Horbach (near Simmertal)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Kirner Land
Height :	360 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.92 km 2
Residents:	45 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55606
Area code :	06754
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 047
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 31 55606 Kirn
Website :	www.kirn-land.de
Local Mayor :	Günter Buhrmann-Klein
Location of the local community Horbach in the Bad Kreuznach district

Parish hall and chapel in the center of the village

Horbach is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirner Land association.

geography

The village is located in the southern Hunsrück at an altitude of 340 meters on the western Soonvorstufe above the Kellenbach and the local community of Simmertal .

history

Horbach is the second smallest municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district . It is located - away from any through traffic - across from Schloss Dhaun on the other side of the Kellenbachtal and, like only a few communities in the Kirner Land association, has retained its agrarian appearance of earlier times. The place name is handed down in 1541 as "Horbruch", which means something like "swampy terrain". Originally, Horbach, Brauweiler , Martinstein and Simmern under Dhaun formed a brand cooperative. The whole built and undeveloped land and the forest area formed a unit. Ecclesiastically and administratively, Simmern unter Dhaun was the main town in this greater area, while the neighboring communities were extension or subsidiary settlements of the mother town. It can also be assumed that when the neighboring villages were founded, the settlers came from a place of the original mark, because otherwise the right to the common land, to the common ownership of pastures, water and forest, cannot be explained. It was not until 1513 that the district of Horbach was separated from the large district of Simmern under Dhaun by the setting of 18 boundary stones. Several lords had a share in the local rule of Horbach in the Middle Ages, including the Counts of Sponheim and the Wildgrafen. In 1340, Kurmainzer rights for Horbach are documented, which were granted to the Knights of Löwenstein in 1393. In the following period Horbach became part of the imperial knighthood of Martinstein and counted u. a. the Freiherr von Ebersberg, called von Weyers-Leyen, to his local lords. In 1747 the Protestant church was built, in which the pastor of Simmern under Dhaun performed the services.

In the 18th century the local rule passed to the Margrave of Baden , who had the rule of Martinstein administered by a bailiff based on the Naumburg. There was a mayor each in Horbach and Martinstein .

In the course of the French territorial and administrative reforms, Horbach came to Mairie Monzingen around 1800 . The village remained in the later mayor's office or the office of Monzingen until it was incorporated into the community of Kirn-Land in 1970. In 2020 the place became part of the community of Kirner Land.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Horbach consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

The local mayor is Günter Buhrmann-Klein. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, no candidate ran, his re-election took place on June 25, 2019 by the local council.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Shield split by a curled, lowered, blue point with a silver pole inside. In front a blue-armored and tongued red lion in gold, behind five silver (2: 1: 2) balls in black. "
	Justification for the coat of arms: The front part of the shield refers to the former affiliation to the Wild and Rhine Counties. The rear part of the shield refers to the coat of arms of the Lords of Sickingen . The lower curved tip refers to the von der Leyen coat of arms. The coat of arms is based on an old boundary stone that is still in the Horbach district today.

On April 6, 1976, the municipal council commissioned the graphic designer Brust, Kirnsulzbach, to develop a design for a municipal coat of arms. At the meeting on August 13, 1978, the council approved the draft coat of arms in its current version. After approval by the State Archives, the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz granted on February 7, 1979 the approval to use your own coat of arms.

Culture and sights

The Horbacher Curb takes place every year on Ascension Day . It is organized by the Friends of the Horbach Volunteer Fire Brigade.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Horbach

Web links

Commons : Horbach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Horbach on the website of the association community Kirn-Land
• Literature about Horbach 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} Statistical Maps, Verbandsgemeinde Kirn-Land, 2009
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Horbach. Retrieved September 21, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The State Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirn-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 11th line of results. Retrieved September 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Information sheet Kirn-Land for the area of ​​the Verbandsgemeinde: Minutes of the meeting of the local council Horbach on June 25th, 2019. Edition 28/2019, Official notices and notices from the local congregations. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .