Limbach, Bad Kreuznach

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

Geography

The scattered village lies on the same Limbach in the North Palatine Uplands. The nearly three kilometers south-southwest lying settlement Welschrötherhof is part of the local church. To the east is Bärweiler, in the south west dog Bach and Becherbach is Kirn.

To Limbach also includes the living space Welschrötherhof.

History

In the Middle Ages the village belonged to raugräflichen Office Naumburg or to ' court ' Becherbach, which came in half, towards the end of the 14th century around 1350 entirely in the possession of the Counts of Sponheim - Kreuznach. Together with Becherbach and Schmidthachenbach counted Limbach of the largest places in Naumburg office, which was in the 18th century under the sovereignty of the Margrave of Baden. By 1600 there were 26 households in the village. Also Limbach was for the delivery of ' customs oats ' to the Lords of Steinkallenfels committed when the Limbacher farmers charged the Kirner market.

After the conquest by French revolutionary troops came from 1794, the villages of the Office Naumburg, which was in 1776 the Office Herrnstein affiliated, under French rule. Limbach was associated with Heimberg and cancer hamlet of Mairie dog creek in Canton Meis home. After the end of French rule Becherbach was again Amtsort for these communities who were now part of Hesse- homburgischen Oberamts Meis home. During the Landgrave time built in the years 1858-1860 Protestant inhabitants of Limbach a new late-Gothic church designed by the architect Meisenheimer Krausch. The present chapel was built on the site of the old church square 1893/4.

By the year 1864 the population of 380 strong village had grown to 56 houses, inhabited by a total of 94 families. 1866, the place became Prussian and came after the dissolution of the district Meis home in 1932 for the district of Bad Kreuznach. As part of the Office Becherbach Limbach came to its dissolution in 1940, to the Official Kirn -Land.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Limbach 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 of the arms is: In split- top shield in gold, a black plow, geschacht below blue-gold. The plow makes reference to the structure of the rural town of Limbach (up to a few years ago purely farming community ). The lower panel blue-gold geschacht, referring to the former belonging to the County of Sponheim front.

The council commissioned on 8 December 1963, a graphic designer, 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 12, 1965, the authorization to run their own coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Built in the Gothic Revival style Protestant church dates from 1860. Catholic chapel was built in 1894.

South of the village is located at the junction of County Road 71 in the national road 182 in 1913 erected a monument to the "liberation of the Rhineland from 12 years of enemy occupation," is to be reminded by the expulsion of the French by Blucher in 1814. The monument was fully refurbished in 2001.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Limbach

Economy and infrastructure

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