Bärenbach, Rhein-Hunsrück

Bear Creek is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Kirchberg (Hunsrück ).

Geography

The geographic center of the Rhineland- Palatinate is located in Bear Creek.

History

The first mention of Bear Creek dates back to 1103. During the years 1234-1437 the city belonged to the counts of Sponheim was. In the following centuries the ownership changed hands several times between the Margrave of Baden, Count Palatine of the Rhine and the Counts of Veldenz.

With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops, the place was French, 1798-1814 it belonged to the canton of Kirchberg, who was assigned to the Rhine-Moselle department. At the Congress of Vienna (1815 ), the region was awarded the Kingdom of Prussia. Under the Prussian administration Bear Creek was under from 1816 to the mayoralty Sohren in a circle cell and was from 1822 until the end of World War II to the Rhine province. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded and since 1970 belongs to the municipality Kirchberg.

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

Policy

Parish council

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

Coat of arms

The blazon is: "Divided by a diagonally left blue wave bar. Up in Silver is an increasing, left inverted, rotbewehrter and langued black bear. Below geschacht of gold and blue. "

The Bear and the wave bar, which symbolizes the bear creek, have, as canting arms down on the place name. The geschachte shield part refers to the former belonging to the Middle County of Sponheim.