Oberhausen bei Kirn

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

  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Oberhausen is located on a high plateau in front of the Lützelsoon above Kirn on the Nahe. Kirn is located in the south, Hahnenbach in the west and north is Hennweiler.

At Oberhausen bei Kirn also includes the residential places Itzebacherhof, royal court and castle Wartenstein.

History

The boundaries of the local church Oberhausen was settled very early. Some grave hill finds the "older Hunsrück- Eifel culture ", eg a bronze spiral collar and bronze bracelets, are traces of settlement from the period 600-400 BCE. About the Oberhauser district led two important prehistoric roads, where the " salt road " near the upper area of ​​the Rhine joined and a road from Kirchberg to Meisenheim existed as a north-south link between the Moselle area and the Palatinate mountains.

The earliest mentions of the place name are found in documents from the years 1342 and 1346. Latter document is a Weistum from 1346, in which the juror " Hermann von Obirnhusen " is mentioned as a member of the Council of the Court of Aldermen Hennweiler. Oberhausen belonged to the Bailiwick of Heinz Berg, a medieval court and administrative district, which was formed by the villages Hennweiler, Oberhausen, Guntzelnberg, Rode, Heinz Berg and owned courtyard. There the men of Heinz Berg, who inhabited a castle in the Kellenbach, as bailiffs for the justice and tax collection were responsible. Hennweiler was Mutterort in this large district. Oberhausen was like the other places a "daughter " or " settlement expansion ". The Bailiwick district was also parish, whose church was the mother of Stephen Church in Hennweiler. In the late Middle Ages Oberhausen was part of the rule Wartenstein and belonged to the sub- office Hennweiler. The official power at that time went by the Lords of Heinzenbergstrasse first to Tilmann from stone / Wartenstein over. But since that died without male descendants, came over time by marrying some other families of the low nobility owned and rights to Wartenstein, these families formed a kind Ganerbengemeinschaft.

Finally, during the first half of the 16th century did the lords of Schwarzenberg, to secure the sole authority in Unteramt Hennweiler, the suzerainty but always remained the Earl and Dukes of Pfalz- Zweibrücken as the successors of the Counts of Veldenz. As a local Lord led Johann III. Schwarzenberg in 1550 in the parish Hennweiler / Oberhausen the Reformation.

Oberhausen formed with Hennweiler in the late Middle Ages, a large district, which was cultivated in the form of mark-association. Only later were made district divisions. A breakdown of the common Groves also happened only in 1769.

During French rule in the left bank area (1798-1814) Oberhausen belonged to the Mairie Kirn in the arrondissement of simmering the Rhine-Moselle department. In the subsequent Prussian time Oberhausen remained part of the now " mayor Kirn " said local authority. After Kirn received city rights in 1857 and its own administration in the rural communities were the " Landbürgermeisterei Kirn ", which was managed by the Kirner mayor. When this personal union in 1896 repealed, the representatives of rural communities elected their own mayor. Oberhausen remained continuously in the community association " Official Kirn -Land", which was transformed in the course of administrative reform in 1968 for the " collective municipality Kirn -Land".

On 1 June 1970, the community of Oberhausen bei Kirn received the additional name.

Oberhausen has developed in recent decades from a predominantly agricultural -based village into a modern residential community. With water, the community is served by the group waterworks cancer hamlet since 1953/54. The sewer was built in 1956-1963 and is connected to the sewage treatment plant Kirn.

Oberhausen has to have some cultural monuments. The evangelical church with a Gothic choir with colored murals comes from the second half of the 15th century. The church was in 1743 equipped with a new ship and used simultaneously until 1898. The foundation stone of the Catholic worship was 1898. Another important cultural monument Oberhauser district is Wartenstein castle.

The development of the population of Oberhausen bei Kirn, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Oberhausen consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " In split front plate in black with a silver, gold -winning, reinforced and gezungter lion, behind a red chevron in gold, including a red lobed spiral ring ".

The lion refers to the former belonging to the reign Wartenstein. The rafters symbolizes the place name (Hausen ). The spiral ring from the Hallstatt period comes from a find from a grave in Oberhausen.

The council commissioned on 29 November 1963 Graphic Karl -Heinz chest, Kirn Sulzbach, to develop a design for a coat of arms. At the meeting on 24 September 1965, the Council adopted the draft submitted. After approval by the State Archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz issued on December 29, 1965, the authorization to run their own coat of arms.

Economy and infrastructure

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

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Otto Gross (1901-1981), German politician ( Free Democratic Party, Member of Parliament of Rhineland- Palatinate )
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