Mackenrodt

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.9 km 2
Residents:	384 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	78 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55758
Area code :	06781
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 052
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 ; 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.mackenrodt.de
Local Mayor :	Reiner Mildenberger
Location of the local community of Mackenrodt in the Birkenfeld district

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

geography

The place is west of the Nahe in the Hunsrück . 64.6 percent of the municipal area is forested. Idar-Oberstein is located in the southeast .

history

Mackenrodt was first mentioned in a document in the 14th century. It was part of the rear county of Sponheim . After the two counties of Sponheim were divided (1776), the area belonged to the Margraves of Baden . After the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region and with it Mackenrodt came to the Oldenburg Principality of Birkenfeld in 1919 .

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	139
1835	175
1871	210
1905	234
1939	306
1950	320

year	Residents
1961	328
1970	339
1987	400
1997	448
2005	462
2019	384

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Reiner Mildenberger became the mayor of Mackenroth in 1995. Since there were no applicants in the direct election on May 26, 2019, the election of the mayor was incumbent on the council in accordance with the municipal regulations. He confirmed Mildenberger in his office on June 12, 2019.

Economy and Infrastructure

The federal highway 41 runs in the south . In Idar-Oberstein there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

Say about the Mackenrodter line

In Mackenrodt the legend of the Mackenrodter line has been handed down. This is about an old linden tree in town. In the linden tree there are said to have been seven holes in which a pin was inserted one hole every day in order to know the respective day of the week. One day, a rogue is said to have put the pin two holes further instead of one hole. As a result, the Mackenrodter hiked to the church in Idar on Saturday to find out that there was no service, which caused the dizziness to be exposed. Since then, the holes in the linden tree have allegedly been made so high up that they can no longer be seen with the naked eye.

The only truth about the story is probably the fact that the Mackenrodt population actually migrated to the church in Idar in the Middle Ages to attend the service; Even today there is a forest path between the two places, the Mackenrodter Weg.