Waldböckelheim

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Waldböckelheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality : Rudesheim
Height : 195 m above sea level NHN
Area : 18.58 km 2
Residents: 2169 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 117 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 55596
Area code : 06758
License plate : KH
Community key : 07 1 33 107
Association administration address: Nahestrasse 63
55593 Rüdesheim
Website : www.waldboeckelheim.de
Local Mayor : Helmut Schmidt ( SPD )
Location of the local community Waldböckelheim in the Bad Kreuznach district
Bad Kreuznach Kirn Biebelsheim Pfaffen-Schwabenheim Pleitersheim Volxheim Hackenheim Frei-Laubersheim Neu-Bamberg Fürfeld Tiefenthal (Rheinhessen) Traisen (Nahe) Norheim Altenbamberg Hochstätten Feilbingert Hallgarten (Pfalz) Niederhausen (Nahe) Oberhausen an der Nahe Duchroth Bad Sobernheim Auen (Hunsrück) Bärweiler Daubach (Hunsrück) Ippenschied Kirschroth Langenthal (Hunsrück) Lauschied Martinstein Meddersheim Merxheim (Nahe) Bad Sobernheim Monzingen Nußbaum Odernheim am Glan Rehbach (bei Sobernheim) Seesbach Staudernheim Weiler bei Monzingen Winterburg Bretzenheim Dorsheim Guldental Langenlonsheim Laubenheim Rümmelsheim Windesheim Daxweiler Dörrebach Eckenroth Roth (bei Stromberg) Schöneberg (Hunsrück) Schweppenhausen Seibersbach Stromberg (Hunsrück) Waldlaubersheim Warmsroth Kirn Bärenbach (bei Idar-Oberstein) Becherbach bei Kirn Brauweiler (Rheinland-Pfalz) Bruschied Hahnenbach Heimweiler Heinzenberg (bei Kirn) Hennweiler Hochstetten-Dhaun Horbach (bei Simmertal) Kellenbach Königsau Limbach (bei Kirn) Meckenbach (bei Kirn) Oberhausen bei Kirn Otzweiler Schneppenbach Schwarzerden Simmertal Weitersborn Abtweiler Becherbach (Pfalz) Breitenheim Callbach Desloch Hundsbach Jeckenbach Lettweiler Löllbach Meisenheim Raumbach Rehborn Reiffelbach Schmittweiler Schweinschied Allenfeld Argenschwang Bockenau Boos (Nahe) Braunweiler Burgsponheim Dalberg (bei Bad Kreuznach) Gebroth Gutenberg (bei Bad Kreuznach) Hargesheim Hergenfeld Hüffelsheim Mandel (Gemeinde) Münchwald Oberstreit Roxheim Rüdesheim (Nahe) Schloßböckelheim Sankt Katharinen (bei Bad Kreuznach) Sommerloch (bei Bad Kreuznach) Spabrücken Spall Sponheim Waldböckelheim Wallhausen (bei Bad Kreuznach) Weinsheim (bei Bad Kreuznach) Winterbach (Soonwald) Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Landkreis Birkenfeld Landkreis Mainz-Bingen Hessen Landkreis Alzey-Worms Landkreis Kusel Donnersbergkreismap
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Waldböckelheim is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rüdesheim . Waldböckelheim is located in the Nahe wine-growing region and is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

The Evangelical Church of Waldböckelheim, surrounded by vineyards in the Nahe wine-growing region .

Waldböckelheim is located north of the Nahe in the Rhenish Slate Mountains and is surrounded by three extinct volcanoes. The location is on the southern edge of the Soonwald nature park and is therefore in the Nahe valley. The highest point is the Welschberg at 336.3  m above sea level. NHN in the northern municipality. One of these three extinct volcanoes is the Heimberg , on which the Heimberg Tower was built in the spring of 2008 in the neighboring town of Schloßböckelheim . The Göttelsteiner Felsen nature reserve , which separates Waldböckelheim to the north from the neighboring municipality of Bockenau , offers a habitat for endangered and protected plant species.

To Waldböckelheim include also the living spaces wire heads, Forestry House, Goose mill house in front of Leo's Ruh, Marienpforterhof, Sudetenlandhof and the former railway station in the south of Waldböckelheim.

history

The place was first mentioned on February 10, 824 as Becchilenheim . The prefix Wald- was added in the 13th century to differentiate itself from Gau-Bickelheim . In December 1105, Emperor Heinrich IV was held prisoner by his son Heinrich V in Böckelheim Castle. The Böckelheim Office was formed together with the surrounding towns. After changing ownership several times, it belonged to the Electoral Palatinate for more than 300 years .

On January 5, 1800, the Schinderhannes carried out a robbery on a carriage near Waldböckelheim with the victims Dr. Kannstadt and the Reinach brothers.

On January 1, 1969, the Steinhardt part of the area with 121 inhabitants was umgemeindet from Waldböckelheim to Sobernheim .

Population development

The development of the population of Waldböckelheim in relation to today's municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 978
1835 1,359
1871 1,562
1905 1,582
1939 1,397
year Residents
1950 1,692
1961 1,898
1970 2,193
1978 2,286
1987 2,277
year Residents
1997 2,380
2005 2,361
2011 2,236
2017 2.156
2019 2,169

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Waldböckelheim consists of 16 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 7th 5 4th 16 seats
2014 7th 5 4th 16 seats
2009 6th 5 5 16 seats
2004 8th 5 3 16 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Community Waldböckelheim e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Helmut Schmidt (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 81.62% of the votes.

Economy and Infrastructure

The new shopping center on the B 41

In Waldböckelheim there are two kindergartens, a primary school, an integrated secondary school and a volunteer fire brigade. The federal road 41 leads directly past Waldböckelheim . In Staudernheim there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line . The local winemakers who operate a large number of wineries are of particular economic importance.

In September 2019, an Aldi Süd and a REWE store opened directly on the B 41.

Landmark

Waldböckelheim's landmarks are the two churches. The Catholic Church of St. Bartholomew, built in the Romanesque style from 1833 to 1835 in the center of the village, and the Protestant mountain church on the Kirchberg , built in the neo-Gothic style from 1863 to 1867 .

The Catholic Church has an unusual double tower front for a rather small town, which can probably be explained by the Simultaneum , which still existed at the time of construction .

Personalities

Born in Waldböckelheim

Other personalities

  • Waldemar Woehl (1902–1976), editor, composer and music teacher
  • Clemens Kost (1903–1973), politician and member of the state parliament
  • Doris Emmerich (* 1954), German Wine Queen 1974/75
  • Bettina Dickes (born April 10, 1971), politician, former member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (2006–2016), and district administrator of the Bad Kreuznach district (since 2017), lived in Waldböckelheim for some time.

literature

  • Reiner Seil: Chronicle of the local community Waldböckelheim. Waldböckelheim 1999, ISBN 3-9805511-4-8 .

See also

Web links

Commons : Waldböckelheim  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ A b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  3. ordinance on the nature reserve "Göttel Steiner rocks". (PDF) In: Landscape Information System Rhineland-Palatinate (LANIS-RLP). February 4, 1982. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  4. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 22 (PDF; 1 MB).
  5. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 185 (PDF; 2.8 MB; footnote 72).
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on September 15, 2019 (see Rüdesheim, Verbandsgemeinde, 28th line of results).
  8. Wineries near Waldböckelheim. In: Winzer.de. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .