Asbach (Hunsrück)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '  N , 7 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	460 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.47 km 2
Residents:	143 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55758
Area code :	06786
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 004
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.vg-hr.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Ackermann
Location of the local community of Asbach in the Birkenfeld district

Asbach is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Herrstein-Rhaunen community .

geography

Asbach is located on the Hinterbach in the transition area from the Kempfelder Hochmulde to the Idar-Soon-Pforte east of the Idarwald . The place has an altitude of 460-480 m above sea level. NN. In the past, rye, oats, barley and root crops predominated in agricultural use on the nutrient-poor soils. The valleys with predominantly gleyed and podsolic soils are used as grassland. The sandy, nutrient-poor soils on the quartzitic high forest foothills are used for forestry.

To the south of the village is the Asbacherhütte settlement , which goes back to an earlier iron smelting site. The most striking building is the former Böcking mansion. The German Gemstone Road leads through the Asbacherhütte. Neighboring communities are Hellertshausen , Weiden , Hottenbach , Mörschied , Kempfeld and Schauren .

history

Until the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal administrative reform of 1969, the Hunsrückort belonged to the Kempfeld office in the Bernkastel district with the district town of Bernkastel-Kues .

Population development

The development of the population of Asbach; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 146 1835 260 1871 182 1905 280 1939 385 1950 409

year Residents 1961 403 1970 355 1987 238 1997 151 2005 170 2019 143

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Asbach consists of six council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Peter Ackermann became the local mayor of Asbach on September 16, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, there was no candidate, so the election of the mayor was the responsibility of the council in accordance with the municipal regulations. On August 7th, he initially decided on Uwe Weyand. This election was declared null and void by the municipal supervisory authority because he is employed by the Hellertshausen forest association, of which the municipality of Asbach is also a member. In the next election, Peter Ackermann was elected mayor by the local council. The previous mayor Horst Haffa missed re-election to the local council.

coat of arms

The blazon reads: "In the front in a diagonally divided shield in green a silver half-timbered house with a bell tower, black windows and black door, behind in gold a blue armored and tongued red lion".

The lion refers to the former belonging to the Wild and Rhine County .

Economy and Infrastructure

The Fischbach in Asbacherhütte

Asbacherhütte

The Asbacherhütte is one of the oldest ironworks in the Hunsrück region. Only the administration building and the residential building of the hut manager Rudolph Heinrich Böcking remain from the former steel works . Today there is a curative educational facility of the Diakonie Bad Kreuznach in the other buildings of the facility as a dormitory for disabled people with little need for assistance.

The place was mainly agricultural until the 1970s. With the exception of an agate grinding shop and an agricultural machinist, all households were more or less active in agriculture, but many only in part-time businesses. After the structural change, which also resulted in extensive land consolidation at the end of the 1990s, there is only one full-time farm. For more than 25 years there has been an agricultural processing company that works according to strict ecological guidelines with quality products from its own production, which are sold in local markets and from the farm.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the village was carefully renovated to improve the infrastructure. This measure, which was co-financed through the pay-as-you-go system, initially met with resistance from many residents because of the high financial burden. But it soon became apparent that there was no alternative to this measure. The village renewal came to an end with the construction of a village community center on the Huschied .

The designation of a small new building area resulted in the construction of a few new houses in the lower village.

traffic

• The federal highway 422 runs in the south . The next station is Idar-Oberstein station .
• The bus route 345 of the Rhein-Nahe bus service runs through Asbach on weekdays , as does individual trips on route 351. Asbach is part of the Rhein-Nahe local transport network .

Personalities

• Eduard Mayer (born August 17, 1812 in Asbacherhütte, † 1881 in Bad Aibling), sculptor.
• Christian Philipp Stumm (1760-1826), kurpfalz-Bavarian Councilor , court banker and co-founder of the mining company Stumm brothers
• Friedrich Philipp Stumm (1751–1835), mining entrepreneur and co-founder of the Stumm brothers company .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Asbach

Web links

Commons : Asbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Asbach on the website of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community
• Location portrait of Asbach on SWR television (broadcast on July 28, 2010)
• Literature about Asbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herrstein-Rhaunen, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved August 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Andreas Nitsch: In Asbach, new local mayor has to be elected. In: Nahe newspaper. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, August 28, 2019, accessed on August 16, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Hunsrück Association e. V. (Ed.) (1993): Hunsrück. National history excursion guide. Otterbach, p. 59