Mörschbach

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Mörschbach

Location of Mörschbach within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district

Coordinates: 50°0′43″N 7°37′27″E / 50.01194°N 7.62417°ECoordinates: 50°0′43″N 7°37′27″E / 50.01194°N 7.62417°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Dieter Michel

Area

• Total

5.82 km² (2.25 sq mi)

Elevation

430 m (1,410 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

345

• Density

59/km² (150/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55494

06764

SIM

Website

www.moerschbach.de

Mörschbach 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 Rheinböllen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the eastern Hunsrück, roughly 4 km west of Rheinböllen at the foot of the Soonwald at an elevation of 440 m above sea level. The Autobahn A 61 runs nearby. The municipal area measures 582 ha, of which 218 ha is wooded.

Archaeological digs have yielded finds that suggest that there were settlers here as early as 500 BC. From the time when the Romans held sway, which lasted more than 400 years in this area, roads can still be made out. Such a road led from Trier by way of Wahlbach, Mörschbach and Rheinböllen to the Rhine. Grave goods, too (coins, glass urns from Emperor Augustus’s time), from barrows within Mörschbach’s limits bear witness to Roman hegemony. In 1006, Mörschbach had its first documentary mention in connection with the consecration of the Evangelical church (although at the time, it was of course Catholic, for the Reformation was still far in the future) by Archbishop Willigis of Mainz. The church’s founder and builder was the “Edle (“Noble”) Thiderich von Mergisbach”. With Archbishop Willigis’s leave, he built a church as a free landholder on his own land, and this was consecrated in 1006.

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