Sohren

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 7 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
Height :	410 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.42 km 2
Residents:	3188 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	338 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55487
Area code :	06543
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 145
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 5 55481 Kirchberg
Website :	www.sohren.de
Local Mayor :	Markus Bongard ( CDU )
Location of the local community Sohren in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Hunsrück landscape with Sohren in the middle, in the foreground: Niedersohren, in the background: Hahn airport.

Sohren is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is the second largest town in the Kirchberg (Hunsrück) community . According to state planning, Sohren is designated as a basic center.

geography

Geographical location

Sohren is centrally located in the Hunsrück and in the center of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at an altitude of 410  m above sea level. NHN . The federal highway 50 runs north of Sohren, and Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is two kilometers to the northwest . The Idarwald begins eight kilometers to the southwest . The highest point is the birch height at 481.3  m above sea level. NHN .

Waters

In the village, the Bärenbach, Otterbach and Winterbach flow together into the Grundbach, which merges into the Sohrbach , a tributary of the Kyrbach , near the municipality of Dill . The Bärenbach has a total length of 5.25 kilometers and, with a height of about one hundred meters over 4.9 kilometers, has the steepest gradient of the three Sohren watercourses. The Winterbach is the smallest brook in the village.

climate

The annual precipitation is 764 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 55 percent of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in April. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at less than one percent of the measuring stations .

history

The name "Sohren" can be traced back to the settlement of Sarmatians . The area around Sohren was inhabited by the Celts and Roman times at the latest , as numerous grave finds and remains of Roman farms show. The place is said to have been mentioned for the first time in 372 by Ausonius in his travel poem "Mosella".

The Reichsgut Sohren was founded with the villages of Hahn , Bärenbach , Büchenbeuren , Lautzenhausen , Niedersohren , Niederweiler and Wahlenau as well as the now defunct villages Litzelsohren, Vockenrode and Niederhoven in 1301 with the permission of King Albrecht I to Count Eberhard von Sponheim (founder of the Neefer branch line ) and his wife Elisabeth, so the area belonged to the County of Sponheim . With this transfer, the history of the Sohren royal estate ended as an independent unit.

King Friedrich III. enfeoffed the margrave of Baden, Jakob I , and the count of Veldenz as heirs of the county of Sponheim in 1442 . After the death of Jacob I of Baden, Emperor Friedrich III enfeoffed. In 1455 his successor, Margrave Karl I and Count Palatine Friedrich von Veldenz, with the Sohrener property.

The boundary line of the care ( administrative district ) Sohren was precisely described in 1476. Sohrener care included the districts of Sohren, Niedersohren, Niederweiler, Wahlenau, Büchenbeuren, Lautzenhausen, Bärenbach and Hahn. A court seal from 1599 confirms that Sohren had its own court in the 15th century. It was occupied by a mayor and seven aldermen.

The Sponheimer Hof, the former Sohren royal court from the Carolingian era, was renovated in 1607. A state treaty regarding the division of the front county of Sponheim between the Electoral Palatinate and Baden was signed in 1707. Sohren care was now part of the Baden Oberamt Kirchberg .

Seal of the Sohren Mayor's Office

The occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops took place in 1794. With the peace of Campo Formio in 1797, the left bank of the Rhine fell to France . Sohren became the center of a mairie with the places Altlay , Bärenbach, Belg , Büchenbeuren, Lautzenhausen, Niedersohren, Niederweiler and Wahlenau with a total of 2,407 inhabitants. After the end of the French era, the Sohren area became part of the Prussian district of Zell in 1815 . Sohren became the administrative seat of a mayor's office to which 18 communities belonged.

The construction of the Hunsrückquerbahn Simmern –Sohren– Morbach was completed in 1902. The central water supply was introduced in 1912, and in 1920 Sohren received an electrical power supply.

In 1928 the company Felke Möbel was founded, which was one of the largest employers in the region in the 1950s with 1,500 employees. After the First World War, the place was temporarily occupied by the French again. In 1946 he became part of the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1951, north of the town on the Lautzenhausen district, construction began on the Hahn Nato airfield, which is now Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. From 1969 there was a secondary school , which was later converted into a regional school. The indoor swimming pool and the sports stadium were opened in 1974. Nine years later, in 1983, the Bürgerhalle opened.

1970 failed plans to merge the municipalities of Büchenbeuren and Sohren. It was hoped that this would prevent the dissolution of the Büchenbeuren community. However, after it became apparent that this dissolution could not be prevented, the merger, which had already been decided in the Büchenbeuren municipal council, was averted.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Sohren consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	6th	9	5	20 seats
2014	6th	10	4th	20 seats
2009	7th	8th	5	20 seats
2004	7th	6th	7th	20 seats

mayor

The local mayor is Markus Bongard (CDU). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with a share of 62.91% of the votes.

Former rulers and mayors

• Jakob Vogt (June 15, 1846– August 18, 1849)
• Peter Meurer (September 15, 1849– July 10, 1854)
• Peter Gauer (October 8, 1854– May 16, 1860)
• Peter Meurer (August 18, 1860– February 7, 1863)
• Jakob Stumm (23 August 1863–5 December 1868)
• Jakob Dörn (February 16, 1869– February 12, 1872)
• Jakob Stumm (May 21, 1872– April 6, 1878)
• Michel Zirfaß (April 11, 1878– December 17, 1887)
• Mathias Weber (January 2, 1888– December 27, 1905)
• Peter Thomas (February 5, 1906– May 15, 1919)
• Karl Dörn (June 9, 1919– July 14, 1920)
• Peter Rippel (September 2, 1920– November 10, 1927)
• Klemens Meinhardt (July 15, 1927– December 28, 1929)
• Adolf Bonn (January 4, 1930– September 2, 1945)
• Peter Rippel (July 10, 1946– September 8, 1946)
• Johann Scherhag (September 22, 1946– December 18, 1948)
• Gustav Heinz (January 13, 1949–1952)
• Peter Schmitt (November 28, 1952–1956)
• Emil Schuch (December 4, 1956– June 1, 1969)
• Hans Jaske (SPD, July 1, 1969– April 17, 1974)
• Heinz Michel (May 3, 1974–1999)
• Hans-Werner Rhein (1999-2004)
• Klaus Gewehr (2004–27 August 2009)

coat of arms

Blazon : “In black, a bar made of blue and gold in two rows; floating above it is a golden crown of leaves with blue and red stones. "

Foundation of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was awarded on January 7, 1936 by the Upper President of the Rhine Province , Josef Terboven . It is modeled on the court seal of the Pflege Sohren administrative district. The seal image with the signature "DES.GERICHTS.SORN .." shows a nested crossbar with a helmet crown above it. The nested bar is a symbol of the Sponheimers . The golden crown indicates their imperial estate . The design of the coat of arms comes from the Koblenz State Archives .

Partner communities

Stone in the main street to the community partnership with Slijpe

Since September 14, 1969 there has been a municipal partnership with Middelkerke-Slijpe in Belgium .

Historical buildings and testimonies

See also : List of cultural monuments in Sohren

St. Michael

St. Michael

The Catholic parish church of St. Michael was designed as a neo-Gothic brick building by the architect Eduard Endler from Cologne and built in 1907. The tower has a pointed roof spire.

Sohren train station

The station building is a listed building. After the Hunsrückquerbahn was shut down , the building was renovated and used as a restaurant.

Water tower

The water tower to supply the locomotives of the Hunsrückquerbahn was built around 1909.

Protestant church

The Evangelical Church is of pre-Reformation origin, the oldest parts go back to the 15th century. Until 1907 the church was used as a simultaneous church by the Protestant and the Catholic community. It is located right next to the cemetery.

War memorial

War memorial

→ Main article : War memorial (Sohren)

The war memorial, accessible via stairs, was erected in 1934 to commemorate the 43 fallen soldiers of the First World War . Commemorative plaques for the 72 fallen and missing in World War II were later placed in the memorial . It consists of a pillared hall built from broken slate.

synagogue

The Sohrener Synagogue was built as a half-timbered house in 1858 and was located in a cross drive on a parcel of a total area of ​​192 square meters. During the Second World War it served as a prison camp and was later used as a carpentry workshop.

Jewish Cemetery

→ Main article : Jewish cemetery (Sohren)

Sohren Jewish cemetery

In the northeastern direction of the community, near the Birkenhöhe, is the Sohren Jewish cemetery . The youngest grave is dated 1965. The cemetery was probably laid out before 1850. The Sohrener synagogue was first nailed up after November 9, 1938 and later destroyed by a Nazi roll-up command .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The place is about two kilometers by road from the only international airport in Rhineland-Palatinate, Frankfurt-Hahn . Sohren can be reached from the east via the Bundesautobahn 61 and Bundesstrasse 50 , from the west via the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse B 327 .

