# Hambuch

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**Hambuch** is an *[Ortsgemeinde](/source/Ortsgemeinde_(Germany))* – a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Germany) belonging to a *[Verbandsgemeinde](/source/Verbandsgemeinde)*, a kind of collective municipality – in the [Cochem-Zell](/source/Cochem-Zell) [district](/source/Districts_of_Germany) in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the [*Verbandsgemeinde* of Kaisersesch](/source/Kaisersesch_(Verbandsgemeinde)), whose seat is in the [like-named town](/source/Kaisersesch).

## Geography

The municipality lies in the [Eifel](/source/Eifel), on the [Autobahn](/source/Autobahn) [A 48](/source/Bundesautobahn_48).[2]

## History

Hambuch's long history makes it one of the oldest settlements in the area. It had its first documentary mention as early as 866 when Abbot [Ansbald of Prüm](/source/Ansbald_of_Pr%C3%BCm) documented the donation of an estate in the village named *Haganbahc* in the Mayengau (the country around [Mayen](/source/Mayen)) by his [monastery](/source/Monastery) to the dowager Higilda. The donation, however, apparently did not include the village church. The mention of a church does, however, imply that the village was founded quite some time before 866, but there is no documentary evidence dating from before Abbot Ansbald's record.

The name “Hambuch” itself could have the following origins. The root word *hag* refers to an enclosed piece of land, which could be of any size, ringed with [pollarded](/source/Pollarding) shrubs. Used for this would have been thorny shrubs such as [hawthorn](/source/Crataegus_monogyna) or [dog rose](/source/Rosa_canina), or thickly growing plants such as [hornbeam](/source/Carpinus_betulus), a sprig of which appears as a [charge](/source/Charge_(heraldry)) in the municipality's [coat of arms](/source/Coat_of_arms). The *—anbach* ending might simply refer to the village's location near the brook (*Bach* in [German](/source/German_language)) known as the Pommerbach.

The name changed often throughout time. Another spelling was to be seen in 893 in [Prüm Abbey](/source/Pr%C3%BCm_Abbey)’s official directory of holdings, the *Prümer Urbar*. In 1222, Abbot Caesarius noted that the Count of Are had a valuable estate on the *Mayfeld* called *Haynbahc*. In the 12th century, the village was listed in the [Carden](/source/Treis-Karden) Foundation’s directory of holdings under the name *Hagenbach*. In 1395, a document from Archbishop of Trier Werner records that he enfeoffed “Johann, the Lord at [Daun](/source/Daun,_Germany)” with a share of the court at *Haenbach*.

Other name variants recorded over time have been *Hambach*, *Heimbach* and *Harnbach*.

In the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages), the lordship over the village was held jointly, with half in [Electoral-Trier](/source/Electorate_of_Trier) hands and the other half shared between the [Electorate of Cologne](/source/Electorate_of_Cologne) and the [Counts of Leyen](/source/House_of_Leyen). The border between the two archbishoprics ran straight through the village. The two streets, Eulgemer Straße and Brunnenstraße, are even today perceived as a boundary of sorts, setting apart the *Hinnewäldtje* and the *Ewwewäldtje*, the local names for the lower and upper village respectively.

Beginning in 1794, Hambuch lay under [French](/source/France) rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of [Prussia](/source/Prussia) at the [Congress of Vienna](/source/Congress_of_Vienna). Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded [state](/source/States_of_Germany) of [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate).[3]

In 2005 the project *Dorfakademie Hambuch*, which had set itself the goal of “making life in the rural area even more attractive”,[4] won first place in Rhineland-Palatinate's second volunteer contest, in which outstanding community projects earn recognition.[5][6]

## Politics

### Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by [majority vote](/source/Plurality_voting_system) at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[7]

### Mayor

Hambuch's mayor is Matthias Hetger.[1]

### Coat of arms

The municipality's [arms](/source/Coat_of_arms) might be described thus: Vert an abbot's staff with sudarium and ensigned with a cross bottonnée bendwise Or between, in sinister chief, a hornbeam twig couped and leafed of three and, in dexter base, an urn, both argent.

## Culture and sightseeing

### Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate)’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

- Saint [John the Baptist](/source/John_the_Baptist)’s [Catholic](/source/Catholic_Church) Parish Church (*Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer*), Kirchstraße – [aisleless church](/source/Aisleless_church), 1847-1848, architect may have been Johann Claudius von Lassaulx; cross, 1852; graveyard, warriors’ memorial, 20th century
- Hauptstraße – [basalt](/source/Basalt) fountain, from 1859
- Hauptstraße 24 – relief, Hoffmann school (?), [Baroque](/source/Baroque), from 1623
- Hauptstraße 36 – [basalt cross](/source/Basalt_cross), from 1719
- Kirchstraße – wayside cross, from 1724
- On *[Kreisstraße](/source/Kreisstra%C3%9Fe)* 23 – wayside cross
- Near the *Hambucher Mühle* (mill) – wayside cross, 17th century[8]

## Economy and infrastructure

### Education

Hambuch has one [kindergarten](/source/Kindergarten) and one [primary school](/source/Primary_school).[9]

## References

1. [Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Cochem-Zell](https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1350000000000.html), Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.

1. ["Hambuch’s location"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100629122739/http://www.hambuch.info/lage_geografie.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.hambuch.info/lage_geografie.html) on 2010-06-29. Retrieved 2010-10-21.

1. [Hambuch’s history](http://www.hambuch.info/geschichte.html)[dead link]

1. [Dorfakademie Hambuch](http://www.dorfakademie-hambuch.de/konzept.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110718231523/http://www.dorfakademie-hambuch.de/konzept.htm) 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine

1. [Pressemitteilung des Innenministeriums von Rheinland-Pfalz zur Verleihung des Ehrenamtspreises 2005 an die Dorfakademie](http://www.ism.rlp.de/Internet/nav/4f5/presse.jsp?uMen=4f52f6fd-ee9d-40d4-9e64-fe72e0c7db0b&sel_uCon=0a549f87-bcb9-4ec6-a652-93d65f1a0fb8&page=36&pagesize=10).

1. [http://www.hambuch.info](http://www.hambuch.info)

1. [Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat](http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1350203800.html)

1. [Directory of Cultural Monuments in Cochem-Zell district](http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Cochem-Zell.pdf)

1. [Hambuch’s educational institutions](http://www.hambuch.info/Bildungseinrichtungen.html)[dead link]

## External links

- [Municipality’s official webpage](http://www.hambuch.info/) (in German)

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