Schwarzerden

Coordinates: 49°51′43″N 07°30′47″E / 49.86194°N 7.51306°E / 49.86194; 7.51306
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Schwarzerden
Municipality
Coat of arms of Schwarzerden
Coat of arms
Location of Schwarzerden within Bad Kreuznach district
Schwarzerden is located in Germany
Schwarzerden
Schwarzerden
Schwarzerden is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Schwarzerden
Schwarzerden
Coordinates: 49°51′43″N 07°30′47″E / 49.86194°N 7.51306°E / 49.86194; 7.51306
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictBad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.Kirner Land
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Kevin Keller[1]
Area
 • Total6.98 km2 (2.69 sq mi)
Elevation
450 m (1,480 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total240
 • Density34/km2 (89/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
55629
Dialling codes06765
Vehicle registrationKH
Schwarzerden at the Soonwald
The village

Schwarzerden is an

Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Kirner Land, whose seat is in the town of Kirn
.

Geography

Location

Schwarzerden lies in the Hunsrück at an elevation of 450 m above sea level at the southern edge of the Soonwald above the Kellenbach. The municipal area is 58.6% wooded.

Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Schwarzerden's neighbours are the municipality of Mengerschied, the town of Bad Sobernheim (exclave, not main townsite), and the municipalities of Weitersborn, Kellenbach and Henau, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district except the first and last named, which lie in the neighbouring Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis.

History

Schwarzerden's name is interpreted by placename researchers as meaning a settlement area with dark-coloured,

market at Kirn. Clear from this on the one hand is an older dependence on the Steinkallenfelses, and on the other hand a certain economic tendency on the villagers’ part towards Kirn. In 1702, there were eleven families living in Schwarzerden who were subjects of the Counts of Sponheim. In 1766, there were all together 44 households who were all subject to the sovereignty of the Margrave of Baden, who was now the rightful heir to the Sponheim comital family's territory. In the course of French Revolutionary administrative restructuring about 1800, the village was assigned to the then newly founded Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Monzingen in the Canton of Sobernheim and the Arrondissement of Simmern. After French rule ended in the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank, Schwarzerden passed in 1816 to the Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Gemünden in the Prussian district of Simmern, where it remained until the latest administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate. Since 8 November 1970, Schwarzerden has been part of the Verbandsgemeinde of Kirn-Land.[3]

Population development

Schwarzerden's population development since Napoleonic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:[4]

Year Inhabitants
1815 246
1835 388
1871 315
1905 286
1939 306
Year Inhabitants
1950 343
1961 338
1970 341
1987 293
2005 262

Religion

As at 31 January 2014, there are 243 full-time residents in Schwarzerden, and of those, 155 are

Evangelical (63.786%), 46 are Catholic (18.93%), 1 is Greek Orthodox (0.412%), 2 are Russian Orthodox (0.823%), 3 (1.235%) belong to other religious groups and 36 (14.815%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.[5]

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by

majority vote
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.

Mayor

Schwarzerden's mayor is Kevin Keller.[1]

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In gespaltenem Schild, vorne blau-golden geschacht, hinten in Rot ein silberner Burgturm.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per pale countercompony of azure and Or and gules a tower argent.

The countercompony (that is, with two chequered bands) pattern on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the

Amt of Koppenstein. The castle tower on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side shows the Alteburg in the tinctures borne by the Lords of Steinkallenfels (High Court of Kellenbach), to whom the village formerly belonged. Municipal council, on 15 May 1972, gave the graphic artist Brust from Kirn-Sulzbach the task of designing a municipal coat of arms. At a council meeting on 17 November 1972, council adopted the design that had been put forth. After consent by the state archive, the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz granted approval for Schwarzerden to bear its own arms on 17 January 1973.[6] The municipal banner also bears this coat of arms in the centre.[7]

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[8]

  • Brunnenstraße 10 – timber-frame house with knee wall on high quarrystone pedestal, from the earlier half of the 19th century

Ringwall

Northeast of Schwarzerden are found remnants of the Celtic ringwall called the Alteburg (“Old Castle”). A lookout tower there affords visitors a broad, panoramic view.

Clubs

The following clubs are active in Schwarzerden:[9]

  • FCK Fanclub — 1. FC Kaiserslautern fan club
  • Förderverein der freiwilligen Feuerwehr Schwarzerden — fire brigade promotional association
  • Freiwillige Feuerwehr Schwarzerden — volunteer
    fire brigade
  • FSV Schwarzerden
    sport club
  • Gemischter Chor Schwarzerden — mixed choir
  • Kultur- und Verschönerungsverein — cultural and beautification club
  • Landfrauenverein Schwarzerden — countrywomen's club
  • Sportschaugucker-Club — sport spectator club
  • Volksbildungswerk Schwarzerden — “people’s education”

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Running through Schwarzerden is

railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken
).

References

  1. ^ a b Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Bad Kreuznach, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
  2. Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz
    . 2023.
  3. ^ History
  4. ^ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
  5. ^ Religion
  6. ^ Description and explanation of Schwarzerden’s arms
  7. ^ Schwarzerden’s municipal banner
  8. ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Bad Kreuznach district
  9. ^ Clubs

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