Thörlingen

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

Geography

Thörlingen located on the edge of the Baybachtals in the Hunsrück.

History

Thörlingen belonged to the so-called Gallscheider court. The courthouse square was Emmelshausen. 1314 reached the place with the court to the Electorate of Trier. 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 at times again occupied by the French, the place is since 1946 part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Thörlingen 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 coat of arms of Thörlingen has split front plate in red with a silver bar in the back of a black gold band.