Münchwald

Münchwald is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rüdesheim. Münchwald is a nationally recognized tourist.

Geography

Münchwald is a village in the southern Hunsrück. It is right on Soonwaldsteig.

To Münchwald includes the residential places Gräfenbach house, boiler house and Struthof.

History

The village was founded in 1700, the former name of the village was. Mönchswald. This name derives from the fact that the surface on which the village is located, the Kloster Eberbach in the Rheingau belonged here and a cloister (hall wife forest ) and / or a monastery mill were ( Dadenborner mill on Gräfenbach ).

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Münchwald consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 in a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The eight seats in the City Council are distributed among four groups of voters.

Coat of arms

The Coat of Arms was established in 1950 approved by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Interior. It makes reference to the Cistercian monks who built the monastery courtyard Dadenborn in the area by clearing around 1200, but was abandoned again in the 15th century. The colors red - silver reminiscent of the County of Sponheim.

Personalities

• Johann Adam Melsheimer (1683-1757), forester and hunter, a hunter from the model of the Electoral Palatinate

Culture and sights

See also: List of cultural monuments in Münchwald

Chapel

Traditional half-timbered house