Büchenbeuren

Büchenbeuren
Coat of arms
Büchenbeuren
Location of Büchenbeuren within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
Coordinates: 49°55′16.61″N 7°16′47.36″E / 49.9212806°N 7.2798222°E / 49.9212806; 7.2798222Coordinates: 49°55′16.61″N 7°16′47.36″E / 49.9212806°N 7.2798222°E / 49.9212806; 7.2798222
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Municipal assoc.	Kirchberg
Government
• Mayor	Friedemann Buch (SPD)
Area
• Total	6.00 km2 (2.32 sq mi)
Elevation	460 m (1,510 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,730
• Density	290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55491
Dialling codes	06543
Vehicle registration	SIM
Website	www.buechenbeuren.de

Büchenbeuren 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 like-named town. Büchenbeuren is a state-recognized tourism municipality (Fremdenverkehrsort), and according to state planning, is laid out as a lower centre.

The municipality lies in the central Hunsrück northeast of the Idarwald (forest).

Büchenbeuren is divided among the outlying Ortsteil of Scheid, part of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport and the main centre, also called Büchenbeuren.

In 1301, Büchenbeuren had its first documentary mention in a document from the comital family Sponheim. Nevertheless, it is believed to be roughly 300 years older than that. Büchenbeuren belonged until the end of the Middle Ages to the landholdings under the lordship of the Counts of Sponheim. In 1437, the village passed to the Margraves of Baden and the Counts Palatine of the Rhine.

In the late 18th century, modernity was slow in coming to Büchenbeuren. In 1783, serfdom was abolished by Margrave Karl Friedrich.

In October 1794, French troops occupied Büchenbeuren. The rectory served as a French military hospital. Beginning in 1796, Büchenbeuren, like all lands on the Rhine’s left bank, belonged directly to France, although French administration here only became fully functional in 1798. Büchenbeuren belonged to the newly formed Arrondissement of Simmern in the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle with Simmern as the administrative seat. Kirchberg became the seat of a canton, and Büchenbeuren belonged, along with Altlay, Bärenbach, Belg, Lautzenhausen, Niederweiler and Wahlenau to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Sohren. In 1804, the French introduced the Code civil des Français.