Morbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Morbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '  N , 7 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	122.16 km 2
Residents:	10,447 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	86 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54497
Primaries :	06533, 06536 (Wederath)
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 502
Community structure:	19 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Bahnhofstrasse 19 54497 Morbach
Website :	www.morbach.de
Mayor :	Andreas Hackethal ( CDU )
Location of the community of Morbach in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Morbach energy park

Town hall of the municipality

Catholic Church

Evangelical Church of the Redeemer

Morbach is an association-free municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . The community is a state-approved health resort and designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

location

Morbach lies at 430 to 770  m above sea level. NHN in the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in the immediate vicinity of the Birkenfeld district . The closest medium-sized center is the town of Bernkastel-Kues on the Moselle .

Community structure

The municipality of Morbach is divided into 19 local districts, some of which are still assigned residential areas or hamlets as parts of the municipality:

District	associated living spaces and hamlets	Height above sea level.	Residents
Bishop's throne	Emmerichs Mill	457	850
Elzerath		461	110
Gonzerath	Gonzerather-Hinterbach, Longkamperhinterbach	457	1,190
Gutenthal	On the heath	474	450
Hague		461	500
Heinzerath	Brieschmühle, Mergenermühle	446	320
Hinzerath	Forsthaus Hinzerath	496	430
Hoxel	Forsthaus Hoxel	498	600
Dog home	Gypsum mill, Baldenauermühle	501	660
Hunolstein	Hahnacker Hof, Hellenberger Hof, Hof auf Queckborn, Hunolsteinerhof, Schülersmühle	404	250
Merscheid	Dörrwiese, Götzenfeld, Heinzerbach, Hölzbach, Reinhardsmühle	434	400
Morbach	Am Mehlbaum, Am Sonnenberg, Hof Geiersley, Rasthaus Dhrontal, Schmausemühle	435	3,200
Morscheid-Riedenburg	Cornelysmühle, Edenbruch, Huhl, Riedenburgermühle, Sankt Kuno	460	520
Or	Oderterhaus, Oderterhof	440	100
Rapperath	On the Sonnenberg, Martini house, Zerwes mill, Güldner settlement	405	450
Wederath		472	220
Weiperath		442	300
Lessath	Hegberger Hof	480	320
Wolzburg		455	200
Total municipality of Morbach			11,070

history

Morbach Office

The Prussian mayor's office Morbach , which had existed since the 19th century, became the Prussian or later Federal German Morbach office in 1927 , which existed until 1968.

In 1931 the Morbach office, which at that time belonged to the district of Bernkastel in the administrative district of Trier , had 7,349 inhabitants, 7,306 of them Catholic, 42 Protestant, Israeli 1. The total area was 11,645 hectares , of which 3,699 hectares were arable, forest and Meadow area 7,084 ha.

The municipalities belonging to the office were Bischofsdhron , Elzerath , Gutenthal , Haag , Heinzerath , Hinzerath , Hoxel , Hundheim , Hunolstein , Merschbach , Merscheid , Morbach, Morscheid-Riedenburg , Odert , Rapperath , Wederath , Weiperath , Lessath and Wolzburg . (As of 1931)

Verbandsgemeinde Morbach

The Verbandsgemeinde Morbach existed from October 1, 1968 to December 31, 1974, when the association-free community Morbach ( unitary community ) was formed.

On November 7, 1970, the community of Gonzerath (841 inhabitants) was incorporated from the disbanded Verbandsgemeinde Bernkastel-Land (today's Verbandsgemeinde Bernkastel-Kues ) into the Verbandsgemeinde Morbach and the community Merschbach (104 inhabitants) from the Verbandsgemeinde Morbach into the Verbandsgemeinde Thalfang .

Unified municipality of Morbach

In the area of the district Wenigerath was until 1995 the ammunition depot Wenigerath the US Air Force .

On May 25, 2009 Morbach received the title “ Place of Diversity ” awarded by the German government .

In 2015 the celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Morbach unified community took place.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Morbach consists of 28 honorary council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	FDP	LEFT	FWM	total
2019	3	10	3	2	-	10	28 seats
2014	4th	12	2	1	1	8th	28 seats
2009	5	12	2	2	1	6th	28 seats
2004	4th	15th	1	1	-	7th	28 seats

• FWM = Free Voting Group Morbach e. V.

mayor

Mayor's office in Morbach since the 19th century.

• Jakob Christoph Hungershöfer, 1878 to 1911
• Karl Hoffmann, 1912 to 1917

Morbach office from 1927

• Ernst Stahlberg, 1918 to 1934
• Willi Lenz, 1934 to 1944
• Albert Gerth, 1945 to 1957
• Peter Wilbert, 1957 to 1965

Verbandsgemeinde Morbach from 1968

• Arnold Schmidt, 1965 to 1970, initially mayor and later mayor of the newly founded community of Morbach

Unified community of Morbach from 1975

• Ottmar Scholl, 1971 to 1977, VG mayor and mayor of the Morbach community that was founded in 1975
• Erwin Lieser, 1977 to 1997
• Gregor Eibes, 1997 to 2011, later District Administrator of the Bernkastel-Wittlich district
• Andreas Hackethal, from 2011

Andreas Hackethal took up his post on September 1, 2011. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further eight-year electoral term with 83.8% of the votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the unified community of Morbach: By decree of the Upper President of the Rhine Province on May 3, 1937, the then “Morbach Office” was given its own coat of arms. In the narrow black and white board, it shows a divided shield with a red, continuous cross above in silver (white), and below in gold (yellow) two red bars between 5, 4 and 1 rows of square stones. The narrow black and white board indicates that it was part of Prussia. Since all locations of the then Office Morbach earlier to kurtrierischen office Hunolstein or Baldenau or bailiwick Hunolstein have heard the former principalities were for the Office crest symbols of the Coat of arms taken, namely the crest of the Archbishopric of Trier, the red continuous cross in silver frame and the coat of arms the Bailiff von Hunolstein the two red bars between red stones in a golden field.

