Daubach, Hunsrück
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Location of Daubach within Bad Kreuznach district
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| Coordinates: 49°50′46″N 7°38′3″E / 49.84611°N 7.63417°ECoordinates: 49°50′46″N 7°38′3″E / 49.84611°N 7.63417°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Kreuznach | |
| Municipal assoc. | Bad Sobernheim | |
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| • Mayor | Franz Höling | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 2.91 km2 (1.12 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 320 m (1,050 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 216 | |
| • Density | 74/km2 (190/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55566 | |
| Dialling codes | 06756 | |
| Vehicle registration | KH | |
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Daubach 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 Bad Sobernheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Daubach lies in the southern Hunsrück north of Bad Sobernheim. It is a residential community that is nonetheless characterized by agriculture. The municipal area measures 292 ha.
Clockwise from the north, Daubach’s neighbours are the municipalities of Rehbach, Bockenau, Nußbaum and the town of Bad Sobernheim, although this is in fact the outlying piece of that town’s municipal area, a mostly rural swathe of land, not the one containing the actual town. Daubach’s municipal area also comes to within a matter of metres of a salient jutting out of Waldböckelheim’s municipal area.
Also belonging to Daubach are the outlying homesteads of Birkenhof and Sonnenhof.
About how the village came to have the name Daubach nothing is known. What is known, however, is that the name was written Daupach in 1377, thus showing at least that the village has had a similar name for well over six hundred years. It lay on the road that led from Meisenheim and Sobernheim by way of Eckweiler (a now vanished village that was given up in 1979, lying in what is now Bad Sobernheim’s municipal exclave northwest of Daubach), Gemünden and Kirchberg to Trier. Daubach’s membership in the church parish called “Geh in Kirche” (“Go to Church”) was mentioned quite early on. With the partition of the County of Sponheim about 1232, Daubach passed to the “Further” County of Sponheim-Kreuznach and to the newly founded Amt of Winterburg. Between 1580 and 1600, Daubach had 12 houses and 54 inhabitants. Daubach and Eckweiler for centuries shared the same history. In 1866, the Evangelical church was built, but it remained a branch church of Eckweiler. The Catholics belonged to the parish of Rehbach.
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