Büchenbeuren

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '  N , 7 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Height :	460 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6 km 2
Residents:	1755 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	293 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55491
Area code :	06543
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 024
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 5 55481 Kirchberg
Website :	www.buechenbeuren.de
Local Mayor :	Guido Scherer
Location of the local community Büchenbeuren in the Rhine-Hunsrück district

The "old office", seat of the municipal administration

Protestant church

Büchenbeuren is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchberg (Hunsrück) community . Büchenbeuren is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

Büchenbeuren is centrally located in the Hunsrück, northeast of the Idar Forest .

Büchenbeuren is divided into the main district of Büchenbeuren and the district of Scheid. On the district municipality is also a part of the airfield Hahn .

history

Büchenbeuren was mentioned for the first time in 1301 in a document from the Sponheim family . Until the end of the Middle Ages, Büchenbeuren belonged to the rulership of the Sponheim counts. In 1437 the place fell to the Margraves of Baden and the Count Palatine near Rhine . At the end of the 18th century, modernization slowly found its way into Büchenbeuren. In 1783 serfdom was lifted by Margrave Karl Friedrich .

In October 1794, French troops occupied Büchenbeuren. The rectory served as a French military hospital. From 1796 Büchenbeuren belonged directly to France like all areas on the left bank of the Rhine . The French administration was only functional here from 1798. Büchenbeuren belonged to the newly created arrondissement Simmern in the Rhine-Mosel department with Simmern as the administrative center. Kirchberg became the main town ( chef-lieu ) of a canton , Büchenbeuren, along with Altlay, Bärenbach, Belg, Lautzenhausen, Niederweiler and Wahlenau, belonged to the Mairie Sohren established in 1800 . In 1804, French civil law was introduced with the Civil Code .

In 1814 the French rule in the Hunsrück and Büchenbeuren ended and the Hunsrück was assigned to the Generalgouvernement Mittelrhein under Justus von Gruner on February 2, 1814 and then to the Joint State Administration Commission on June 16, 1814 , under the administration of Austria and Bavaria was standing.

At the Congress of Vienna , the Hunsrück was then incorporated into the Prussian province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine , which became part of the Rhine province in 1822. Until 1845, however, Büchenbeuren was still administered according to the French municipal constitution , until the “Municipal Code for the Rhine Province” was introduced in the same year.

Under the Prussian administration, Büchenbeuren was subordinate to the Sohren mayor's office in the Zell district from 1816 . In 1852 the seat of the mayor's office was relocated to Büchenbeuren, but the name of the "mayor's office Sohren" or from 1927 "Sohren office" remained. In 1939, the Soren office was finally renamed “Büchenbeuren Office”, which was temporarily converted into the Büchenbeuren community in 1968 . Büchenbeuren has been part of the Kirchberg community since 1970 .

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of the municipality of Büchenbeuren, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 254 1835 313 1871 316 1905 351 1939 445 1950 538

year Residents 1961 798 1970 788 1987 949 2005 1660 2011 1646 2017 1730

Population development of Büchenbeuren from 1815 to 2017

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Büchenbeuren consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	FDP	FWG	total
2019	6th	-	10	16 seats
2014	6th	-	10	16 seats
2009	6th	5	5	16 seats
2004	6th	5	5	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Büchenbeuren e. V.

mayor

Local mayor of Büchenbeuren is Guido Scherer. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with a share of 86.84% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided obliquely ; on the right nestled with gold and blue, on the left two golden beech leaves on a golden branch in green. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The chess refers to the earlier affiliation of the municipality to the front county of Sponheim . The book leaves point to the place name “Büchen” (beeches) as the Redendes Wappen .

Partner communities

• Middelkerke -chore in Belgium

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The place is about two kilometers by road from the only international airport in Rhineland-Palatinate, Frankfurt-Hahn . Büchenbeuren can be reached from the east via the federal autobahn 61 and the federal highway 50 , from the west via the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse ( B 327 ).

In addition, there is a train station for the now largely disused Hunsrückquerbahn .

From Büchenbeuren there are buses to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport , Idar-Oberstein , Kirn , Bingen am Rhein and Simmern .

economy

Former residential buildings of the Airport Family Housing

The Büchenbeuren district of Scheid has been home to the Rhineland-Palatinate State Police School since 1996 ; before that, the Family Housing Airport of the United States Air Force was located there . Many of the now unused buildings are falling into disrepair.

education

There is a primary school and a kindergarten in Büchenbeuren. In addition, the Paul-Schneider-Realschule Plus with technical college (economy and administration) is located in the school center. Furthermore, the University of the Police of Rhineland-Palatinate has its seat in the place.

Volunteering

In Büchenbeuren there is a base fire brigade which, together with the neighboring municipality of Sohren, forms a fire brigade . The Sohren-Büchenbeuren base fire brigade drives around 100 missions a year within its deployment area. The volunteer fire brigade has 8 vehicles, including special vehicles such as a turntable ladder, equipment trolleys for hazardous goods and a hose trolley with 1000 m hose line.

literature

• Barbara Müller : Chronicle Büchenbeuren. Published by the local community of Büchenbeuren 1993. ISBN 3-929866-00-5

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Büchenbeuren

Web links

Commons : Büchenbeuren  - Collection of images

• Website of the municipality of Büchenbeuren
• Literature about Büchenbeuren in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Büchenbeuren. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchberg, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
6. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Kirchberg in the Hunsrück