Dichtelbach

Dichtelbach is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rheinboellen.

Geography

Dichtelbach located in the eastern Hunsrück between the Federal Highway 61 and the Bingen Forest. The village lies on the old Roman road, called Ausoniusstraße that led von Trier to Bacharach. The place derives its name from " Dichtelbach ", which flows into the creek between Gulden Rheinboellen and Rheinböllerhütte.

Actually, the name of Dadilebach derives, which means as much as Feuerbach. Feuerbach it was called because of the many charcoal kiln the wood.

To Dichtelbach includes the living space Heidehof.

History

Dichtelbach was first mentioned in 996. Rulers were the Dukes of Pfalz- simmering and from 1673 the electors of the Palatinate. With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops, the place was French, 1815, he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

From 1986 to 1991 American Patriot missiles were stationed on the air defense on the Kandrich at Dichtelbach. This is evidenced today a hut in the forest and eight horseshoe-shaped ramparts on the Kandrich, where today there are three wind turbines. Before the Patriot anti-aircraft missiles were on the Kandrich a radar station, which served to direct the to 1983, stationed on the wrongly - meadow Nike missiles. With the end of the Cold War, the military establishment was abandoned on the Kandrich, the barracks and the 1992 newly built mobilization base for the Bundeswehr on the Grundlos - Wies near Dichtelbach followed by the year 2006.

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

Parish council

The local council in Dichtelbach consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.