Boos (close)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ' N , 7 ° 43' E |
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State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Bad Kreuznach | |
Association municipality : | Rudesheim | |
Height : | 135 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 1.11 km 2 | |
Residents: | 371 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 334 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 55595 | |
Area code : | 06758 | |
License plate : | KH | |
Community key : | 07 1 33 014 | |
Association administration address: | Nahestrasse 63 55593 Rüdesheim |
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Local Mayor : | Sascha Wickert | |
Location of the local community Boos in the Bad Kreuznach district | ||
The wine village Boos is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rüdesheim .
geography
The municipality of Boos is located between the Hunsrück and the North Palatinate Bergland on the Nahe , southeast of Bad Sobernheim .
Neighboring communities are Staudernheim , Waldböckelheim , Oberstreit and Duchroth .
The living space Im Käsberg also belongs to Boos .
history
The village was built on a flood-free sliding slope of the Nahe on a low terrace north of the Nahe river by a stream. As numerous finds from the prehistoric times show, Boos is one of the oldest settlements in the vicinity. The Roman " Villa Rustica " with its preserved crypto portico is well known .
During the time of the tribal duchies , the place was in the Duchy of Franconia .
The name is explained after a mention around the year 1000 as boys with bush area. Archbishop Willigis (995-1011) who gave Duke Conrad of Carinthia from the House of Salian the Disibodenberg to salvation of his dead daughter Udo an estate of 20 acres of land and two Salian occupied Huben in "Boys".
- Population development
The development of the population of the municipality of Boos, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The council in Boos consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
mayor
Local mayor is Sascha Wickert. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 73.79% of the vote and is the successor to Karl Heinz Klein, who did not run again after 15 years in office.
Attractions
In the center of Boos are the remains of a villa rustica of the Romans who settled on the Nahe during the Roman Empire. Here you can see how Roman underfloor heating works.
Not far from Boos, between Staudernheim and Odernheim , is the Disibodenberg, on which the Irish monk Disibod founded a monastery . Hildegard von Bingen lived and worked there for over 40 years.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Boos
Personalities
- Reinhold Petermann (1925–2016), printer, sculptor and restorer
Web links
- Homepage of the local church Boos
- Local community Boos on the website of the association community
- Literature about Boos in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 24 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rüdesheim, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .