Würrich is an – a

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

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(

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) in

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. 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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, right on the ''Hunsrückhöhenstraße'' ("Hunsrück Heights Road" – also called ''

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'' 327 – a scenic road across the Hunsrück built originally as a military road on

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's orders), just outside

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, roughly 8 km west-northwest of Kirchberg and 10 km southeast of the

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History

Bearing witness to Würrich's early history is a

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estate that was unearthed in 1870. In 1295, Würrich had its first documentary mention and was held by the Counts of Sponheim. As early as 1317, a

chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...

in Würrich was mentioned. In 1437 the village passed to the Margraviate of

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and the Counts Palatine of the Rhine, who jointly ruled

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and Würrich. In 1708, their holdings were partitioned and the two villages were assigned to the Margraviate of Baden. Beginning in 1794, Würrich lay under

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rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of

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at the

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. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded

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. The former Würrich schoolhouse was dismantled and moved from its original site in 1996 to the

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. In May 2000, the

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was celebrated. Thereafter the house served to demonstrate

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and helped with school projects about this building style. After further conversions, the house was opened to the general public in 2008.

Religion

The

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parish of Würrich comprises not only the municipality of that name but also

Altlay Altlay is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat i ...

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, Peterswald-Löffelscheid,

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and Briedel’s outlying centre of Briedeler Heck. The merger with the parish of Hahn and its branch village of Heck came about in 1978.

Politics

Municipal council

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

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at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Mayor

Würrich's mayor is Elmar Herberts, and his deputy is Reinhard Mohr.

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: ''In Bau eine eingeschweifte silberne Spitze, darin eine blaue Kirche mit goldener Tür und goldenem Schalloch; vorn eine goldene ausgerissene Eiche, hinten drei goldene Ähren.'' The municipality's

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might in English

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language be described thus: Tierced in mantle dexter azure an oaktree eradicated Or, sinister azure an ear of wheat flanked by two ears of rye all couped of the second and in base argent a church of the first with door and sound hole of the second. The

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in base, the church, is meant to stand for the one found in the village. A chapel is known to have stood in Würrich by 1317; the tapering cupola was added in the 18th century. The oaktree on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side symbolizes the municipality's great wealth of woodland, and the ears of wheat and rye on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side symbolize

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, which has characterized the village for hundreds of years.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in

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church, Dorfstraße –

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, 1887/1888; former quire tower, latter half of the 13th century,

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cupola, 18th century; whole complex of buildings with graveyard

References

External links

Municipality's official webpage
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