The coat of arms of the former municipality of Morbach: It shows a red bar cross on a silver background in the head of the shield. Underneath, a silver wave bar runs diagonally on a blue background. A coat of arms consisting of two red bars alternating with a total of twelve red, square stones on a gold background lies on the wavy bar. The Balkenkreuz in the upper part is the Electoral Trier coat of arms of the former sovereignty. The wave bar points to the Morbach . The small shield shows the coat of arms of the Vögte zu Hunolstein , the former feudal lords of the place.

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  Coat of arms of the unified municipality of Morbach

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  Coat of arms of the former municipality of Morbach

Attractions

The Hoxeler Viaduct , which is one of the highest single-storey stone railway bridges in Germany, is particularly worth seeing .

Further destinations worth seeing in the area of ​​the municipality of Morbach are:

• Baldenau Castle
• Hunolstein Castle
• Belginum Archaeological Park , provides information about the historic Belginum settlement on the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse near Hinzerath
• Blunt tower
• Hunsrück Wood Museum in the Weiperath district
• German Telephone Museum in Morbach
• Café Heimat with an exhibition on Edgar Reitz and his films, since January 2019 also Kino Heimat

See also: List of cultural monuments in Morbach

Economy and Transport

Local businesses

Numerous medium-sized companies are located in Morbach. Papier-Mettler and Schaeffler Friction Products GmbH are of supraregional importance .

The VR-Bank Hunsrück-Mosel eG is based in Morbach.

Energy park

The municipality of Morbach im Hunsrück is the location of the Morbach energy landscape with fourteen wind turbines , a large photovoltaic system , a biogas plant and a wood pellet plant . The lease in the energy park brings the community 280,000 euros a year. Since March 2011, a system has also been in operation in the Morbach energy landscape, in which it is to be tested under real conditions how excess electricity can be stored as wind gas .

traffic

Morbach is part of the Trier region . The bus line 300 of the Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft connects the place every two hours with the main train station Wittlich on the Moselle route Trier - Koblenz . The bus line 343 of the bus and coach transport Rhein-Nahe is weekdays connect to the train station Idar-Oberstein on the Nahe Valley Railway Saarbruecken - Mainz ago. The local train station has not been served since 2014.

The federal highways 269 and 327 and the Hunsrückquerbahn Langenlonsheim - Hermeskeil run through Morbach , which is currently idle, but is to be reactivated from Morbach to Bingen am Rhein due to the connection to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport .

tourism

Morbach is the end point of a stage of the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig long-distance hiking trail .

People and personalities

• Friedrich Thinnes (1790-1860), Catholic priest
• Jacob Forrell (1821-1893), organ builder
• Johannes Greber (1874–1944), Catholic priest
• Mathias Jacobs (1885–1935), social democratic politician
• Valentin Eibes (1897–1964), NSDAP politician
• Edgar Reitz (* 1932), director
• Jakob M. Mierscheid , fictional politician of the SPD
• Winfried Böttcher (* 1936), Aachen political scientist and professor
• Karl Heinz Rahn (* 1937), professor
• Werner Sonne (* 1947), journalist and writer
• Lothar Schweigerer (* 1953), professor and pediatrician
• Britta Rabold (* 1956), Roman provincial archaeologist
• Gabriele Andretta (* 1961), SPD politician
• Gerlinde Countess von Westphalen (* 1966), gallery owner, publicist and curator
• Stefan Gemmel (* 1970), author

Web links

Commons : Morbach  - Collection of Images

• Website of the community of Morbach
• Link catalog on Morbach at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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: Regional data.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 85 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ^ Geographical names
5. ↑ Population figures August 2019, www.morbach.de
6. ↑ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, State Office for Archive Maintenance: Archive Maintenance in Westphalia and Lippe , page 4 (PDF; 959 kB)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Handbook of the offices and rural communities in the Rhine Province and in the Province of Westphalia , Prussian Landgemeindetag West, Berlin 1931
8. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 172 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see also p. 201, footnote 2).
9. ↑ history. In: www.morbach.de . Morbach community, accessed on August 13, 2019 . 
10. ↑ orte-der-vielfalt: Morbach ( Memento from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
12. ↑ Marion Maier: A lot of attention for the new mayor. Trierischer Volksfreund, August 31, 2011, accessed on December 14, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Morbach unitary community: Won the election without competition. May 27, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 . 
14. ↑ http://www.deutsches-telefon-museum.eu/
15. ↑ https://www.cafe-heimat-morbach.de/
16. ↑ "Kino Heimat" opens for Edgar Reitz fans in the Hunsrück. In: www.welt.de. January 11, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019 . 
17. ↑ There is no green conviction behind the commitment of the Morbach people (SZ online August 17, 2007)
18. ↑ Saar-Hunsrück-Steig website, accessed on February 1, 2014
19. ↑ Web presence of the municipality of Morbach, accessed on February 1, 2014