Laudert

Laudert is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Sankt Goar - Oberwesel.

Location

Laudert located in the eastern part of the Hunsrück in the source basin of the Simmer creek. The Federal Highway 61 (Exit Laudert ) passes 500 meters away on the spot. In the village the Rhein- Mosel- road crossing (here L 217 ) Treis- Oberwesel and the L - 214 Bingen Emmelshausen ( Koblenz ), which has lost its former importance by the parallel highway. Both roads are considered ancient Roman regional roads.

History

Laudert, is also named after a settlement from the medieval Rodeperiode, which was completed in 1200 at the latest. Laudert is first mentioned in 1275 as Ludinroit when it was awarded the Knights of Milwalt in a contract that took him in the 14th century by the Electors of Trier fief. The village was divided by the passing Simmersbach into two parts belonging to different dominations. The Hunsrück side lay with few houses on pfalzgräflichem area, the direction of the Rhine opposite side was under Kurtrierer rule. When this division took place, is not yet assigned. Until south of Kisselbach, which was also divided, the creek was the limit. 1410, the Count Palatine part was joined to the newly created Principality of simmering, from 1673 he came back to the Palatinate. After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794 ) the place from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the First French Republic ( 1799-1804 ) and the First French Empire ( 1804-1814 ). He was in the French time to Mairie Pfalzfeld in the canton of Sankt Goar, who belonged to the Département de Rhin -et -Moselle. In 1815 he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Under the Prussian administration, the two communities from Trier, Laudert and Pfälzisch Laudert belonged to the mayor's Pfalzfeld (1927 renamed the Office Pfalzfeld ) newly formed in the district Sankt Goar in the Region of Koblenz and from 1822 to the Rhine province. In 1858, from Trier, Laudert had 198 inhabitants and Pfälzisch Laudert 187 inhabitants. The official association of Palatine and from Trier, Laudert took place on August 1, 1934. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded. With the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform and the local rearrangements associated with the Office Pfalzfeld 1968 first converted to the municipality Pfalzfeld. Simultaneously with the resolution, the municipality Laudert on November 7, 1970, the municipality Oberwesel and with the merger with Sankt Goar assigned the municipality Sankt Goar - Oberwesel on 22 April 1972.

Special

• Not far from the village, near the intersection of the old Roman roads, are the remains of a medieval Motte, which is popularly known, and on the topographic maps Old Castle.
• Laudert houses the private chamber pot museum which features not only over 500 Nachtöpfe and some wash basins and washing dishes, but also a peasant spinning and weaving with spinning wheel and other domestic appliances. Children can learn with old toys and many bears produced in part even in the Bärenbude how to make teddy bear itself ..
• → List of cultural monuments in Laudert

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Laudert 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.

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " Shared by black and silver, topped with a blue wave beams; above a growing rotbewehrter and crowned golden lion, down a red cross. "

The coat of arms shows in the upper panel, the upper half of the shield of the coat of arms of the Counts Palatine, in the lower panel the cross of the Electorate of Trier - separated by the Simmersbach symbolizing wave beams.