Benedict, Nadan Benedict Maier, Gottschlag Jude, Benedict Joseph, Sükkind Juda, David Götz and Benedict Nadan. In

172-718: A fitness path (called the Trimm-Dich-Pfad  – the "Trim-Yourself Path") and a Nordic walking facility, which were restored in 2006 and furnished with new equipment. The following clubs are active in Langenlonsheim: There is also an association of the village's clubs ( Ortsvereinsring ). Over the years, an industrial park with firms in various fields has arisen. These include dye and lacquer production, above- and below-ground construction, wine bottling and processing, car dealerships, garden centres, fitter's shops, storage facilities and shipping companies. Langenlonsheim

215-528: A former NATO military facility, Hahn Air Base , most of whose military functions ceased on 30 September 1993. Until 1 December 1938, a tramway ran from Bad Kreuznach Kornmarkt to Langenlonsheim railway station . The so-called Elektrisch ran in the early days (1911) as many as 20 times each day. At the former Kloningersmühle stop (on Langenlonsheim's outskirts), travellers from the Hunsrück could ride straight to Bad Kreuznach. Owing to shrinking ridership after

258-540: A lively part in public life and in the village's clubs, even as club founders and chairmen: Heinrich Natt and Siegmund Hirschberger were founding members in 1887 of the Verein für Leibesübungen 1887 Langenlonsheim e.V. (a club for physical exercise), while Siegmund Heymann, Siegmund Hirschberger, Carl Mayer and Emil Natt were, among other such endeavours, founding members in 1902 of the Langenlonsheim volunteer fire brigade . Two members of Langenlonsheim's Jewish community fell in

301-440: A plot on Hintergasse (a lane) for just such a thing. It is believed that the synagogue was built about 1860, for the building is shown in the 1863 cadastral plan. It was a simple plastered building built out of brick and quarrystone. There was seating inside for roughly 50 worshippers, and there was a women's gallery. For some 70 years, the synagogue was the hub of Jewish life in Langenlonsheim. On Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938),

344-408: A railway line between Langenlonsheim and Hermeskeil , which at the moment lies idle, although it is to be reactivated, at least from Morbach as far as Bingen , for its usefulness as a link to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport . The municipality of Morbach is the location of a great wind farm with fourteen wind turbines, a big photovoltaic complex , a biogas complex and a wood pellet works. The rent on

387-443: Is Old Catholic (0.027%), 1 is Russian Orthodox (0.027%), 305 (8.097%) belong to other religious groups and 806 (21.396%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation. The council is made up of 20 council members, who were elected by personalized proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded

430-505: Is 11,051. The nearest town is Bernkastel-Kues . The terrain is one of rolling hills, with superbly organized and maintained stretches of forest interspersed with manicured farmland. Some of the highest (cleanest) air readings in all of Northern Europe have been measured near this area. The municipality of Morbach is subdivided into the following Ortsteile : Until municipal administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969,

473-544: Is Hintergasse 30 now stands. Once each year, Langenlonsheim holds a wine festival and a kermis (church consecration festival). Found in Langenlonsheim are an outdoor swimming pool , a football pitch and an aerodrome . This last facility, the Flugplatz Langenlonsheim , offers opportunities for gliding , motorized flight and balloon flight. The Verein Aero-Club Rhein-Nahe , which operates out of

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516-650: Is considerably characterized by winegrowing and with 187 ha of planted vineyards is the Nahe wine region's biggest winegrowing centre after Bad Kreuznach , Guldental and Wallhausen . Langenlonsheim's website lists three wineries in the village. The village has also had three local ladies chosen as Wine Queen or Wine Princess: Carolin Klumb (Nahe Wine Queen 2011/2012), Maren Müller (Nahe Wine Princess 2005/2006) and Judith Honrath (Nahe Wine Queen 2001/2002 and German Wine Queen 2002/2003). Bundesstraße 48 runs straight through

559-574: Is now the outlying centre of Wenigerath lay the US Air Force's Wenigerath Munitions Depot until 1995. Beginning in the 1950s, several hundred United States Air Force Munitions Systems personnel, otherwise known as “ammo troops”, worked at the so-called Wenigerath Non-Nuclear Munitions Storage Area and lived in Morbach and neighbouring villages in support of NATO operations launched from nearby Hahn Air base. The former “bomb dump”, which ceased operations after

