Black

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Height :	397 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.88 km 2
Residents:	132 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55481
Area code :	06763
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 141
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Marktplatz 5 ; 55481 Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Website :	www.kirchberg-hunsrueck.de
Local Mayor :	Achim Rech
Location of the local community of Schwarzen in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Blacks from the south

Parish hall in the village center

Schwarzen is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kirchberg (Hunsrück) community .

geography

Schwarzen is located in a valley in the middle of the Hunsrück , between Hunsrückhöhenstraße B 327 and Bundesstraße 50 .

Surrounding villages are: Würrich (2 km), Ober Kostenz (2 km), Nieder Kostenz (4 km), Kappel (6 km), Kludenbach (6 km), Todenroth (8 km) and Metzenhausen (10 km).

history

It was first mentioned in 1259 in a document from the Wild Count Konrad and Count Gerlach von Veldenz . 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 newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946. The community was the most beautiful village in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in the 1998 district decision.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in the Black 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

Achim Rech is the local mayor of Schwarzen. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 86.11% of the votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split by a twisted silver tip, topped with a blue, red armored and -tongued lion, right in red a gold bell, left in green a golden plow."

Justification of the coat of arms: The lion refers to the Counts of Veldenz, who already owned hereditary estates in the village in 1257, which passed to the Counts of Sponheim in the 15th century. The bell refers to a popular legend, according to which monks of the monastery of Blacks sunk the bells in the well during the Thirty Years' War to protect them from the attack of the war people. The plow is reminiscent of agriculture, which for centuries was the dominant industry for black people.

Web links

Commons : Blacks - Collection of Images

official homepage of the local community of blacks
Literature about blacks in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Blacks. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchberg, Verbandsgemeinde, 32nd result line. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
↑ Black coat of arms description

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).