Seesbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Nahe-Glan
Height :	375 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.06 km 2
Residents:	495 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55629
Area code :	06754
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 094
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 11 55566 Bad Sobernheim
Website :	www.seesbach.de
Local Mayor :	Ernst-Rainer Altmeier
Location of the local community Seesbach in the Bad Kreuznach district

View from the south

View from the north

Seesbach is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Nahe-Glan . Seesbach is a state-approved resort .

geography

Seesbach is located on the southern edge of the Soonwald on the edge of the Hunsrück . The northern settlement of Waldfriede also belongs to the place . Weitersborn is to the west and Horbach and Simmertal to the south .

climate

The annual precipitation is 676 mm. The amount of precipitation is thus in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. The driest month is February, the most precipitation falls in June (1.4 times more than in February)

history

Shortly before the year 1000, the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis had a church built here on a flat sloping site; From there, the Soonwald should be opened up for the church and the people should be proselytized. In 1045, Emperor Heinrich III. various goods and in 1091 Emperor Heinrich IV gave a court estate in Semmundesbach to the Bishop of Speyer. This place has belonged to the Böckelheim Crown Estate for centuries. These donations were confirmed in 1101 and 1140; the bishops passed their shares on to the Counts of Sponheim as fiefdoms . In 1434 Seesbach and other villages were in the hands of the Knights of Boos von Waldeck as pawns, and in 1483 in the hands of the Knights of Rüdesheim, whose shares were also transferred to Boose through marriage in 1490.

After the Sponheimers died out in 1437, their possessions passed to several common lords: Kurpfalz , Baden and Veldenz (from 1444 Zweibrücken). The Sponheim branch of the von Koppenstein family owned various shares in Seesbach when it was created in 1301. This small rule lasted until the 18th century.

In 1707 the Baden shares were transferred to the Electoral Palatinate; the Zweibrücker shares had meanwhile also been united with the Palatinate Electorate through several inheritance cases in the Wittelsbach house . As far as parts of Seesbach belonged to the Martinstein rule, the margraviate of Baden took possession of them in 1716 and 1779 . The 18th century brought hard times for the inhabitants; Through wars and bad harvests there were famine years, which among other things led to the emigration of around two thirds of the population from 1782–1785. The princely rule of Baden ended in 1798 when the French conquerors assigned Seesbach to the new Mairie Monzingen; From now on the place shared the fate of the administrative unit: 1815 to Prussia, 1946 to Rhineland-Palatinate, 1970 to the Verbandsgemeinde Sobernheim.

politics

Municipal council

The council in Seesbach consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Until the 2009 election, personalized proportional representation took place.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	FWG	total
2019	by majority vote		12 seats
2014	by majority vote		12 seats
2009	5	7th	12 seats
2004	7th	5	12 seats

mayor

The local mayor is Ernst-Rainer Altmeier. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office with a share of 83.28% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Under a gold-blue shield head with a twisted silver tip, inside a blue chapel, split, in front a silver, six-spoke wheel in red, behind in black a gold, red-armored and crowned lion."
	The reason for the coat of arms: The chapel represents the old Semendiskapelle. The other symbols refer to former sovereigns, the colors gold and blue to the county of Sponheim , the Mainz wheel to Kurmainz and the Palatinate lion to Pfalz-Zweibrücken and the Kurpfalz .

Culture and sights

• The Semendiskapelle built by the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis (975-1011) is one of the oldest churches in the region, along with the "Gehinkirche" in Auen.
• The war memorial on the outskirts was erected in 1927 initially for the victims of the First World War . On December 21, 1958, the names of those killed in World War II were also added to a plaque .

See also: List of cultural monuments in Seesbach

Natural monuments

A special kind of natural monument is a quartzite rock in the center of the village.

See also: List of natural monuments in Seesbach

dialect

Seesbach is located directly southeast of the "das / dat" language border, which also cuts through Rhineland-Palatinate as the Sankt Goarer line or the Hunsrück barrier. It is one of the central isoglosses in the German-speaking world. This means that the Seesbach dialect can just be assigned to Rhine-Franconian (das), while neighboring towns to the northwest and west can already be located in Mosel-Franconian (dat).

Personalities

• Mathias Bollinger (1858–1961), the legendary forester and master guard from the Soonwald.

Web links

Commons : Seesbach  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the Seesbach community
• Local community Seesbach on the website of the Bad Sobernheim community
• Literature about Seesbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 17 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Seesbach. Retrieved September 20, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bad Sobernheim, Verbandsgemeinde, 15th line of results. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .