Jeckenbach

Jeckenbach 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'' of Meisenheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Location

Jeckenbach is a linear village (by some definitions, a "thorpe") that lies in the North Palatine Uplands west of the Glan.

Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Jeckenbach's neighbours are the municipalities of Bärweiler, Lauschied, Desloch, Breitenheim, Löllbach, Schweinschied and Hundsbach, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Geology

Jeckenbach is an important site for fossil finds from the Rotliegend (Permian) some 290,000,000 years ago. It was here that amateur palaeontologist Arnulf Stapf from Nierstein am Rhein unearthed the oldest mayflies ('' Misthodotes stapfi'') ever found in Central Europe. Further fossils that were brought to light were of fishes and amphibians. Finds from Jeckenbach are kept at the Palaeontological Museum in Nierstein.

History

From 1816 to 1866, Jeckenbach belonged to the '' Oberamt'' of Meisenheim in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, along with which it passed in 1866 to the Kingdom of Prussia.

Population development

Jeckenbach'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:Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
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Religion

As at 30 September 2013, there are 253 full-time residents in Jeckenbach, and of those, 206 are Evangelical (81.423%), 20 are Catholic (7.905%), 1 (0.395%) belongs to another religious group and 26 (10.277%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.

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

Jeckenbach's mayor is Christa Venter.

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Argent on a base wavy gules a lion rampant azure armed, langued and crowned of the second, in his forepaws an inescutcheon of the second charged with a cross Maltese of the first.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:Directory of Cultural Monuments in Bad Kreuznach district
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* Evangelical church, Mühlstraße – Late Baroque aisleless church, marked 1767, architect possibly Philipp Heinrich Hellermann, west tower essentially Romanesque, 11th or 12th century, belfry and spire Baroque; Classicist stairway, 1852
* Deslocher Straße – bridge, one arch, quarrystone, possibly from the earlier half of the 19th century
* Hauptstraße (at the municipal hall) – arch bridge across the Jeckenbach, marked 1874
* Mühlstraße – bridge, one arch, sandstone-block, possibly from the latter half of the 19th century
* Near Mühlstraße 5 – bridge, one arch, possibly from the mid 19th century
* Mühlstraße 9 – estate complex along the street; timber-frame house, plastered, marked 1841, barn, marked 1833
* Across from Mühlstraße 10 – Baroque timber-frame house, plastered, 18th century
* So-called ''Römerbrunnen'' ("Roman well”), südöstlich des Orts, im Stried – sweep well complex, apparently from Roman times
* ''Weinbergshaus'' ("Vineyard House"), north of the village – Historicized building with gable roof, possibly from the 1920s

Jeckenbach also has a theatre club which puts on yearly plays. For the village's youth, a youth clubhouse with a grilling pavilion has been built about 1.5 km outside the village on a hill.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Running through Hundsbach is ''Landesstraße'' 182, which links to ''Bundesstraße'' 420 at Meisenheim to the southeast. In the other direction, the road leads to Becherbach bei Kirn and then Kirn itself, where it links with ''Bundesstraße'' 41. ''Landesstraße'' 182 also has a junction with ''Landesstraße'' 374 just before Becherbach bei Kirn, which leads to ''Bundesstraße'' 270 at Sien. Branching off ''Landesstraße'' 182 just outside the village is ''Landesstraße'' 373. Serving Bad Sobernheim is a railway station on the Nahe Valley Railway ( Bingen–Saarbrücken).

References

External links

Jeckenbach in the collective municipality’s webpages


Nierstein Palaeontological Museum

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Bad Kreuznach (district)