Schnorbach
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Schnorbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality
belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde
, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district
) in Rhineland-Palatinate
, Germany
. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen
, whose seat is in the like-named town
.
– and Bundesstraße
50, halfway between Simmern
to the west and Rheinböllen to the east, with each roughly 5 km (3 mi) away. The municipal area measures 342 ha, of which roughly 81 ha is wooded and 230 ha is given over to agriculture
.
axe from the Tumulus culture
(about 1000 BC), however, bears witness to earlier human habitation.
In 1006, the church at Mörschbach
built by the nobleman Thidrich was consecrated by Archbishop of Mainz Willigis
and the tithing district was defined. From the Rinkenbach (brook) between Altweidelbach
and Mutterschied
to point 466.8 southeast of Mörschbach the boundary ran along the old stone road (a Roman road). The tithing district between this stone road and the Simmerbach may have been an old holding of the Lords of Wahlbach, who were related to the Lords of Braunshorn and the Lords of Dick near Grevenbroich
, who founded the Cistercian convent of Kumbd
.
South of this stone road near Schnorbach, the Counts of Kessel had holdings. This noble house appeared with Count Bruno in 1081, then holding a county in what is now the Netherlands
on the Meuse’s left bank between Roermond
and Venlo
. The Vogt
ei over the Benedictine
Saint Pantaleon’s Abbey
in Cologne
was in their hands as an hereditary fief. Conrad (about 1188) and Hermann (1235–1255), both Counts of Kessel, were its abbots. Beginning in the mid 12th century, the Counts of Kessel also called themselves the Lords of Grevenbroich.
The relation to the Cologne church suggests a link through Bacharach
into the Hunsrück, for Bacharach had already been a Cologne holding since Archbishop Kunibert’s time (626-648). This is a parallel appearance to the Lords of Dick, who came to the Kumbd area by way of Stahleck Castle
, in Bacharach. The Counts of Kessel also had holdings on the Moselle, having been enfeoffed with them by the Archbishopric of Cologne. These were further granted in fief to the Lords of Braunshorn, although in 1184, under Archbishop Philip of Heinsberg, these were returned to the Cologne church. The Lords of Braunshorn received as compensation for this a benefit from the Cologne-owned vineyard
s at Bacharach. From Bacharach, the Counts of Kessel could have acquired Schnorbach as an Imperial
holding, particularly as the former Imperial holding of Argenthal
can be found right nearby.
Count Palatine Rudolf I
(1294–1319), who had given his bride as a wedding present 10,000 Marks at Castle Fürstenberg
and Castle Stahlberg near Steeg (today an outlying centre of Bacharach), Kaub
and a few other Palatine holdings, ended up at odds with the Count of Kessel over the holdings on the Middle Rhine and in the Hunsrück. On 29 September 1295, Walram, then still the Cathedral Provost at Münster
, empowered his notary Theoderich to settle the dispute with the Count Palatine, which had arisen when the Count Palatine had taken ownership of Kessel holdings at Steeg, and also the villages of Schnorbach and Ebschied
along with their attendant forests and other appurtenances. The resulting agreement was ratified on 4 October of the same year by Walram of Kessel. In this agreement, he forwent his four vineyards and an arboretum at Steeg, and the villages of Schnorbach and Ebschied, against a payment of 86 Marks. At the same time, he also promised to make no further claims after he left the priesthood. Thus, Schnorbach passed into the Counts Palatine’s hands. Walram also confirmed the legality of this agreement on 8 October 1296, after he had resigned as Cathedral Provost at Münster.
Schnorbach’s first documentary mention was in a directory of holdings kept by the Benedictine Convent of Rupertsberg near Bingen
, about 1200, when Pastor David of Schnorbach donated to the convent his own Hufen (an area of land). With the Count Palatine’s acquisition of the village, he also received the patronage rights. Together with his brother Ludwig, he donated the rights to the Williamite
Monastery of Windsbach or Fürstenthal near Bacharach in 1305. As this monastery never truly flourished, Rupert I, Elector Palatine began exercising the patronage rights over Schnorbach himself once again in 1368.
The original tithing district was considerably bigger than what later came to be Schnorbach’s municipal area. In the north, the boundary ran along the old stone road. In Mutterschied
’s municipal area, it seems to have reached the Rinkenbach. Here lay what in the 1614 tithe report was called “Herrenfeld” (“Lords’ Field”, but perhaps a corruption of Hirzenfeld, from Middle High German
Hirz, meaning “hart”; the Modern High German
word is Hirsch), from which, along with a few other fields, the parish drew two thirds of the tithes. The parish priest was also entitled to tithes in parts of Riesweiler
, Argenthal, Altweidelbach, Wahlbach and Mörschbach. Within Altweidelbach’s and Wahlbach’s municipal areas, the lands on the side of the old stone road nearer Schnorbach were likely part of the tithing district, while in Mörschbach there was a triangular area bordered on two sides by the old stone road and on the other by the Paterbach.
Shares of the tithes in Schnorbach and Wahlbach were held in the 14th century by the Lords of Heinzenberg. In 1376, Johann of Heinzenberg bestowed these upon his wife, Irmgart, whose father was Friedrich of Ippelbrunn. This is likely the share that the Waldgrave
s granted Johann of Schönenburg about 1400, from whom it then passed to Emmerich and Wilhelm of Ingelheim. The latter sold it in 1446 to the Mörschbach parish priest for 625 Gulden.
According to the 1599 description from the Amt
of Simmern, Schnorbach had 11 hearths, although two of these were in empty houses. The Unterschultheiß]] was Michel Hebel. The nuns of Rupertsberg exacted each year from all holdings 20 Malter of oats
(Bingen measure) and 3 pounds of oats. At two fields, Electoral Palatinate was then entitled to the tithes, namely at a 34-Morgen field on the Simmerner Weg and at a 7-Morgen one called the “Schelmäcker” (from Middle High German schelme, meaning “carrion”, and the word Äcker, meaning “fields”, the whole meaning “fields for burying livestock carcasses”). This area may well have been on the road from Altweidelbach to Argenthal (Argenthal field 3, “Auf der Schinnkaul”), right at the municipal limit with Schnorbach and not within Mutterschied’s area of jurisdiction, where the livestock burial ground lies, 500 m north of the village. This tithe was granted for 11 Malter of grain. The remaining tithe went to the parish priest.
Beginning in 1590, Mutterschied was held to be a branch parish of Schnorbach. In 1608, a new parochial authority was set up. The main part of the village’s tithes went to the leadership of the Kumbd Convent, who at that time were paying the priests and the teachers their salaries. The priest had to tend to the Mutterschied branch every Sunday and Penance Day. On Good Friday
, worshippers from Mutterschied had to come to Schnorbach.
The church consecrated to Saint Sebastian passed in the Kaub division of churches (1706) to the Catholics, who three years later built a new nave onto the older quire. Grouped into the area bishop’s region was Argenthal with Ellern, Wahlbach, Altweidelbach, Glashütte and Thiergarten. On 7 September 1767, when Schnorbach was split away from the Glan rural chapter and assigned to the Kirn rural chapter, the village had 19 households, 118 communicants and 135 souls. The church had been newly built in 1732. Belonging to the rectory, built by the clerical estate administration, were a barn, stabling and a garden. As remuneration, the priest received 120 Gulden, 15 Malter of grain, 27 Malter of oats and 1 Fuder. Belonging to the clerical estate were 4½ Morgen of cropfields and 3 Morgen of meadowland. The schoolmaster, who had to teach classes in his own house, was paid 10 Gulden as recompense. His actual salary was 20 Gulden, 10 Malter of grain, 15 Gulden as “school money” and 2 Gulden as an ecclesiastical benefit. He was also spared levies to maintain livestock and the herdsman.
Beginning in 1794, Schnorbach lay under French
rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia
at the Congress of Vienna
. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state
of Rhineland-Palatinate
.
and Wahlbach are also tied. The parish church was built in the early 18th century. At 66% of the population, Catholics are the majority. The Evangelicals
belong to the parish of Argenthal in the church district of Simmern-Trarbach.
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
might be described thus: Per fess, in chief per pale argent a cross gules and gules three arrows, two in saltire and the other in pale surmounting them, all with heads to chief of the first, and in base argent a fess embattled-counterembattled sable, below which a fess wavy azure.