602-529: Is the railway viaduct in the outlying centre of Hoxel, which is one of the highest single-level stone railway bridges in Germany. Other points of interest in the Morbach area are: Morbach is headquarters to Papier-Mettler, a German manufacturer of paper and plastic packaging. Public transport is integrated into the Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT), whose fares therefore apply. Bus route 300 of

645-764: The Gedenkbuch  – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under National Socialist Tyranny ") and Yad Vashem , of all Jews who either were born in Langenlonsheim or lived there for a long time, 50 were killed through Nazi persecution (birthdates in brackets): On 1 September 2011, Gunter Demnig came to Langenlonsheim and laid 12 of his Stolpersteine in memory of Jews from Langenlonsheim who were murdered in

688-570: The First World War , Unteroffizier Sally Natt (b. 7 July 1889 in Langenlonsheim, d. 26 September 1914) and Gefreiter Arthur Metzger (b. 6 November 1883 in Langenlonsheim, d. May 1915). Both names appear on the monument to the fallen in the First World War that stands before the general graveyard. All together, fourteen Jewish men were in wartime service; several came back highly decorated. About 1924, when there were still some 50 persons in

731-777: The Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft links the municipality every two hours with the main railway station in Wittlich on the Koblenz-Trier railway line. Bus route 343 from Omnibusverkehr Rhein-Nahe runs a service on weekdays to the Idar-Oberstein railway station on the Saarbrücken - Mainz railway line. Through Morbach run Bundesstraßen 269 and 327, as does the Hunsrückquerbahn (“Cross-Hunsrück Railway”),

774-737: The Springenkopf (784.2 m), in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald , and the peak of An den zwei Steinen (766.2 m), 12 km to the northeast (both distances as the crow flies ), also in the Idar Forest. Morscheid-Riedenburg The municipality lies at an elevation of between 430 and 770 m above sea level in the low mountain range of the Hunsrück on the boundary with the Birkenfeld district, roughly 25 km southeast of Wittlich and 35 km east of Trier . Its population

817-482: The Verbandsgemeinde Langenlonsheim-Stromberg , and is also its seat. Langenlonsheim is a state-recognized tourism community and a winegrowing village. Langenlonsheim lies between the southern edge of the Hunsrück and the Nahe . Lying 7 km away is the district seat, Bad Kreuznach , while Bingen am Rhein lies just under 10 km away. On the municipality's western outskirts,

860-546: The synagogue was utterly demolished by Nazi brigands from within Langenlonsheim and without. The families of Fritz Natt, Karl Mayer, Karl Nachmann and Moritz Weiss had their houses invaded and destroyed as living spaces. Several Jews were mishandled and more than slightly injured. The Jewish men were taken away to Dachau concentration camp . After the first deportation on 10 April 1942, Langenlonsheim's last two Jewish inhabitants, August Weiss and his wife Isabella Weiss née Furchheimer, were deported on 25 April 1942. According to

903-593: The 19th century, the number of Jewish inhabitants developed as follows: in 1808 there were 45; in 1843, there were 42 (of all together 1,236 inhabitants); in 1858, 73; in 1895, 70. In 1808, the following Jewish families were listed (the names given in brackets were those borne after Napoleonic French rule ended): Israel Brill, Benoît (Benedict) Goetz, Gottschalk Kahn, Widow (?) Rebekka Kuhn, Widow (of Joseph Kaufmann) Schoene Kaufmann née Kuhn, Benoît (Benedict) Natt, Mayer Natt, Jacques (Jakob) Scheier (Scheuer), Moses Schweiss (Schweig), Widow Judith Stern, Seeligmann Stern. In

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946-767: The Family Blank (religion teacher, Kreuznacher Straße). After 1933 (Langenlonsheim's Jewish population that year was 40), the year when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power , though, some of the Jews moved away or even emigrated in the face of the boycotting of their businesses, the progressive stripping of their rights and repression, all brought about by the Nazis. In the 1939 Bad Kreuznach book of inhabitants (presumably presenting 1938 figures), five Jewish families are still listed: Karl Mayer, Rudolf Mayer, Fritz Natt, August Weiss and Moritz Weiss. On Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938),

989-592: The Guldenbach flows by, while the Nahe flows by to the south. Langenlonsheim is well known for its good vineyards and wineries and its Qualitätsweine . Fertile loess soils and the region's warm climate have been defining factors for the village. Clockwise from the north, Langenlonsheim's neighbours are the municipalities of Laubenheim , Grolsheim , Gensingen , Bretzenheim , Guldental , Windesheim , Waldlaubersheim and Dorsheim . Grolsheim and Gensingen both lie in

1032-455: The Holocaust . Langenlonsheim's population development since Napoleonic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data: Langenlonsheim has both an Evangelical and a Catholic church community. There was formerly also an important Jewish community before the Nazis destroyed it. The first place of worship built in Langenlonsheim

1075-987: The Jewish community (2.5% of the total population of some 2,000 inhabitants), the community leaders were Ludwig Mayer and Fritz Natt. Then living in each of Bretzenheim and Laubenheim were seven Jews. In 1932, the community leader was Carl Mayer. Tending the community's religious needs was Rabbi Dr. Jacob ( Bad Kreuznach ). About 1930, the following families were living in Langenlonsheim: Karl Mayer (wine dealer, Bingerstraße 2), Rudolf Mayer (men's and women's clothing, bedding and manufactured goods, Bingerstraße 11), Ludwig Mayer (livestock dealer, Hauptstraße 52), Fritz Natt (wine dealer, Hollergasse 28/corner of Weidenstraße), Moritz Weiss (butcher and livestock and wine dealer, Hauptstraße 24), Siegmund Heymann (domestic products, Hauptstraße 39), Carl Nachmann (wine and grain dealer, Hauptstraße 35), August Weiss (livestock dealer, Schulstraße 12), Gustav Kahn ( plumber , Hollergasse 20) and

1118-617: The aerodrome, is Rhineland-Palatinate 's second biggest flying club and had 274 members in 2010. It arose from a merger of two former flying clubs in 2008, the Flugsportverein Bad Kreuznach and the Aero-Club Bingen-Langenlonsheim . In 2007, the wrestling club Langenlonsheimer SC merged with the football club from Laubenheim to form TSV Langenlonsheim/Laubenheim ("TSV" stands for Turn- und Sportverein  – gymnastic and sport club ). There are also

1161-545: The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War , is now dotted with wind turbines , photovoltaic cells and various technologies which serve as an “Energy Farm”. The council is made up of 28 honorary council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the full-time mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: Particularly worth seeing

1204-459: The following places: The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate 's Directory of Cultural Monuments: Records bear witness to the Jewish graveyard in Langenlonsheim as far back as 1742. The graveyard's area comprises 2 521 m , and this is bordered by a wooden fence. Striking is the more lavish and bigger gravesite of the wine-dealing family Natt. The last burial at

1247-403: The following results: Langenlonsheim's mayor is Bernhard Wolf. The municipality's arms might be described thus: Sable a fess countercompony azure and Or between five bunches of grapes reversed slipped of the last, three and two. The composition of Langenlonsheim's arms is based on old 15th-century village seals. The fess countercompony (horizontal stripe with the two-row chequered pattern)

1290-485: The forest and vineyards , lie the Waldhilbersheim (roughly 30 m away) and Windesheim (roughly 500 m away) Jewish graveyards. At first, there was a prayer room available to Langenlonsheim's Jewish residents in one of the community's houses. One such place was mentioned in 1823. Beginning in the 1840s, the village's Jews wanted to build themselves a synagogue , and in 1856, Samuel Weiss managed to acquire

1333-451: The graveyard took place in May 1938 (Regina Kahn née Sommer, d. 5 May 1938). Preserved here are 45 gravestones, some of which are heavily weathered or now only partially readable. All that is left of several is the pedestal. The graveyard lies in part of the Langenlonsheim forest rather far from the village itself (rural cadastral name "In den Judenkirchhofschlägen"). Not far off, but bordering both

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1376-545: The municipality belonged to the Bernkastel district, with its seat at Bernkastel-Kues . The municipality as it is today arose on 31 December 1974 when the new municipality of Morbach was formed out of Morbach itself and the 18 until then self-administering municipalities of Bischofsdhron, Elzerath, Gonzerath, Gutenthal, Haag, Heinzerath, Hinzerath, Hoxel, Hundheim, Hunolstein, Merscheid, Morscheid-Riedenburg, Odert, Rapperath, Wederath, Weiperath, Wenigerath and Wolzburg. Within what

