Limbach, Bad Kreuznach
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Location of Limbach within Bad Kreuznach district
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| Coordinates: 49°44′28″N 07°32′45″E / 49.74111°N 7.54583°ECoordinates: 49°44′28″N 07°32′45″E / 49.74111°N 7.54583°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Kreuznach | |
| Municipal assoc. | Kirn-Land | |
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| • Mayor | Alfons Ingenhaag | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 9.18 km2 (3.54 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 308 m (1,010 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 300 | |
| • Density | 33/km2 (85/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55606 | |
| Dialling codes | 06757 | |
| Vehicle registration | KH | |
Limbach 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 Kirn-Land, whose seat is in the town of Kirn, although this lies outside the Verbandsgemeinde.
Limbach is a clump village that lie on the like-named brook, the Limbach, in the North Palatine Uplands. The outlying centre of Welschrötherhof lies just under 3 km to the southsouthwest of the village.
Clockwise from the north, Limbach’s neighbours are the municipalities of Merxheim, Kirschroth, Hundsbach, Schweinschied, Hoppstädten, Otzweiler, Becherbach bei Kirn and Heimweiler, all of which but for Hoppstädten, which lies in the neighbouring Kusel district, likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.
Also belonging to Limbach is the outlying homestead of Welschrötherhof.
In the Middle Ages, Limbach belonged to the Raugravial Amt of Naumburg or the court district of Becherbach, a half share of which passed to the Counts of Sponheim-Kreuznach about 1350, with the other half passing into their ownership towards the end of the 14th century. Together with Becherbach and Schmidthachenbach, Limbach was one of the biggest places in the Amt of Naumburg, which in the 18th century fell under the lordship of the Margraves of Baden. About 1600, there were 26 households in the village. Limbach, too, had to pay the Zollhafer (“toll oats”) to the Lords of Steinkallenfels whenever farmers from Limbach wanted to sell their wares at Kirn market. After French Revolutionary troops overran the German lands on the Rhine’s left bank, the villages in the Amt of Naumburg, which had been merged into the Amt of Herrstein in 1776, lay under French rule beginning in 1794. Limbach was grouped, along with Heimberg and Krebsweiler, into the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Hundsbach in the Canton of Meisenheim. After the Napoleonic French had been driven out, Becherbach once again became the mayoral seat for these municipalities, which now became part of the Oberamt of Meisenheim in Hesse-Homburg. During this Landgravial time, Evangelical inhabitants built a new Gothic Revival church in the years 1858 to 1860 to plans laid out by Meisenheim architect Krausch. The Catholic chapel that still stands today was built in 1893 and 1894 on the spot where the old church square once was. By 1864, Limbach, now a village of 380 inhabitants, had grown to 56 houses occupied by 94 families. In 1866, the village passed to the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1932, when the Meisenheim district was dissolved, Limbach was reassigned to the Kreuznach district. In 1940, the Amt of Becherbach was likewise dissolved, and Limbach’s new Amt was then Kirn-Land, within which it still finds itself now, although it has been redefined as a Verbandsgemeinde.
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