’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
, dancing, hiking
) and the women’s club. On the village’s outskirts is a sporting ground. For the events that the municipality stages and for family celebrations, the municipal centre is available. The municipality’s youth have set up a youth centre there, too.
operations has shrunk from 26 to 10 parttime operations. Nonetheless, the village has kept its rural character.
Jobs in Schnorbach are to be had at a floor-building business and a plastering shop, although nobody from Schnorbach actually works in these places. All workers living in the municipality commute
to and from work.
Beginning in the early 1990s, a new building zone was opened up in stages with 25 plots, of which more than 80% have been sold; most now have buildings on them.
50 is 2 km (1 mi) away. The Autobahn A 61
(Rheinböllen
interchange
) is 6 km (4 mi) away. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
lies roughly 25 km (16 mi) away. The upper centres
of Mainz
and Koblenz
can each be reached over the A 61 in about 35 minutes.
and primary school in Argenthal. The Hauptschule
and centres of higher learning are right nearby in Rheinböllen and Simmern.
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belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde
Verbandsgemeinde
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, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district
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) in Rhineland-Palatinate
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, Germany
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. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen
Rheinböllen (Verbandsgemeinde)
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, whose seat is in the like-named town
Rheinböllen
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.
Location
The municipality lies in a hollow north of the Soonwald – a heavily wooded section of the west-central HunsrückHunsrück
The Hunsrück is a low mountain range in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the river valleys of the Moselle , the Nahe , and the Rhine . The Hunsrück is continued by the Taunus mountains on the eastern side of the Rhine. In the north behind the Moselle it is continued by the Eifel...
– and Bundesstraße
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50, halfway between Simmern
Simmern
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to the west and Rheinböllen to the east, with each roughly 5 km (3 mi) away. The municipal area measures 342 ha, of which roughly 81 ha is wooded and 230 ha is given over to agriculture
Agriculture
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.
History
About 1200, Schnorbach had its first documentary mention. A bronzeBronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
axe from the Tumulus culture
Tumulus culture
The Tumulus culture dominated Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age .It was the descendant of the Unetice culture. Its heartland the area previously occupied by the Unetice culture besides Bavaria and Württemberg...
(about 1000 BC), however, bears witness to earlier human habitation.
In 1006, the church at Mörschbach
Mörschbach
Mörschbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
built by the nobleman Thidrich was consecrated by Archbishop of Mainz Willigis
Willigis
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and the tithing district was defined. From the Rinkenbach (brook) between Altweidelbach
Altweidelbach
Altweidelbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
and Mutterschied
Mutterschied
Mutterschied is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
to point 466.8 southeast of Mörschbach the boundary ran along the old stone road (a Roman road). The tithing district between this stone road and the Simmerbach may have been an old holding of the Lords of Wahlbach, who were related to the Lords of Braunshorn and the Lords of Dick near Grevenbroich
Grevenbroich
Grevenbroich is a town in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Erft, approximately 15 km southwest of Neuss and 15 km southeast of Mönchengladbach.-City districts:...
, who founded the Cistercian convent of Kumbd
Kümbdchen
-History:Kümbdchen is among the Hunsrück’s oldest villages. In the countryside around Kümbdchen, there have been both Roman and Stone Age finds. As early as Roman times, two rural settlements are known to have been here. Over the last one thousand and more years, Kümbdchen’s history has been...
.
South of this stone road near Schnorbach, the Counts of Kessel had holdings. This noble house appeared with Count Bruno in 1081, then holding a county in what is now the Netherlands
Netherlands
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on the Meuse’s left bank between Roermond
Roermond
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and Venlo
Venlo
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. The Vogt
Vogt
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ei over the Benedictine
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Saint Pantaleon’s Abbey
Church of St. Pantaleon
The Church of St. Pantaleon is an early Romanesque church in Cologne, Germany. The church dates back to the 10th Century and is the oldest of the twelve Romanesque churches of Cologne. The former monastery church is consecrated to Saint Pantaleon and the Saints Cosmas and Damian. The empress...
in Cologne
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was in their hands as an hereditary fief. Conrad (about 1188) and Hermann (1235–1255), both Counts of Kessel, were its abbots. Beginning in the mid 12th century, the Counts of Kessel also called themselves the Lords of Grevenbroich.
The relation to the Cologne church suggests a link through Bacharach
Bacharach
Bacharach is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds....
into the Hunsrück, for Bacharach had already been a Cologne holding since Archbishop Kunibert’s time (626-648). This is a parallel appearance to the Lords of Dick, who came to the Kumbd area by way of Stahleck Castle
Stahleck Castle
Stahleck Castle is a 12th-century fortified castle in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at Bacharach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It stands on a crag approximately above sea level on the left bank of the river at the mouth of the Steeg valley, approximately south of Koblenz, and offers a...
, in Bacharach. The Counts of Kessel also had holdings on the Moselle, having been enfeoffed with them by the Archbishopric of Cologne. These were further granted in fief to the Lords of Braunshorn, although in 1184, under Archbishop Philip of Heinsberg, these were returned to the Cologne church. The Lords of Braunshorn received as compensation for this a benefit from the Cologne-owned vineyard
Vineyard
A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice...
s at Bacharach. From Bacharach, the Counts of Kessel could have acquired Schnorbach as an Imperial
Holy Roman Empire
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holding, particularly as the former Imperial holding of Argenthal
Argenthal
Argenthal is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
can be found right nearby.
Count Palatine Rudolf I
Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria
Rudolf I of Bavaria , a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine...
(1294–1319), who had given his bride as a wedding present 10,000 Marks at Castle Fürstenberg
Burg Fürstenberg (Rheindiebach)
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and Castle Stahlberg near Steeg (today an outlying centre of Bacharach), Kaub
Kaub
Kaub is a town in Germany, state Rhineland-Palatinate, district Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. It is part of the municipality Loreley. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 50 km west from Wiesbaden. It is connected to Wiesbaden and Koblenz by railway. Population 1100...
and a few other Palatine holdings, ended up at odds with the Count of Kessel over the holdings on the Middle Rhine and in the Hunsrück. On 29 September 1295, Walram, then still the Cathedral Provost at Münster
Münster
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, empowered his notary Theoderich to settle the dispute with the Count Palatine, which had arisen when the Count Palatine had taken ownership of Kessel holdings at Steeg, and also the villages of Schnorbach and Ebschied
Braunshorn
Braunshorn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
along with their attendant forests and other appurtenances. The resulting agreement was ratified on 4 October of the same year by Walram of Kessel. In this agreement, he forwent his four vineyards and an arboretum at Steeg, and the villages of Schnorbach and Ebschied, against a payment of 86 Marks. At the same time, he also promised to make no further claims after he left the priesthood. Thus, Schnorbach passed into the Counts Palatine’s hands. Walram also confirmed the legality of this agreement on 8 October 1296, after he had resigned as Cathedral Provost at Münster.
Schnorbach’s first documentary mention was in a directory of holdings kept by the Benedictine Convent of Rupertsberg near Bingen
Bingen am Rhein
Bingen am Rhein is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.The settlement’s original name was Bingium, a Celtic word that may have meant “hole in the rock”, a description of the shoal behind the Mäuseturm, known as the Binger Loch. Bingen was the starting point for the...
, about 1200, when Pastor David of Schnorbach donated to the convent his own Hufen (an area of land). With the Count Palatine’s acquisition of the village, he also received the patronage rights. Together with his brother Ludwig, he donated the rights to the Williamite
Hermits of Saint William
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Monastery of Windsbach or Fürstenthal near Bacharach in 1305. As this monastery never truly flourished, Rupert I, Elector Palatine began exercising the patronage rights over Schnorbach himself once again in 1368.
The original tithing district was considerably bigger than what later came to be Schnorbach’s municipal area. In the north, the boundary ran along the old stone road. In Mutterschied
Mutterschied
Mutterschied is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
’s municipal area, it seems to have reached the Rinkenbach. Here lay what in the 1614 tithe report was called “Herrenfeld” (“Lords’ Field”, but perhaps a corruption of Hirzenfeld, from Middle High German
Middle High German
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Hirz, meaning “hart”; the Modern High German
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word is Hirsch), from which, along with a few other fields, the parish drew two thirds of the tithes. The parish priest was also entitled to tithes in parts of Riesweiler
Riesweiler
-History:Riesweiler might have had a Roman past, for it lies on an old Roman road. In 1135, Riesweiler had its first documentary mention. According to historical researchers, though, Riesweiler must already have existed by 995, when the oldest royal estate, “Denzen” was donated by King Otto III to...
