Hahnenbach

Hahnenbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kirn -Land. Hahnenbach is a nationally recognized tourist.

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Geographical location

The town lies on the same cock stream that flows near Kirn in the Nahe.

History

Just as in the village Hennweiler (formerly Hanenwilare ) is likely the place name by Hahn Bach (formerly Hanenbach ) go back to the Leitnamen a Frankish noble family, the Haganonen. They were well off from the 7th century as members of a so-called " Empire nobility " in Rhine-Hesse room and resident. Descendants of this family clan had probably in the 7/8 Made century in the development of forest areas between Mosel and Nahe land arable and established settlements. Many place names are therefore back to the owner, founder or leader of a settlement, of which the Court or the later village was named.

In the High and Late Middle Ages Hahnenbach was owned by the Lords of stone ( Steinkallenfels ), ie the inhabitants of the village were the local lords service and dutiable. After the construction of the castle Wartenstein by Knight Tilmann from Stone ( 1357 ) Hahnenbach became part of the dominion Wartenstein that the places Hahnenbach, pastures, Herborn and part of Niederhosenbach and Königsau included as Kurtrierisches Office pastures.

While the Office Hennweiler was under - palatinate zweibrückischer sovereignty, in the Official pastures was the Elector of Trier supreme feudal lord. Both offices were managed from the 16th century by a magistrate in a personal union of Wartenstein from. After from about 1400 different families of the gentry over Wartenstein sovereign rights were exercised, the sole masters of the rule Wartenstein, to take possession of the Left were in the 16th century, the lords of Schwarzenberg and after their extinction ( 1583 ), the Lords of Warsberg bank of the Rhine has passed by the French.

During French rule (1798-1814) Hahn Bach was one of 12 rural communities, who formed together with the main town of Kirn the " Mairie Kirn " and belonged to the district simmering. Under Prussian rule the country, and after a brief membership in the circle simmering (1815 /16) and the circle Oberstein (1816 /17) came into the " mayor Kirn " renamed authority " Mairie Kirn " on 16 April 1817 the circle Kreuznach. Hahn Bach remained as a community within that unit, which forms the present-day municipality Kirn country after several administrative and territorial reforms ( 1817/1858/1894/1927/1940/1969/70 ).

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Hahnenbach consists of twelve 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 of the arms is: " split plate, front in black with a silver, gold -winning, reinforced and gezungter Lion, back in gold, a blue cock's head on a blue wave bar".

The lion refers to the reign Wartenstein ( Trier fief to Lords of Warsberg ). Cock head and shaft beam refer to the place name. The coat of arms is talking.

The council commissioned on 30 November 1963 Graphic chest, Kirn Sulzbach, to develop a design for a coat of arms. At the meeting on 28 April 1964, the Council adopted the draft submitted. After approval by the State Archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz issued on May 12, 1965, the authorization to run their own coat of arms.

Religion

The inhabitants of Hahnenbach are predominantly Protestant. The Protestant church, a neo-baroque Hexagon of broken stone, was built in 1948/1949. It belongs to the parish Hennweiler -Oberhausen of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland.

Moreover, there exists a Catholic chapel. This Baroque-style hall building of 1933, is managed by the parish of St. Pancras in Kirn in the diocese of Trier.

Economy and infrastructure

In the south, the highway runs 41 In Kirn is a station on the railway line Bingen- Saarbrücken.

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