Hennweiler

Hennweiler is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kirn -Land.

Geography

Hennweiler located in the southern Hunsrück. North of the village rises the Lützelsoon west lies the Hahnenbachtal, east lies the Kellenbach. A few kilometers south of the falls from the Hunsrück Nahe ( direction Pfalz).

To Hennweiler includes the residential places Algendellerhof and chateau Wasem.

History

The district of Hennweiler has been inhabited since ancient times. Based on archaeological research residency of people up in the period 600-400 BC can be detected there.

With the Roman occupation of the left bank area in the last pre-Christian century, the heritage of the Celtic- Germanic mixed people of Treverians was superimposed and enriched by Roman heritage in the subsequent period. Various archaeological finds from the Celtic and Roman times testify in Hennweiler colonization by members of these civilizations.

The place name probably comes from the name of a Frankish settlers, the " Hagano " or " Hano " was called and during the Frankish conquest (6th / 7th century) here founded a settlement or an existing settlement by renaming its name.

The first written mention of the village dates from the year 992, when King Otto III. presented under the auspices of the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis the royal estate " Hanenwilare " the recently built monastery of St. Stephan in Mainz.

It is very probable that took place under the influence of this pin, the building of the parish church of the mother church in the parish Hennweiler. This district was the same in the Middle Ages with the Bailiwick Hennweiler that - as a judicial and administrative district - the places Hennweiler, Oberhausen, Guntzelnberg, Rode, Heinz Mountain and owned courtyard included. The settlements Guntzelnberg and Rode - on the border to tap Bacher and Bruschieder spell - were presumed to have left before the Thirty Years War and desolate.

The Bailiwick Hennweiler was a fief of the Counts of Veldenz in 13-14. Century awarded to Messrs. Heinz mountain. This county was formed in the 16th century under the name " Office Hennweiler " together with the district " office Hahnenbach " the imperial rule Wartenstein with administrative headquarters at Burg Wartenstein. In the 16th century, the lords of Schwarzenberg were in 17-18. Century baronial family of Warsberg the local lords of Hennweiler.

Around the middle of the 18th century, the population grew rapidly and the village prospered. In the summer of 1781 the place burned down more than two-thirds. 1790/92 the nave of the parish church was rebuilt.

After the French possession of the left bank area (1792 /94), the French administration reform ( 1798/1800/1802 ) took place. Under Napoleonic rule the inhabitants were constitutionally French ( 1802-1813/14 ). Hennweiler was part of the Mairie Kirn in the arrondissement of simmering, which belonged to the Rhine-Moselle department.

The Private courtyard was the end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century, a popular hideout for Schinderhannes and his followers. Here he was nearly arrested on April 12, 1800.

After the end of French rule and a brief transitional administration, the town was incorporated in 1817 in the Prussian district of Kreuznach in the Region of Koblenz and the Mairie Kirn Kirn renamed mayoralty. Since 1858 its member rural communities formed their own Landbürgermeisterei, which was also managed by the Mayor of Kirn in personal union. In 1896, this personal union was annulled.

On 1 October 1968, the previous name of the local authority "office" in community association has been renamed. Since the last local government reform in 1969 Hennweiler is part of the municipality Kirn -Land, the 20 members of local churches.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Hennweiler consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The 16 seats in the municipal council are divided into two groups of voters. 2004, a majority vote was held.

Coat of arms

The Coat of Arms description is: " split plate, front in black with a silver, gold -winning, reinforced and gezungter Lion, back in silver an orchid salep Orchis (Orchis morio ) with green tubers, green stems and six red flowers ."

The lion refers to the reign Wartenstein ( Trier fief to by Warsberg ). The orchid is in a glade within the district Hennweiler under protection.

The council commissioned on 30 August 1963 Graphic chest, Kirn Sulzbach, to develop a design for a coat of arms. At the meeting on 13 April 1965, the Council adopted the draft submitted. After approval by the State Archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz issued on May 14, 1965, the authorization to run their own coat of arms.

Leisure

By Hennweiler the Lützelsoon bike path between Kirn and Kirchberg runs. Walking and cycling to the nearby Lützelsoon offer.