1419-477: The neighbouring Mainz-Bingen district, whereas all the others likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district. Langenlonsheim also comes to within a few metres of two other neighbours: the municipality of Rümmelsheim in the northwest and the town of Bad Kreuznach in the southeast. Also belonging to Langenlonsheim is the outlying homestead of Forsthaus Langenlonsheim. Even as long ago as Roman times, there

1462-641: The religion teachers were, about 1855 David Cahn from Mertloch , in 1857 Heinrich Hirschfeld from Dessau , in 1861 Julius Kappel (or Koppel) and in 1893 Michael Boreich. The Jewish household heads were active in various occupations, foremost in trading. There were several businesses and shops in Langenlonsheim belonging to Jewish families (businesses with domestic products and fertilizer , several wine dealer's shops, men's and women's clothing and bedding shops as well as livestock and grain dealerships). There were also Jewish bakers and butchers . The Jewish inhabitants were fully integrated into village life and played

1505-471: The synagogue was overrun by Nazi thugs from within Langenlonsheim and without. Doors, windows and the indoor furnishings (pews, the bimah , cabinets, tables, chairs, the ark and so on) were broken up, the floor was torn out and the walls were damaged. The Judaica , including three Torah scrolls, three sets of silver ceremonial jewellery, two silver candlesticks, an eternal lamp, a menorah and more were destroyed or stolen. On 24 April 1940, Rudolf Mayer,

1548-503: The terms of the Congress of Vienna to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, although it was thereafter known as a Bürgermeisterei (also "mayoralty"). In those days, the population was still very much engaged in agriculture as its main income earner. Langenlonsheim had a Jewish community until sometime between 1938 and 1942. It arose sometime in the 17th or 18th century. The earliest mention of

1591-561: The village, while the Autobahn A ;61 ( Koblenz – Ludwigshafen ) is roughly 5 km away. Langenlonsheim can be reached by rail on the Nahe Valley Railway ( Bingen – Kaiserslautern ). Currently, no other railway serves Langenlonsheim station , although the now disused Hunsrückquerbahn once served the village, too. There is, however, talk of reactivating this railway as a quick transport link for Frankfurt-Hahn Airport ,

1634-459: The way of institutions, there were a synagogue (see Synagogue below), a Jewish school (a schoolroom at the synagogue), a mikveh and a graveyard (see Jewish graveyard below). To provide for the community's religious needs, a schoolteacher was hired, who also busied himself as the hazzan and the shochet (preserved is a whole series of job advertisements for such a position in Langenlonsheim from such publications as Der Israelit ). Among

1677-479: The wind farm earns the municipality €280,000 each year. The municipality of Morbach fulfils the criteria of a “1a” shopping town and was awarded the certificate in May 2008. Langenlonsheim Langenlonsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde , a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . It belongs to

1720-635: Was Saint Nicholas 's Church ( Sankt-Nikolaus-Kirche ), built about 1200, which was later mentioned as Saint John's Church ( Sankt-Johannes-Kirche ) about 1475. In 1504, in the War of the Succession of Landshut , and again in 1540 when the village burnt, the church was damaged. In 1588, a new church was built to serve as the Evangelical parish church. New Baroque (1777) and Gothic Revival (1868) remodellings followed. The second place of worship built in Langenlonsheim

1763-463: Was winegrowing in what is now Langenlonsheim. In 769, Langenlonsheim had its first documentary mention as Longistisheim . Over its long history, the village changed owners many times. Under French rule, Langenlonsheim became the seat of a mairie ("mayoralty") in 1800, to which five municipalities belonged. This arrangement persisted even after the French were driven out and the region was assigned under

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1806-584: Was inspired by the arms formerly borne by the Counts of Sponheim , who held the area for many centuries. Their arms were actually a whole shield covered in this pattern. The fess stands between five charges , each one a bunch of grapes . These symbolize winegrowing 's importance to Langenlonsheim. The tinctures sable and Or (black and gold) were inspired by the Palatinate's traditional arms. The arms have been borne since 1938. Langenlonsheim fosters partnerships with

1849-616: Was the synagogue , built about 1860, which was destroyed on Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938); its ruins were removed in 1958. The most recent house of worship built in Langenlonsheim has been the Catholic church, Saint John the Baptist's Parish Church ( Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer ), built in 1907 and 1908. As at 30 September 2013, there are 3,767 full-time residents in Langenlonsheim, and of those, 1,345 are Evangelical (35.705%), 1,305 are Catholic (34.643%), 4 are Lutheran (0.106%), 1

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