Schneppenbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Schneppenbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Kirner Land
Height :	424 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.3 km 2
Residents:	224 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55608
Area code :	06544
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 204
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 31 55606 Kirn
Website :	www.schneppenbach.de
Local Mayor :	Markus Fey
Location of the local community Schneppenbach in the Bad Kreuznach district

View of Schneppenbach

The Teufelsfels (568 m)

Catholic chapel

Schmidtburg ruins

Hahnenbachtal

Schneppenbach is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirner Land association.

geography

Schneppenbach is located in the southern Hunsrück , on the western edge of the Lützelsoon and east (above) the Hahnenbach valley . To the south, Bruschied , west Bundenbach and north is Woppenroth . The next larger cities are Idar-Oberstein and Simmern .

history

Since the Middle Ages, Schneppenbach, first mentioned in a document in 1044, belonged to a larger manor of the imperial abbey of St. Maximin in front of Trier . In addition to the Blickersau and Kaffeld settlements, which later became desolate , the manor included the villages of Woppenroth , Bundenbach , Schneppenbach, Bruschied and the main courtyard and parish of Hausen near Rhaunen .

For centuries, the fate of the place was closely linked to the Schmidtburg built on its area . The castle, the history of which can be traced back to the year 926, is one of the oldest castles in the Nahe and Hunsrück regions and was probably the ancestral seat of the Counts in the Nahegau , the Emichons . As their partial heirs and legal successors, the Wildgraves took over the castle. However, internal family disputes between the Wildgraves meant that the castle passed into the possession of the Archbishop of Trier and Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg around 1330 . Under Baldwin the expansion of the Schmidtburg took place, which later became the seat of the Electorate of Schmidtburg .

While Bundenbach was the only place of the office that was under the sole sovereignty of Kurtrier , Bruschied and Schneppenbach formed a condominium and jointly belonged to Kurtrier and the Knights of Wildberg. Around 1650, the knight Cratz von Scharffenstein appears as the local lord of Schneppenbach.

In 1563 there were nine households in Schneppenbach, five in 1684 and eleven in 1715. Although the residents of Bruschied and Schneppenbach owned a chapel, they attended the main church service in Bundenbach . As the Office Schmidtburg before 1554 at the kurtrierischen magistrate Nicholas of Schmidtburg was pledged, this led to 1561 temporarily, the reformed confession. As early as 1626, the places were Catholic again.

In 1794 the Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied during the First Coalition War , and in 1798 the area was reorganized by the French directorate based on the French model. The village of Schneppenbach was assigned to the newly formed Mairie Kirn in the Simmern arrondissement , which belonged to the Rhine-Mosel department .

The community stayed there until the end of French rule (1814) and came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 due to the resolutions made at the Congress of Vienna . Under the Prussian administration, Schneppenbach belonged to the mayor's office of Gemünden in the Prussian district of Simmern from 1816 .

In the course of an administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, Schneppenbach was assigned to the community of Kirn-Land . In 2020 the place came to the Verbandsgemeinde Kirner Land .

The robber captain Schinderhannes is of particular importance for Schneppenbach . On February 25, 1799, at five o'clock in the morning, the gendarmerie stormed the house of the rustic beauty Budzliese-Amie in Schneppenbach and was able to arrest Schinderhannes there. The miller from the Römermühle gave the hot tip.

"In the Schneppenbacher Forste, the devil goes around dibum ...", so it says in Carl Zuckmayer's Schinderhanneslied from the play Schinderhannes .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 225 1835 278 1871 293 1905 278 1939 280 1950 285

year Residents 1961 272 1970 294 1987 284 1997 288 2005 261 2019 224

politics

Municipal council

The council in Schneppenbach 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

The local mayor is Markus Fey. No candidate ran in the local elections on May 26, 2019, so his election was made by the local council on July 2, 2019.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head covered with a red cross, in green a gold clasp covered with four red and four blue points alternating, accompanied by two silver diamonds."

Justification for the coat of arms: The shield head refers to the former belonging to Kurtrier . The clasp refers to the Schenk von Schmidtburg family . The diamonds indicate the former slate industry in the municipality. The green color symbolizes the abundance of forests. The municipal council commissioned the graphic artist Brust, Kinrsulzbach, to develop a design for a municipal coat of arms. At its meeting on August 13, 1971, the Council adopted the draft presented. After approval by the State Archives, the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz granted permission on October 8, 1981 to use one's own coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Attractions

• the medieval castle ruin Schmidtburg (landmark of the place and largest Rhenish castle complex )
• the observation tower " Teufelsfels " ( 568  m above sea  level ), right next to the legendary quartzite hardening of the same name in Lützelsoon above the village
• the Herrenberg slate mine (since 1976 a visitor mine) with a fossil museum
• the La Tène period Celtic hilltop settlement Altburg
• the listed Catholic chapel from 1768, in honor of St. John the Baptist
• the wildly romantic, untouched Hahnenbachtal with a water adventure trail

See also: List of cultural monuments in Schneppenbach

language

The population speaks the Hunsrück dialect in a Moselle-Franconian form. The place is together with the neighboring communities just north of a famous European language border, the so-called das-dat line . (To the south of it they speak Rhine Franconian .)

Linguistic peculiarities represent a special legacy from the High Middle Ages, which, for example, in the case of "Die Bach" or "der Butter", preserved the Middle High German language of Walther von der Vogelweide's time. The words “Scheeslong” (sofa), “Canape”, “Trottwa” (sidewalk) and “Portmonnee”, as well as “Bobbeschees” (doll's pram) and “Kinnerschees” (pram) come from the time of French rule.

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Schöllkrippen

people

• Johann Thomas Petry , also Johann Thomas Petri ; († 1799 in Schneppenbach), German builder

Web links

Commons : Schneppenbach  - Collection of images

• Local community Schneppenbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Kirn-Land
• Literature about Schneppenbach 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 c} statistical maps, Verbandsgemeinde Kirn-Land, 2009
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Schneppenbach. Retrieved September 22, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Direct elections 2019. see Kirn-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, 21st line of results. Retrieved September 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Information sheet Kirn-Land for the area of ​​the Verbandsgemeinde: Minutes of the meeting of the local council Schneppenbach on July 2nd, 2019. Edition 29/2019, official notices and communications from the local congregations. Retrieved September 23, 2019 . 
7. ↑ painted coat of arms: State Archives Koblenz Dept. 54 S No. 226