Schlierschied

Schlierschied is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Kirchberg (Hunsrück ).

Economic significance of the place through the seat of a construction company of the group Wilhelm Faber GmbH.

Geography

The municipality consists of the residential places humming mill and the Anzenfeldermühle in Simmerbachtal.

History

Numerous burial mounds southwest of the local community in the forest and in the state forest Lützelsoon indicate early settlements. The first documentary mention in a Ravengiersburg Burger document dates from the year 1335. Counts of Sponheim were in possession of the place. In the 18th century it came to the Margraviate of Baden. 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. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Schlierschied 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.

Coat of arms

The sign foot of the coat of arms refers to the counts of Sponheim. The small chapel was first mentioned in 1335. The shell and the amphora in left field are reminiscent of findings in excavations from Roman times, the one made ​​in 1951 on the outskirts.

Church

Most residents of the community are Protestant. - Documented a consecrated chapel of Our Lady was already mentioned in 1335. They belonged to the parish Gemünden. From 1609 Schlierschied was an independent parish. The church in 1882 was newly built end of the Second World War greatly damaged and eventually built by the people again. In 1978 the merger of the Evangelical church Schlierschied with the Evangelical church Gemünden.