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{{Infobox German location
| type              = Ortsgemeinde
| image_coa         = DEU Lingerhahn COA.svg
| image_photo       = Lingerhahn01.jpg
| image_caption     = Church
| coordinates       = {{coord|50|5|44|N|7|33|57|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| image_plan        = Lingerhahn in SIM.svg
| state             = Rheinland-Pfalz
| district          = Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
| Verbandsgemeinde  = Hunsrück-Mittelrhein
| elevation         = 482
| area              = 6.01
| postal_code       = 56291
| area_code         = 06746
| licence           = SIM
| Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 40 087
| website           =
| mayor             = Uwe Schikorr<ref name=mayor>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1400000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.</ref>
| leader_term       = 2019&ndash;24
| party             =
}}
'''Lingerhahn''' is an ''[[Ortsgemeinde (Germany)|Ortsgemeinde]]'' – a [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] belonging to a ''[[Verbandsgemeinde]]'', a kind of collective municipality – in the [[Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis]] ([[Districts of Germany|district]]) in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]], [[Germany]]. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' [[Hunsrück-Mittelrhein]], whose seat is in [[Emmelshausen]].

==Geography==

===Location===
The municipality lies in the central [[Hunsrück]] between [[Emmelshausen]] and [[Kastellaun]], right on the ''[[Schinderhannes]]-Radweg'' (cycle path) and not far from the [[Autobahn]] [[Bundesautobahn 61|A&nbsp;61]] ([[Pfalzfeld]] [[interchange (road)|interchange]]).

===Climate===
Yearly [[Precipitation (meteorology)|precipitation]] in Lingerhahn amounts to 758&nbsp;mm, which falls into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 54% of the [[Deutscher Wetterdienst|German Weather Service's]] [[weather station]]s, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is February. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.6 times what it is in February. Precipitation varies only slightly. Only at 4% of the weather stations are lower seasonal [[:File:LINGERHAHN nieder.svg|swings]] recorded.

==History==

===Roman times===
North of Lingerhahn in 1873, in the cadastral area known as “Mohr”, remnants of a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[villa rustica]] were unearthed. These remnants amounted to “plates made of fired clay as well as clay pipes and remnants of ashes”,<ref name="Jahrbücher"/> although according to witnesses, coins were also found. Right nearby, a road, which had already existed before Roman times, led from the [[Rhine]] to the [[Moselle (river)|Moselle]] (today's Hauptstraße, continuation: “Karrenstraße”).<ref name="Römerstraßen"/><ref name="Zwischen Rhein und Mosel"/>

===Middle Ages===
In 1245, Lingerhahn had its first documentary mention: “''Cunradus und Friedericus von Liningerhagen''” cropped up as witnesses in a trial.<ref name="Katzenelnbogen"/> It can also be gathered from this document that Lingerhahn then belonged to the parish of [[Halsenbach]].

By 1275, though, Lingerhahn belonged to the parish of Schönenberg (''Sconinburg''). This parish was named after a hill (hence the ending ''—berg'', although this word is usually taken to mean “mountain”) between [[Kisselbach]], [[Riegenroth]] and Steinbach upon which the parish church stood. At this time, the tithe lord was Hermann von Milewalt. He had been granted the tithing rights by the [[Chapter (religion)|collegiate chapter]] at Saint Martin's in [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] against payment of yearly interest (“15 [[Cologne]] solidi”).<ref name="Mittelrheinische Regesten"/>

In 1375, there was a tour of inspection in the greater parish of Boppard, to which the parish of Schönenberg belonged. In the description of this event, the [[Holy Roman Empire|Imperial]] notary Detmarus von Langenbeke from Cologne noted that the Hunsrück region was found to be widely devastated; whole villages were empty.<ref name="LHAKo 74, 65"/> This was, of course, the upshot from the [[Black Death]], which was rife in [[Europe]] in the mid 14th century. According to chroniclers, more than a fourth of the Hunsrück's population died of this sickness.<ref name="Chronik_Lingerhahn"/>

As a reward for his help in electing the German king, [[Baldwin of Luxembourg]] acquired in 1309, 1312 and 1314, first from his brother [[Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg]] and later from [[Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Louis the Bavarian]] the Imperial cities of [[Boppard]] and [[Oberwesel|Wesel]] (now Oberwesel) and the ''Gallscheider Gericht'' (“Gallscheid Court”) at Emmelshausen as a pledge.<ref name="LHAKo, 133, 187"/> The judicial zone of the Gallscheid Court, named after an execution place within Emmelshausen's limits – ''Galgenscheid'' or ''Galgenhöhe'', the first six letters of each being [[German language|German]] for “[[gallows]]” – encompassed a great area, within which was, among other places, Lingerhahn. In the Court's 1460 boundary description, Lingerhahn was described as ''Linyngerhane slacken''. This epithet ''slacken'', which means “slags”, might well have meant the rubble mounds that can still be found today about a kilometre east of Lingerhahn (to the left before the [[Pfalzfeld]] turnoff on ''Landesstraße'' [State Road] 214/216). These are indeed [[slag]] heaps from the [[ore]] [[mining]] and [[smelting]] that was once done here. In 1435, Peter and Johann von Schöneck were enfeoffed with the court district.<ref name="Historisches Ortslexikon Gallscheid"/>

===Destruction in the Thirty Years’ War and reconstruction===
In the [[Thirty Years' War]] (1618-1648), Lingerhahn was occupied by troops of the [[Sweden|Swedish]] king [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden|Gustav II Adolf]] and all but utterly destroyed by them as well.<ref name="Chronik_Lingerhahn"/> In the nearby village of Pfalzfeld, the ''[[Schultheiß]]'' reported food and livestock thefts and destruction of crops by soldiers. Another eyewitness spoke of abuses and murders.<ref name="Chronik_Lingerhahn"/> The war's far-reaching consequences can be seen in Lingerhahn's population figures: in 1563, Lingerhahn was home to 18 families (or family “heads”, at least),<ref name="LHAKo 1C, 12928"/> whereas by 1663, there were only seven.<ref name="Chronik_Lingerhahn"/>

After the destruction, the village had to be built all over again from the ground up. This was done at a new location. The village's original site is described in the Lingerhahn school chronicle as being “more easterly”. Another clue about the old village comes from the cadastral toponym “Im Weiher”. This is a rural area some 200&nbsp;m north of Lingerhahn on the road to [[Hausbay]]. The name means “In the Pond”, and it could refer to the old village's fire pond.

===Modern times===
In 1784, Lingerhahn had 36 citizens.<ref name="Wirtschaftsbuch"/> In 1798, the [[Rhineland]] was [[Annexation|annexed]] to the [[French First Republic|French Republic]]. The former administrative divisions, the Princely Electorates and Counties, were swept away and replaced with newly created [[Departments of France|''départements'']]. These were subdivided into ''arrondissements'', which in turn were subdivided into ''cantons''. Lingerhahn was grouped into the ''canton'' of Saint<!--Yes, that’s right. It’s a French name, not German. Do not “correct”.--> Goar in the Department of [[Rhin-et-Moselle]]. After the agreements concluded at the [[Congress of Vienna]] in 1815, the Rhineland was ceded to the Kingdom of [[Prussia]] and Lingerhahn then belonged to the ''Bürgermeisterei'' (“Mayoralty”) of Pfalzfeld in the newly created district of Sankt Goar in the ''[[Regierungsbezirk]]'' of Coblenz (as it was then spelt).<ref name="Königlich Preußische Rheinprovinzen"/>

===Troubles in March 1848===
The [[Revolutions of 1848|Year of Revolution]] – namely 1848 – did not pass Lingerhahn by. On the morning of 25 March 1848, it was reported to Mayor Müller that parishioners from Lingerhahn, “where there are many poor people and pedlars”,<ref name="LHAKo 441, 1329"/> were preparing to storm the mayor's office in Pfalzfeld. He called his security watch together and had the men armed with rifles. Gendarmes from neighbouring places also hurried to help. At 14:00, the Lingerhahners appeared, armed with pistols and rifles, led by a rider on a white horse, which was supposed to represent [[Napoleon I|Napoleon]]. Behind him were the Lingerhahn parish priest's brother and brother-in-law as well as a few members of the parish council. Thereafter came the armed “army force” and at the end some women with empty baskets. Calls such as ''Vivat Napoleon!'' and ''Vivat die Republik!'' became loud.

When the mayor asked them what they wanted, they answered “Freedom and equality. There exists no more Prussian state. We hereby [[Secession|secede]] from the Mayoralty.” There ensued a brawl from which some came away wounded, some badly, and during which Prussian symbols, such as official signs and two Sovereign Eagles, were torn down.

