Eckweiler

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Eckweiler coat of arms

Eckweiler was a local community in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) until 1979 , continued to exist as a ghost village until 1982 and has been a desert since then .

geography

Eckweiler was on a hill south of the Soonwald , in the middle of fields, meadows and arable land. The district road from Bad Sobernheim to Gemünden runs nearby .

history

Memorial to the memory of the former place

The village was first mentioned in 1341 as the property of the Counts of Sponheim . Eckweiler became Protestant during the Reformation .

The place existed until the 1970s and in 1975 had about 270 inhabitants. In 1976, because of the aircraft noise and the risk of a plane crash within the approach lane of the horse field , which was used by the US Air Force until 1960 and then by the German armed forces until 1997 , the decision was made to use the location - like horse field and Rehbach  - give up. Most of the residents moved to Bad Sobernheim, 15 km away . The Leinenborn selected for this purpose was developed from 1978 onwards.

On June 10, 1979, the Eckweiler community was dissolved and leveled in 1981/82. In addition to the listed church in Eckweiler, only the cemetery has survived to this day, but no new graves have been created since the village was abandoned.

politics

mayor

The last local mayor until June 10, 1979 was Mr. Brückner.

coat of arms

Due to the dissolution of the municipality on June 10, 1979, the coat of arms became legally ineffective.

Description: The coat of arms shows a split shield, which is sheathed in red and silver at the front, while the rear half shows a golden oak tree in red.
Reason: Eckweiler once belonged to the rear county of Sponheim , hence its coat of arms in the front half of the shield, while the heraldic oak is linked to the place name in which Eckweiler is interpreted as "Ekweiler, Eichweiler".

Culture and sights

Buildings

Holy Cross Church

The church as the only remaining structure

The Evangelical Church of Eckweiler is the only surviving structure today, as it was listed as a historical monument in 1981. It was built around 1500 as a branch church "Heilig Kreuz" of the Gehinkirche of Auen as a late Gothic hall building. Renovation and conversion plans by architect Ludwig Hofmann (Herborn) from 1895 with a tower on the south side were not carried out. A restoration took place towards the end of the 19th century. The church was extended to the north around 1907/1908, the ridge turret dates from 1907. The very short nave has a framework portal and a three-sided closed choir, both with flat roofs. The tracery in the choir windows was destroyed in 1945. The last war damage of the Second World War ended in 1958 with the completion of the reconstruction.

Memorial plaque on the church wall

Regular events

The Freundeskreis Eckweiler Church opens the church from May 2014 to October 2014 on the first Sunday of the month from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. There are church services, choir singing, organ playing, author readings, guided tours and much more.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Old post office

Eckweiler is already in 1522 as a permanent post office on the Dutch postal route from Brussels via Innsbruck to Italy. In 1561 this post office became known through several postal robberies and the report by Christoph von Taxis . From the late 17th century Eckweiler was also a stagecoach station . This post office existed until it was dissolved under Napoleon , but was re-established as a post office in 1876 .

literature

  • Uwe Engelmann (ed.): Eckweiler, history of a village. Karlsruhe 1983.

Web links

Commons : Eckweiler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 158 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see also p. 194).
  2. ↑ Eckweiler at bad-sobernheim.de online on the Internet: August 27, 2013
  3. ^ Dehio manual : Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland; 1972; P. 203
  4. ^ Archives of the Katharinenspital zu Regensburg, estate of the diplomat Johann Maria Warschitz, archive number VI / 2 No.4, folder undated documents, see also the route map
  5. ↑ Ernst Otto Simon: The postal course from Rheinhausen to Brussels over the centuries. In: Archive for German Postal History 1/1990. P. 26 with further literature.

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 37'  E