Belg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.79 km 2
Residents:	112 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56858
Area code :	06543
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 007
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 5 55481 Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Website :	www.kirchberg-hunsrueck.de
Local Mayor :	Karl-Heinz Schneider
Location of the local community Belg in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

View from the scheduled flight to Belg (April 2010)

Parish hall in the village center

Belg is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchberg (Hunsrück) community .

geography

Belg is centrally located in the Hunsrück , directly on the Hunsrückhöhenstraße B 327 .

history

The first written mention comes from the year 1295.

Belg belonged to the late 18th century country wonderfully for Front County of Sponheim , the last in possession of the Margrave of Baden was. Within the Kirchberg office , Belg was the capital of an administrative and judicial district called care . The villages of Altlay , Kappel , Rödelhausen and Würrich also belonged to the care Belg .

With the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops , the place became French , from 1798 to 1814 it belonged to the canton of Kirchberg , which was assigned to the Rhine-Moselle department . At the Congress of Vienna (1815) the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Belg was subordinate to the Mayor's office in Sohren in the Zell district from 1816 and belonged to the Rhine Province from 1822 until the end of the Second World War . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and has belonged to the Kirchberg community since 1970 .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 262 1835 232 1871 203 1905 179 1939 190

year Residents 1950 187 1961 191 1970 191 1987 137 2005 151

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

The local mayor of Belg is Karl-Heinz Schneider. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, no candidate ran, he was re-elected by the local council.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split on the left, two diagonally crossed silver hammers in green at the front, covered with a silver ear, sheathed in gold and blue at the back."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The ear of wheat symbolizes agriculture in the municipality, the hammers refer to the earlier slate mining in the district . The green color indicates forest ownership. The chess in the back half of the shield reminds of the former affiliation to the Vordere Grafschaft Sponheim .

Web links

Commons : Belg  - collection of images

• Information on Belg from the Kirchberg Association
• Belg in the television show Hierzuland
• Literature about Belg 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Belg. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
4. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchberg, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
5. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Kirchberg: Ortsgemeinde Belg. Local council. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .