Oberdiebach

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 2 '  N , 7 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Nahe
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.37 km 2
Residents:	824 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55413
Area code :	06743
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 044
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Koblenzer Strasse 18 55411 Bingen am Rhein
Website :	www.oberdiebach.de
Local Mayor :	Bernhard Laudert
Location of the local community Oberdiebach in the Mainz-Bingen district

View of Oberdiebach

Oberdiebach is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Nahe Association , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Bingen am Rhein . Since 2002 Oberdiebach has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley .

geography

Oberdiebach is located in the Middle Rhine Valley between Koblenz and Mainz . The closest larger city is Bingen am Rhein, about 10 kilometers (as the crow flies) southwest .

The districts of the community are Oberdiebach, Rheindiebach and Winzberg.

history

• 0893: Oberdiebach is mentioned for the first time
• 1220: The Fürstenberg Castle (Rheindiebach) is from Cologne electors on the border with Kurmainz built
• 1461: first mention of Rheindiebach (Dyepach Ryne)
• 1689: The French destroy Fürstenberg Castle in the Palatinate War of Succession .
• 1822: The MGV "Eintracht" is founded and is still one of the oldest choral societies in Rhineland-Palatinate

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

year Residents 1815 663 1835 825 1871 797 1905 838 1939 876

year Residents 1950 964 1961 918 1970 905 1987 935 2005 916

politics

Oberdiebach: Fürstenberghalle and municipal administration

Municipal council

The local council in Oberdiebach consists of twelve council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	Flat share 1	Flat share 2	total
2019	-	9	3	12 seats
2014	-	9	3	12 seats
2009	-	8th	4th	12 seats
2004	3	7th	2	12 seats

• Flat share 1 = Laudert voters group
• WG 2 = voter group Dr. Stelter

mayor

In the 2019 local elections, Bernhard Laudert was directly re- elected as local mayor with 90.4 percent of the vote .

Buildings

Oberdiebach: Evangelical parish church

Rheindiebach: fortifications, corner tower

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Oberdiebach

• in the district of Oberdiebach the parish church of St. Mauritius (1414) with an altarpiece and iron pulpit.
• in the district of Rheindiebach the castle ruins Fürstenberg and
• half of the tower, formerly part of the Gothic fortifications. Large parts of the fortifications and parts of the tower fell victim to the expansion of Bundesstraße 9 in the second half of the 20th century.
• The Lorch transmitter (Rheingau) is located southeast of Oberdiebach .

Oberdiebach's sons

• Johann Henrich Reitz (1665–1720), well-known radical pietist and author ( impartial church and heretic history )
• Johann Wilhelm Theobald (1726–1816), Father Lazarist , first Provincial of his order in the Electoral Palatinate and pastor of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
• Klaus Wagner (1937–2005), Hispanist in Seville

economy

Oberdiebach is economically shaped by viticulture. Tourism plays a small but expandable role. Old traditions have been revived not only to promote tourism, but also to promote their own identity as a place. This is how the new guild of Weinschröter came into being , which in the old days was responsible for the transport of heavy and valuable wine barrels and which today maintains old traditions.

traffic

• The next train station is in Niederheimbach on the Mainz – Koblenz railway line .
• Bundesstrasse 9 , which connects Mainz with Koblenz, runs directly through the Rheindiebach part of the municipality .
• The Rheingoldstrasse (here K 27) runs through the side valley, with which one reaches the federal motorway 61 via the neighboring town of Manubach after about 11 km at the junction Rheinböllen . The Rheingoldstrasse itself leads from Rheindiebach over the heights on the left bank of the Rhine to Boppard . It is particularly popular with motorcycle tourists.
• The Rhine Cycle Path runs along the Rhine .
• The Rheinburgenweg long-distance hiking trail touches the town on the Trechtingshausen - Bacharach stage

literature

• Literature about Oberdiebach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
• Literature by and about Oberdiebach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Bahn: The history of the Diebachtal. Oberdiebach 1989.

Web links

Commons : Oberdiebach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Oberdiebach
• On the history of Oberdiebach . Website "regionalgeschichte.net" of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V.
• Picture from Rheindiebach from: JF Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (draftsman): F. C. Vogel's Panorama of the Rhine: Views of the right and left banks of the Rhine from Mainz to Coblenz . F. C. Vogel lithographic institute, Frankfurt 1833

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. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections Retrieved on July 29, 2019
4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, direct elections for the local and city mayors. Accessed on July 29, 2019