Heimbach (Birkenfeld district)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Baumholder
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.78 km 2
Residents:	1042 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	154 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55779
Area code :	06789
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 036
Association administration address:	Am Weiherdamm 1 55774 Baumholder
Website :	www.vgv-baumholder.de
Local Mayor :	Jürgen Saar (FWG)
Location of the local community Heimbach in the Birkenfeld district

Heimbach is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Baumholder community .

geography

The community Heimbach is located in Westrich on the Heimbach stream of the same name in the Nahe valley between the town of Idar-Oberstein , the town of Baumholder and the district town of Birkenfeld .

Adjacent local communities include Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in the west, Nohen in the north, Ruschberg in the east and Berglangenbach in the south.

Heimbach includes the residential places Altwieserhof, Heimbach (Nahe) Bahnhof, Gladerbacherhof, Heimbacherhof and Steib Eric Wartherhof.

population

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

year Residents 1815 288 1835 502 1871 676 1905 794 1939 1,332 1950 1,427

year Residents 1961 1,645 1970 1,773 1987 1,351 2005 1,236 2011 1,090 2017 1,022

politics

Municipal council

The community council in Heimbach 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.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	-	7th	9	16 seats
2014	-	6th	10	16 seats
2009	3	7th	6th	16 seats
2004	3	6th	7th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voter Group Heimbach e. V.

Local mayor

The local mayor is Jürgen Saar (Free Voters' Group Heimbach eV).

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Upper part of the shield half: On a black ground a red-armored -tongued and -crowned growing (half) golden lion. - Lower part of the shield half: a three-part silver wave bar on a green background. Above a silver two-bar cross or drawbar cross "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The lion and the Balkenkreuz point to the earlier territorial affiliation of parts of the district to Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The double cross reminds of the earlier rule of Lorraine . The three-part wave bar symbolizes the union of the waters of the Reichenbach and the Unnerbach to the Heimbach.

Culture and sights

Heimbacher Guardian Angel Church

In the Catholic Guardian Angel Church from 1925 there are frescoes, u. a. the stations of the cross by the artist Alfred Gottwald (1893–1971), which were exposed again in an extensive church renovation in 1994 by the restoration company Martin Mrziglod, Tholey. In the apse Jesus Christ is found on the heavenly throne, surrounded by hosts of angels. Heimbach citizens were the models for the paintings.

The Mariengrotte on Kapellenplatz above the church was built in the 1980s by the parish itself. The first place of worship, the “Heimbacher Chapel” from 1885, stood at this point. This chapel was demolished in 1969 because it was in disrepair. The grotto is carved into the rock and shows the representation of the Virgin Mary and the adoration of Bernadette Soubirous.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Heimbach

Economy and Infrastructure

In Heimbach there is a kindergarten and up to 1971 there was a Catholic elementary school and a Protestant school in which one could achieve the secondary school leaving certificate of the ninth grade. The Catholic elementary school was then converted into a pure elementary school and the Protestant school was completely eliminated. From the fifth grade onwards, the local children have to go to Baumholder or Birkenfeld, less often to Freisen.

The population has shrunk from just under 1800 inhabitants (peak in 1970) to currently 1071 (December 31, 2011). This is due, among other things, to the lack of infrastructure, as can also be seen in the city of Baumholder and other local communities. The trend is stagnating or even declining.

The federal motorway 62 runs to the south .

No passenger trains stopped at the Heimbach (Nahe) Ort train station between 1981 and 2014. Only the Heimbach (Nahe) railway station on the Mainz / Bingen – Saarbrücken line to the west outside the main town was available for passenger traffic . The reactivation of the Heimbach – Baumholder railway line was carried out in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle for the timetable change on December 14, 2014, so that the place is served again.

Personalities

• Otto Witte (1872 or 1871–1958), five days "King of Albania", for some time roommate of the local community Heimbach (Nahe)

Web links

Commons : Heimbach  - Collection of Images

• Heimbach local community on the website of the Baumholder community
• Literature about Heimbach 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 26 (PDF; 1 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved January 28, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.