{{Infobox German location | type = Ortsgemeinde | image_photo = | image_coa = DEU Rayerschied COA.svg | coordinates = {{coord|50|1|7|N|7|35|11|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | image_plan = Rayerschied in SIM.svg | state = Rheinland-Pfalz | district = Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis | Verbandsgemeinde = Simmern-Rheinböllen | elevation = 392 | area = 2.51 | postal_code = 55469 | area_code = 06766 | licence = SIM | Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 40 121 | website = {{URL|http://www.rayerschied.de/}} | mayor = José Miguel Nieves Päschkes<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 = 2019–24 | party = }} [[File:Rayerschied01.jpg|thumb|Kirchstraße 2: Saint John of Nepomuk Catholic Church]] '''Rayerschied''' is an {{lang|de|Ortsgemeinde}} – a municipality belonging to a {{lang|de|Verbandsgemeinde}}, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Simmern.
==Geography==
===Location=== The residential municipality lies in the Hunsrück between Pleizenhausen and Bergenhausen 7 km from Simmern.
==History== In 1204, Rayerschied had its first documentary mention in a donation document from the Kumbd Convent. From 1420, the village belonged to the ''Amt'' of Simmern, and later also to Palatinate-Simmern. In 1498, the village was mentioned as ''Reinßrath''. In 1673, Rayerschied passed to Electoral Palatinate. Beginning in 1794, Rayerschied lay under French rule. In 1814 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 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/1400712100.html Municipal election results for Rayerschied]</ref>
===Mayor=== Rayerschied's mayor is José Miguel Nieves Päschkes.<ref name=mayor/>
===Coat of arms=== The municipality's arms might be described thus: Under a chief lozengy argent and azure, per pale gules a stork statant of the first and argent a cross sable.
==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 John of Nepomuk Catholic Church (''Kirche St. Johannes Nepomuk''), Kirchstraße 2 – Gothic Revival brick building, 1896; before the church a sandstone beam cross, early 19th century; in the parish garden a Baroque baptismal font basin holder
===Ancient sites=== There are also barrows in Rayerschied.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.rayerschied.de/ Municipality's official webpage] {{in lang|de}}
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