Berglicht

Berglicht in the Hunsrück is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel -Wittlich, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Thalfang to the inheritance head.

Geography

Berglicht is located four kilometers north-west of Thal catch and six kilometers south-east of the Moselle. The town extends on both sides of a Engtals at the confluence of Brucher Bach and Mohrbach the lights Bach, it includes altitudes between 350 m above sea level. Sea level and 400 m above sea level. NN. Geographically, can the roughly equally forested and agricultural municipality of Hermeskeiler trough on the Middle Hunsrück plateau assign. On the eastern edge of the village, the main road runs 155 ( Neumagen -Dhron -Thal catch).

Berglicht bordered clockwise to the local communities Hoerath, Gräfendhron Gielert, Thalfang, Talling, Schoenberg and Heidenburg.

History

The first written record comes from the year 1228. Originally, the location of the parts mountain ( on a slope back) and light ( the light Erbach ). The Church in the Middle Ages mountain had its own jurisdiction and was the mother church for many parishes in the deanery today Morbach. The centuries- long rule of the Counts of Hunolstein finally ended by the French Revolution in 1800. According to the end of French rule, the town came in 1815 with the Kingdom of Prussia. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded. Until the local Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform of 1969, the village belonged to the district of Bernkastel.

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

Parish council

The local council in Mountain Light consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The eight seats on the council are divided into two groups of voters.