Lauschied

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Lauschied

Location of Lauschied within Bad Kreuznach district

Coordinates: 49°44′28″N 7°37′20″E / 49.74111°N 7.62222°ECoordinates: 49°44′28″N 7°37′20″E / 49.74111°N 7.62222°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Wilhelm Marx

Area

• Total

4.78 km² (1.85 sq mi)

Elevation

320 m (1,050 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

553

• Density

120/km² (300/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55568

06753

Website

Lauschied 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 Bad Sobernheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Lauschied lies on a hill in the Glan-Nahe triangle, the wedge-shaped tongue of land where the former empties into the latter. It lies about 5 km southsouthwest of Bad Sobernheim and 13 km eastsoutheast of Kirn.

Clockwise from the north, Lauschied’s neighbours are the municipality of Meddersheim, the town of Bad Sobernheim and the municipalities of Abtweiler, Raumbach (although it meets this at only one point), Desloch, Jeckenbach, Hundsbach and Bärweiler, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Investigations have shown that in the outlying cadastral areas now known as “In Frohnhausen” and “An den Pfühlen”, there are remnants of a Roman (2nd to 4th century AD) villa rustica. Like many other places with the name ending —schied (more often seen in the form —scheid), Lauschied arose as a new settlement in the area being cleared in the early 7th century. About 1200, Lauschied had its first documentary mention as Villam Lubescheid iuxa Mettersheim. Beginning in this time, the village was a fief from the lordship of Kirchheim-Bolanden held as a Ganerbenschaft (joint holding) among whose lords the Family Wolf von Sponheim was foremost. Also appearing in records besides them, though, were the Lords of Scharfenstein, Schenk of Schmidtburg and Ellenbach, in 1541. About this time, hunting rights were held by Disibodenberg Abbey. Against this right, the Abbey allowed the court lords in Lauschied lodging rights when they were hunting. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Baron Boos von Waldeck, the Barons of Fürstenwärther and the Laittre de Feignies all had landholds in the village. After French Revolutionary and Napoleonic times (1794-1814), Lauschied belonged to the Hesse-Homburg Oberamt of Meisenheim, until this passed in 1866 to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt. Later that same year, though, Lauschied once again found itself in a new country when it was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1869, the Meisenheim district was founded, which in 1932 was transferred to the Kreuznach district. Until 31 October 1970, Lauschied belonged to the Amt – later Verbandsgemeinde – of Meisenheim. In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Lauschied was grouped into the Verbandsgemeinde of Sobernheim as of 1 November 1970 (the Verbandsgemeinde seat was not granted the distinction “Bad” until 1995).

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