page_title: Trechtingshausen
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Trechtingshausen / History
caption_attribution_description: Beschreibung: Klemenskappele und Burg Reichenstein bei Trechtingshausen Quelle: fotografiert im Oktober 2005 Fotograf: Oswald Engelhardt
context_page_description: Trechtingshausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
  The winegrowing centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds. Since 2003, Trechtingshausen has been part of the Rhine Gorge UNESCO World Heritage Site.
context_section_description: The Chronicler told of the Castrum Trajani (“Trajan’s Castrum”) in Roman times.
  In Frankish times, Trechtingshausen belonged to the lower Nahegau (a county). Row graves from this time have been unearthed by building work. At the time of the municipality's first documentary mention in 1122, its name was given as Drodingishusen, and then in 1135 Drohtenhusen, in 1328 Dreieckshusen and in 1335 Drechlingshusen.
  From the 1135 documents comes the information that Trechtingshausen in the “parish of Saint Clement” was under the ownership of Kornelimünster Abbey near Aachen. Because it was so far away, the monastery appointed knights (Vögte) as bailiffs and protectors. They had their seat at Reichenstein Castle. Over time, though, the knights sank into turpitude, becoming nothing more than robbers.
  On 6 September 1270, the Cornelimünster Monastery sold the whole parish of Saint Clement to the Cathedral Chapter at Mainz and St. Maria ad Gradus, also at Mainz. The robber knights, though, kept to their nefarious ways until Emperor Rudolph I destroyed Reichenstein Castle in 1282 and had the robber knights put to death near Saint Clement's Chapel (Clemenskapelle).
  In 1290, Dietrich von Hohenfels unlawfully sold the rebuilt castle and Trechtingshausen to the mighty Count Palatine Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (“Louis the Strict”). Disagreements between Mainz and the Count Palatine were not worked out until 1344; Trechtingshausen and Reichenstein Castle passed for good to Mainz. Trechtingshausen and Niederheimbach became a collective municipality and were assigned to the Amt of Bingen. Each municipality had a Schultheiß (roughly “reeve”). The Oberschultheiß (roughly “sheriff”) had his seat in Niederheimbach. The Dingtage – the “moots” – were held beneath Sooneck Castle, where also stood the gallows. The Thirty Years' War brought much sorrow and wretchedness upon Trechtingshausen. Thirty-five houses were burnt down. The Plague beset the village for several years.
  For about 500 years Trechtingshausen belonged to Mainz and had its Amt seat in Bingen. After the occupation of the Rhine's left bank by French Revolutionary troops, the ecclesiastical princes were stripped of their holdings and with the introduction of French administration, Trechtingshausen was assigned to the mairie of Niederheimbach.
  After the War of the Sixth Coalition, Trechtingshausen remained with the mayoralty of Niederheimbach in St. Goar district in the Rhine Province.
  In 1938 the village passed to the Amt of Bacharach, on 1 October 1968 to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bacharach and on 8 November 1970 to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe in the Mainz-Bingen district, to which the municipality has belonged since 9 June 1969.
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caption: Saint Clement's Chapel and Reichenstein Castle
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