Mörschied

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '  N , 7 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.7 km 2
Residents:	789 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	74 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55758
Area code :	06785
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 056
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.moersche.de
Local Mayor :	Harald Friedrich
Location of the local community Mörschied in the Birkenfeld district

Mörschied is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Herrstein-Rhaunen community .

geography

Mörschied is located in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park . 64 percent of the municipal area is forested. In the east is Herrstein . The next largest city is Idar-Oberstein in the south.

Mörschied also includes the residential areas Am Herrsteinerweg, Asbacherhütte, Hahnenmühle and Harfenmühle .

Mörschied is a national park community in the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 457 1835 666 1871 746 1905 634 1939 592 1950 635

year Residents 1961 683 1970 738 1987 793 1997 868 2005 922 2017 811

Population development in Mörschied from 1815 to 2017

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Harald Friedrich became mayor of Mörschied in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with a share of 71.81% of the votes.

Friedrich's predecessor Dieter Brombacher was no longer able to prevail in the 2014 elections.

Culture

Since 1990 there has been an open-air theater in Mörschied , which annually organizes the Karl May Festival Mörschied in the summer months , which attracts around 10,000 visitors to the town every year. In 2016 she staged Unter Vultures - the spirit of the Llano Estacado .

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 422 runs in the south . In Idar-Oberstein there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Mörschied
• List of natural monuments in Mörschied

Web links

• Official homepage of the local community Mörschied
• Local community Mörschied on the website of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community community
• Literature about Mörschied in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 29 (PDF; 1 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ ^{a b} Stefan Conradt: Mörschied: With Harald Friedrich all signs point to a new beginning. In: Nahe newspaper. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, August 26, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herrstein-Rhaunen, Verbandsgemeinde, 28th line of results. Retrieved August 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Season 2016 Under Vultures - The Spirit of the Llano Estacado on Freilichtbuhen-mo Various-ev.de