Then, with a threat that they would come back at night with reinforcements, the armed crowd withdrew. Pfalzfeld was put under the protection of a division of the 26th Infantry Regiment and remained unmolested, while Lingerhahn once again formally seceded from Prussia, proclaimed a republic and no longer reported events that by law they had to report, such as births and deaths. Punishing these wayward people was out of the question owing to low troop strength. It was simply hoped that the impending work needing to be done in the fields would bring the citizens back to their senses.<ref name="LHAKo 441, 1329"/><ref name="LHAKO 441, 3056, 42"/><ref name="LHAKo 403, 17332"/><ref name="Kreuznacher Zeitung"/> Nothing further is known about this event. It seems that nothing much else happened.

These insurrectionists might well have meant to destroy the mayor's office, and thereby all the deeds – particularly the land survey – as well, whereupon they would then have divided the land up among themselves. They might also have hoped for plundered booty.

The instigators of this small uprising seem to have been Father Schmoll, the Lingerhahn priest, and his brother, who had already drawn attention to himself by speaking out against the state. One remark that he is known to have made was: “already about 6 or 7 March it came out in Cologne that there was a religious war, that everybody should stick together.” The district chairman commented on a report of this in the margin: “Father Schmoll […] is notorious, not seldom from drinking, for his habit of being eccentric.”.<ref name="LHAKo 441, 3056, 13"/>

This, as well as yearning for Imperial times or the French Republic, can all likely be traced back to regional disputes in which denominational motives surely played a great role. The formerly [[Electorate of Trier|Electoral-Trier]], thoroughly [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] Lingerhahn was bigger, and therefore in its own people's opinion at least, more important than Pfalzfeld with its mixture of denominations and its two-fifths [[Protestantism|Protestant]] minority, who with their likewise former allegiance to Hesse tended rather to look towards the [[Evangelical Church in Germany|Evangelical]] [[Sankt Goar]].<ref name="Paul Schmidt"/>

==Politics==

===Municipal council===
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by [[Plurality voting system|majority vote]] at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.<ref>[http://www.wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1400208700.html Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat]</ref>

===Mayor===
Lingerhahn's mayor is Uwe Schikorr.<ref name=mayor/>

===Coat of arms===
The German blazon reads: ''Über erhöhtem goldenen Schildfuß, darin ein roter Balken, in Grün durch einen silbernen Pfahl gespalten, vorne eine silberne Kapelle, hinten eine silberne Mauer mit einer sprudelnden Quelle.''

The municipality's [[Coat of arms|arms]] might in English [[Heraldry|heraldic]] language be described thus: Per fess abased vert an endorse between a chapel affronty and a wall on top of which a spring issuant from which a stream of water, all argent, and Or a fess gules.

The base of the arms refers to the former ''Gallscheider Gericht'' (“Gallscheid Court”) through the arms then borne by the Lords of Schöneck (“Or a fess gules”, or a red horizontal stripe on a gold field). The [[chapel]] represents the first, thatched, church mentioned in the municipality's 1719 stock book.<ref name="LHAKo 1C, 14796"/> The wall stands for the quarrystone and brick cellar walls of a Roman villa within municipal limits. The [[spring (hydrosphere)|spring]] supposedly furnished water for those who lived in this building and was only channelled into a drain in the 1950s. The endorse (narrow vertical stripe) symbolizes Karrenstraße, a road in the municipality that has existed since pre-Roman times.<ref>[http://www.emmelshausen.de/vg_emmelshausen/Gemeinden/Lingerhahn/ Description and explanation of Lingerhahn’s arms]</ref>

==Culture and sightseeing==

===Buildings===
The following are listed buildings or sites in [[Rhineland-Palatinate]]’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:<ref>[http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Rhein-Hunsrueck-Kreis.pdf Directory of Cultural Monuments in Rhein-Hunsrück district]</ref>
* [[Saint Sebastian]]’s [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Sebastian''), Ringstraße 34 – quarrystone [[aisleless church]], design 1913/1914, architect Ludwig Becker, [[Mainz]], building undertaken 1923/1924, [[transept]]-like smaller hall marked 1773