, Argenthal, Altweidelbach, Wahlbach and Mörschbach. Within Altweidelbach’s and Wahlbach’s municipal areas, the lands on the side of the old stone road nearer Schnorbach were likely part of the tithing district, while in Mörschbach there was a triangular area bordered on two sides by the old stone road and on the other by the Paterbach.
Shares of the tithes in Schnorbach and Wahlbach were held in the 14th century by the Lords of Heinzenberg. In 1376, Johann of Heinzenberg bestowed these upon his wife, Irmgart, whose father was Friedrich of Ippelbrunn. This is likely the share that the Waldgrave
Waldgrave
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s granted Johann of Schönenburg about 1400, from whom it then passed to Emmerich and Wilhelm of Ingelheim. The latter sold it in 1446 to the Mörschbach parish priest for 625 Gulden.
According to the 1599 description from the Amt
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of Simmern, Schnorbach had 11 hearths, although two of these were in empty houses. The Unterschultheiß]] was Michel Hebel. The nuns of Rupertsberg exacted each year from all holdings 20 Malter of oats
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(Bingen measure) and 3 pounds of oats. At two fields, Electoral Palatinate was then entitled to the tithes, namely at a 34-Morgen field on the Simmerner Weg and at a 7-Morgen one called the “Schelmäcker” (from Middle High German schelme, meaning “carrion”, and the word Äcker, meaning “fields”, the whole meaning “fields for burying livestock carcasses”). This area may well have been on the road from Altweidelbach to Argenthal (Argenthal field 3, “Auf der Schinnkaul”), right at the municipal limit with Schnorbach and not within Mutterschied’s area of jurisdiction, where the livestock burial ground lies, 500 m north of the village. This tithe was granted for 11 Malter of grain. The remaining tithe went to the parish priest.
Beginning in 1590, Mutterschied was held to be a branch parish of Schnorbach. In 1608, a new parochial authority was set up. The main part of the village’s tithes went to the leadership of the Kumbd Convent, who at that time were paying the priests and the teachers their salaries. The priest had to tend to the Mutterschied branch every Sunday and Penance Day. On Good Friday
Good Friday
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, worshippers from Mutterschied had to come to Schnorbach.
The church consecrated to Saint Sebastian passed in the Kaub division of churches (1706) to the Catholics, who three years later built a new nave onto the older quire. Grouped into the area bishop’s region was Argenthal with Ellern, Wahlbach, Altweidelbach, Glashütte and Thiergarten. On 7 September 1767, when Schnorbach was split away from the Glan rural chapter and assigned to the Kirn rural chapter, the village had 19 households, 118 communicants and 135 souls. The church had been newly built in 1732. Belonging to the rectory, built by the clerical estate administration, were a barn, stabling and a garden. As remuneration, the priest received 120 Gulden, 15 Malter of grain, 27 Malter of oats and 1 Fuder. Belonging to the clerical estate were 4½ Morgen of cropfields and 3 Morgen of meadowland. The schoolmaster, who had to teach classes in his own house, was paid 10 Gulden as recompense. His actual salary was 20 Gulden, 10 Malter of grain, 15 Gulden as “school money” and 2 Gulden as an ecclesiastical benefit. He was also spared levies to maintain livestock and the herdsman.
Beginning in 1794, Schnorbach lay under French
France
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rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia
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at the Congress of Vienna
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. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state
States of Germany
Germany is made up of sixteen which are partly sovereign constituent states of the Federal Republic of Germany. Land literally translates as "country", and constitutionally speaking, they are constituent countries...
of Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
.
Religion
Schnorbach is, in Catholic terms, a parish seat, to which the municipalities of Argenthal, EllernEllern
Ellern is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.-Location:The municipality lies in...
and Wahlbach are also tied. The parish church was built in the early 18th century. At 66% of the population, Catholics are the majority. The Evangelicals
Evangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
belong to the parish of Argenthal in the church district of Simmern-Trarbach.
Population development
What follows is a table of the municipality’s population figures for selected years since the early 19th century (each time at 31 December):
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Municipal council
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority votePlurality voting system
The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies...
