Raversbeuren
Raversbeuren is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Kirchberg (Hunsrück ).
Geography
Raversbeuren lies on a high plateau in the northern Hunsrück between the Hunsrückhöhenstrasse and the Moselle. The site is immediately adjacent to the airport Hahn. To Raversbeuren part of living space yard Hunsrückhöhenstraße.
The residential community with rural character covers an area of 5.14 km ², of which 1.93 km ² wooded.
History
On the boundaries of the local church there are several graves from the Hallstatt period. A first mentioned in a document of 1324 ( Ravengisburen ), probably as an outer settlement of the monastery Ravengiersburg. The steeple of the Protestant church is from the 13th century, also present there the little bell with the inscription " Maria, I am called " in large Gothic letters. The nave was renewed to 1707 and contains a beautiful loft with balustrade panels and paintings from the 18th century and an organ, the organ builder family Unmute Sulzbach. With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops, the place was French, 1815, he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French, the place is since 1946 part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.
Northwest of Raversbeuren, district Briedel in Margaretenhof 1867 a Roman villa was discovered in 1875 and examined by the Rhenish Provincial Museum and partially exposed. The complex of the estate, without the side building, an area of 41 x 26 m included. More than 30 rooms could be exposed. The water was introduced already by lead pipes. Also in the late Roman period the manor was still existent.
Parish council
The local council in Raversbeuren consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Church
The residents are Protestant, about eighty percent and belong to the Evangelical church Irmenach - Lötzbeuren - Raversbeuren in the church circle simmering -Trarbach. Parish seat is Lötzbeuren.
Structures
- Evangelical Church
- Historic Fountain
- See also: List of cultural monuments in Raversbeuren
Natural Monuments
- Wacken rocks ( quartz veins ) on the road to Briedeler rear
- See also: list of natural monuments in Raversbeuren
Regular events
The Lott - Festival takes place on the boundary of the local church for twenty years. Open since the 1977 festival is also called Woodstock in the Hunsrück Mountains because of the wide range of music genres. The name Lott match the name of a parcel on the Hunsrückhöhenstraße the Moselle community Enkirch, where it was held up to the year 1985. After complaints from tenants hunting, the company moved to nearby Raversbeuren.
Personalities
The Hunsrück writer Albert Bauer lived here, the writer Elly Kramb is buried here.