Bubach
| Bubach | |
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 Bubach
Location of Bubach within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 50°4′20″N 7°33′30″E / 50.07222°N 7.55833°ECoordinates: 50°4′20″N 7°33′30″E / 50.07222°N 7.55833°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis |
| Municipal assoc. | Simmern |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Elke Härter |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.10 km2 (2.74 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 450 m (1,480 ft) |
| Population (2015-12-31) | |
| • Total | 270 |
| • Density | 38/km2 (98/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal codes | 56288 |
| Dialling codes | 06766 |
| Vehicle registration | SIM |
Bubach 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 Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies in the Hunsrück on a long, low ridge between two brooks, the one known as the Bubacher Bach or the Grundbach, and the other called the Maisborner Bach or the Flößchen, which farther downstream from Bubach flow together. A third brook coming from Laubach and the Bubacher Burg, a nowadays only vaguely discernible mediaeval motte-and-bailey castle in a boggy area, makes the brook so strong that it once drove a mill that stood about a kilometre from the village. Bubach is mainly formed of two streets, the Vorderdorf (“Fore-Village”) running to the southwest, and the Hinterdorf (“Hind-Village”).
The village’s name is derived from Buochbach, which suggests that it was founded, or at least named, in the era of Frankish settlement in the 6th to 8th century. Its favourable location on a dry spur of land between two brooks, too, gives a clue as to Bubach’s early founding. In 1940, a stone axe was unearthed within municipal limits, hinting at beginnings of a human presence in the area by the New Stone Age. The axe is now in the Hunsrückmuseum in Simmern.
On 10 July 1002, Bubach had its first documentary mention in a document from King, later Emperor, Heinrich II through which he donated six Königshufen (“Royal Hufen, a Hufe being an old land measurement) from his holdings to a knight named Gezo from the Nahegau. On 13 June 1302, in Bubach and other places, Imperial goods and rights were pledged to the Counts of Sponheim for 500 Cologne marks by King Albrecht. The Laubach court of Schöffen (roughly “lay jurists”) with Bubach belonged beginning in the mid 14th century to Electoral Palatinate. In 1410, the village passed, along with the surrounding area, to the newly created Duchy of Palatinate-Simmern. In 1498, Bubach had 79 adult inhabitants (and therefore roughly 200 all together). In 1599 there were 16 hearths (or households). After the Thirty Years' War, only five men heading families were still capable of paying taxes (1656 estimate). In 1698, two generations later, there were only 44 inhabitants.
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