Oppertshausen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Simmern-Rheinböllen
Height :	360 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.52 km 2
Residents:	113 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	74 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55469
Area code :	06761
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 115
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 2 55469 Simmern / Hunsrück
Website :	www.simmern.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Konrad
Location of the local community Oppertshausen in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

View from the south

Oppertshausen is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Simmern-Rheinböllen community .

geography

The residential community with a rural character is centrally located in the Hunsrück on a slight slope on the Simmerbachtal. In the east lies the town of Simmern , in the west lies the Kauerbachtal .

history

Archaeological finds prove the settlement in the younger Stone Age or during the Hunsrück-Eifel culture . The first documentary mention of it comes from the year 1285. The place belonged to the so-called foreign citizenship of the office Kirchberg in the rear county of Sponheim .

After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine (1794) by French revolutionary troops , the place became French, in 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French, the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Local mayor is Peter Konrad. No candidate ran in the local elections on May 26, 2019; he was re-elected by the local council on July 8, 2019.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue a raised rafter in two rows of red and silver, underneath a gold ring."
	Founding of the coat of arms: The chested rafter stands for the rear county of Sponheim the former sovereigns.

Web links

Commons : Oppertshausen  - Collection of Images

• Local community Oppertshausen on the website of the Simmern / Hunsrück community
• Site portrait of the SWR
• Literature about Oppertshausen in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 457
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Oppertshausen. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Simmern-Rheinböllen, Verbandsgemeinde, 30th line of results. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Heimat Aktuell - Mitteilungsblatt: Election of the local mayor and the aldermen. Edition 29/2019, official notices from the municipalities of Simmern and Rheinböllen. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .