| Type: | Ortsgemeinde |
| Liebshausen | |
| Image Coa: | DEU Liebshausen COA.svg |
| Coordinates: | 50.0333°N 7.6306°W |
| Image Plan: | Liebshausen in SIM.svg |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Simmern-Rheinböllen |
| Elevation: | 460 |
| Area: | 5.85 |
| Postal Code: | 55494 |
| Area Code: | 06764 |
| Licence: | SIM |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 40 085 |
| Mayor: | Matthias Merscher[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Liebshausen is an German: [[Ortsgemeinde (Germany)|Ortsgemeinde]] – a municipality belonging to a German: [[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.
The municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 4 km northwest of Rheinböllen and 10 km west-southwest of the Rhine at Bacharach. Liebshausen lies just west of the Autobahn A 61. The municipal area measures 548 ha, of which 5 ha is wooded.[2]
In 1006, Liebshausen had its first documentary mention on the occasion of a church consecration in Mörschbach. Beginning in 1794, Liebshausen 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.
Liebshausen was said in the late 18th century to be a favourite hideout among robbers and horse thieves. It was here that the robber Philipp Ludwig Mosebach (“Jäger-Philipp”, Jäger being German for “hunter” or “rifleman”), a clergyman’s ne’er-do-well son and the leader of the Hunsrück-Bande, a lawless gang, stayed. Mosebach was eventually put to death in Koblenz.[3] The notorious outlaw Johannes Bückler, or “Schinderhannes”, to use the nickname by which he is best known, came early on in his career of lawlessness to Liebshausen, where he was wounded in a brawl at an inn when somebody fired a shotgun at him.
What follows is a table of population figures for Liebshausen from selected years since the Congress of Vienna (at 31 December each time):
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.[4]
Liebshausen’s mayor is Matthias Merscher.[1]
The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Tierced in mantle dexter argent a cross gules, sinister Or an eagle displayed sable armed and langued of the second, and in base azure a bell hanging from its yoke of the first.
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:[5]