Wahlbach

Election Bach is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality simmering / Hunsrück. The community has about 160 inhabitants and has a total area of 434 hectares, of which 172 ha of forest.

Location

The urban area extends over several hills and is on average 433 m above sea level. NN. Election Bach is located about 4 km west of Rheinboellen and the Federal Highway 61 to the south there are approximately 2 km to Argenthal and after simmering in the west just over 4 km. In the north of choice Bach are the communities Benzweiler, Rayerschied and Pleizenhausen.

To dial Bach includes the residential places Hoffmann mill and Wendelinushof.

Neighboring towns

History

Grave mound findings suggest that an early settlement. The first certain mention of the town was 1158. Already in 1135 the nobles Embricho choice of Bach is mentioned in a document. This document is a forgery by Georg Friedrich Schott. After the village was called a noble free noble family, which became extinct shortly after 1258. It is possible that at the remains of a moth at Mörschbach to their ancestral castle.

Later the place to Palatine " new court ", the 1410 has been added to the new Duchy of Pfalz- Zweibrücken - simmering belonged. The Duchy of 1556 led the Reformation. 1673, the place came to Electoral Palatinate again and was with the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops part of France. In 1815 he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. After the First World War, the town was temporarily occupied by the French again. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

The development of the population of the municipal election Bach, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Parish council

The local council election in Bach composed 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.

Infrastructure

The community center in a former school, located at the edge of the village. In the center is the old tube wells in the upper village stands the bell tower. There the two county roads intersect 50 and 52

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