Biebelsheim

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Bad Kreuznach
Height :	149 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.1 km 2
Residents:	613 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	198 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55546
Area code :	06701
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 012
LOCODE :	DE 3BH
Association administration address:	Rheingrafenstrasse 11 ; 55543 Bad Kreuznach
Website :	www.biebelsheim.de
Mayoress :	Gabriele Schwarz-Müller
Location of the local community Biebelsheim in the Bad Kreuznach district

Historic postcard, 1905

Evangelical Martinskirche, built in 1496

Biebelsheim is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Kreuznach community .

history

The place belonged to the County of Falkenstein as an exclave early on . At first these ruled the Lords of Bolanden , who were inherited in 1418 by the Counts of Virneburg . The County of Falkenstein and with it the village of Biebelsheim passed to the Duke of Lorraine in 1667 through various owners . Through the marriage of the Lorraine Duke Franz Stephan with Maria Theresa von Habsburg , Biebelsheim came to Austria and was subordinate to the Oberamt Winnweiler of the empire front Austria .

Biebelsheim and its surrounding area were mostly French occupied from December 1792 and was ceded to France at the time of the Campo Formio peace agreement (1797) due to its previous Austrian affiliation, where it remained until 1814. During this time it belonged to the French Département du Mont-Tonnerre with the seat of government in Mainz and formed a joint mayor's office with Ippesheim , which existed until 1901.

From 1814 to 1816 there was a joint Austrian-Bavarian administration in Kreuznach (later in Worms ), in 1816 the community fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse , and since 1946 it has belonged to the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	317
1835	435
1871	384
1905	437
1939	390

year	Residents
1950	514
1961	435
1970	418
1987	512
2005	555

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Local mayor is Gabriele Schwarz-Müller. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, she was elected with 88.08% of the vote and is the successor to Markus Haas, who was no longer running.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "In a divided shield above a golden letter B in red, below three red six-pointed stars in gold".

The letter B refers to the place name. Gold and red were the colors of the Lords of Bolanden and their successors in the possession of the Imperial Counties of Falkenstein, the Counts of Virneburg and the Lords of Daun . The three stars come from the Biebelsheim court seal from 1537.

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Biebelsheim belongs to the "Bingen wine-growing area" in the Rheinhessen growing region . 15 wine-growing businesses are active in the village and the area under vines is 109 hectares . About 63% of the cultivated wine are white wine grape varieties (as of 2007). In 1979 there were still 36 companies active, the area under vines at that time was 123 hectares.

traffic

Biebelsheim is not far from the federal highways 41 , 50 and the federal highway 61 .
In Gensingen there is a train station where trains of the Nahetalbahn and Rheinhessenbahn stop.

literature

Literature about Biebelsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Joachim Köhler, Sandra Hummel: Historical Biebelsheim . Independently published, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5497-9431-5 .
Joachim Köhler, Sandra Hummel: The families of Biebelsheim 1690-1906: Families of Biebelsheim . Independently published, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5205-1472-7 .