Ippenschied is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a

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belonging to a ''

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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the

Bad Kreuznach Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in t ...

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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Sobernheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Location

Ippenschied lies in the southern

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between the Soonwald and the former

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airfield at Pferdsfeld, in what is now

Bad Sobernheim Bad Sobernheim is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', and is also its seat. It is a state-recognized spa town, and is well known for two fossil discovery sites ...

’s northern municipal

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Neighbouring municipalities

Clockwise from the north, Ippenschied’s neighbours are the municipalities of Winterbach, Winterburg and

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and the town of

(exclave, not main townsite), all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

History

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finds made within municipal limits bear witness to people living and settling in the Ippenschied area as far back as

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times. Like all places at the forest’s outskirts (“''vor dem Walde''” in

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), it seems likely that Ippenschied, too, arose only in the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...

. In 1348, Ippenschied had its first documentary mention. Ippenschied belonged to the “Hinder”

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, and by the partition of the Sponheim holdings in 1776, it was assigned to the

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. After French Revolutionary troops had overrun and

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the German lands on the

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’s left bank in 1794, the village belonged to the

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of Sobernheim in the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle from 1798 to 1814. Under the terms of the

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, the region, and Ippenschied along with it, passed in 1815 to the Kingdom of

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, within which it was grouped into the Kreuznach district in the ''

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'' of Koblenz. This was part of Prussia’s

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until 1822. Until the early 19th century, Ippenschied belonged scholastically – as it still does ecclesiastically – to Winterburg. About 1800, the village established its own school. Even before the

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, Ippenschied had earned distinction as a model farming village with its many

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operations, and indeed even today it is one of those villages in which working the land is still deeply rooted. Ippenschied, which had always been bound to the ''

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'' of Winterburg, was assigned in 1970 to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Sobernheim when the ''Ämter'' were then dissolved.

Population development

Ippenschied’s population development since

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ic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Regionaldaten
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Religion

As at 30 September 2013, there are 146 full-time residents in Ippenschied, and of those, 93 are

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(63.699%), 15 are

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(10.274%), 1 (0.685%) belongs to another religious group and 37 (25.342%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.

Politics

Municipal council

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

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language be described thus: Sable a fess countercompony gules and argent between a plough and a billhooklike clearing knife, both Or. The fess with two chequered rows (“countercompony”) is a reference to the village's former allegiance to the

, while the charge above this, the plough, symbolizes Ippenschied's status as a farming village. The other charge, the

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(actually, the German blazon specifies a “clearing knife” that looks like a billhook), is a

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element, for one word used in

for a billhook is ''Hippe'', suggesting the first part of the name “Ippenschied” (although in German, as in

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, the letter H is pronounced).Description and explanation of Ippenschied’s arms
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Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Both ''

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'' 41 (

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is ...

–

Ingelheim am Rhein Ingelheim (), officially Ingelheim am Rhein ( en, Ingelheim upon Rhine), is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. The town sprawls along the Rhine's west bank. It has been Mainz-Bingen's district seat ...

) and the

Nahe Valley Railway The Nahe Valley Railway (german: Nahetalbahn) is a two-track, partially electrified main line railway in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which runs for almost 100 kilometres along the Nahe. It was built by the Rhine-Nahe ...

( Bingen–Saarbrücken) run by some 13 km south of Ippenschied. The nearest

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is in

Monzingen Monzingen 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 Nahe-Glan, whose s ...

References

External links

Ippenschied in the collective municipality’s webpages
{{Authority control Bad Kreuznach (district)