Belgweiler

Belgweiler is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality simmering / Hunsrück.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Belgweiler lies in the valley of the Simmer Bach in the Natural Park Soonwaldsteig -Nahe and centrally located in the Hunsrück.

Community structure

The municipality belongs to the district Belgweiler Wimmersbacherhof.

Land use

• Agricultural area 69.4 %
• Forest area 19.2%
• Water surface 1.0%
• Settlement and transport area 10.4%

History

Belgweiler was first documented in 1285.

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.

Catholic Chapel of St. Anna

The Anna chapel was built around 1720 in its current form. From this period dates the baroque altar. It was created in the same workshop as the altars in the near Ravngiersburger " Hunsrück ". It is the Kreuznacher workshop of the Carmelite brothers Johann Petri Zentze, sculptor (sculptor ), Andreas Mosang and Simon Dietz. The non- plasters slate quarry stone is older window openings (see illustration).

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Belgweiler consists of six 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 reads: " diagonally left gestelltem sign out front in black and a rotbewehrter gezungter growing golden lion, in the back of a nested gold silver and red in two rows of beams, growing below a black crook. "