Laubach, Rhein-Hunsrück
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 Laubach
Location of Laubach within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 50°03′20″N 7°30′38″E / 50.05556°N 7.51056°ECoordinates: 50°03′20″N 7°30′38″E / 50.05556°N 7.51056°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Simmern | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Karl Heinz Bohn | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 10.02 km2 (3.87 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 405-480 m (−1,170 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 421 | |
| • Density | 42/km2 (110/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56288 | |
| Dialling codes | 06762 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
| Website | www |
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Laubach 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.
Laubach lies in the central Hunsrück between Simmern and Kastellaun. It lies roughly centrally within its municipal area, sloping down gently towards the Külzbach valley. The municipal area measures 1 002 ha, 502 ha of which is municipal forest. Laubach’s highest point is 480 m above sea level, and its lowest 405 m above sea level.
In 1103, Laubach had its first documentary mention. A lordly estate named Lupach belonged as of that year to the Ravengiersburg Monastery as the result of an exchange deal with Provost Amselm of Saint Stephen’s in Mainz. In 1135, the widow of Burkhard von Honrein (that is, the neighbouring village now known as Horn) transferred her estate in Horn, Laubach and other places “together with the right to assist in filling the pastoral post at the church in Horn to the Ravengiersburg Monastery”.
As to Laubach’s ecclesiastical history, a chapel in the village was named for the first time in 1211, and then again in 1217. It belonged to the Archbishopric of Trier. About 1250, one of the Archbishop’s directories named various rights, among them a “cathedral tax” that the Archbishop had the right to levy at Loupach in the rural deaconry of Keimta (now Zell). From the early 14th century comes a reference to the Laubacher Gericht (“Laubach Court”), which was made up not only of Laubach, but also of the neighbouring villages of Bubach, Ebschied and Horn along with a part of Budenbach and the now forsaken villages of Heinzert, Scheuf, Steilheim, Allenzhausen, Steinkülz, which clearly must still have been inhabited at this time. In 1302, Laubach and its immediate neighbours, including the ones that have since vanished, were granted Imperial immediacy.
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