Ravengiersburg

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Simmern-Rheinböllen
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.16 km 2
Residents:	315 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55471
Area code :	06761
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 119
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 2 ; 55469 Simmern / Hunsrück
Website :	www.ravengiersburg.info
Local Mayor :	Klaus Spang
Location of the local community Ravengiersburg in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Ravengiersburg is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Simmern-Rheinböllen community . In the village is the St. Christophorus Church, known under the name "Hunsrückdom".

Ravengiersburg with the dominating "Hunsrück Cathedral" and the neo-Gothic Protestant church

geography

Geographical location

Ravengiersburg is centrally located in the Simmerbachtal in the Hunsrück . The village center is densely built around the monastery church. The hamlet of Neuhof, located to the south, belongs to the village of Ravengiersburg. The Kauerbach flows into the Simmerbach to the west of Ravengiersburg .

House wall artistically designed from roof slate

Land use

The total area of the municipality is 6.16 km², of which 2.29 km² are covered with forest.

history

The first written mention of the place comes from the year 974. The name comes from Count Rabangar , who at that time built a castle on the steep rock above the Simmerbach. The foundation of the Augustinian Canons - Ravengiersburg Abbey dates back to 1074. The monastery was founded on the site of the Salian castle of the counts in Trechirgau . In the deed of donation of land to the monastery, the Hundesrucha , the Hunsrück, is mentioned for the first time .

In 1410 the monastery and town came to the newly created duchy of Pfalz-Simmern . The monastery developed into the largest landowner between the Moselle and Nahe. In 1564, however, it was dissolved when the Reformation was introduced in the duchy, and several attempts to revive it failed. In 1631 the monastery was finally burned down by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years War. In 1673 the Electoral Palatinate became sovereign. The current church was between 1718 and 1722 Elector Karl III. Build Philip of the Palatinate . With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops in 1794, 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 again , the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Ravengiersburg consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the 2019 local elections , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

The local mayor is Klaus Spang. No candidate ran in the local elections on May 26, 2019; he was elected by the local council on July 8, 2019 and is the successor to Karl-Peter Breuer.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Quartered, 1 in silver (white) a blue lily, 2 in black a two-towered silver (white) monastery building with stepped gables, black windows and gate, 3 in black a left-facing red-armored golden (yellow) lion, 4 diagonally roughened (- awakened ) in blue and silver (white). "
	Crest Reason: The coat of arms shows a lily, which was founded in 1074 for the Augustinian Monastery stands as well as the monastery Ravengiersburg that talking is the place name. In the lower part you can see the symbols of the former rulers of the Electoral Palatinate ; they also remind of the former principality of Pfalz-Simmern .

Culture and sights

Club life

Active associations are “The Ravenger - Association for Customs Maintenance Ravengiersburg e. V. “, the Hunsrück Cathedral Building Association, a fishing club and the HSV 70 (sports club). In addition, the Catholic Workers' Movement , KAB, ran a large vocational training center in the monastery buildings until 2006 . Also worth mentioning is a youth meeting point that has been functioning since 1978.

Buildings

The most important attraction is the Ravengiersburg monastery with the Romanesque double tower facade of the St. Christophorus Church. The imposing church is also called "Hunsrück Cathedral".

Web links

Wikisource: Ravengiersburg - Sources and full texts

Commons : Ravengiersburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Ravengiersburg
Ravengiersburg without wind turbines
Page about the Hunsrück Cathedral
Literature about Ravengiersburg in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ H. Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape 1 : From the oldest times up to the year 1169. Koblenz 1860, p. 431 ( full text in Google Book Search).

^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Ravengiersburg. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Simmern-Rheinböllen, Verbandsgemeinde, 32nd result line. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
↑ 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 .
↑ Hunsrück Cathedral Building Association

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[MRhUb1-2] H. Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape 1 : From the oldest times up to the year 1169. Koblenz 1860, p. 431 ( full text in Google Book Search).