Schönborn (Rhein-Lahn district)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 8 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Aar facility
Height :	320 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.71 km 2
Residents:	728 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56370
Area code :	06486
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 126
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Burgstrasse 1 56368 Katzenelnbogen
Website :	www.vg-aar-einrich.de
Local Mayor :	Bernd Rossäuscher
Location of the local community Schönborn in the Rhein-Lahn district

Schönborn from the southeast

Schönborn is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the municipality of Aar-Einrich .

geography

The place is in the western Hintertaunus in the landscape of the Einrich , near Katzenelnbogen . The highest point near Schönborn is the Ergenstein at 420  m above sea level. NHN .

Neighboring towns are Biebrich (west), Wasenbach (north-west) and Ebertshausen (south-west).

Community structure

To Schönborn belonging hamlet Bärbach and residential places Apfelhof Bärbach, Schauferts-yard, Schönborner mill and Soderhof.

history

Schönborn

The name of the noble family of the Counts of Schönborn goes back to the village of Schönborn in the Rhein-Lahn district near Diez an der Lahn. A document from 1284 shows that there may already have been a settlement "on the beautiful Born" in Niederlahngau , which also included a church. The inhabitants were under the rule of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen . From 1651 Hessen-Darmstadt was sovereign. In 1806 the place was assigned to the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 . Schönborn has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 . In 1972, as part of an administrative reform, the Verbandgemeinde Katzenelnbogen was formed , to which the local community Schönborn belonged until 2019 and which then became part of the Verbandsgemeinde Aar-Einrich.

Bärbach

In the district of Bärbach are the ruins of the Bärbach monastery , which was first mentioned in 1339 and abolished in the middle of the 16th century. The town of Bärbach itself was mentioned in a document in 1197 as a property of the Arnstein monastery .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 395 1835 557 1871 649 1905 559 1939 540 1950 607

year Residents 1961 560 1970 573 1987 591 1997 699 2005 772 2019 728

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Schönborn consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. In the previous elections, the council members were elected in a personalized proportional representation.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	WGR	total
2019	Majority vote		12 seats
2014	Majority vote		12 seats
2009	4th	8th	12 seats
2004	4th	8th	12 seats

mayor

Local mayor of Schönborn is Bernd Roßtäuscher. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 74.82% of the vote.

coat of arms

	The coat of arms of Schönborn tries to represent the name of the village: the beautiful Born .
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The colors red and gold are the colors of the Counts von Katzenelnbogen , to whom Schönborn used to belong.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Schönborn

literature

• Rudolf Herold: Schönborn - The history of the village and that of its famous namesake . Civil and parish of Schönborn, 1978.
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1972, p. 799.

Web links

Commons : Schönborn  - collection of images

• Local community Schönborn on the website of the municipality of Aar-Einrich

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 43 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Ferdinand Luthmer: The architectural and art monuments of the Lahn area , Frankfurt a. M .: Keller, 1907, p. 231 ( dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Aar-Einrich, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .