Becherbach bei Kirn

Cup bei Kirn is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kirn -Land. Often the community cup bei Kirn, carrying the suffix " at Kirn " since July 1, 1969, confused with the located in the same county Becherbach.

Geography

The town lies on Great Brook in the North Palatine Uplands between the Nahe and Glan valley. To the north is home hamlet, in the east Limbach and dog stream, in the south and west Otzweiler to Schmidthachenbach located in the district of Birkenfeld.

History

In the cup Bacher district archaeological finds testify already a settlement during the Roman period.

The place name is derived possibly from the MHG " bechaere " here and should be content with the extraction of pitch and charcoal processing in conjunction.

Located along a trade route that connected the Kirner room with the Glantal, Becherbach was in the Middle Ages administrative and judicial seat for a number of surrounding villages. For judgment Becherbach included the villages Becherbach, cancer Weiler, Heimberg, Limbach, Otzweiler, Schmidthachenbach and Thal, a small settlement with four households in 1599 whose inhabitants enjoyed certain special privileges. About the location of this desolate later became the village there are suspicions, eg at the Naumburg or between Otzweiler and Becherbach, but no certainty.

The sub- district office Becherbach was part of the Office Naumburg, the - was formed by the courts Bear Creek, Martin- Weiersbach, Upper Hachenbach, Oberreidenbach and Löllbach - next to the cup Bacher court.

This office Naumburg was completely ceded to the Counts of Sponheim -Kreuznach of the Raugrafen, a branch of the wild Earl, in 1349 half, towards the end of the 14th century. The administrative headquarters of the Office was the Naumburg at Bear Creek, which was mentioned for the first time with their owner Raugraf Emich in 1146.

With the 1707 division of the Near County of Sponheim the Office Naumburg was assigned to the Baden share. 1776, the headquarters was moved to Mr. Stein.

Economically tended the inhabitants of the Naumburg Amtsbezirks to Kirn, where, as attested from the year 1579, for the visit of the Kirner market the so-called " customs oats " was to be paid as import duty and sales tax on the Ganerben of Steinkallenfels.

The district court Becherbach was also parish, whose mother church stood in Becherbach. It was not until 1820 came Schmidthachenbach to the parish Rhodesia. The ecclesiastical affairs in the parish Becherbach certain of 1345-1606, the Lords of Oberstein, later the Lords of Lowenstein and gentlemen of Schmidtburg.

After the introduction of the Reformation in 1557 Becherbach was predominantly Protestant until 1706, then ruled until 1892 a simultaneous relationship. The church has a Romanesque bell tower from the 12th century, to the years 1783-88, a new nave was built instead of a dilapidated predecessor. In 1837, the three-storey tower was raised by two floors and provided with the pointed spire.

In 1785 Becherbach counted 45 houses with 46 families. Some houses were two stories. A Catholic elementary school, there were in 1757, although in Becherbach lived only five Catholic families. Among the Protestants predominated the Reformed confession and commitment each had its own teacher.

After the conquest by French revolutionary troops, the villages of the old Office 1794 Naumburg came under French rule. Becherbach temporarily lost its function as Amtsort and belonged from 1801/ 02 to Mairie Schmidthachenbach in Canton Grumbach, who belonged to the Saar Department. These included the villages Becherbach, Otzweiler, Limbach, Heimberg, cancer hamlets and Bear Creek.

After the end of French rule under stood from 1814, the area initially a Bavarian-Austrian interim administration, became Prussian in the following year and finally came 1816/17 to the Landgrafentum Hesse -Homburg. Becherbach was now as " Oberschultheißerei " back seat of a Amtsbürgermeisterei in Hesse - homburgischen Oberamt Meis home. After the extinction of Hesse- homburgischen house came 1866, the county land on the Erbweg first to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was only half a year later finally to Prussia.

With the formation of the Prussian circle Meisenheim in 1869 the administrative district of the mayoralty Becherbach been to the places Hoppstädten and dog Bach, who remained there until 1940, extended. In 1932 the county Meisenheim was dissolved and integrated into the circle Kreuznach. The resolution of the Office Becherbach and its allocation to the Official Kirn -Land was 1940. Since 1969/70 is one of the local church the municipality Kirn -Land to.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Becherbach 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: " About blue-gold geschachtem sign foot in red a silver house wall with six connected by arch pillars on a pedestal that is broken in the width of three sheets of a staircase. In the middle arch " is a door in the other there are windows.

The house wall is the entrance portal of 1944 destroyed by bombing the headquarters building in Becherbach Represents the building, as the seat of office management for the communities Becherbach, Bear Creek, Heimberg, Hoppstädten, dog Bach, cancer Weiler, Limbach and Otzweiler, has long been the center of the community and of historical importance. After the dissolution of the Office in 1940 until its destruction in the building of the community Becherbach served as a community center.

The geschachte field refers to the former belonging to the Front County of Sponheim.

The council commissioned to draw up a design for a coat of arms on June 11, 1965 Graphic chest from Kirn Sulzbach. At the meeting on 18 September 1965, the Council adopted the draft submitted. After approval by the State Archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz issued on December 29, 1965, the authorization to run their own coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Becherbach is known in the region for its " Bridge Choir ".

See also: List of cultural monuments in cup bei Kirn

Economy and infrastructure

To the west runs the federal highway 41 in Kirn -Sulzbach is a station of the railway line Bingen- Saarbrücken.