Rhaunen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	318 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.75 km 2
Residents:	2154 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	200 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55624
Area code :	06544
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 069
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.rhaunen.de
Local Mayor :	Manfred Klingel ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Rhaunen in the Birkenfeld district

Old town hall in the village center

View from the east with the old district court and the Roman Catholic Church

The Rhaunelbach flows within the locality in a concrete bed

Rhaunen is a local community in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate and has an administrative office of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community . According to state planning, it is designated as a basic center.

geography

Geographical location

Rhaunen is located in the Idarwald in the Hunsrück in a spacious, water-rich valley basin. This basin separates the Idarwald massif from the Soonwald massif . In the local area of ​​Rhaunen the Lingenbach flows into the Rhaunelbach , this flows into the Idarbach like the Näßbach, the Macherbach and the Büdenbach .

Parish parts

Rhaunen also includes the Neuzenbrunnen settlement and the Hochwälderhof, Königstein and Abendstern residential areas .

geology

The rock, the Hunsrück schist , comes from the geological formation of the Devonian . The basin in which Rhaunen lies was formed by the many streams that flow together here and formed various alluvial fans with a very loamy subsoil. The Hunsrück slate is therefore directly on the slopes, while the loamy soil can be found in the valley meadows. If the slopes are mostly covered with mixed forest, you will find pastureland in the valleys and agriculture on the higher terraces and hilltops. In earlier times the slate was used intensively as a building material, for example as roofing and for building walls. Even the numerous public buildings in Rhaunen, which were built around the turn of the century, have exposed walls made of broken slate stones. None of the numerous slate pits in the valleys around Rhaunen are in operation, and you can still see the spoil heaps here and there. The largest operation was the "Abenstern" mine on Wartenberg in the direction of Hausen. They produced about until the late 1950s. The ridges, such as the Idarwald massif, are formed by the extremely weather-resistant Taunus quartzite , whose soil formation only allows forestry. The Taunus quartzite is home to deposits of lawn iron ores that were exploited and smelted until around the middle of the 19th century, as happened in the “Weitersbacher Hütte” near Rhaunen.

climate

The annual precipitation is 744 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 50% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in November. In November there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in April. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 1% of the measuring stations .

history

Rhaunen was first mentioned in a document dated May 20, 841 under the name "Hruna". The married couple Gunthram and Otthruda donated extensive possessions to the Fulda monastery , which was confirmed by the Fulda abbot Hraban in another document of the same date.

Rhaunen was the seat of the high court of the same name . Until the 14th century, the wild counts were the unrestricted owners of the court and the associated towns of Bollenbach , Bruschied , Bundenbach , Gösenroth , Hausen , Heuchelheim, Krummenau , Laufersweiler , Lindenschied , Oberkirn , Stipshausen , Schwerbach , Sulzbach , Weitersbach and Woppenroth . The Schmidtburg was also in the area of ​​the court . With the loss of the Wildgräflichen Schmidtburg to Balduin von Trier , part of the high court came to Kurtrier .

With the end of the Old Kingdom , the medieval administrative unit, the High Court, was finally dissolved. In the course of the French occupation of the territories on the left bank of the Rhine after the Treaty of Lunéville , Rhaunen was added to the Département de la Sarre , Arrondissement Birkenfeld, Canton Rhaunen. As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the area became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Rhaunen became the seat of a mayor's office in the Bernkastel district . Parts of the old high court now belonged to the Oldenburg principality of Birkenfeld (e.g. Bundenbach). Even after the First World War, in the interwar period, and during the National Socialist rule, Rhaunen was the administrative center for the surrounding villages. In the course of an administrative reform in the 1960s, the "Office Rhaunen" was converted into the Association of Rhaunen in the Birkenfeld district.

The former Idarwald barracks is located west of the village on Königstein.

In the course of the creation of a uniform legal system in the German Empire, the Rhaunen district court was set up in 1878, which was housed in a new building on the road to Hausen from 1901. As part of the dissolution of the so-called one-man district courts in Rhineland-Palatinate between 1966 and 1971, the Rhaunen district court was one of the first to close in the state. The last district judge in Rhaunen was Albert Pütz , who had succeeded Walter Beyer in 1964 , who had headed the district court for 21 years.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 706 1835 888 1871 918 1905 1,089 1939 1,384 1950 1,308

year Residents 1961 1,431 1970 1,603 1987 1,461 1997 2,180 2005 2,274 2017 2,188

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Rhaunen consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	WGR 1	WGR 2	total
2019	6th	-	7th	3	16 seats
2014	7th	3	3	3	16 seats
2009	7th	4th	5	-	16 seats
2004	6th	7th	3	-	16 seats

mayor

Manfred Klingel (SPD) became mayor of Rhaunen in 1994. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of 63.49% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “ Diagonally right divided by black and gold. In front a growing silver wolf's head, behind a blue-armed and tongued red lion. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The lion refers to the former affiliation of the municipality to the possession of the Wild and Rhine Counts . The wolf's head is taken from a seal of the Rhaunen High Court from 1711.

Partner communities

• Drebach , Saxony
• Saint-Valérien , France

Culture and sights

Rhaunelbach with the Bachspautzer in the foreground

Buildings

The old town hall in the center of the town, the building of the former Royal Prussian District Court, the Protestant church with the oldest preserved Stumm organ from 1723, as well as numerous buildings in the old town center from different stylistic epochs, the history of which can be read on information boards, are worth seeing . In the municipal administration you can admire Roman finds from the area. At the Rhaunelbach a bronze statue reminds of the Rhauner original: the "Bachspautzer".