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Mayor
Schnorbach’s mayor is Hans Schubach, and his deputies are Bernd Kaspar and Gerhard Klöckner.Coat of arms
The municipality’s armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
might be described thus: Per fess, in chief per pale argent a cross gules and gules three arrows, two in saltire and the other in pale surmounting them, all with heads to chief of the first, and in base argent a fess embattled-counterembattled sable, below which a fess wavy azure.
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-PalatinateRhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
- Saint Sebastian’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Sebastian), Hauptstraße 2 – long-naved aisleless churchAisleless churchAn Aisleless church is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways either side of the nave separated from the nave by colonnades or arcades, a row of pillars or columns...
, 1709, expansion about 1800; Ferres tomb, pinnacle with “milkwort” finial, about 1884 - Hauptstraße 3 – former rectory; timber-frameTimber framingTimber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...
building, partly solid or slated, marked 1751; before the house, Gothic RevivalGothic Revival architectureThe Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
warriors’ memorial 1870/1871
Clubs
The municipality’s cultural life is characterized by the sport club Germania Schnorbach with offerings in leisure sports (gymnasticsGymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
, dancing, hiking
Hiking
Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often in mountainous or other scenic terrain. People often hike on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide. The health benefits of different types of hiking...
) and the women’s club. On the village’s outskirts is a sporting ground. For the events that the municipality stages and for family celebrations, the municipal centre is available. The municipality’s youth have set up a youth centre there, too.
Economy and infrastructure
The number of agriculturalAgriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
operations has shrunk from 26 to 10 parttime operations. Nonetheless, the village has kept its rural character.
Jobs in Schnorbach are to be had at a floor-building business and a plastering shop, although nobody from Schnorbach actually works in these places. All workers living in the municipality commute
Commuting
Commuting is regular travel between one's place of residence and place of work or full time study. It sometimes refers to any regular or often repeated traveling between locations when not work related.- History :...
to and from work.
Beginning in the early 1990s, a new building zone was opened up in stages with 25 plots, of which more than 80% have been sold; most now have buildings on them.
Transport
Transport links are quite favourable. BundesstraßeBundesstraße
Bundesstraße , abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.-Germany:...
50 is 2 km (1 mi) away. The Autobahn A 61
Bundesautobahn 61
is an autobahn in Germany that connects the border to the Netherlands near Venlo in the northwest to the interchange with A 6 near Hockenheim. In 1965, this required a re-design of the Hockenheimring....
(Rheinböllen
Rheinböllen
Rheinböllen is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and also belongs to it.-Location:...
interchange
Interchange (road)
In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which...
) is 6 km (4 mi) away. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
Frankfurt-Hahn Airport
-Cargo airlines:-Other facilities:AirIT Services AG, a subsidiary of Fraport, has its head office in Building 663 at Hahn Airport.-References:*Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982 USAF Reference Series, Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force,...
lies roughly 25 km (16 mi) away. The upper centres
Central Place Theory
Central place theory is a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in an urban system. The theory was created by the German geographer Walter Christaller, who asserted that settlements simply functioned as 'central places' providing services to...
of Mainz
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
and Koblenz
Koblenz
Koblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz was one of the military posts established by Drusus about 8 BC, the...
can each be reached over the A 61 in about 35 minutes.
Education
Children attend kindergartenKindergarten
A kindergarten is a preschool educational institution for children. The term was created by Friedrich Fröbel for the play and activity institute that he created in 1837 in Bad Blankenburg as a social experience for children for their transition from home to school...
and primary school in Argenthal. The Hauptschule
Hauptschule
A Hauptschule is a secondary school in Germany and Austria, starting after 4 years of elementary schooling, which offers Lower Secondary Education according to the International Standard Classification of Education...
and centres of higher learning are right nearby in Rheinböllen and Simmern.
External links
- Municipality’s official webpage
- http://www.swr.de/landesschau-rp/hierzuland/-/id=100766/nid=100766/did=5126130/rzx6z6/index.htmlBrief portrait of Schnorbach with film at SWR FernsehenSWR FernsehenSWR Fernsehen is a German regional television channel targeting the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is produced by Südwestrundfunk and is one of eight regional "third channels" broadcast by the ARD members....
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