The station Sohren was at the 1976 disused hunsrückquerbahn Langenlonsheim - Hermeskeil .

education

In Sohren there are two schools, a primary school with around 400 students and a secondary school plus and technical college in the field of business and administration. The Realschule plus Sohren-Büchenbeuren has a branch in Rhaunen ( Birkenfeld district ). The technical college for business and administration was founded in 2011 and is located in the Realschule plus building.

sport and freetime

Sohren has an indoor swimming pool in the Sohren-Büchenbeuren school center. The Schinderhannes Sohren hiking club has existed since August 1991 and has been a member of the German People's Sports Association since March 1992 and has organized an IVV hike every July since 1994 , in which around 2500 hikers take part.

The community has four circular hiking trails:

• Active forest route (6 kilometers)
• Panorama loop (9 kilometers)
• Roman circuit (16.5 kilometers)
• Poetry Trail (4.2 kilometers)

The poem path designed by schoolchildren and kindergarten children was inaugurated on October 12, 2009 as the first of the four hiking trails. There is also a Kneipp facility , a fitness trail with 14 stations and a public barbecue hut on the edge of the forest .

religion

Sohren has a Protestant and a Catholic parish , as well as a Philadelphia parish (Protestant free church), the parish rooms of which are located in Laufersweiler Straße at the end of the village. There was also a Jewish community previously.

Personalities

Albert Gauer and Jakob Jörg received the Golden Military Merit Cross in 1918 .

Persons related to Sohren

• Michael Felke (1895–1977), entrepreneur and industrial pioneer
• Franz Felke (1902–1990), entrepreneur
• Aloys Felke (1927–1997), entrepreneur and politician (CDU), MdL
• Walter Felke (1928–2017), entrepreneur and local politician
• Günter Felke (1929–2005), entrepreneur, numismatist and cultural patron
• Heinz Michel (1929–2016), local mayor 1974–1999, honorary citizen of Sohren

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Sohren

literature

• Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner: Sohren, chronicle of a Hunsrück community. 1983.
• Barbara Müller: Chronicle Büchenbeuren . Ed .: Local community Büchenbeuren. 1993, ISBN 3-929866-00-5 .

Web links

Commons : Sohren  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Sohren
• Literature about Sohren 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. ↑ ^{a b} The natural foundations of the landscape . In: Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner (ed.): Sohren - Chronicle of a Hunsrück community . Verlag Böhmer, Simmern 1981, p. 11 f .
4. ^ Ausonius: Mosella / The exchange of letters with Paulinus / Bissula . Ed .: Paul Dräger. Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-009283-6 , p. 151 .
5. ↑ Notice of the community in the main street
6. ↑ Franz Josef Blümling: Naves Historia. The Lords of Neef - The Counts of Sponheim . In: Home between the Hunsrück and Eifel . Supplement to the Rheinzeitung. No. March 3 , 2004 ( online ).
7. ^ Barbara Müller: Chronicle of Büchenbeuren . Ed .: Local community Büchenbeuren. 1993, ISBN 3-929866-00-5 .
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Municipal Council Election 2019 Sohren. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kirchberg, Verbandsgemeinde, 33rd result line. Retrieved October 8, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner: Sohren - Chronicle of a Hunsrück community. Verlag Böhmer, Simmern 1981, p. 62 f.
12. ↑ XI. The community and its institutions. In Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner: Sohren - Chronicle of a Hunsrück community. Verlag Böhmer, Simmern 1981, page 179 ff.
13. ↑ VI. Wars and times of need , in Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner: Sohren - Chronik einer Hunsrückgemeinde, Simmern, Verlag Böhmer, 1981, page 69 ff.
14. ^ ^{A b} X. The population , in Gustav Schellack, Willi Wagner: Sohren - Chronik einer Hunsrückgemeinde, Simmern, Verlag Böhmer, 1981, page 161 ff.
15. ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/sohren_synagoge.htm
16. ↑ Hiking Association Schinderhannes Sohren 1991 eV
17. ↑ Information on the hiking trails in Sohren
18. ↑ Poetry path in Sohren opens up a circular hiking trail designed for schoolchildren and kindergarten children ( memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ Kneipp facility - Sohren ... in the middle of the Hunsrück. In: www.sohren.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 . 
20. ↑ Exercise yourself path - Sohren ... in the middle of the Hunsrück. In: www.sohren.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Grillhütte - Sohren ... in the middle of the Hunsrück. In: www.sohren.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016 .