Laubach (Hunsrück)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Simmern-Rheinböllen
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.02 km 2
Residents:	418 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56288
Area code :	06762
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 079
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 2 55469 Simmern / Hunsrück
Website :	www.laubach-hunsrueck.de
Local Mayor :	Karl Heinz Bohn
Location of the local community Laubach in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Laubach is a municipality in the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Simmern-Rheinböllen community .

geography

location

Laubach im Hunsrück photographed from the west

The village of Laubach is centrally located in the Hunsrück between Simmern and Kastellaun . It lies roughly in the middle of its boundaries, sloping slightly towards the Külzbachtal . The district has a total area of ​​1002 ha, of which 502 ha are community forest.

Lowest point: 405  m above sea level NHN , highest point: 480  m above sea level. NHN .

Laubach also includes the Grundhöfe and Gesellschaftsmühle residential areas .

The townscape is shaped by two churches towering over the town. There is also a community center, a kindergarten, two restaurants, a beverage wholesaler, a Trakehner stud with riding facilities and, in addition to a few part-time businesses, several larger farms.

Neighboring places

Expense red Alterkülz Neuerkirch Külz

horn Ebschied Bubach Hollnich

history

Laubach is mentioned for the first time in 1103: A Lupach estate belonged to the Ravengiersburg monastery as a result of an exchange contract with the provost Amnern of St. Stefan in Mainz . Later, the widow of Burkhard von Honrein (today's Horn, neighboring village of Laubach) handed over her estate in Horn, Laubach, Bubach and other places “together with the church set in Horn to the Ravengiersburg monastery”. This is attested in a document from the Archbishop of Mainz from 1135 and confirmed by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in 1166. These two documents are called forgeries of the archivist Georg Friedrich Schott in the more recent literature , but there is a regest in the camp book of the Ravengiersburg monastery from 1600 listing these two documents. It can therefore be assumed that these documents actually existed. However, whether Laubach was mentioned there cannot be said on the basis of this entry in the warehouse.

In 1211 and 1217 the chapel in Laubach is mentioned for the first time, which belonged to the diocese of Trier . During this time the Gau and diocese boundaries coincided.

In the middle of the 13th century, a list of the Archbishop of Trier names various rights, including in the land dean of Keimta (today's Zell) the Archbishop levies cathedral tax on Loupach and Hohnrein .

In the 13th century, the Laubach court consisted of the still inhabited villages of Laubach, Bubach, Ebschied and Horn with the desert areas Heinzert , Scheuf , Steilheim , Allenzhausen , Steinkülz and part of Budenbach . At that time, the desert would have to have been inhabited.

During the feuds of the 13th century, Laubach was surrounded by ramparts and ditches and was therefore counted among the festivals of the Simmern office. Up to the year 1302 Laubach and the neighboring villages and today's desert areas were demonstrably imperial . In a document dated June 13, 1302, these villages and various desolations are pledged to the Count of Sponheim or, as it is called Simoni comti des Spanheim, by the Roman-German King Albrecht I for services to be performed. In the period up to 1360, the entire area came into the possession of the Count Palatine and is called a town in the Palatinate main division from 1410, as is Horn. In the course of this division, Laubach fell to the newly founded Principality of Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken (Palatinate branch line), and from 1673 to Electoral Palatinate .

With the introduction of the Reformation in the Hunsrück (1557) Laubach became Protestant. Between 1626 and 1706 the predominance of denominations changed or the church was used jointly. In 1706 the church was awarded to the Catholics in the Kauber church division (the Evangelicals received Bubach and Horn). In 1719 the Evangelicals built their own church. In 1857/58, after some quarrels, in which the supervisory authority intervened, and after the property was expanded, a new and larger neo-Romanesque Evangelical Church on the site of the old church, on which, according to tradition, the Laubach castle had stood, according to the plans of the district builder Bormann and regional role models. It received a new organ from the Stumm workshop , the old Stumm organ was sold to Hochstetten-Dhaun for the Johannisberg collegiate church there. The larger of the two bells is made of bronze and was cast in 1908 by the Rincker bell and art foundry . It had to be surrendered in 1942, but could be recovered undamaged in 1947. In 1868/70 the Catholic church could also be rebuilt according to plans by the district architect Sasse.

With the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops , the place became French and from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton of Simmern in the Rhine-Mosel department . Laubach was the main town of a mairie . In 1815 he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna .

Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 345 1835 480 1871 493 1905 425 1939 368

year Residents 1950 454 1961 405 1970 411 1987 398 2005 465

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

The local mayor is Karl Heinz Bohn. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 77.24% of the votes.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Laubach

Web links

Commons : Laubach  - Collection of Images

• Laubach in the SWR broadcast (2015) Hierzuland
• Laubach website
• Literature about Laubach 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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 39 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ WA Günther: Codex diplomaticus rheno-mosellanus . 1st part: Documents from the VIII. To the end of the XII. Century. Koblenz 1822, p. 161 f. No. 75 ( full text in Google Book Search).
4. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape 1 : From the oldest times to the year 1169. Koblenz 1874, p. 535 f. Reg. 480 ( full text in the Google book search).
5. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape 1 : From the oldest times to the year 1169. Koblenz 1874, p. 703 f. Reg. 646 ( full text in Google Book Search).
6. ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Friedrich I .: 1181-1190, Appendix II, p.  511 (No. 20) ( ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Link )).
7. ↑ Best 4, No. 2417, fol. 42 in the state main archive Koblenz
8. ↑ ^{a b} J. G. Widder : Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the electoral prince. Palatinate on the Rhine . tape  III . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1787, p. 488 f . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
9. ↑ ^{a b} C. v. Stramberg, AJ Weidenbach: Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius . Dept. II, volume 6 . Koblenz 1857, p. 12 ( full text in Google Book Search).
10. ^ FJ Mone (ed.): Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . tape 12 . Karlsruhe 1861, p. 199 Reg. 55 ( full text in the Google book search).
11. ↑ According to Chronicle Laubach by Arnold Sehn and other sources in excerpts from the Laubach website
12. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
13. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Laubach. Retrieved October 5, 2019 . 
14. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Direct elections 2019. see Simmern-Rheinböllen, Verbandsgemeinde, 21st line of results. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .