Sauerthal

Sauertal is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Loreley, which has its headquarters in St. Goar.

Geography

The place is located in the Tiefenbach in the Taunus directly to the Hessian border. To Sauertal includes the residential places pit north star, yard ors, yard Sauersberg and Sauerburg.

History

1291 the place " Suren Burn" on the sale of rights and goods of the Counts of Sponheim to the Count Palatine was first mentioned. Built in 1355, Count Palatine Ruprecht Sauer Castle, which was destroyed in 1689 by troops of the French king Louis XIV.

In several mines near town slate mining took place. The deposits of the Kaub train were Mined eg in the pits dog mountain ( to 1926 ), forehead, Leda, Fortuna and Jakobine & persistence (all but 1950), North Star & Marcellus and Wilhelmine (both until 1953 ). With the closure of the pit Heppenberg (1975 ) ended the slate mining in Sauertal.

The Baron von SICKINGEN inherited in 1692 the rule, which came after a brief French occupation in 1806 in the possession of the duchy of Nassau, which in turn was annexed in 1866 by the Kingdom of Prussia.

After the First World War was the place during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland in a narrow corridor between the right of the Rhine bridgeheads of Americans to Koblenz and the French to Mainz. The area was up to the military occupation by France in 1923 as the Free State bottleneck.

After the Second World War, the city was in the French occupation zone directly at the zone boundary to the occupied by the Americans Hesse and since 1946 has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate.

Parish council

The local council in Sauertal 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.

Culture and sights

  • Catholic parish church of St. Anna. Baroque hall church from 1748 with a three-sided choir circuit and octagonal roof skylights.
  • Neo-Gothic tomb of Count Franz von Sickingen († 1834) in the cemetery of Sauertal.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Sauertal

Tiefenbach (Wisper) House of Sponheim Rupert I, Elector Palatine Municipal council Allendorf, Rhein-Lahn Altendiez Arzbach Attenhausen Auel Aull, Germany Bad Ems Balduinstein Becheln Berg, Rhein-Lahn Berghausen, Rhineland-Palatinate Berndroth Bettendorf, Germany Biebrich, Rhineland Palatinate Birlenbach Bogel Bornich Braubach Bremberg Buch, Rhein-Lahn Burgschwalbach Charlottenberg, Germany Cramberg Dachsenhausen Dahlheim Dausenau Dessighofen Dienethal Diethardt Dornholzhausen Ebertshausen Eisighofen Eppenrod Ergeshausen Fachbach Filsen Geilnau Geisig Gemmerich Gutenacker Hainau, Germany Hambach, Germany Heistenbach Herold, Germany Himmighofen Hirschberg, Rhineland-Palatinate Holzappel Holzheim, Rhineland-Palatinate Horhausen, Rhein-Lahn Hunzel Isselbach Kaltenholzhausen Kasdorf Katzenelnbogen Kehlbach Kemmenau Kestert Klingelbach Lahnstein Langenscheid Laurenburg Lautert Lierschied Lipporn Lohrheim Lollschied Lykershausen Marienfels Miehlen Miellen Misselberg Mittelfischbach Mudershausen Netzbach Niederbachheim Niederneisen Niedertiefenbach Niederwallmenach Nievern Nochern Oberbachheim Oberfischbach Oberneisen Obernhof Obertiefenbach Oberwallmenach Oberwies Oelsberg Osterspai Patersberg Pohl, Germany Prath, Germany Reckenroth Reichenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate Reitzenhain Rettershain Rettert Roth, Rhein-Lahn Ruppertshofen, Rhineland-Palatinate Scheidt, Rhineland-Palatinate Schiesheim Schweighausen Seelbach, Rhein-Lahn Singhofen Steinsberg Sulzbach, Rhein-Lahn Wasenbach Weidenbach, Rhein-Lahn Weisel Welterod Weyer, Germany Winden, Rhein-Lahn Winterwerb Zimmerschied
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