See also: List of cultural monuments in Rhaunen

Parks

The Wartenberg, which surrounds Rhaunen in a semicircle, invites you to go hiking with beautiful paths and views of the village.

Natural monuments

The prehistoric menhir , a quartzite block called "Königsstein", erected at the end of the village in the direction of Stipshausen / Idarwald , is not a natural monument in the true sense, but is indicated as such by a slate. Real natural monuments are some very old oaks in the area, as well as the "Jakobstanne" on the Wartenberg, which is actually a mighty Douglas fir.

See also: List of natural monuments in Rhaunen

Sports

"TUS" Rhaunen with different departments. The IVV hike in spring is known nationwide.

Regular events

Rhaun autumn market on the 1st Saturday in October and the Christmas market in December. The event “Päädscher Laafe” (High German: “Paths running”) is a kind of “open day” of the local community, where you can get an insight into otherwise inaccessible places. At the same time, shops and other institutions can present themselves “differently”.

Culinary specialties

Spit and rock roasts, filled dumplings, potato pancakes, bowls

Economy and Infrastructure

Rhaunen offers numerous services for the surrounding villages. Doctors, authorities, churches, schools, workshops, petrol stations and shops for everyday and non-everyday needs are on site, but no manufacturing industry. The next larger towns are Idar-Oberstein , Simmern / Hunsrück , Morbach and Kirn .

traffic

The ORN provides bus services on lines 345, 351 and 352. In addition to the largest bus stop (Rhaunen Markt), there are also stops at the church, the former municipal administration and at the outdoor pool. Line 345 runs from Idar-Oberstein station via Tiefenstein, Asbach and Stipshausen to Rhaunen Markt. Lines 351 and 352 provide connections to Frankfurt-Hahn International Airport . Line 351 comes from Idar-Obersteiner Bahnhof , line 352 from Kirner Bahnhof. There are six connections to the airport Monday to Friday, three on Saturday and two on Sunday.

Public facilities

Rhaunen has an administrative office of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community and is the seat of the "Idarwald" forestry office, whose area of ​​responsibility has increased after the forest management reform . In contrast, the local notary's office, which had been in existence for over 100 years, was relocated to Morbach in 2007 as part of a structural reform . However, there are still consultation hours in Rhaunen. Rhaunen is still the official seat of a Catholic clergyman. Due to a regional reform in the church district of Trier , the Evangelical-Lutheran parish of Rhaunen, which has existed since the Reformation, with the Rhaunen office is dissolved. The parish of Rhaunen merges with the parish of Hausen and will be called the parish of Rhaunen-Hausen in the future. These include the local communities of Rhaunen, Bollenbach, Hausen, Oberkirn and Weitersbach. The (the) responsible clergyman has his seat in the parish of Hottenbach - Stipshausen.

education

In Rhaunen there are two kindergartens, a primary school, the integrated comprehensive school Herrstein-Rhaunen and an adult education center.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gustav Kautz (1826–1897), lawyer; Mayor of Rheinböllen and Moers
• Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (1853–1931), psychologist. According to him that was Ganser syndrome named
• Albert Kahn (1869–1942), one of the most important industrial architects of the modern age, (emigrated to the USA at an early age)
• August Weyand (1876–1951), farmer and politician
• Walter Dix (1879–1965), crop scientist
• Otto Conrad (1890–1968), teacher, photographer and local researcher ("Vom Hunsrück zur Nahe")
• Gerd Heinz-Mohr (1913–1989), Protestant theologian and writer, did his doctorate on the social doctrine of Nikolaus von Kues ("Unitas Christiana")
• Hermann Josef Gräf (1924–2006), Catholic theologian
• Erwin Echternacht (1925–2013), lived in Munich, sculptor, graphic artist, painter and author
• Hans Dieter Culeman (born September 26, 1927 in Rhaunen, † January 17, 1974 in The Hague), Dutch actor
• Thorsten Faas (born August 17, 1975 in Idar-Oberstein), political scientist, grew up in Rhaunen

Personalities who have worked on site

• Julius Bellinger (1831–?), German politician of the German Center Party and member of the Reichstag, was justice of the peace in Rhaunen from 1867 to 1869
• Albin Edelhoff (1887–1974), painter and nature lover
• Peter Joseph Rottmann (1799–1881), an important Hunsrück dialect poet, married Wilhelmine Maull from Rhaunen
• Albert Pütz (1932–2008), lawyer and writer, worked as a district judge in Rhaunen until 1966, then at the Idar-Oberstein district court.

literature

• Wilhelm Fabricius : The high court Rhaunen . Explanations of the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province, third volume, Bonn 1901.
• Antonius Jacobs: Chronicle of Rhaunen (841–1902), Kirn an der Nahe, Verlag Robert Schleich, 1902
• Nicolaus Thiel: The Bernkastel district. Its nature, culture and history: Verlag GE Schulze, Leipzig 1911.
• Erich Stoll: Rhaunen his story - his people . Ed .: local community Rhaunen. Prinz-Druck, Idar-Oberstein 1988.

Web links

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

• Local community Rhaunen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen
• Rhaunen in the SWR television program Hierzuland
• Literature about Rhaunen 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. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 30 (PDF; 1 MB).
4. ^ Adam Goerz : Mittelrheinische Regesten I. Theil (From the years 509-1152), Denkert & Groos, Coblenz 1862, p. 151 ( archive.org )
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Andreas Nitsch: Manfred Klingel is running again and wants to make Rhaunen fit for the future. In: Nahe newspaper. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, April 5, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herrstein-Rhaunen, Verbandsgemeinde, 35th line of results. Retrieved August 23, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Rhaunen coat of arms description
9. ↑ His knowledge is required in elections . ( rhein-zeitung.de [accessed June 15, 2020]).