Mörsdorf
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Location of Mörsdorf within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 50°06′11″N 7°20′57″E / 50.10306°N 7.34917°ECoordinates: 50°06′11″N 7°20′57″E / 50.10306°N 7.34917°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Kastellaun | |
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| • Mayor | Franz-Josef Petry | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 17.37 km2 (6.71 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 340 m (1,120 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 610 | |
| • Density | 35/km2 (91/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56290 | |
| Dialling codes | 06762 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
| Website | www |
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Mörsdorf 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 Kastellaun.
The municipality lies on a high plateau in the northern Hunsrück between the Dünnbach valley in the east and the Flaumbach valley in the west.
Yearly precipitation in Mörsdorf amounts to 697 mm, which falls into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 39% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is February. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.4 times what it is in February. Precipitation varies only slightly and is spread rather evenly throughout the year. At fewer than 1% of the weather stations are even lower seasonal swings recorded.
In 1103, Moresdörf had its first documentary mention when the Ravengiersburg Monastery received one fourth of the village’s tithes from St. Stephan in Mainz. In 1235 one fourth passed by donation to the St. Martinsberg Monastery near Trier. In 1359, the whole tithe belonged to the noble knight Colin von Senheim and his wife, who enfeoffed the Electorate of Trier with it. Mörsdorf belonged to the Beltheim High Court, and put up two of the 14 Schöffen (roughly “lay jurists”) of the “three-lord” court that were named by the Electorate of Trier. The Electoral-Trier subjects were governed by the Amt of Baldeneck, while the Sponheim subjects were answerable to Bell in the Amt of Kastellaun. Metternich subjects were governed by the Lordship of Beilstein. The church in Mörsdorf is listed in the directory of archiepiscopal rights from about 1220, and appears once again in the Taxa generalia from about 1330 as a church in Morsdorff. The 1552 register and the 1569 Visitation protocol name the church as Saint Castor’s. A grand new building was built in 1768 by Paul Stehling
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