Upper brain

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 7 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	315 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.45 km 2
Residents:	319 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55624
Area code :	06544
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 065
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.oberkirn.de
Local Mayor :	Alfons Bell
Location of the Oberkirn municipality in the Birkenfeld district

The village is located in the Kyrbachtal , with the Idarkopf in the background

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

geography

Oberkirn is located in the valley of the Kyrbach , between the Lützelsoon in the southeast and the Idarwald in the southwest, in the middle of the Hunsrück . Neighboring communities are Rhaunen , Gösenroth , Schwerbach , Lindenschied , Rohrbach , Woppenroth and Hausen .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1335 as Overkehr . Oberkirn was part of the parish of Hausen until it merged with Rhaunen. Other places belonging to Hausen were Schwerbach and until 1969 Lindenschied and Woppenroth and formerly Gösenroth and Laufersweiler .

The municipality mentions on its website: “A legend says that Oberkirn was once called Oberhausen and Oberhausen bei Kirn Oberkirn. At some point the names were swapped when writing a certificate. However, there is still no scientific proof of this. ”For example, the neighboring village of Hausen Oberhausen would be linguistically assigned and Kirn Oberkirn. Against this, however, speaks that the respective place names in the vernacular were certainly not based on an incorrect document or would have changed because of it.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 216 1835 306 1871 366 1905 341 1939 399 1950 405

year Residents 1961 433 1970 436 1987 378 1997 367 2005 358 2019 319

politics

Municipal council

The council in Oberkirn 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

Alfons Klingels became mayor of Oberkirn in 1999. 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 Klingels in his office on July 5, 2019.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In a divided shield above in gold a red mythical animal with a wolf's head and wide open wings, covered with a black wolf hook , below in blue a golden bishop's staff accompanied by two silver buckles."

Justification of the coat of arms: The mythical animal refers to the former affiliation to the Wild and Rhine Counties and corresponds to the earlier court seal of the Rhaunen High Court . In the lower half of the shield is the crosier to Lothar Karl Franz Josef Schenk von Schmidt Burg , canon to Liege , Chorbishop to Trier and Mr. reminded to Oberkirn. The two silver buckles stand for the Schmidtburg office . According to a list from the 16th century, the place Oberkirn belonged to this office. Together with other places, Oberkirn had its own in-court, presided over by the Burgmanns Jakob and Henne Braun von Schmidtburg.

Culture and sights

Protestant church

The Evangelical Church was built in the 16th century. The Catholic Church dates from 1794.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Oberkirn

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a village community center in Oberkirn. In the north are the federal highway 50 and the Frankfurt-Hahn airport .

Web links

• Oberkirn municipality
• Ortgemeinde Oberkirn on the website of the Herrstein-Rhaunen municipality
• Literature about Oberkirn 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 - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ Andreas Nitsch: Some mayors of VG Rhaunen are thinking of quitting. Alfons Bell. In: Nahe newspaper. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, February 7, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herrstein-Rhaunen, Verbandsgemeinde, 32nd line of results. Retrieved August 23, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Coat of arms of the local community Oberkirn In: vg-rhaunen.de , accessed on December 14, 2017.