Feilbingert

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 7 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Bad Kreuznach
Height :	334 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.05 km 2
Residents:	1565 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	156 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67824
Area code :	06708
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 030
Association administration address:	Rheingrafenstrasse 11 55583 Bad Kreuznach
Website :	feilbingert.de
Mayoress :	Andrea Silvestri ( CDU )
Location of the local community Feilbingert in the Bad Kreuznach district

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

Geographical location

The place is on the edge of the North Palatinate mountainous region in the midst of vineyards and forests. The name denotes two formerly separate places "Feil" and "Bingert".

history

In 1071, Bingert was first mentioned in writing in the Codex Laureshamensis , the document book of the former Lorsch abbey as "Binegarten". Feil was first mentioned in writing in 1237. The nearby Lemberg was from the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th century a very important supraregional source of mercury ores, see also the list of mines in the Palatinate and the Schmittenstollen visitor mine .

Today Feilbingert presents itself as a modern and at the same time traditionally shaped town. The German Emperor Wilhelm I spent the night in a restaurant, prevented from passing through by a storm. After the Congress of Vienna , Feilbingert belonged to Bavaria as a Palatinate town , where it remained until the end of the Second World War . During the administrative reform of the Rhineland-Palatinate, the place was reclassified from the Rockenhausen district to the Bad Kreuznach district. Ecclesiastically, Feilbingert still belongs to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the Diocese of Speyer .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 709 1835 1,154 1871 1,144 1905 1,263 1939 1,170 1950 1,287

year Residents 1961 1,295 1970 1,516 1987 1,473 2005 1,741 2017 1,549

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Feilbingert consists of 16 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.

Distribution of seats in the elected municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	total
2019	6th	7th	3	16 seats
2014	6th	7th	3	16 seats
2009	5	7th	4th	16 seats
2004	6th	7th	3	16 seats

mayor

The local mayor is Andrea Silvestri (CDU). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in office with 72.48% of the votes.

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Feilbingert belongs to the "Nahetal wine-growing area" in the Nahe growing area . There are three wine-growing businesses in the village, and the area under vines is 20 hectares . About 71 percent of the wine grown are white wine grape varieties (as of 2007). In 1979 there were still 46 farms active, the area under vines at that time was more than twice as large at 53 hectares.

tourism

Since 2006 there has been a panorama trail around Feilbingert. The nearby Schmittenstollen visitor mine explains the site's mining and history past.

Parishes

• Protestant parish
• Catholic parish of St. Michael

Born in Feilbingert

• Heinrich Bohner (1842–1905), Protestant missionary in Africa
• Albert Reinhard (1916–2015), administrative lawyer and politician, member of the state parliament and district administrator of the Rhein-Hunsrück district

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Feilbingert
• List of natural monuments in Feilbingert

Web links

Commons : Feilbingert  - Collection of Images

• Website of the community of Feilbingert
• Short portrait of Feilbingert on SWR television
• Literature about Feilbingert in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Feilbingert. Retrieved September 14, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bad Kreuznach, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .