Stipshausen
Stipshausen is a municipality in the district of Birkenfeld, in Rhineland-Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rhaunen. Stipshausen is a nationally recognized resort.
- 3.1 municipal
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 Sculpture Park
Geography
The town lies on Kehrbach southeast of the 746 meter high Idarkopf am Idarwald in the Hunsrück. 71.1 percent of the district area is forested.
To Stipshausen also includes the "settlement hedge " and the dwelling places Stipshausen mill Gerwertsmühle and Lerch mill.
History
General
Several burial mounds in the district show that there was already a settlement in early times. However, the most important archaeological finds date back to Roman times. So standing at the end of the village today ( near the playground), a villa rustica. Not far away they found a Jupiter - giant - rider.
In the Middle Ages, the village consisted of two settlements: The 1334 mentioned Stebeshusen was left of the Kehrbach and belonged to the high court Rhaunen. On the opposite side there was Smer (le) stream, which is already mentioned in a document in 1325 and together with the village Asbach formed their own bands dir. In the division of wildlife and Rhine County in 1515 Smerlebach, which was also called Inge directional Stipshausen fell to the game and Rhinegraves of Kyrburg and belonged to the Official Wildenburg. Stipshauen remained at the district and high court Rhaunen. Here the wild and Rhinegraves of Dhaun involved three quarters and the Electorate of Trier with a quarter of the country's sovereignty. 1515 lived 15 families in the district Stipshausen.
Smerlebach was pledged from 1619 to 1706 to the family Schenk von Schmidt castle. Later it had the widowed Countess Rhine Louise of Nassau- Saarbrücken (1686-1773) as a pledge shaft. As in 1798, the French management of the areas occupied by them newly regulated, presumably Stipshausen and Smerlebach were pooled. 1805, the population was 206, in 1820 already 336 people.
After the transition to Prussia in 1815 Stipshausen belonged to the mayor's Rhaunen, district Bernkastel, Trier Region. In the village lived many day laborers and craftsmen, especially masons.
Since the Rhineland-Palatinate region reform of 1969/70 Stipshausen to the municipality Rhaunen, Birkenfeld District counts.
Ecclesiastical life
In 1334 John of Base Home, Burgmann donated to the Schmidt castle, and his wife Getza a chapel in Stipshauen. The Anthony Chapel was initially powered by a Pleban from Rhaunen. 1504 separated Archbishop Berthold of Mainz from the chapel of Rhaunen and raised them to the parish church, with all rights. The right staffing moved between families Schenk von Schmidt Castle (later Kurtrier ) and Metzenhausen.
After 1560 in Rhaunen the Reformation had been introduced, supplied with the vicar Stipshausen. However, the relationship was never free of conflict. 1714 asked the subjects the collator, Count of Cratz Scharfstein, be cared for by the Hottenbacher pastor.
In addition to the struggle between Rhaunen and Hottenbach to the pastorate Stipshausen the confessional conflict impacted the church life. During the Reunionszeit the French declared the Anthony Chapel in 1686 for simultaneous church. However, the Catholics, whose population had risen to 20 percent by intermarriage and inflows, in the church were allowed to use only for funerals. A relaxation occurred only when 1778/79 the Protestant community instead of the dilapidated Anthony Chapel built their own church, and Catholic land and money made for a chapel available. The Maternus Chapel was completed in 1781 and 1953/54, replaced by a new building.
1819 ordered the Prussian government in Trier at the parish official affiliation of the Protestant churches Hottenbach and Stipshausen. The community is self-employed to date and belongs to the parish of Trier. The Catholic Christians, whose share is now over 30 per cent, belong to the parish of St. Martin in Rhaunen.
Jewish Life
The wild and Rhinegraves had since the Middle Ages so-called protected Jews. Larger Jewish communities existed in the 18th century in Rhaunen, Laufersweiler and Hottenbach. 1709 a Jewish population is mentioned in Stipshausen first time. The children probably attended the Jewish school in Rhaunen.
In 1800 lived in Stipshausen five Jewish families with about 25 men, women and children. In the census of 1808, there were only 17 people.
In the Prussians time to keep the Jewish inhabitants of Stipshausen after Hottenbach, where in 1796 a synagogue was built. There the Jewish children were enrolled in school. 1843 lived in Stipshausen 32 Jewish inhabitants. However, the proportion declined steadily. After 1932, the Jewish community had been dissolved in Hottenbach, visited the 14 Jews in the synagogue in Stipshausen Rhaunen. In November 1938, the last Jewish family left from Stipshausen.
Of Jewish life in Stipshausen today still remembers the Jewish cemetery above the village.
Population Development
The development of the population of Stipshausen, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Stipshausen 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.
Culture and sights
Structures
Main sights are the 1772 - 1779 Built evangelical church, which contains a typical for the region Stumm organ and the still functioning and Grade II listed water mill.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Stipshausen
Sculpture Park
Since 2000, arises in place a sculpture park, which is constantly being expanded by renowned artists.
Economy and infrastructure
In Stipshausen there is a kindergarten, a primary school, a nursing home and a village hall. In Idar -Oberstein is a station on the railway line Bingen- Saarbrücken. In the north are the federal highway 50 and the Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.