Sohrschied is an ''

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'' – a municipality belonging to a '' Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the

Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis is a district (german: Kreis) in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Mainz-Bingen, Bad Kreuznach, Birkenfeld, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Coc ...

( district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kirchberg, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the central

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on the edge of the Kyrbach valley on both sides of the Aubach. Sohrschied lies roughly 6 km southwest of Kirchberg and 7 km southeast of Frankfurt-Hahn Airport.

History

Early habitation is witnessed by several

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finds. A quern-stone from the Iron Age was found near the Sohrbach bridge west of ''Kreisstraße'' (District Road) 3. There is an early Roman

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southwest of the village in the cadastral area known as “Im Haag”. This yielded grave goods that are now in the Bonn Museum. In two other cadastral areas, “Auf Weiler” and “Höll”, remnants of Roman walls have been unearthed. In 1428, Sohrschied had its first documentary mention in a will written by Count Johann V of Sponheim-Starkenburg. The Lordship of Koppenstein held an estate in the village. The feudal lords were the Wildbergs. Southeast of the village, border stones from 1787 can be found on a

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heath. Sohrschied belonged to the high court (that is, blood court) of Rhaunen, held by the

Waldgrave The noble family of the Waldgraves or Wildgraves (Latin: ''comites silvestres'') descended of a division of the House of the Counts of Nahegau in the year 1113. When the (a countship named after the river Nahe) split into two parts in 1113 ...

s and Rhinegraves. From the 16th century, the village was under the lordship of the “Hinder”

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. Beginning in 1794, Sohrschied lay under

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rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by

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might in English heraldic language be described thus: Tierced in mantle, dexter azure a fleur-de-lis argent, sinister Or a lion rampant gules armed and langued of the first, and in base chequy of twelve of the third and second. The lion refers to the village’s former status as part of the Waldgraves’ and Rhinegraves’ high court. The lily refers to

Saint Mary Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

, thus representing the chapel’s patron saint. The “chequy” pattern a reference to the village’s former allegiance to the “Hinder”

, which began in the 16th century.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:Directory of Cultural Monuments in Rhein-Hunsrück district
/ref> * Hauptstraße 4 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid or slated, marked 1839; whole complex of buildings with barn * Hauptstraße 14 – building with half-hipped roof, timber framing plastered, first third of the 19th century * Hauptstraße/corner of Dillerweg – bakehouse; one-floor timber-frame house, marked 1930, essentially possibly older

Clubs

* Volunteer fire brigade * ''Verein Berufliches und Soziales Lernen im Hunsrück'' (“Club for Professional and Social Learning in the Hunsrück”)

References

External links

Sohrschied in the collective municipality’s webpages
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