Rödern

Coat of arms

Rödern

Location of Rödern within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 49°56′53″N 7°26′57″E / 49.94806°N 7.44917°ECoordinates: 49°56′53″N 7°26′57″E / 49.94806°N 7.44917°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Josef Winn

Area

• Total

2.72 km² (1.05 sq mi)

Population (2015-12-31)^[1]

• Total

198

• Density

73/km² (190/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55481

06763

SIM

Rödern municipal building and playground in the village centre

Rödern 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 Kirchberg, whose seat is in the town of Kirchberg.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück, roughly 3 km east of Kirchberg, which lies on a rise, and 6 km westsouthwest of Simmern. To the east is the Kauerbach valley. The municipal area measures 2.72 km², of which 1.27 km² is wooded.

History

In Sections 97 and 98 of the Hallschied State Forest are prehistoric and protohistoric barrows, bearing witness to early settlers in the area.

Around 1250 or 1260, Rödern had its first documentary mention in the later of the enfeoffment books kept by Werner II of Bolanden. An estate at Rödern was transferred in 1338 by Count Johann of Sponheim-Starkenburg to Archbishop of Trier Baldwin as a fief. Later, feudal rights were held by the Junkers of Koppenstein, to whom the Lötscherhof (estate), formerly held by the Counts of Sponheim, also belonged as a fief, granted for military service. The Lötschermühle (mill) is nowadays in private ownership.^[2]

Rödern was mentioned as Imzinruden ("Immo’s clearing") in 1317. In the 18th century, the village passed to the Margraves of Baden. Beginning in 1794, Rödern was under French rule. In 1815, 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.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of six council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.^[3]

Mayor

Rödern’s mayor is Josef Winn, and his deputy is Markus Nick.^[4]

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In Blau eine eingebogene goldene Spitze, darin ein schwarzes Mühlrad. Vorn gestürzt und schräg gekreuzt ein silberner Spaten und eine silberne Rodehacke. Hinten ein silberner Rabe.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: "Tierced in mantle dexter azure a spade and a clearing hoe per saltire argent, sinister azure a raven of the second, and in base Or a waterwheel spoked of eight sable."

The tinctures or and azure (gold and blue) are a reference to the village’s former allegiance to the "Further" County of Sponheim; it lay in the Amt of Kirchberg. The crossed tools recall the village’s founding as a clearing settlement and also suggest the municipality’s name: "clearing" is Rodung in German, and the verb "clear" is roden; the clearing hoe is a Rodehacke in German. The silver raven refers to the Junkers of Koppenstein, who held the tithes and the fief at the Lötscher Mühle (mill). The waterwheel refers to the two important mills within municipal limits, the aforesaid Lötscher Mühle and also the Schneidemühl.^[5]

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Rödern is in the area served by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (Rhine-Moselle Transport Association). Bus routes 644, 661 and 664 run by the Rhein-Mosel Verkehrsgesellschaft link the village to the nearby towns of Kirchberg and Simmern. The nearest railway station with passenger service is Kirn on the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn), 25 km to the south.

Along the municipality’s northern outskirts, about a kilometre from the village centre, runs the well constructed Bundesstraße 50 between Bitburg and Bingen, by which the nearest Autobahn interchange, at Rheinböllen, on the A 61, can be reached, 20 km to the east.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rödern (Hunsrück).

Rödern in the collective municipality’s webpages (German)

Towns and municipalities in Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis

Alterkülz Altweidelbach Argenthal Badenhard Bärenbach Belg Belgweiler Bell Beltheim Benzweiler Bergenhausen Beulich Bickenbach Biebern Birkheim Boppard Braunshorn Bubach Buch Büchenbeuren Budenbach Damscheid Dichtelbach Dickenschied Dill Dillendorf Dommershausen Dörth Ellern Emmelshausen Erbach Fronhofen Gehlweiler Gemünden Gödenroth Gondershausen Hahn Halsenbach Hasselbach Hausbay Hecken Heinzenbach Henau Hirschfeld Hollnich Holzbach Horn Hungenroth Kappel Karbach Kastellaun Keidelheim Kirchberg Kisselbach Klosterkumbd Kludenbach Korweiler Kratzenburg Külz Kümbdchen Lahr Laubach Laudert Laufersweiler Lautzenhausen Leiningen Liebshausen Lindenschied Lingerhahn Maisborn Maitzborn Mastershausen Mengerschied Mermuth Metzenhausen Michelbach Mörschbach Mörsdorf Morshausen Mühlpfad Mutterschied Nannhausen Neuerkirch Ney Nieder Kostenz Niederburg Niederkumbd Niedersohren Niedert Niederweiler Norath Ober Kostenz Oberwesel Ohlweiler Oppertshausen Perscheid Pfalzfeld Pleizenhausen Ravengiersburg Raversbeuren Rayerschied Reckershausen Reich Rheinböllen Riegenroth Riesweiler Rödelhausen Rödern Rohrbach Roth Sankt Goar Sargenroth Schlierschied Schnorbach Schönborn Schwall Schwarzen Simmern Sohren Sohrschied Spesenroth Steinbach Thörlingen Tiefenbach Todenroth Uhler Unzenberg Urbar Utzenhain Wahlbach Wahlenau Wiebelsheim Womrath Woppenroth Würrich Wüschheim Zilshausen

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