Rimsberg

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 13 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Birch field
Height :	460 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.2 km 2
Residents:	116 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	36 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55765
Area code :	06782
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 070
Association administration address:	Schneewiesenstrasse 21 55765 Birkenfeld
Website :	www.rimsberg.de
Local Mayor :	Wolfram Müller
Location of the local community of Rimsberg in the Birkenfeld district

Rimsberg is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Birkenfeld community .

geography

Rimsberg is east of the district town of Birkenfeld . Schmißberg is in the north and Nohen in the southeast .

The Vogelsbüsch settlement and the Lindenhof residential area also belong to Rimsberg .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1269 as Rummersberg .

Rimsberg belonged to the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim until the end of the 18th century and was the capital of an administrative and judicial district called care , which was subordinate to the Oberamt Birkenfeld . The villages of Nohen and Reichenbach also belonged to the care Rimsberg . In 1607 six families were counted in Rimsberg, in 1699 there were only four, the number of which rose to 15 by 1772. In 1790 the place had 78 inhabitants, the district of Rimsberg comprised about 307 hectares .

In 1794 the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops. From 1798 to 1814 Rimsberg belonged to the canton of Birkenfeld in the Saar department . As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region became part of the Oldenburg Principality of Birkenfeld in 1817 . The municipality of Rimsberg was assigned to the Birkenfeld mayor in the Birkenfeld office. From 1918 on, Rimsberg belonged to the Oldenburg "Landesteil Birkenfeld" and in 1937 came to the Prussian district of Birkenfeld . Rimsberg has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 90 1835 161 1871 153 1905 129 1939 116 1950 136

year Residents 1961 140 1970 126 1987 123 1997 120 2005 121 2019 116

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Wolfram Müller has been the local mayor of Rimsberg since 2014. He replaced Werner Schmitt, who had held this position since 1989.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In a diagonally divided shield in front in green, a golden open bracelet, inside a silver lance tip pointing upwards, red-silver sheathed at the back." It was approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior in 1965.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the west runs the federal highway 41 , which leads to the federal highway 62 in the south . In Nohen there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

Web links

Commons : Rimsberg  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of the local community of Rimsberg
• Local community Rimsberg on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Birkenfeld
• Literature about Rimsberg 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 1, 2017 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 19 (PDF; 1.9 MB).
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province, Die Karte von 1789 (2nd volume), Bonn 1898. P. 443, 456.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections