Eckenroth

Eckenroth
Coat of arms
Eckenroth
Location of Eckenroth within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°55′30″N 7°46′56″E / 49.92500°N 7.78222°E / 49.92500; 7.78222Coordinates: 49°55′30″N 7°46′56″E / 49.92500°N 7.78222°E / 49.92500; 7.78222
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Stromberg
Government
• Mayor	Frank Seckler
Area
• Total	1.08 km2 (0.42 sq mi)
Elevation	331 m (1,086 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	224
• Density	210/km2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55444
Dialling codes	06724
Vehicle registration	KH

Eckenroth 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 Stromberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Eckenroth lies below Schindeldorf, an outlying centre of Stromberg, on the opposite side of the dale from the Steyerberg. Bingen am Rhein lies roughly 10 km to the eastnortheast, while Bad Kreuznach lies some 12 km to the southsoutheast.

Clockwise from the north, Eckenroth’s neighbours are the town of Stromberg and the municipality of Schweppenhausen. Also lying right nearby, but not bordering on Eckenroth, is the municipality of Schöneberg to the west.

Just when Eckenroth, the smallest village in the Verbandsgemeinde, came into being cannot be determined with any accuracy. It is assumed, however, that this happened about the year 900, when it was built on ruins left behind by the Romans after their centuries in the region. In 1156, it was one of the forest villages held by the counts palatine, and in 1190, it said in the directory of fiefs kept by the House of Bolanden that Ogelrode, as the village was then known, was a branch of the parish of Leibersheim (Waldlaubersheim), and that it was there that the villagers had to send their tithes. The parish itself was held by Count Werner of Bolanden as a fief from Count Lon. A half share of the right of patronage and a part of his tithes from the cropfields and vineyards were transferred by Werner of Bolanden in 1282 to the knight Sir Emilrich of Schonenburg as an enfeoffment. Repeatedly, the village’s name has changed in spelling. One archaic spelling has already been mentioned, but then there were two – Ockenrait and Oeckenrod – in the Stromberg taxation register.