Mountain light
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Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ' N , 6 ° 58' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Bernkastel-Wittlich | |
Association municipality : | Thalfang at the Erbeskopf | |
Height : | 390 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 7.55 km 2 | |
Residents: | 424 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 56 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 54426 | |
Area code : | 06504 | |
License plate : | WIL, BKS | |
Community key : | 07 2 31 006 | |
LOCODE : | DE B2U | |
Community structure: | 2 districts | |
Association administration address: | Saarstrasse 7 54424 Thalfang |
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Local Mayor : | Michael Reusch | |
Location of the local community of Berglich in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich | ||
Berglich is a municipality in the Hunsrück in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Thalfang am Erbeskopf .
geography
Berglich is four kilometers northwest of Thalfang and six kilometers southeast of the Moselle . The village extends on both sides of a narrow valley at the confluence of the Brucher Bach and Mohrbach to the Lichter Bach , it covers altitudes between 350 m above sea level. NHN and 400 m above sea level NHN . In terms of natural space, the roughly equally forested and agriculturally used municipal area of the Hermeskeiler Mulde on the Middle Hunsrück plateau can be assigned. State road 155 ( Neumagen-Dhron -Thalfang) runs on the eastern edge of the village .
Mountain light borders clockwise on the local communities Horath , Gräfendhron , Gielert , Thalfang, Talling , Schönberg and Heidenburg .
history
The first documentary mention comes from the year 1228. Originally the place consisted of the parts mountain (on the slope ridge) and light (on the Lichterbach). The church in Berg had its own jurisdiction in the Middle Ages and was the mother church for many parishes in today's Morbach deanery. The centuries-long rule of the Counts of Hunolstein finally ended with the French Revolution around 1800. After the end of French rule, the place came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Until the municipal administration reform of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969, the place belonged to the district of Bernkastel .
- Population development
The development of the population of Berhaben, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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Municipal council
The local council in Berglich consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.
See also
literature
- Burkhard Okfen: Mountain light - Chronicle of a Hunsrück village
- Literature about mountain lights in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Web links
- Homepage of Berglich
- Mountain light in the television program Hierzuland
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections