Rohrbach (near Baumholder)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Baumholder
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.45 km 2
Residents:	165 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55776
Area code :	06789
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 073
Association administration address:	Am Weiherdamm 1 55774 Baumholder
Website :	www.rohrbach-nahe.de
Local Mayor :	Bernhard Sauer ( CDU )
Location of the Rohrbach municipality in the Birkenfeld district

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

geography

The place is located on the Rohrbach river of the same name south of the Nahe at the foot of the 548.5 meter high Wüschberg. To the west is Rückweiler , in the north Berglangenbach , in the East Fohren-Linden and Berschweiler at Baumholder and south is the already the Saarland belonging Freisen .

history

Rohrbach belonged to the end of the 18th century to that of the county Veldenz derived part of the Duchy Palatine Zweibrücken and was the Schultheißerei Berschweiler in Oberamt Lichtenberg assigned. In 1790, 24 families lived in the village. The district of Rohrbach covered 246 hectares .

In 1794 the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops. From 1798 to 1814 Rohrbach belonged to the canton Baumholder in the Saar department . Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region came to the Saxon-Coburg principality of Lichtenberg in 1816 , to which it belonged until 1834. The municipality Rohrbach initially belonged to the mayor's office of Berschweiler , from 1823 to the mayor's office of Burglichtenberg (see also list of municipalities in the Principality of Lichtenberg ). After the sale to Prussia and the dissolution of the Principality of Lichtenberg, Rohrbach came to the newly established St. Wendel district in the Rhine province . Rohrbach has been part of the Birkenfeld district since 1937 and part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 128 1835 164 1871 196 1905 206 1939 228 1950 238

year Residents 1961 273 1970 282 1987 253 1997 247 2005 234 2019 165

politics

Municipal council

The council in Rohrbach 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.

coat of arms

The blue lion refers to the former belonging to the county of Veldenz . The place name is symbolized in the lower part of the sign.

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a village community center in Rohrbach.

The federal motorway 62 runs to the south .

In Heimbach there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line .

Web links

Commons : Rohrbach  - Collection of Images

• Rohrbach local community on the website of the Baumholder community
• Literature about Rohrbach 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. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province, Die Karte von 1789 (2nd volume), Bonn 1898. S. 400.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections