Rheinböllen

Rheinboellen is a town in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Rheinboellen, who also belongs. Rheinboellen is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Puricelli'sche Foundation
  • 4.2 Structures
  • 4.3 Regular events
  • 5.1 Rheinböllerhütte
  • 5.2 Other Companies

Geography

Rheinboellen is about 10 km ( straight line ) southwest of the Middle Rhine in the south-eastern Hunsrück. It is located at the junction of Bingen Forest (east of town ) to Soon Forest ( south ), which is part of the Natural Park Soonwaldsteig -Nahe since 2005.

Boroughs

Forest settlement, Kleinweidelbach and Rheinböllerhütte are neighborhoods Rheinböllens.

Climate

The annual precipitation is 695 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 39% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.6 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies only slightly and are distributed extremely evenly throughout the year. At only 2% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Rheinboellen was first mentioned in 1309. 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.

The Puricelli'sche Foundation was established from 1864 to 1891. After the First World War temporarily again occupied by the French, the place is since 1946 part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded. A part of the territory of the municipality Daxweiler with 70 inhabitants was umgemeindet after Rheinboellen on 1 January 1969, on 17 March 1974 by then independent municipality Kleinweidelbach was incorporated with 113 residents.

A robbery near Rheinboellen in which four people died, made ​​in March 1978 for nationwide stir.

On September 5, 2009 Rheinboellen was charged by the Rhineland-Palatinate state government to the city.

The development of the population of Rheinboellen based on the current urban area, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

City ​​council

The council Rheinboellen consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

The distribution of seats in the City Council:

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " In a growing black gold, langued and reinforced ¾ Lion".

Rheinboellen was the capital of the so-called "old court ", the altpfälzischen possessions in the Hunsrück Mountains. The ¾ lion is a reduction of the Palatine Lion, the lead, the Wittelsbach dynasty after their investiture of the County Palatine of the Rhine ( 1214 ) for the first time in their coat of arms.

Culture and sights

In KiR ( House of Culture in Rheinboellen ), the town hall regularly hosts cultural festivities are held. There are in Rheinboellen a leisure pool and a 500 -acre deer park.

Puricelli'sche Foundation

The Puricelli pen was inherited in 1864 by Henry and Eugenie Puricelli according to the will of her daughter Jenny, who had died young of tuberculosis, but from your great-aunt an asset share of the Rheinböllerhütte, founded as an orphanage Foundation. This was later extended by her sister Frances. It was built from 1864 to 1891 building with beautiful neo-Gothic chapel for the building which are now a protected monument and is protected internationally under the Hague Convention.

Purpose and mission of the Foundation it is today to maintain their facilities and buildings to provide for public and social purposes, in particular for receiving and care of elderly, care and disabled people, available and on regional art and cultural historical significance of the entire system with their equipment items to maintain and bringing to the public.

On 1 November 2006, the ownership of the nursing home in Rheinboellen was taken over by the Franciscan brothers gGmbh operating and employment Tung. The device serves people with mental illness as a residence. The name is Puricelli - pin Rheinboellen.

Structures

Regular events

In Rheinboellen regular events such as Christmas markets and fairs are held. The largest disco event in Rheinboellen is the XMAS DANCE PARTY, which is organized by the Juku eV (Youth and Cultural Association ). The disco is always just before Christmas in KiR ( House of Culture in Rheinboellen ) instead and recorded each year approximately 1000 guests. Since 1998, the Economic Development Community ( WfG ) every two years, hosted a regional trade show with up to 10,000 visitors to the area around Puricelli School and KiR.

Economy and infrastructure

Rheinboellen has its own exit on the A61 to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport and 15 kilometers by road from Bacharach on the Rhine river, and one each about 50 km from Mainz and Koblenz. Rheinboellen is the headquarters of Volksbank eG Rheinboellen, with 140 years of tradition, the oldest independent co-operative bank in the Hunsrück. In 1997, the Economic Development Community " Soonwaldsteig " Rheinboellen was founded eV ( WfG ) audits of products, members are professionals and companies from Rheinboellen and the corresponding municipality. The aim of the association is co-organized by the actions and measures ( for example, trade show ) to strengthen the region structurally and economically.

Rheinböllerhütte

The cottage is mentioned as " Eysenhütte on guilders Bach" in a border survey of 1598. It handles as well as the current Neuhütte local iron ore and bog iron. It belonged in the 18th century, the Uch family. Uch Margaret, daughter of the hunter from the Palatinate married the son of Italian immigrants, Carl Anton Puricelli, under which the hut ( 1865) had its heyday with up to 628 workers and staff. About the company Alfred Teves reached the hut at the Continental Corporation. Today, it is still an important economic factor for the region.

More Companies

Rheinboellen is the headquarters of the international Founded in 1992, Hahn Automation for automated injection molding products, rubber and plastic and metal components. It employs 380 and in Rheinboellen 280 employees.

Ammunition depot Rheinboellen

The south of the city at the foot of Hochsteinchen preferred ammunition depot of the Bundeswehr has an area of 130 hectares and 120 staff. The depot has a rail connection to the Hunsrück cross train. The depot was downgraded on 1 April 2004 by the ammunition Home Depot to depot / warehouse. As part of the structural reform of the Bundeswehr in 2011 was completely closed.

People

  • Goffiné Leonhard (1648-1719), Premonstratensian Canons and religious folk writer; was in the 17th century as a pastor in Rheinboellen.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Uch (1732-1795), Erbförster Elector of Mainz; the hunter from the Palatinate.
  • Eduard Puricelli (1826-1893), businessman and member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation.
  • Patrick Schmidt ( * 1988), football player
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