Sensweiler
Sensweiler is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Herrnstein. Sensweiler is a nationally recognized resort.
Geography
Sensweiler is in the upper Idartal in the Hunsrück. 61.4 percent of the district area is forested. To Sensweiler includes the residential places Sensweiler mills and Waldhof.
History
By the end of the 18th century to the wild and Rhine County and the Office Wildenburg was assigned. South of the town, the border to Rear County of Sponheim and the County of Nassau- Saarbrücken. To this day, the " Dreiherrenstein " from the stands on the spot where the borders of today's local churches Sensweiler, Hettenrodt, Siesbach and Allenbach.
In 1794, the left bank of the Rhine was occupied by French revolutionary troops. From 1798 to 1814 Sensweiler belonged to the Canton Rhaunen in the Saarland Department. Because of the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) agreements in 1815, the northern part of the previous Saar departments, which included Sensweiler, the Kingdom of Prussia. The community Sensweiler belonged to the mayor's Wirschweiler in the 1816 newly built circle Bernkastel and from 1822 to the Rhine province. Since 1946 Sensweiler is part of Rhineland- Palatinate.
On 7 June 1969, a part of the territory of the municipality Wirschweiler was umgemeindet with 325 inhabitants according Sensweiler. On 1 January 1992, the district bore was spun with 290 residents of the municipality Sensweiler and formed an independent local church new from him.
The development of the population of Sensweiler based on the present-day municipality; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Parish council
The local council in Sensweiler consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Leisure
- Art workshop and painting school, creative cradle of WEIBER -ART group
- Camping Upper Idartal
- Camping Sensweiler mill
- Geological Museum in the open Krahlochwald: Natural rock formations, boulders, broken and hewn boulders that have emerged in all periods (sometimes up to 550 million years old ). These patterns stones lined up along a 1.5 kilometer long promenade leading to each other and are provided with detailed information boards.
- Fishing pond in Krahlochwald in close proximity to the camp and the Geological Museum free (see above).
- Celtic stone walls and a reconstructed Celtic village ( tribe of Treverians ): There are numerous examples of local ancestors in scarce distance to the center of the community Sensweiler way back to the year 400 BC
People
- Gerd Edinger (* 1951), German artist