Oberkleinich

Oberkleinich Local church Kleinich
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 24 ″  E
Height :	475 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	113  (2008)
Incorporation :	March 17, 1974
Postal code :	54483
Area code :	06536
Location of Oberkleinich in Rhineland-Palatinate

Oberkleinich , official spelling until May 15, 1936: Obercleinich, is a district of the local community Kleinich in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Geographical location

Oberkleinich is located in the middle of the Hunsrück, two kilometers from the main town of Kleinich. The nearest basic and medium-sized centers are Büchenbeuren , Sohren , Traben-Trarbach , Morbach , Bernkastel-Kues and Simmern . The Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is 10 kilometers from the village.

Population development

year	Residents
1854	133
1910	127
1925	129
1949	124
2008	113

• The proportion of Protestant Christians was 65.5% in 2008 and 98.4% in 1925.

politics

Oberkleinich community

Until 1974 Oberkleinich was an independent municipality . As part of the administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate that began in the mid-1960s, today's local community of Kleinich was re-established on March 17, 1974 from Oberkleinich and six other communities . In 1974 Oberkleinich had a total of 122 inhabitants.

Former coat of arms

	Blazon : "Green with a two-row inclined left bar of silver and red, behind a silver ploughshare shifted obliquely to the left."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The silver-red nested, double-row sloping bar indicates the former sovereignty, the rear county of Sponheim . The ploughshare and the coat of arms color green represent agriculture.

Mayor (since 1974)

1974-1979	Albert Bach
1979-1994	Horst Schößler
1994-1999	Rolf Goebel
1999-2001	Bernd Reppin
2001–	Ralf Heidenreich

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

• Evangelical chapel in Oberkleinich, baroque hall building, built in 1772 instead of several previous buildings.
• Local history museum, local history collection.
• Mill Oberkleinich.

Natural monuments

• Ball beech on the Ebenhauser head

literature

• Chronicle of the parish of Kleinich (2009)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939; Page 268
2. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 182 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
3. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of Kleinich-Oberkleinich in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on July 10, 2018.
4. ↑ Entry on Evangelical Chapel in Oberkleinich in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on July 10, 2018.
5. ↑ Entry on spherical beech at the Ebenhauser Kopf in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on July 10, 2018.