Jeckenbach is anOrtsgemeinde – amunicipality belonging to aVerbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in theBad Kreuznachdistrict inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It belongs to theVerbandsgemeinde of Meisenheim, whose seat is in thelike-named town.

Jeckenbach
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Jeckenbach within Bad Kreuznach district
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Coordinates:49°42′37″N7°36′28″E / 49.71028°N 7.60778°E /49.71028; 7.60778
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Meisenheim
Government
• Mayor(2019–24)	Christa Venter[1]
Area
• Total	6.28 km2 (2.42 sq mi)
Elevation	190 m (620 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	207
• Density	33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	55592
Dialling codes	06753
Vehicle registration	KH

Jeckenbach is a linear village (by some definitions, a "thorpe") that lies in theNorth Palatine Uplands west of theGlan.

Clockwise from the north, Jeckenbach's neighbours are the municipalities ofBärweiler,Lauschied,Desloch,Breitenheim,Löllbach,Schweinschied andHundsbach, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.

Jeckenbach is an important site forfossil finds from theRotliegend (Permian) some 290,000,000 years ago. It was here that amateurpalaeontologist Arnulf Stapf fromNierstein am Rhein unearthed the oldestmayflies (Misthodotes stapfi) ever found in Central Europe. Further fossils that were brought to light were of fishes andamphibians. Finds from Jeckenbach are kept at the Palaeontological Museum in Nierstein.

From 1816 to 1866, Jeckenbach belonged to theOberamt of Meisenheim in the Landgraviate ofHesse-Homburg, along with which it passed in 1866 to the Kingdom ofPrussia.

Jeckenbach's population development sinceNapoleonic times is shown in the table below. The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:^[3]

As at 30 September 2013, there are 253 full-time residents in Jeckenbach, and of those, 206 areEvangelical (81.423%), 20 areCatholic (7.905%), 1 (0.395%) belongs to another religious group and 26 (10.277%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation.^[4]

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected bymajority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.^[5]

Jeckenbach's mayor is Christa Venter.^[1]

The municipality'sarms might be described thus: Argent on a base wavy gules a lion rampant azure armed, langued and crowned of the second, in his forepaws an inescutcheon of the second charged with a cross Maltese of the first.

The following are listed buildings or sites inRhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:^[6]

• Evangelical church, Mühlstraße –Late Baroqueaisleless church, marked 1767, architect possibly Philipp Heinrich Hellermann, west tower essentiallyRomanesque, 11th or 12th century, belfry and spire Baroque;Classicist stairway, 1852
• Deslocher Straße – bridge, one arch, quarrystone, possibly from the earlier half of the 19th century
• Hauptstraße (at the municipal hall) – arch bridge across the Jeckenbach, marked 1874
• Mühlstraße – bridge, one arch,sandstone-block, possibly from the latter half of the 19th century
• Near Mühlstraße 5 – bridge, one arch, possibly from the mid 19th century
• Mühlstraße 9 – estate complex along the street;timber-frame house, plastered, marked 1841, barn, marked 1833
• Across from Mühlstraße 10 – Baroque timber-frame house, plastered, 18th century
• So-calledRömerbrunnen ("Romanwell”), südöstlich des Orts, im Stried – sweep well complex, apparently fromRoman times
• Weinbergshaus ("Vineyard House"), north of the village – Historicized building with gable roof, possibly from the 1920s

Jeckenbach also has a theatre club which puts on yearly plays. For the village's youth, a youth clubhouse with a grilling pavilion has been built about 1.5 km outside the village on a hill.

Running through Hundsbach isLandesstraße 182, which links toBundesstraße 420 atMeisenheim to the southeast. In the other direction, the road leads toBecherbach bei Kirn and thenKirn itself, where it links withBundesstraße 41.Landesstraße 182 also has a junction withLandesstraße 374 just before Becherbach bei Kirn, which leads toBundesstraße 270 atSien. Branching offLandesstraße 182 just outside the village isLandesstraße 373. ServingBad Sobernheim is arailway station on theNahe Valley Railway (Bingen–Saarbrücken).

• Jeckenbach in the collective municipality’s webpages(in German)
• Nierstein Palaeontological Museum(in German)