Reiffelbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 41 '  N , 7 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Nahe-Glan
Height :	326 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.46 km 2
Residents:	224 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	50 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67829
Area code :	06753
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 084
Association administration address:	Obertor 13 55590 Meisenheim, Germany
Website :	www.meisenheim.de
Local Mayor :	Gerhard Geib
Location of the local community Reiffelbach in the Bad Kreuznach district

Reiffelbach is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Nahe-Glan .

geography

The clustered village is located on the Reiffelbach stream of the same name, east of the Glan in the North Palatinate Bergland . To the north are Meisenheim and Callbach , east Schmittweiler , south Becherbach and west is Odenbach .

history

The Reiffelbach settlement was first mentioned in 1293 in a document from Count Heinrich I von Veldenz for the knight Eberhard von Odenbach , who owned a third of the tithe to Reiffelbach as a Veldenzer fief . The Knights of Odenbach were also the owners of the tithe in Reiffelbach in the 14th century. In a feud letter from Dietz von Wachenheim to the city of Worms , which was probably written around or before 1383, a Peter von Ryffelbach was named among his numerous noble helpers. In another feud against Worms from 1389, Frank von Ryffelbach appears. In the 15th century the noblemen Lyfried von Heppenheim inherited the Odenbach fief with the Reiffelbach tithe. The church with the Holy Cross patronage and the village of Reiffelbach were mentioned for the first time in a Seelgerät foundation from Henne Lifrid von Heppenheim in 1401 . The church, which was probably preceded by a different chapel as its predecessor, was a branch of the Meisenheim parish and was looked after by the Johannitern der Meisenheimer Kommende . The current church in Reiffelbach dates from 1849.

After the Congress of Vienna , Reiffelbach belonged to the Rhine District in the Kingdom of Bavaria , where it remained until the end of the Second World War . During the administrative reform of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969, Reiffelbach was reclassified from the Kusel district to the Bad Kreuznach district. From an ecclesiastical point of view, Reiffelbach still belongs to the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and to the Diocese of Speyer .

Place name

The settlement name is formed from the basic word Bach and the Old High German personal name Rîfilo , a diminutive of the name Rîfo or Hrîffo , which translates as "hoarfrost", "dew". The place name means "brook of the Rîfilo".

population

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 264 1835 339 1871 368 1905 324 1939 279

year Residents 1950 326 1961 316 1970 304 1987 258 2005 253

Politics and administration

Municipal council

The municipal council in Reiffelbach 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

The local mayor is Gerhard Geib. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office with 90.78% of the vote.

Municipal coat of arms

Blazon : In the blue shield a silver, obliquely left wavy bar , accompanied by a golden hoop at the top and a golden pitchfork at the bottom . The coat of arms was approved on July 13, 1981 by the district government in Koblenz. The tire is an allusion to the place name. It is therefore a talking coat of arms . The pitchfork is the old village sign of Reiffelbach, which was placed on the boundary stones of the district . The oldest known boundary stone with this district mark came from the year 1601.

Economy and Infrastructure

The L 380 runs through the village . The federal highway 420 runs in the north . In Staudernheim there is a train station of the Nahe Valley Railway .

literature

• Günter F. Anthes, Otto Döhnert, Willi Maurer, Manfred Stibitz: 700 years of Reiffelbach . Reiffelbach 1993.
• Friends of the local community Reiffelbach (Hrsg.): Reiffelbach. A village in the North Palatinate Uplands. Festschrift 725 years 1293–2018 . Reiffelbach 2018.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Reiffelbach

Web links

Commons : Reiffelbach  - Collection of Images

• Literature about Reiffelbach 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. ^ Carl Pöhlmann: Regesten of the feudal deeds of the Counts of Veldenz . Speier am Rhein 1928, p. 65 f ., No. 316 (1293 Jul 8) .
3. ↑ Pöhlmann, Regesten Veldenz, p. 166f No. 319 (around 1370), 320 (around 1370) and 321 (1404 Nov 24).
4. ^ Heinrich Boos (Ed.): Document book of the city of Worms . tape 2 . Berlin 1890, p. 551 , no.841 .
5. ^ Eduard Winkelmann, Adolf Koch, Jakob Wille [ arr . ]: Regesten der Pfalzgrafen am Rhein 1214-1508 . tape 1 . Innsbruck 1894, p. 294 , no.4907 .
6. ↑ Hans-Helmut Görtz, Rolf-Konrad Becker: On the origin, genealogy and fiefdom of the knights Leifried von Heppenheim . In: Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate . tape 111 , 2013, p. 9-33 .
7. ↑ Pöhlmann, Regesten Veldenz, p. 163 No. 310 (1406 Dec 27) and No. 311 (1440 Jan 14).
8. ↑ Martin Dolch, Stefan Ulrich, Dieter Barz: Art. "Odenbach" . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit, Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon . tape 4.1 . Kaiserslautern 2007, p. 56–65 , here p. 60 .
9. ^ Franz Xaver Glasschröder : Documents on the Palatinate Church History in the Middle Ages . Munich and Freising 1903, p. 254 , No. 622 (1401 Feb 28) .
10. ^ Anthes, 700 years of Reiffelbach, p. 132f.
11. ↑ Jürgen Keddigkeit, Christa Syrer: Article “Meisenheim, St.Philipp und Jakobus. Johanniter priests coming ” . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit u. a. (Ed.): Palatinate Monastery Lexicon . tape 3 . Kaiserslautern 2015, p. 60–89 , here p. 68 and 82 .
12. ^ Walter G. Rödel: The Johanniter and their church in Meisenheim . In: Ev. Meisenheim parish (ed.): 1504-2004 Meisenheim Castle Church . Meisenheim 2004, p. 47–63 , here p. 54 .
13. ^ Anthes, 700 years of Reiffelbach, p. 144.
14. ^ Henning Kaufmann: The place names of the Bad Kreuznach district . Munich 1979, p. 113 .
15. ↑ Martin Dolch, Albrecht Greule : Historisches Siedlungsnamesbuch der Pfalz . Speyer 1991, p. 384 .
16. ↑ Eberhard Gottlieb Graff: Old High German Sprachschatz . tape 4 . Berlin 1838, Sp. 1154 f .
17. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
18. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Municipal council election 2019 Reiffelbach. Retrieved September 28, 2019 . 
19. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Meisenheim, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results. Retrieved September 28, 2019 . 
20. ^ Anthes, 700 years of Reiffelbach, p. 13f.
21. ↑ For village signs on boundary stones see: Karl Siegfried Bader : Dorfgenossenschaft und Dorfgemeinde . 2nd Edition. Vienna - Cologne - Graz 1974, p. 400 f . See also: Franz X. Simmerding: Grenzzeichen, Grenzsteinsetzer and Grenzfrevler . Munich 1996, p. 128 .
22. ↑ Anthes, 700 years Reiffelbach, p. 108f.