Morshausen

Morshausen is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Emmelshausen.

Geography

Morshausen is located six kilometers from the River Moselle and ten kilometers from Emmelshausen to 334 m altitude.

To Morshausen includes the living space house on the Bröhl.

History

A fragment of a late Neolithic (ca. 4400-2200 BC) Felsovalbeils, which is preserved in the length of 9.3 cm and width 6.4 cm, surely bears witness of earlier settlement activities farmers. The ax, which was a few hundred meters west of the village found, consists of Devonian quartzite, which is present in the vicinity. Comparable Steinbeilfunde were discovered by members of the Archaeological Society Arrata also in the neighboring villages Beulich, quirks and Mermuth. Various reading finds from the Roman period (tile, ceramic, etc. ) near the village are to be regarded as evidence of an estate (villa rustica). In the surrounding forests can find grave gardens that reflect the typical Roman period burial customs in the Hunsrück.

Morshausen formerly belonged to the Official Gallscheider court of the Electorate of Trier

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Morshausen 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: " About a sign foot, in a golden Stutz Awaken in a silver field, a black, left inverted beam water ".

The swivel fountain was built by an in-married at the Ehrenburg Hungarian countess in the style of the Hungarian Puszta fountain in the 15th century. The wooden structure has since been renewed periodically by the municipality and is still on display in the Fountain Street. The Stutzweck resulting from the legacy of a Morshausener resident from 1782. He left his fortune to the community with the proviso to acquire a good field to bake with the rent in Holy Week Stutz awakening and to buy wine.

Personalities

Morshausen is the birthplace of local poet James Kneip.

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