Schwerbach

This article deals with the German community, for the Austrian town see Kirchberg an der Pielach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 7 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	387 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.55 km 2
Residents:	48 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	19 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55624
Area code :	06544
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 079
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.schwerbach.de
Mayoress :	Claudia Endres
Location of the local community Schwerbach in the district of Birkenfeld

View from the south

Schwerbach is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Herrstein-Rhaunen community .

geography

The cluster village is centrally located in the Hunsrück . The nature reserve Wacholderheide lies between the village and the Kyrbachtal .

Schwerbach is the municipality with the lowest number of inhabitants in the Birkenfeld district.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 47 1835 58 1871 62 1905 54 1939 56 1950 62

year Residents 1961 62 1970 50 1987 61 1997 68 2005 63 2019 48

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Claudia Endres became mayor of Schwerbach on June 12, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with a share of 56.76% of the vote.

Endres' predecessor, Christel Roth-Janitz, had held the office since 2004, but did not take up office again in 2019.

coat of arms

The blazon reads: “In a split shield on top in gold a red mythical animal with a wolf's head and wide open wings, covered with a black wolf hook . A silver bar below in black. "

The mythical animal refers to the former affiliation to the Wild and Rhine Counties and corresponds to the earlier court seal of the Rhaunen High Court . The lower half of the shield shows the heraldic symbols of the former Lords of Wiltberg, as Lords of Schwerbach.

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a village community center in Schwerbach . In Kirn there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line . In the north are the federal highway 50 and the Frankfurt-Hahn airport .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Schwerbach

Web links

• Website of the local community Schwerbach
• Local community Schwerbach on the website of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community
• Literature about Schwerbach 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 - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ Christel Roth-Janitz: Public Notice. Date of constitution of the municipal council 2019. In: Our home. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, edition 23/2019, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Constituent meeting of the Schwerbach local council. In: Our home. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, edition 35/2019, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herrstein-Rhaunen, Verbandsgemeinde, 38th line of results. Retrieved August 23, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Andreas Nitsch: Some mayors of VG Rhaunen are thinking of quitting. Christel Roth-Janitz. In: Nahe newspaper. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, February 7, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Description of the coat of arms Schwerbach