Herborn, Rhineland-Palatinate
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Location of Herborn within Birkenfeld district
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| Coordinates: 49°46′09″N 07°17′43″E / 49.76917°N 7.29528°ECoordinates: 49°46′09″N 07°17′43″E / 49.76917°N 7.29528°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Birkenfeld | |
| Municipal assoc. | Herrstein | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Peter Remuta | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 2.46 km2 (0.95 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 455 m (1,493 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 528 | |
| • Density | 210/km2 (560/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55758 | |
| Dialling codes | 06781 | |
| Vehicle registration | BIR | |
| Website | www.herborn-hunsrueck.de | |
Herborn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Herrstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
The municipality lies at the edge of the Königswald (forest) in the Hunsrück. Almost half the municipal area is wooded. Three kilometres to the south lies Idar-Oberstein on the river Nahe.
In 1319, Herborn had its first documentary mention under the name Horbure. At that time it was held by the Waldgrave of Wildenburg.
The Waldgrave held absolute power over both low and high jurisdiction. Soon, however, the Lords of Steinkallenfels and Wartenstein somehow managed to take over. Thereafter, the village belonged to them and they grouped it into the Amt of Weiden, whose fate it then shared.
The Waldgraves and Rhinegraves later tried to take back at least the court jurisdiction over the village, but their attempt in 1500 led the Lords of Wartenstein to appeal to the “old” Trier Lehnsferse, a body constituted for this purpose among others. They decided that Herborn belonged to the court district (Gericht) of Weiden.
There was another claim to both low and high jurisdiction over Herborn in 1586 by Waldgrave and Rhinegrave Otto, and he tried again in 1603, taking advantage of a situation whereby the von Warsbergs had pledged the village to the Amt of Wildenburg. In neither instance, however, could he build a solid enough case for his claim.
Even as late as 1685, the Metz Chambre des Réunions was describing the question of high jurisdiction over Herborn as being disputed among the Electorate of Trier, the feudal lords of Warsberg and the Rhinegraves. Against Electoral Trier’s might, however, the Rhinegraves could not bring their claims to fruition.
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