Jeckenbach

Jeckenbach
Coat of arms
Jeckenbach
Location of Jeckenbach within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°42′37″N 7°36′28″E / 49.71028°N 7.60778°E / 49.71028; 7.60778Coordinates: 49°42′37″N 7°36′28″E / 49.71028°N 7.60778°E / 49.71028; 7.60778
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Meisenheim
Government
• Mayor	Christa Venter
Area
• Total	6.28 km2 (2.42 sq mi)
Elevation	190 m (620 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	234
• Density	37/km2 (97/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55592
Dialling codes	06753
Vehicle registration	KH

Jeckenbach 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 Meisenheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Jeckenbach is a linear village (by some definitions, a "thorpe") that lies in the North Palatine Uplands west of the Glan.

Clockwise from the north, Jeckenbach's neighbours are the municipalities of Bärweiler, Lauschied, Desloch, Breitenheim, Löllbach, Schweinschied and Hundsbach, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Jeckenbach is an important site for fossil finds from the Rotliegend (Permian) some 290,000,000 years ago. It was here that amateur palaeontologist Arnulf Stapf from Nierstein am Rhein unearthed the oldest mayflies (Misthodotes stapfi) ever found in Central Europe. Further fossils that were brought to light were of fishes and amphibians. Finds from Jeckenbach are kept at the Palaeontological Museum in Nierstein.