Meckenbach

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

Geography

Meckenbach is located in the northern foothills of North Palatine Uplands in a tributary of the Nahe. To the west and north Kirn is Hochstetten- Dhaun.

History

About the prehistory and early history of the village, little is known. However, the occurrence and recovery of copper ores already seems to indicate a settlement of the district in Celtic times.

In Meckenbach the Archbishop of Mainz and arch-chancellor of the empire Willigis was built around 1000 a church was subordinate to the monastery Disibodenberg. The original building is essentially preserved. It is a simple, built in the Romanesque style quarry stone building with east tower. An extension of the nave was made around 1750. The church is equipped with an organ of the Brothers Unmute Rhaunensulzbach from 1836, restored in 1981.

The village belonged in the Middle Ages to the wild always count's Office Kyrburg and was reformed in 1550. The farmers from Meckenbach had the so-called " customs oats " to pay to the lords of Steinkallenfels if they coat their products to market Kirner. By the end of the 18th century Meckenbach was Schultheißerei, place in the upper office Kyrburg where a stately official managing the community knew as mayor in the name of the game and Rhinegraves of Kyrburg.

After the invasion of French revolutionary troops and the French administrative and territorial reform Meckenbach came in 1800 to the newly formed Mairie Merxheim in Canton Meis home, including the churches Bärweiler, over high Stetten ( high Stetten ), Meckenbach and Merxheim included.

This community association remained even after the end of French rule are made and formed from 1816 Oberschultheißerei Merxheim in Hesse- homburgischen Oberamt Meis home. After the transition of the Upper Office Meis home to Prussia in September 1866 Meckenbach the mayoralty Meddersheim been assigned. There, the community Meckenbach remained until 1940 when it was combined with high Stetten attached to the Office Kirn -Land.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Meckenbach 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 front plate in black next six silver stars, a silver wolf iron, gold back in a blue assessors and gezungter red lion ".

Stars and Wolf iron back to a court seal from 1698, the lion refers the former belonging to the game and Rheingraf shaft.

The council commissioned on 20 October 1963 Graphic chest, Kirn- Sulzbach, to develop a design for a coat of arms. At the meeting on 17 July 1964, 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.

Culture and sights

The church is in large parts of the year 976 in the Romanesque building there is a Stumm organ from the year 1836.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Meckenbach

Economy and infrastructure

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

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