Oberstreit

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Oberstreit

Location of Oberstreit within Bad Kreuznach district

Coordinates: 49°47′46″N 7°41′38″E / 49.79611°N 7.69389°ECoordinates: 49°47′46″N 7°41′38″E / 49.79611°N 7.69389°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Rudolf Sutor

Area

• Total

1.01 km² (0.39 sq mi)

Elevation

200 m (700 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

285

• Density

280/km² (730/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55596

06758

Oberstreit 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 Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe.

Oberstreit lies north of the River Nahe east of Bad Sobernheim and just north of the former Disibodenberg Abbey at an elevation of 200 m above sea level. The municipal area measures 1.01 km².

Clockwise from the north, Oberstreit’s neighbours are the municipalities of Waldböckelheim, Boos and Staudernheim, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Oberstreit’s history goes back to Roman times. Oberstreit is believed to have formerly been only a Meierhof. On 23 October 1305, Oberstreit was first mentioned in a document issued by Abbot Werner of Disibodenberg as Ebenstryt, describing it as a Hof (“estate” or “farm”) lying roughly three fourths of an hour from Sobernheim, whose owner, Jakob von Ebenstrit, transferred ownership as a donation to Disibodenberg Abbey. Otherwise, little is known about Oberstreit’s history. It was established on an old road coming up from the Nahe and leading to Bockenau and was divided like Boos and Steinhardt (today an outlying centre of Bad Sobernheim): the northeast half belonged to the greater municipal area of Böckelheim, while the southwest half belonged to that of Sobernheim-Disibodenberg-Odernheim. The village’s name, “Oberstreit”, is interpreted as Obere Strut, meaning a village on boggy ground (at a small brook) in a hollow, with the prefix indicating the upper of two such villages. The lower one (Niedere Strut) would then by Boos. It is likely that there was a lot of woodland hereabouts that was later cleared. When the first farm was established here is unknown. In line with the division mentioned above, the two halves were ruled, like Boos, by either the Salians and later the Counts of Sponheim in the case of the northeast half or by an Archbishopric of Mainz holding in the case of the southwest half. The latter passed in 1471 to Electoral Palatinate, which then took the whole Böckelheim Complex over from the Bishop of Mainz and the Duke of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. The Christians were parochially united with Staudernheim and Waldböckelheim. Records from 1491 mention both a chapel and a “chaplaincy” (building, roughly a rectory). The chapel was consecrated to Saint Bartholomew and stood near what is today the graveyard. It may well have been a pilgrimage hub. In 1714, the dispute between the Electorate of Mainz and Electoral Palatinate over Böckelheim and its appurtenances that had been simmering for decades was settled. Henceforth, Oberstreit was to belong wholly to the Unteramt of Böckelheim in the Oberamt of Kreuznach. A few holdings were nevertheless granted to the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken. Furthermore, there were properties held by the Counts of Degenfeld, as in Boos. After the conquest and takeover of the land by French Revolutionary troops, there came an administrative reform in January 1798 that swept all the foregoing feudal administrative bodies aside. Belonging thereafter to the new mairie (“mayoralty”) were the villages of Sobernheim (seat), Waldböckelheim, Thalböckelheim, Schloßböckelheim, Steinhardt (in its two parts), Oberstreit, Boos, Bockenau, Sponheim and Burgsponheim. On 28 May 1815, as a result of agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna, the Nahe region passed to the Kingdom of Prussia, which retained they system of French mairies, although they were thereafter known by the German word Bürgermeistereien. As of 14 May 1816, Oberstreit belonged to the new Kreuznach district, whose population at that time numbered all together 4,928; the village of Sobernheim had 1,948, Bockenau 577, Boos 279, Burgsponheim 201, Oberstreit 138, Sponheim 539, Thalböckelheim 238 and Waldböckelheim 1,008. In 1888, Sobernheim, which since 1857/1858 had once more been a town, was split away from the Bürgermeisterei, whose seat was then moved to Waldböckelheim. The Evangelical church was built in the village’s west end in 1959, while the Catholics had built their own chapel in 1956/1957. Today, Oberstreit belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim.

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