Description of holdings: Abt. 243 Gemeindearchiv Dalsheim Scope: 187 archive cartons and 3 linear metres oversized formats (= 1090 units of registration) = 24 linear metres (additional m. N) Duration: 1618 - 1973 Location: cellar of the Ernst-Ludwig-Schule Zum Bestand The first inventory of the municipal archive of approx. 1811 is only incompletely preserved; completely preserved inventories (which obviously refer more to the current registry and do not list many old pieces, although they often show a numbering) date from the years 1831, 1837 and 1843, perhaps in connection with a circular of the government in Mainz concerning the order of the municipal archives of 1830 (No. 177 and 466). In the year 1906 a number of mentioned archival records were used by the War Court Council of Obenauer for the purpose of writing their own family history in the Haus- und Staatsarchiv Darmstadt (No. 52). A letter dated 01.04.1914 refers to the production of the comprehensive index of 1914 (no. 208) by teacher Trieb von Eppelsheim, in which the return of the municipal archive, which was also lent to Darmstadt for this purpose, is announced (no. 946). After the dissolution of the administrative district of Worms (1969), the two communities, which had been merged in the same year under the name "Flörsheim-Dalsheim", held back the respective archives in contrast to the other communities, which handed over their documents to the municipal archive of Worms as a deposit. It was not until 1997, after lengthy negotiations and the conclusion of a deposit contract, that they were handed over to the Worms Municipal Archives, where they first found their place in the cellar of the Adenauerring office building and then in the cellar of the Ernst Ludwig School. Between September 2009 and August 2010, they were gradually brought back to the city archives for indexing and, after processing, returned to the Ernst-Ludwig-Schule. At the same time, the archives of the neighbouring municipality of Nieder-Flörsheim, which were taken over at the same time in 1997, were processed, the indexing of which was also completed in summer 2010 (Dept. 242). During the processing, which followed the usual principles, the material was separated from the beginnings up to 1945 on the one hand (Dept. 243) and from the period from 1945 up to the creation of the association municipality in 1969 on the other hand (Dept. 243-N). The former was arranged according to the existing order according to the 1908 registry plan, the latter according to the 1953 file plan in the Findbuch and listed separately as a sub-collection of Dept. 243-N. The former was not listed in the Findbuch. The condition of the material was good except for two pieces where slight mildew was found (No. 245/2 and No. 602, stored at the end of the collection in its own cardboard archives). There were no cassations. Supplementary archive departments in the city archive: Abt. 242 Gemeindearchiv Nieder-Flörsheim Literature: BRILMAYER, Karl Johann, Rheinhessen in past and present, Gießen 1905 GALLE, Volker, Rheinhessen. Discovery trips in the hilly country between Worms and Bingen, Mainz and Alzey, Cologne 1992 Gauweiler, Wolfgang, 1200 years Dalsheim, Mainz 1966 KOBLER, Matthias, Chronicle of the area of the association community Monsheim, Mainz 1992 Worms, in August 2010 Martin Geyer, archivamtmann
