Sosberg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '  N , 7 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Zell (Moselle)
Height :	370 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.91 km 2
Residents:	178 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56858
Area code :	06545
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 080
Association administration address:	Corray 1 56856 Zell (Moselle)
Website :	www.sosberg.de
Local Mayor :	Andreas Lehnert
Location of the local community Sosberg in the district of Cochem-Zell

Sosberg seen from the west.

Geierlay suspension rope bridge

Sosberg is a municipality in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Zell (Mosel) .

geography

Sosberg lies on the edge of a slope in the northern Hunsrück between the Moselle , Nahe , Rhine and Idar / Soonwald . The Mörsdorfer Bach flows east of the village towards the Moselle.

Neighboring communities are Forst (Hunsrück) , Reidenhausen and Mörsdorf (Hunsrück)

history

The first written mention comes from 1330 under the name Soysbergh . The place was until 1781 "tri-gentry territory". As in the Beltheim court , Kurtrier , Sponheim and Braunshorn (later Winneburg and Metternich) shared sovereignty. From 1794 Sosberg was under French rule and from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton of Zell in the Rhine-Moselle department . In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate. With the 8th Administrative Simplification Act of July 18, 1970 with effect from November 7, 1970, the municipality of Sosberg became part of the Verbandsgemeinde Zell (Mosel) after the official municipality of Blankenrath was dissolved.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 189 1835 228 1871 273 1905 239 1939 220 1950 240

year Residents 1961 232 1970 220 1987 193 1997 173 2005 190 2019 178

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Blazon : “The coat of arms is split twice. In front in silver a red, continuous cross, covered with a silver horn. The middle field shows in green a silver halberd pointing to the left, behind a silver-red chess for three places in eleven rows. "
	Justification for the coat of arms: The red cross in silver is reminiscent of Kurtrier , the silver horn marks the rule of Beilstein , the silver halberd refers to St. Matthias, the patron saint of the church, the green middle field indicates the agricultural structure of the community, the silver-red chess is the coat of arms of the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim .

Culture and sights

Cross house from 1889

Buildings

• On May 30, 2015, the official groundbreaking for the construction of the Geierlay suspension rope bridge , which will be connected to the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig in the 19th stage, took place. Until the construction of the Titan RT at the Rappbode Dam in 2017, this bridge was the longest suspension bridge in Germany at 360 meters. Completion took place at the end of September, the official inauguration took place on October 3, 2015. The designer of the bridge is the Swiss engineer Hans Pfaffen.

• Catholic branch church St. Matthias from 1769
• The town center is the location of some old half-timbered houses that are under monument protection.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Sosberg

Green spaces and recreation

• Since April 2015, a section of the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig long-distance hiking trail has passed the village.
• Numerous hiking trails in and around Sosberg

Regular events

• Traditional shooting festival of the Sosberg shooting club

Web links

Commons : Sosberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the municipality of Sosberg
• Sosberg in the SWR broadcast here in Germany
• Literature about Sosberg 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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 1, 2017 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 24 (PDF; 1.9 MB).
3. ^ Local history of Blankenrath
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Jessica Kuschnik: The longest suspension bridge hangs in the Hunsrück. In: Rheinische Post . June 10, 2015, accessed January 27, 2020 . 
7. ↑ dpa : Longest German suspension bridge opened. In: FAZ .net , October 3, 2015.
8. ↑ Andrea Lohmann: Suspension bridge almost finished - thrills at a height of 100 meters. ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz , September 25, 2015 and video
     Gudrun Fünter: TV report, 3:07 min. ( Memento from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: SWR TV , September 25, 2015.
9. ↑ Sosberg hiking route in the Hunsrück. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .