Boos, Bad Kreuznach

Boos
Coat of arms
Boos
Location of Boos within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°47′36″N 7°43′01″E / 49.79333°N 7.71694°E / 49.79333; 7.71694Coordinates: 49°47′36″N 7°43′01″E / 49.79333°N 7.71694°E / 49.79333; 7.71694
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Rüdesheim
Government
• Mayor	Karl-Heinz Klein (SPD)
Area
• Total	1.11 km2 (0.43 sq mi)
Elevation	135 m (443 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	376
• Density	340/km2 (880/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55595
Dialling codes	06758
Vehicle registration	KH

Boos 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 Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe. Boos is a winegrowing village.

Boos lies between the Hunsrück and the North Palatine Uplands on the river Nahe, southeast of Bad Sobernheim. Its elevation is 135 m above sea level and the municipal area measures 1.11 km².

Clockwise from the north, Boos’s neighbours are the municipality of Waldböckelheim, the municipality of Duchroth, the municipality of Staudernheim and the municipality of Oberstreit.

Also belonging to Boos is the outlying homestead of Im Käsberg.

The village of Boos arose on a flood-free point bar on the Nahe on a low terrace north of that river on a brook. As already witnessed by many archaeological finds from the New Stone Age, the Bronze Age, Celtic times and Roman times, Boos is one of the oldest populated centres in the Nahe region. The greater and more important finds from bygone ages are those from Roman times. Generally known is the Roman villa rustica with its preserved cryptoporticus level. It is a lordly house with two vaulted cellars from the 2nd or 3rd century AD, which since 1990 has been preserved and made accessible to the public. In 1128, Boos had its first documentary mention when one of Disibodenberg Abbey’s landholds was confirmed. This estate also included a holding in Boos that Kuno von Böckelheim and his wife, who had been Archbishop of Mainz Willigis’s (995–1011) regents, had donated to their young charge in 976. On this basis, Boos celebrated its one thousandth anniversary (“1000 Jahre Boos”) in 1976. In the Middle Ages, the Vogtei rights had belonged to the Counts (later Dukes) of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, who had in turn inherited them from the Counts of Veldenz. In the 18th century, however, these rights were held jointly by Electoral Palatinate and the Lords of Stein-Kallenfels. Beginning in 1798, Boos belonged to the administrative unit of Sobernheim, which in 1815 passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, within which it was grouped into the new Bad Kreuznach district the following year. In 1888, Boos passed in the course of administrative reform to the Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Waldböckelheim. Since a further administrative reform in 1970, Boos has belonged to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim.