Bornich

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 7 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Loreley
Height :	289 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12 km 2
Residents:	941 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	78 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56348
Area code :	06771
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 016
Association administration address:	Dolkstrasse 3 56346 St. Goarshausen
Website :	bornich.de
Mayoress :	Karin Kristja
Location of the local community Bornich in the Rhein-Lahn district

View of Bornich

Bornich is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Loreley , which has its administrative headquarters in St. Goarshausen .

geography

The place is on a plateau in the foothills of the Taunus heights (western Hintertaunus ), above the Middle Rhine ( right bank of the Rhine ) about 300  m above sea level. NHN . The municipal area includes the Loreley plateau, three kilometers away, and all the buildings and viewpoints located there. Bornich to include the settlements Leiselfeld, Loreley and Sehnental and residential places community mill Göttertsmühle, Rothe mill, Beat mill and philistine-mill.

history

Bornich was first mentioned in a document from 1138. In the 13th century the place belonged to the County of Katzenelnbogen , which after the death of Philip I of Katzenelnbogen fell to the Landgraves of Hesse by way of inheritance . Several fires in the 16th century devastated the medieval building fabric, of which only parts of the church remained.

After the area of ​​the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen was disputed between Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt in the Thirty Years War and was temporarily occupied by them in 1626, it was partially assigned to the partially sovereign Principality of Hessen-Rotenburg (from 1658 Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg) in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and thus - since this was dependent on Hessen-Kassel - indirectly restituted to the latter. According to historical drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries, the loosely built area on the Rheinhöhe was extensively surrounded by a city wall with three city gates and a moat during this period; this walling has not been preserved. Some barns from the 18th century still exist.

With the capture and destruction of Rheinfels Castle on the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794) and annexation to the Rhine-Moselle department (1798), the right-bank area of ​​the part of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen belonging to Hesse-Kassel became from 1806 (see pays réservé ) Napoleonic controlled. One year after the Congress of Vienna , Bornich came together with the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen through an exchange contract in 1816 to the Duchy of Nassau , which was newly established in 1806 ; Bornich became Prussian in 1866 (Province of Hessen-Nassau ) and, after the Second World War, part of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946.

The development of Bornich only condensed into a closed town center in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.

On March 26, 1945 Bornich was occupied by American troops.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 757 1835 926 1871 989 1905 984 1939 938 1950 1,052 1961 1.006

year Residents 1970 1.004 1987 1,062 1997 1,182 2005 1.103 2011 1,049 2017 935

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bornich consists of twelve 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. By the 2019 election, there were 16 council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	WGáW	total
2019	-	-	7th	5	12 seats
2014	-	-	11	5	16 seats
2009	4th	3	9	-	16 seats
2004	5	3	8th	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Bornich e. V.
• WGáW = Wengen voters' group

mayor

Karin Kristja is the local mayor of Bornich. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was re-elected with 82.16% of the vote.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “In green the growing figure of St. Urbans , the patron saint of winemakers, in a silver, gold-braided Dalmatica and with the same biretta, black hair and beard, holding a golden palm frond in the right, the left on the upper edge of one below in front of him floating blue shield, inside a gold armored lion, divided nine times by silver and red. "

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Bornich

See also : List of natural monuments in Bornich

Buildings

Parish church

Evangelical parish church Bornich

The today Protestant church of the place dates in parts (tower and sections of the nave) from the 12th century. The remaining parts of the original building burned down in the 16th century. Before the Reformation, Bornich was the mother church of Burg Katz , Burg Reichenberg , St. Goarshausen and Patersberg . The new church from 1573 was raised on the south side in the 18th century and restored in 1960–62.

Despite the baroque changes in the 18th century with a stucco ceiling and wooden gallery, the structure of the originally Romanesque pillar basilica with arcades cut out of the wall is still easy to understand. The core of the choir is Gothic.

The organ prospectus (1708) , the pulpit built in 1724 and an oil painting depicting the crucifixion with Mary and John are ascribed to the Flemish school in the succession of Peter Paul Rubens .

town hall

The town hall is located in the former school building from 1726. Two previous buildings have been destroyed.

Natural monuments

The Adolfseiche near Bornich

Adolf's oak , which stands free on the height outside the village, was planted in 1864 in honor of Adolf I , Duke of Nassau and later Grand Duke of Luxembourg. From this height there is a wide view of the Rhine Valley and the surrounding Rhine heights.

Personalities

• Alfred Fuchs , painter (1877–1954)

literature

• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the art monuments Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. 2nd edition, Berlin, 1984

Web links

Commons : Bornich  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the Bornich community
• Local community Bornich on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Loreley
• Historical information about Bornich at regionalgeschichte.net

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 68 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved October 14, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: City council election 2019 Bornich. Retrieved November 2, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: 2014 Bornich municipal council election. Retrieved November 2, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2009 Bornich. Retrieved November 2, 2019 . 
7. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Loreley, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .