Laubach, Rhein-Hunsrück

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

Geography

The village Laubach is centrally located in the Hunsrück between simmering and Kastellaun. It is located approximately in the middle of its district boundaries, slightly sloping to Külzbachtal. The district has a total area of ​​1002 hectares, including 502 hectares of community forest.

Lowest point: 405 m above sea level, highest point: 480 m above sea level.

To Laubach includes the residential places basic courts and society mill.

The village is characterized by the location of two outstanding churches. There is also a community center, a kindergarten, two restaurants, a beverage wholesale, a Trakehner stud farm equestrian center and next to some part-time farms several larger farms.

Neighboring towns

• Spesenroth
• Alterkuelz
• Neuerkirch
• Külz

• Horn
• Ebschied
• Bubach
• Hollnich

History

Laubach is mentioned in 1103 for the first time: A Hofgut Lupach was a result of an exchange contract with the provost of St. Stefan blackbirds in Mainz the monastery Ravengiersburg. Later, the widow of Burkhard Honrein handed (today's horn, the neighboring town of Laubach ) her estate in Horn, Laubach, Bubach and other places " zusamt the church set in Horn Monastery Ravengiersburg ". This is attested in a document of the Archbishop of Mainz from 1135 and bgestätigt of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1166. These two documents are referred to in recent literature as forgeries of the archivist Georg Friedrich Schott, however, is found in the stock book of the monastery Ravengiersburg of 1600, a calendar entry that lists these two documents. It can therefore be assumed that there was indeed evidence of title. However, whether Laubach 's mentioned there, is not to say based on this stock ledger entry.

1211 and 1217 is mentioned for the first time the chapel in Laubach, that was belonging to the diocese of Trier. During this time, covered the district and diocese borders.

In the middle of the 13th century, called a directory of the Archbishop of Trier various rights, including in rural deaneries Keimta (the current cell ) collects the Archbishop Chathedralsteuer to Loupach and scorn clean.

The Laubach court consisted of the now still inhabited villages Laubach, Bubach, Ebschied and horn with the waste places Heinzert, Scheuf, steep Home, Allenzhausen, Steinkülz and a part of Budenbach. During this time the waste places would have been still inhabited.

In the feud times of the 13th century Laubach was surrounded by walls and ditches, and was therefore counted among the festivals of the Office simmering. Until 1302, Laubach and the surrounding villages and deserted villages today was demonstrably rich immediately. In a document dated 13 June 1302 these villages and several deserted villages in the counts of Sponheim, or as it is called Simoni COMTI of Spanheim from the Roman-German King Albrecht I. pledged to payable services. In the period to 1360 the whole area comes into the possession of Count Palatine and is named in the Palatinate main division of 1410, as well as horn, a city. As part of this division of Laubach falls to the newly formed Principality of Pfalz- Zweibrücken - simmering ( Palatinate branch line ), from 1673 to the Palatinate.

With the introduction of the Reformation in the Hunsrück ( 1557) Laubach is Protestant. Between 1626 and 1706, the supremacy of the confessions or the church is shared replaced. 1706 the Church in the Kaub church division Catholics awarded ( For getting the Evangelical Bubach and horn). 1719 to build the Evangelical own church. 1857/58, after some wrangling, in which meddles also the supervisory authority, and by extension of the property a new and larger Neo-Romanic Protestant church on the site of the old church, where the tradition had stood by the Laubach Castle, according to the plans of the county builder Bormann and regional models are built. You will receive a new organ from the workshop Mute, the old silent organ is sold to high - Stetten Dhaun for the local Collegiate Church Johannisberg. The larger of the two bells is made of bronze and was cast in 1908 by the Bell and Art Foundry Rincker. It must be issued in 1942, but 1947 can be recovered unharmed. 1868/70 can the Catholic Church be rebuilt according to plans by district architect Sasse.

With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops, the place was French and was from 1798 to 1814 for Canton simmering in the Rhine -Moselle department. Laubach was the capital of a Mairie. In 1815 he is assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna.

Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

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

Parish council

The local council in Laubach 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.