Dichtelbach

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Dichtelbach

Location of Dichtelbach within Rhein-Hunsrück district

Coordinates: 50°0′39″N 7°41′43″E / 50.01083°N 7.69528°ECoordinates: 50°0′39″N 7°41′43″E / 50.01083°N 7.69528°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Martin Huhn

Area

• Total

5.38 km² (2.08 sq mi)

Elevation

403 m (1,322 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

646

• Density

120/km² (310/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55494

06764

SIM

Dichtelbach 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 Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the eastern Hunsrück between the Autobahn A 61 and the Bingen Forest. The village lies on the old Roman road, the so-called Via Ausonia (or Ausoniusstraße in German), which led from Trier to Bacharach. The municipality’s namesake is a brook called the Dichtelbach, which empties into the Guldenbach between Rheinböllen’s main centre and its outlying centre of Rheinböllerhütte. The brook’s name was originally Dadilebach, which meant “Firebrook”, a reference to the many charcoal kilns in the woods along its course.

The village’s namesake brook, the Dichtelbach, had its first documentary mention on 6 November 996, but it was another 351 years before a documentary mention that clearly implied that a village of that name existed. This document, dated 6 January 1347, dealt with tithes in Rheinböllen; the parish priest and the vicar shared them under this agreement with the former getting two thirds and the latter the rest. Witnessing this deed were several noblemen, among them “Frischo dictus Kunig de Erbach, Frischo, dictus Ritter, et Henne natus Fridemanni de Elren, Henricus dictus Starke et Contzo, dictus Hase de Dehtelbach”, the last one being the core of the documentary proof of the village’s existence.

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