Schneppenbach

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

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Attractions
  • 4.2 language

Geography

Schneppenbach located in the southern Hunsrück, on the western edge of the Lützelsoon and east ( above) the Hahnenbachtals. To the south, Bruschied, to the west and north is Bundenbach Woppenroth. The nearest major cities are Idar -Oberstein and simmering.

History

Since the Middle Ages belonged Schneppenbach, first mentioned in 1044, to a larger basic rule of the imperial abbey of St. Maximin near Trier. The basic rule contains - in addition to the desolate later became settlements Blickersau and Kaffeld - the villages Woppenroth, Bundenbach, Schneppenbach, Bruschied and the main courtyard and vicarage Hausen Rhaunen.

The fate of the town for centuries has been closely connected with the built in his district Schmidtburg. The castle, whose history is likely to date back to the year 926, is one of the oldest castles in the near- and Hunsrück area and was probably ancestral seat of the counts in the Nahegau, the Emichones. As part of their heirs and assigns the Wildgrafen took over the castle. Internal family disputes the Wildgrafen meant, however, that the castle passed in 1330 into the possession of Trier Archbishop and Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg. Under Baldwin was the expansion of Schmidt castle that was the seat of the Office kurtrierischen Schmidt Castle in the subsequent period.

While covenant Bach was the only place of the Office, which was under the sole sovereignty of the Electorate of Trier, Bruschied and Schneppenbach formed a condominium and belonged jointly to the Electorate of Trier and the Knights of wild mountain. In 1650 appears as a local lord of the knight Schneppenbach Cratz of Scharffenstein.

In 1563 there were in Schneppenbach nine, in 1684 and five in 1715 eleven households. Although the inhabitants of Bruschied and Schneppenbach had a chapel, but visited the main service at the federal Bach. As the Office Schmidt castle was pledged to the Electorate of Trier bailiff Nikolaus von Schmidt castle before 1554, this led after 1561 temporarily the Reformed confession. Already in 1626 the places are but again Catholic.

1794 the left bank of the Rhine was occupied during the First Coalition War, in 1798 the territory of the French Direktorialregierung was reorganized according to the French model. The village Schneppenbach the Mairie newly formed Kirn has been assigned in the arrondissement of simmering, which belonged to the Rhine-Moselle department.

There, the community remained until the end of French rule (1814 ) and came under the agreements concluded at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 decisions of the Prussian kingdom. Under the Prussian administration Schneppenbach belonged from 1816 to the mayoralty Gemünden in the Prussian district of simmering.

In the course of the last made ​​in Rhineland-Palatinate administration reform Schneppenbach the municipality Kirn -Land has been allocated.

Of particular importance for Schneppenbach has the robber Schinderhannes. So stormed on February 25, 1799 by five clock in the morning the police the house of rustic beauty Budzliese - Amie in Schneppenbach and could arrest the Schinderhannes there. The miller of the mill Romans had given the hot tip.

" In Schneppenbacher forests, the devil goes rumdibum ... ", it is said in Carl Zuckmayers Schinderhannes song from the play Schinderhannes.

Population Development

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Schneppenbach 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 blazon of the arms is: "Under a silver shield main topped with a red cross in a green gold dress clasp topped with four red and four blue dots in the exchange, accompanied by two silver diamonds ".

The head of the shield refers to the former belonging to the Electorate of Trier. The garment buckle refers to the family Schenk von Schmidt castle. The diamonds indicate the former slate industry in the community. The green color symbolizes the forest wealth.

The council instructed the graphic chest, Kinrsulzbach to develop a design for a coat of arms. At the meeting on 13 August 1971, the Council adopted the draft submitted. After approval by the State Archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz given on 8 October 1981, the authorization to run their own coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Attractions

  • The medieval castle ruins Schmidtburg ( symbol of the village and largest Rhenish castle )
  • The observation tower " devil rock " ( 568 m), adjacent to the eponymous legendary Quarzithärtling in Lützelsoon above the village
  • Slate quarry Herrenberg ( since 1976 visitor mine ) with a fossil museum
  • The La Tène temporal Celtic hillfort Altburg
  • The listed Catholic chapel of 1768, in honor of St. John the Baptist
  • The wild and romantic unspoiled Hahnenbachtal with wassererlebnispfad

See also: List of cultural monuments in Schneppenbach

Language

The population speaks the dialect Hunsrücker in a Moselle Franconian expression. The place is located together with the neighboring communities just north of a famous European language boundary, called the - dat- line. ( South of it is called Rhine Franconian. )

A special high medieval legacy represent linguistic peculiarities that have preserved " the brook" or " butter " the Middle High German language proficiency of the time of Walther von der Vogelweide as in the case of. From the period of French rule, also the words " Schee Long" originate (sofa), " canape ", " Trottwa " ( sidewalk ) and " Portmonnee ", also " Bobbeschees " ( doll carriage ) and " Kinnerschees " ( stroller ).

People

  • Johann Thomas Petry, Johann Peter Thomas; († 1799 in Schneppenbach ), German architect
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