==References==
<references>
<ref name="Jahrbücher">''Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande'', Heft LIII und LIV, Bonn 1873, S. 314.</ref>
<ref name="Römerstraßen">J. Hagen: ''Römerstraßen der Rheinprovinz II'', Bonn 1931, S. 384, 434–436</ref>
<ref name="Zwischen Rhein und Mosel">H. Eiden: ''Zur Siedlungs- und Kulturgeschichte der Frühzeit''; in: F. J. Heyen: ''Zwischen Rhein und Mosel&nbsp;– Der Kreis St. Goar''; S. 25.</ref>
<ref name="Katzenelnbogen">[[Karl Ernst Demandt|K. E. Demandt]]: Regesten der Grafen von Katzenelnbogen, (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Nassau, Bd. 119.), Wiesbaden 1953, Nr. 95, 98, 100, 295.</ref>
<ref name="Mittelrheinische Regesten">H. Goerz: ''Mittelrheinische Regesten oder chronologische Zusammenstellung des Quellenmaterials für die Geschichte der Territorien der beiden Regierungsbezirke Koblenz und Trier in kurzen Auszügen'', Band 4, Koblenz 1876/86, S. 35 f.</ref>
<ref name="Chronik_Lingerhahn">W. Stoffel, E. Müller: ''Chronik des Hunsrückdorfes Lingerhahn'', Lingerhahn 2009.</ref>
<ref name="LHAKo 74, 65">Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 74, Nr. 65. ([http://www.archivdatenbank.lha-rlp.de/koblenz/a/a.02/74 Link]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }})</ref>
<ref name="LHAKo, 133, 187">Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 133, Nr. 187. ([http://www.archivdatenbank.lha-rlp.de/koblenz/a/a.02/133 Link]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }})</ref>
<ref name="Historisches Ortslexikon Gallscheid">Elmar Rettinger: ''Historisches Ortslexikon Rheinland-Pfalz''. Band 2: Ehemaliger Kreis St. Goar, Stichwort Gallscheid ([http://www.regionalgeschichte.net/fileadmin/Superportal/Bibliothek/sammlungen/Ortslexikon/GallscheidHOL.pdf PDF]; 29,5 KB).</ref>
<ref name="LHAKo 1C, 12928">Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 1C, Nr. 12928. ([http://www.archivdatenbank.lha-rlp.de/koblenz/a/a.01/1c/fb/akten/29/12928 Link]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }})</ref>
<ref name="Wirtschaftsbuch">''Wirtschaftsbuch des Antonius Schweitzer'' (1740), im Besitz der Familie Schweitzer, Lingerhahn</ref>
<ref name="Königlich Preußische Rheinprovinzen">Friedrich von Restorff: ''Topographisch-Statistische Beschreibung der Königlich Preußischen Rheinprovinzen'', Berlin und Stettin 1830, S. 598. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv4AAAAAcAAJ&q=Lingerhahn&pg=PA598 PDF]; 68,4 MB)</ref>
<ref name="LHAKo 441, 1329">Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 441 Nr. 1329 Bl. 545 ff. ([http://www.archivdatenbank.lha-rlp.de/koblenz/c/c.02/441/fb/akten/10/10.0/10.0.0/10.0.0.7/1329 Link])</ref>
<ref name="LHAKO 441, 3056, 42">Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 441 Nr. 3056 Bl. 42 f. ([http://www.archivdatenbank.lha-rlp.de/koblenz/c/c.02/441/fb/akten/13/13.5/13.5.0/3056 Link])</ref>
<ref name="LHAKo 403, 17332">Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 403 Nr. 17332. ([http://www.archivdatenbank.lha-rlp.de/koblenz/c/c.01/403/fb/akten/c./c.08/c.08.15/c.08.15.01/17332 Link]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }})</ref>
<ref name="Kreuznacher Zeitung">''Kreuznacher Zeitung'' Nr.43 (29. März 1848)</ref> 
<ref name="LHAKo 441, 3056, 13">Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz, Best. 441 Nr. 3056 Bl. 13. ([http://www.archivdatenbank.lha-rlp.de/koblenz/c/c.02/441/fb/akten/13/13.5/13.5.0/3056 Link])</ref>
<ref name="Paul Schmidt">Paul Schmidt: ''Die ersten zwanzig Jahre konstitutionellen Lebens. 1848–1867''; in: Franz Josef Heyen: ''Zwischen Rhein und Mosel – Der Kreis St. Goar'', S. 481  f.</ref>
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==External links==
*[http://www.emmelshausen.de/vg_emmelshausen/Gemeinden/Lingerhahn/ Lingerhahn in the collective municipality’s webpages] {{in lang|de}}
*[http://www.lingerhahn.de Municipality’s official webpage] {{in lang|de}}

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