Spesenroth

Spesenroth is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kastellaun.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Spesenroth is centrally located in the Hunsrück. The village is located on a hilltop between the southern and the northern city of Külzbachtal Kastellaun. The district Spesenroth covers an area of 3.51 km ², of which 0.32 km ² mixed forest.

Neighboring communities

History

Spesenroth is first mentioned in 1427 and was part of Sponheim Office Kastellaun. 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. After the First World War temporarily again occupied by the French, the place is since 1946 part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Spesenroth 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 is: " The shield in gold, divided by a rotsilbernen double row angular contact geschachteten links bar above a left inverted blue cuckoo, below dreizweigiges green juniper rice with blue berries ".

The oblique bar has previous affiliation of Spesenroth to Rear County of Sponheim, Office Kastellaun out. The blue cuckoo takes speaking with respect to the still used nickname of the villagers. Juniper and juniper berries indicate the " juniper beating" and the Krammetsvogelfang at the expense Rother Heath. This Heath was for centuries an object of dispute among communities Kastellaun, Alterkuelz and Spesenroth. Today, it is for the most part to the district Spesenroth.