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Niederhausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of
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collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It
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belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town. Niederhausen is
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a state-recognized tourism community (Fremdenverkehrsort) and a winegrowing village.
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Geography
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Location
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At an elevation of 150 m above sea level, Niederhausen lies on the Nahe where it marks the division
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between the outlying edge of the Hunsrück and the North Palatine Uplands. The village lies on a
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south-facing slope on a reach of the river that is dammed up and consequently 120 m wide.
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Neighbouring municipalities
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Clockwise from the north, Niederhausen's neighbours are the municipalities of Hüffelsheim and
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Norheim, the town of Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg and the municipalities of Feilbingert,
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Oberhausen an der Nahe and Schloßböckelheim, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach
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district.
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Constituent communities
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Also belonging to Niederhausen are the outlying homesteads of Hermannshöhle and Ehemalige
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Weinbaudomäne (“Former Winegrowing Domain”).
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History
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In 1238, Niederhausen had its first documentary mention. It is, however, certain that this place
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was already settled by Roman times (about AD 200), bearing witness to which are various
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archaeological finds. Niederhausen belonged as an Electoral Mainz fief to the Counts of Veldenz,
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and the first documentary mention renders its name Unters Husen. The last of the Counts of Veldenz,
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namely Friedrich III, died in 1444. His daughter Anna married King Ruprecht's son Count Palatine
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Stephan. By uniting his own Palatine holdings with the now otherwise heirless County of Veldenz –
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his wife had inherited the county upon her father's death in 1444, but not his comital title – and
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by redeeming the hitherto pledged County of Zweibrücken, Stephan founded a new County Palatine, as
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whose comital residence he chose the town of Zweibrücken: the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, later
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Duchy Palatinate-Zweibrücken. Beginning then, the village belonged to this state, and in 1768 it
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passed by partition to Electoral Palatinate. Niederhausen thus long belonged to states ruled by the
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House of Wittelsbach. In the time of the French Revolution, the village was absorbed, along with
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all the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank, into the French state. Niederhausen lay in the new
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Canton of Kreuznach, the Arrondissement of Simmern and the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle. Under the
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terms of the Congress of Vienna, on 28 May 1815, Niederhausen passed to the Kingdom of Prussia.
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Borderstones marking the former boundary between this state and the neighbouring Kingdom of Bavaria
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can still be seen along Niederhausen’s southern limit. In the years 1926-1928, the Wasserkraftwerke
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Niederhausen GmbH built a hydroelectric power station right near the village. The weir, made up of
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three spans, near the former railway station backs the water up so that it will flow along a
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760 m-long channel to the power station. In the course of administrative restructuring in
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Rhineland-Palatinate, Niederhausen was grouped into the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Münster am
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Stein-Ebernburg in 1969. From the Middle Ages right up to about 1880, there was much prospecting
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around Niederhausen in the volcanic rock for copper and even silver.
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Population development
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Niederhausen’s population development since Napoleonic times is shown in the table below. The
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figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:
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Religion
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As at 30 November 2013, there are 572 full-time residents in Niederhausen, and of those, 326 are
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Evangelical (56.993%), 150 are Catholic (26.224%), 1 belongs to the Palatinate State Free Religious
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Community (0.175%), 10 (1.748%) belong to other religious groups and 85 (14.86%) either have no
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religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.
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Politics
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Municipal council
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The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal
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election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
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Mayor Niederhausen's mayor is Christine Mathern.
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Coat of arms
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The German blazon reads: Das Wappen zeigt einen blauen Rundschild mit drei goldenen Trauben und
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goldenen Weinstockblättern, darüber eine goldene Krone.
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The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure three bunches
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of grapes each slipped and leafed of one fixed in triangle Or, in chief a crown of the same adorned
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with rubies.
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On 5 October 1950, Niederhausen was granted approval by the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of the
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Interior to bear arms. It may well be one of the few coats of arms in Rhineland-Palatinate that so
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clearly expresses a winegrowing village's character. Moreover, it shows the importance and standing
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that are accorded the Qualitätswein made here. All this is represented by the main charge, the
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three bunches of grapes. The other charge, the crown in chief (the uppermost level of the shield)
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refers not only to the village's former patron saint Mechtildis, whose crown also appeared in the
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old court seal, but also to the marketing slogan for the Nahe wine region: Nahewein – Ein Edelstein
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(“Nahe wine – a precious stone”). The connection, however, is lost in the translation. The crown is
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held to remind one of the Edelstein, as this German word for “precious stone” literally means
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“noble stone”.
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Culture and sightseeing
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Buildings
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The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural
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Monuments:
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Evangelical parish church, Kirchgasse 9 – formerly Saint Mechtildis’s (St. Mechtildis), Romanesque
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nave, Late Gothic quire, tower altered in the 15th century (see also below)
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Am Stausee – former railway station; about 1900, Late Gründerzeit sandstone-block building, partly
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slated timber framing, timber-frame goods shed
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Hintergasse 11 – hook-shaped estate; Baroque building with half-hip roof, timber framing
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plastered, 18th century
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Kirchgasse – warriors’ memorial 1914–1918, Muschelkalk cube with relief, 1920s
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Kirchgasse 14 – Evangelical rectory; Late Classicist rectory, last fourth of the 19th century,
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quarrystone barn, stable door lintel marked 1549
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At Raiffeisenstraße 3 – Late Gründerzeit plastered façade of the Niederthälerhof winery, about
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1900
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Winzerstraße 7 – Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, about 1700
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Former quicksilver mine “Schmittenstollen”, in the Niederhäuserwald (forest), southwest of the
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village – galleries, drifts and shafts, towards 1469-1939 (see also below)
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Former State Winegrowing Domain (now Hermannsberg estate), on Kreisstraße 58, southwest of the
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village (monumental zone) – former Königlich-Preußische Weinbaudomäne Niederhausen-Schloßböckelheim
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(“Royal Prussian Winegrowing Domain”); 1902 and years following with winepress house in Art Nouveau
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with Historicist elements, marked 1910; director's house, workers’ dwellings, staff house,
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substation tower, vineyards; broad visual impression of landscape
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Inn “Hermannshöhle”, on Landesstraße 235, southwest of the village – former ferryman's house,