Raversbeuren
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Location of Raversbeuren within Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district
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| Coordinates: 49°57′31″N 7°13′40″E / 49.95861°N 7.22778°ECoordinates: 49°57′31″N 7°13′40″E / 49.95861°N 7.22778°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | |
| Municipal assoc. | Kirchberg | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Horst Möhringer | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 5.14 km2 (1.98 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 420 m (1,380 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 122 | |
| • Density | 24/km2 (61/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56850 | |
| Dialling codes | 06543 | |
| Vehicle registration | SIM | |
| Website | www.kirchberg-hunsrueck.de | |
Raversbeuren 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 Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies on a high plateau in the northern Hunsrück between the Hunsrückhöhenstraße (“Hunsrück Heights Road”, a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on Hermann Göring’s orders) and the Moselle. Raversbeuren borders directly on Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, and is a residential community with an agricultural character. The municipal area measures 5.14 km², of which 1.93 km² is wooded.
The oldest evidence of human presence is a stone axe that was found within Raversbeuren’s municipal limits. Near the village, not far from the “Briedeler Heck” estate buildings, two further such axes were unearthed. A few hundred metres from that find, a great many flint chips were also found.
Notable are the great many graves from late Hallstatt times (roughly 600 to 500 BC). Almost every hilltop harbours such graves. It has been established that some burial grounds were used over a number of centuries. Tribes and customs changed over time.
It is quite clear that there was a building from Roman times within municipal limits. Coins from Maximian’s time, just after Diocletian’s time in power (AD 204 to 305), have been found. Three further settlements existed not far from the municipal limit, among which was the great manor on what is now the estate lands. Smaller finds come to light almost every time that a major excavation is undertaken.
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