Hirzenach

Hirzenach City of Boppard Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 40 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 36 ″ E
Height :	71 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	290 (December 31, 2013)
Incorporation :	December 31, 1975
Postal code :	56154
Area code :	06741
Location of Hirzenach in Rhineland-Palatinate
	Hirzenach with the parish church of St. Bartolomäus

Hirzenach, Propstei, garden and parish church

The village of Hirzenach , located on the left bank of the Rhine and on the slopes of the Rhenish slate mountains , is one of ten districts of the city of Boppard . Until December 31, 1975 Hirzenach was an independent municipality. In Hirzenach there is a connection to the left Rhine route via the Boppard-Hirzenach stop . The Bartholomäuskirche is a building that defines the townscape .

geography

The place, which lies between Sankt Goar and Bad Salzig , has about 330 inhabitants and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley . Today the place lives mainly from viticulture and tourism.

history

Panorama view by Jakob Becker 1833

At the beginning of the 12th century, Emperor Heinrich IV. Assigned goods in Hirzenach to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael in Siegburg with the order to found a monastery there. The donation was confirmed in 1109 by Pope Paschal II . A testimony of the then incurred provost is the Built in the early 12th century Romanesque pillar basilica of St. Bartholomew . Around 1250 the original choir was replaced by the early Gothic choir that still exists today . The provost's office existed until its secularization in 1802. The church has served as a parish church since then . The parish house , which is also the seat of the SOLWODI association founded by Lea Ackermann , became the priest's residential building . The Baroque- style Propsteigarten from the early 18th century is considered to be of significant garden history and is part of the route of the World Heritage Gardens in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

In 1900 the place received a stop on the left Rhine route .

The previously independent municipalities of Niederhirzenbach and Oberhirzenbach were merged in 1924 to form the municipality of Hirzenach.

In 1936, the Hirzenach-Oberkestert Rhine overhead line crossing was built about one kilometer southeast of the town . It is the only overhead line crossing of the Rhine between Bingen and Koblenz and ends in the Oberkestert area on the right bank of the Rhine.

On December 31, 1975 Hirzenach was incorporated into the new municipality of Boppard.

Like other places in the Middle Rhine Valley, Hirzenach has to cope with a strong decline in population, from the peak in 1950 with 670 inhabitants, the number of inhabitants has now fallen below 300. In addition, there are the effects of demographic change, so only 9.7% of the population belong to the group of the under 20 year olds, while 43.1% belong to the group of the over 60 year olds.

politics

The local advisory council in Hirzenach consists of five honorary council members, who were last elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the also honorary mayor as chairman. The local elections in 2019 brought three seats for the CDU and two for the SPD .

Mayor is Rainer Volk (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 75.2% of the vote, making him the successor to Hans-Josef Karbach (CDU).

Culture

The poet Ferdinand Freiligrath , who was a guest in Hirzenach, sings about the "Linden near Hirzenach" in a sonnet .

Web links

Commons : Hirzenach - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hirzenach on Rheinseite.de
Historical information about Hirzenach at regionalgeschichte.net
Portrait of the place from SWR; Author Thomas Keck
Historical drawings of the banks of the Rhine (picture by Hirzenach from JF Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (draftsman): FC Vogel's Panorama of the Rhine, pictures of the right and left banks of the Rhine, FC Vogel lithographic institute, Frankfurt 1833)
Literature about Hirzenach in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Koelges: On the history of the Hirzenach Propstei (1100–1803) , accessed on October 26, 2017.

^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Hrsg.): Collection of the published official gazettes from December 1, 1900. Volume 4, No. 55. Announcement No. 528, p. 409 and correction in No. 57 of December 15, 1900, No. 560 , P. 4 [28].

↑ www.regionalgeschichte.net: History of Hirzenach

↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 160 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

↑ Wolfgang Wendling: Demographic change: Boppard is losing fewer inhabitants than feared. In: Rhein-Zeitung . Edition of January 9, 2014 ( online ( memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2

↑ City of Boppard: Result of the Hirzenach local council 2019. Accessed on October 3, 2019 .

↑ City of Boppard: Mayor election 2019 Hirzenach. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .

[koelges-1] Michael Koelges: On the history of the Hirzenach Propstei (1100–1803) , accessed on October 26, 2017.

[2] Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Hrsg.): Collection of the published official gazettes from December 1, 1900. Volume 4, No. 55. Announcement No. 528, p. 409 and correction in No. 57 of December 15, 1900, No. 560 , P. 4 [28].

[3] www.regionalgeschichte.net: History of Hirzenach

[gemeindeverzeichnis-4] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 160 (PDF; 2.8 MB).