Rheinböllen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′  N , 7 ° 40 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Simmern-Rheinböllen
Height :	389 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.33 km 2
Residents:	4114 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	252 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55494
Area code :	06764
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 125
Association administration address:	Am Markt 1 55494 Rheinböllen
Website :	www.rheinboellen.info
City Mayor :	Bernadette Jourdant ( CDU )
Location of the city of Rheinböllen in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Rheinböllen

Rheinböllen is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is one of the two administrative headquarters of the Simmern-Rheinböllen community , to which it also belongs. Rheinböllen is designated as a basic center in accordance with state planning .

geography

Rheinböllen is about ten kilometers (as the crow flies ) southwest of the Middle Rhine in the southeastern Hunsrück . It is located at the transition from the Binger Forest (east of the village) to the Soonwald (south), which has been part of the Soonwald-Nahe Nature Park since 2005 . The district town of Simmern / Hunsrück is about ten kilometers (as the crow flies) southwest of Rheinböllen.

City structure

Waldsiedlung, Kleinweidelbach and Rheinböllerhütte are districts of Rheinböllen.

climate

The annual precipitation is 695 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 39% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.6 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 2% of the measuring stations .

history

Rheinböllen was first mentioned in a document in 1309. With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 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 again , the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946. A part of the municipality of Daxweiler with 70 inhabitants was reassigned to Rheinböllen on January 1, 1969 and on March 17, 1974 the previously independent municipality of Kleinweidelbach with 113 inhabitants was incorporated.

A robbery carried out near Rheinböllen, in which four people were killed, caused a nationwide stir in March 1978.

On September 5, 2009, Rheinböllen was elevated to the status of city by the Rhineland-Palatinate state government.

Population development

Due to the incorporation in the 1960s and 1970s, the population of Rheinböllen grew strongly. A few years after the end of the Second World War, the city had around 1,600 inhabitants, this number rose to over 3,000 at the end of the 1980s.

The development of the population of Rheinböllen in relation to today's urban area, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 987 1835 1.306 1871 1,255 1905 1,343 1939 1,288 1950 1,570

year Residents 1961 1,869 1970 2,652 1987 3,075 2005 4,042 2018 4.123

politics

City council

The city ​​council in Rheinböllen consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	6th	10	4th	20 seats
2014	5	10	5	20 seats
2009	8th	8th	4th	20 seats
2004	10	8th	2	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Rheinböllen und Umgebung e. V.

mayor

Bernadette Jourdant (formerly Oberthür) (CDU) became city mayor in 2014. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in her office without any opponents with a share of the vote of 71.82%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black a growing golden, red-tongued and red-armored lion."
	Foundation of the coat of arms: Rheinböllen was the main town of the so-called "old court", the old Palatinate possessions on the Hunsrück. The ¾ lion is a diminution of the Palatinate lion, which the Wittelsbachers have for the first time in their coat of arms after they were enfeoffed with the Palatinate near Rhine (1214).

Culture and sights

In the KiR (Kulturhaus in Rheinböllen), the local hall, cultural celebrations take place regularly. There is a leisure pool on the Auf der Bell road. The approximately 100 hectare large game reserve Hunsrück on the northern outskirts is also worth seeing .

Puricelli Foundation

Puricelli Abbey Rheinböllen

The Puricelli-Stift was founded in 1864 by Heinrich and Eugenia Puricelli as an orphanage foundation according to the wishes of their daughter Eugénie Puricelli , who had died early of tuberculosis but inherited a share of the property in the Rheinböller Hütte from her great aunt. This was later expanded by her sister Franziska Puricelli . Between 1864 and 1891, buildings with a beautiful neo-Gothic chapel were built for the foundation, which are now a listed building and are also internationally protected under the Hague Convention .

The purpose and task of the foundation today is to maintain its facilities and buildings, to make them available for public and social purposes, in particular for the reception and care of the elderly, those in need of care and the disabled, and to ensure the supra-regional art and cultural-historical significance of the entire complex to care for their furnishings and to bring them closer to the public.

On November 1, 2006, the nursing home in Rheinböllen was taken over by the Franziskanerbrüder Betriebs- und Arbeits gGmbh. The facility serves as a home for people with mental illness. The name is Puricelli-Stift Rheinböllen.

Buildings

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Rheinböllen

Regular events

Rheinböllen's annual events include a Christmas market , a fair and a carnival parade. Until 2015, the JuKu eV (youth and culture association) organized the XMAS-DANCE-PARTY every year shortly before Christmas in the KiR (culture house in Rheinböllen). Since 1998, the Economic Development Corporation (WfG) has been holding a regional trade show every two years with up to 10,000 visitors on the premises around the Puricelli School and KiR.

Economy and Infrastructure

Rheinböllen has its own exit on the A 61 to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport and is 15 kilometers by road from Bacharach am Rhein , and around 50 kilometers each from Mainz and Koblenz. Rheinböllen is the headquarters of Volksbank Rheinböllen eG , with 140 years of tradition the oldest independent cooperative bank in the Hunsrück. In 1997 the economic development association “Soonwald”, Rheinböllen eV (WfG) was founded in Rheinböllen, members are tradespeople and companies from Rheinböllen and the associated community. The aim of the association is to strengthen the region structurally and economically through jointly organized campaigns and measures (e.g. trade show).

Rheinböllerhütte

The hut is mentioned as "Eysenhütte am Guldenbach " in a border inspection from 1598. Like Stromberger Neuhütte, it processes local iron ore and turf iron stone . It belonged to the Utsch family in the 18th century . Margarethe Utsch, daughter of the hunter from Electoral Palatinate, married the son of Italian immigrants Carl Anton Puricelli, under whom the hut (1865) experienced its heyday with up to 628 workers and servants. The steelworks came to the Continental Corporation through the Alfred Teves company . It is still an important economic factor for the region ( location ) today . Some of the buildings are now listed.

Other companies

Rheinböllen is the headquarters of the internationally active company Hahn Automation, founded in 1992, for automated injection molded products made of rubber and plastic as well as metal components.

Rheinböllen ammunition depot

The ammunition depot of the Bundeswehr , which was formerly located south of the city at the foot of the Hochsteinchen , had an area of ​​130 hectares and up to 120 employees of all status groups. The depot had a siding to the Hunsrückquerbahn . On April 1, 2004, the depot was downgraded from the main ammunition depot to a simple depot / warehouse and closed completely in 2011 as part of the structural reform of the Bundeswehr .

people

• Leonhard Goffiné (1648–1719), Premonstratensian canon and religious folk writer; was a pastor in Rheinböllen in the 17th century.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch (1732–1795), hereditary forester for the Elector of Mainz ; the hunter from the Electoral Palatinate .
• Gustav Kautz (1826–1897), lawyer; Mayor of Rheinböllen and the city of Moers
• Eduard Puricelli (1826–1893), entrepreneur and member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation.
• Eugénie Puricelli (1840–1862), the Puricelli Abbey was founded in your memory
• Franziska Puricelli (1830–1896), founder of the Puricelli Foundation, among others
• Hans Haarländer (* 1918), meteorologist and weather moderator
• Patrick Schmidt (* 1988), soccer player
• Hans-Josef Bracht (* 1955), member of the state parliament

Web links

Commons : Rheinböllen  - Collection of Images

• City of Rheinböllen
• Verbandsgemeinde Rheinböllen
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Economic Development Association Soonwald / Rheinböllen )
• Literature about Rheinböllen 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. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ 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. 174, 194 (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.  
4. ↑ Die Killer von Rheinböllen , transcription of a TV report from January 5, 2012, accessed on November 29, 2019
5. ^ Judgment of the Bad Kreuznach Regional Court of February 23, 1979
6. ^ Awarded city rights on September 5, 2009
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Rheinböllen. Retrieved October 3, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
9. ↑ Werner Dupuis: Worthy New Year's Reception: Rheinböllener will start in 2020. Name change city mayor. January 21, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 . 
10. ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Simmern-Rheinböllen, Verbandsgemeinde, 35th line of results. Retrieved October 3, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Bernadette Oberthür: Rheinböllen's city boss wants to stay in the town hall
12. ^ Puricelli Abbey Rheinböllen
13. ↑ WfG Soonwald / Rheinböllen ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Hunsrück district. Mainz 2019, p. 53 f. (PDF; 1.7 MB).