Daubach, Hunsrück
municipality of Germany
Daubach (German pronunciation: [ˈdaʊbax]) 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 Bad Sobernheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Geography
Location
Daubach lies in the southern Hunsrück north of Bad Sobernheim. It is a residential community that is nonetheless characterized by agriculture. The municipal area measures 292 ha.
Neighbouring municipalities
Clockwise from the north, Daubach's neighbours are the municipalities of Rehbach, Bockenau, Nußbaum and the town of Bad Sobernheim, although this is in fact the outlying piece of that town's municipal area, a mostly rural swathe of land, not the one containing the actual town. Daubach's municipal area also comes to within a matter of metres of a salient jutting out of Waldböckelheim’s municipal area.
Constituent communities
Also belonging to Daubach are the outlying homesteads of Birkenhof and Sonnenhof.
History
About how the village came to have the name Daubach nothing is known. What is known, however, is that the name was written Daupach in 1377, thus showing at least that the village has had a similar name for well over six hundred years.
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