Kümbdchen

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Kümbdchen

Location of Kümbdchen within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 49°59′29″N 7°30′38″E / 49.99139°N 7.51056°ECoordinates: 49°59′29″N 7°30′38″E / 49.99139°N 7.51056°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Günter Kunz

Area

• Total

3.21 km² (1.24 sq mi)

Elevation

345 m (1,132 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

471

• Density

150/km² (380/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55471

06761

SIM

Website

www.kuembdchen.de

Kümbdchen 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 Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the Hunsrück on the west slope of the Külzbach valley and in the Kondbach valley. Within municipal limits, the Kondbach empties into the Külzbach. Kümbdchen lies well within a kilometre of both Simmern and Keidelheim. Rheinböllen lies roughly 12 km to the east, while another 8 km beyond, the Rhine flows by Bacharach. Kümbdchen currently has somewhat more than 500 inhabitants. The municipal area measures 362 ha, of which 330 ha is given over to agriculture while the other 32 ha is wooded.

Kümbdchen is among the Hunsrück’s oldest villages. In the countryside around Kümbdchen, there have been both Roman and Stone Age finds. As early as Roman times, two rural settlements are known to have been here. Over the last one thousand and more years, Kümbdchen’s history has been tightly bound to the town of Simmern.

In 1072, Kümbdchen had its first documentary mention. Kümbdchen belonged to the old mother church in Simmern and later passed along with Simmern to the Raugraves at the Altenbaumburg (castle, now in ruins, in today’s Ortsgemeinde of Altenbamberg near Bad Kreuznach), in whose ownership it remained until they sold the town of Simmern to the Counts Palatine in 1359.

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