Tiefenthal (Rheinhessen)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Bad Kreuznach
Height :	180 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.35 km 2
Residents:	118 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55546
Area code :	06709
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 104
Association administration address:	Rheingrafenstrasse 11 55543 Bad Kreuznach
Website :	www.tiefenthal.de
Local Mayor :	Ulf Pees
Location of the community of Tiefenthal in the Bad Kreuznach district

Tiefenthal is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Kreuznach community . Tiefenthal belongs to the Rhine-Hessian Switzerland landscape .

history

Tiefenthal is the first time in a confirmation of ownership from Pope Leo IX. mentioned for the monastery of St. Maximin in Trier on January 16, 1051 as "Daffindal" . The document is probably forged, but it is the oldest evidence of the place. Under Nassau-Saarbrücken , Tiefenthal belonged to the Jugenheim office , which had come to the Nassau dynasty in the 14th century from the Raugrafen via the Lords of Bolanden and the Counts of Sponheim-Dannenfels . In 1683, according to a fiefdom register, the place belonged to the Nassau-Ottweiler rulership , which had pledged it to the Counts of Wartenberg . In 1717 the village came to the line of the younger line Nassau-Saarbrücken, which pledged it to the Rhine Counts of Grehweiler in 1721 . Around 1800 the Schinderhannes frequented Tiefenthal because two of his accomplices came here. Tiefenthal has belonged to Rheinhessen since 1816. On March 17, 1945, about a quarter of the buildings were destroyed by American tank fire.

religion

In the 19th century, Tiefenthal owned a small Jewish community that had its own school . The last burial in the Jewish cemetery took place in 1904.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 168 1835 240 1871 149 1905 127 1939 115 1950 147

year Residents 1961 125 1970 101 1987 94 2005 119 2018 117

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Tiefenthal 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.

mayor

Local mayor is Ulf Pees. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 63.51% of the votes.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In a half-split and divided shield above in three rows three times in gold and blue, in blue a soaring gold-armored lion divided seven times in silver and red, below in silver a blue sword and a blue stone hammer crossed diagonally."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms indicates both the front county of Sponheim , the most influential local lord in the Middle Ages, and the former administrative district of Rheinhessen . The sword and hammer come from a court seal from the 18th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Tiefenthal belongs to the "Bingen wine-growing area" in the Rheinhessen growing area . Two wine-growing businesses are active in the village, and the area under vines is 9 hectares . About 98% of the wine grown are white grape varieties (as of 2007). In 1979 six companies were still active, the vineyard area at that time was 11 hectares. The Graukatz single site is located in the Rheingrafenstein major site.

traffic

• The federal highway 420 runs north of the municipality . In the northeast is the A 61 .
• In Alsenz , about 5 kilometers away, there is a train station for the Alsenz Valley Railway .

Others

In mid-September 2012, Tiefenthal became known nationwide that, due to a lack of personnel at the volunteer fire brigade, selected citizens were to be obliged to serve in the local fire brigade. The background is the provisions of the state law on fire protection, general assistance and disaster control as well as the fire brigade regulation of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, according to which a basic deployment time of eight minutes must be guaranteed. Corresponding draft notices are issued by the responsible municipal administration in Bad Kreuznach.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Tiefenthal

Web links

Commons : Tiefenthal  - Collection of Images

• Tiefenthal on the website of the Bad Kreuznach Association
• History of Tiefenthal at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Tiefenthal 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. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Tiefenthal. Retrieved September 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bad Kreuznach, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved September 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Friedrich A. Cornelssen: The great book of German wine . Seewald, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-512-00416-4 .
6. ↑ Compulsory obligation in Rheinhessen municipality - involuntary fire brigade Tiefenthal. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 14, 2012, accessed November 23, 2017 .