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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ' N , 7 ° 14' E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Neuwied | |
| Association municipality : | Uncle | |
| Height : | 60 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 9.21 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2550 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 277 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 53579 | |
| Area code : | 02644 | |
| License plate : | NO | |
| Community key : | 07 1 38 019 | |
| LOCODE : | DE 83E | |
| Association administration address: | Linzer Strasse 4 53572 Unkel |
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| Local Mayor : | Günter Hirzmann ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the local community Erpel in the district of Neuwied | ||
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Erpel is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Unkel community .
geography
The town center lies in the valley of the northern Middle Rhine opposite Remagen on the edge of the Rhine-Westerwald nature park . In the east of the municipality, the Erpeler parish forest extends to the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge . There is south of the tip of 430 m above sea level. NHN high Asberg reaches the highest point in the municipality. The outer eastern district of Drake, whose limit there by the Erpeler Bach is highlighted, can already Asbacher plateau attribute.
About 60% of the municipal area is agricultural area , a good fifth is forested and almost a sixth is designated as settlement and traffic area.
Community structure
The municipality of Erpel belongs to the north of the main town above the Rhine Valley at about 200 m above sea level. Orsberg district located on the NHN . In the east of the municipality is located immediately north of Kretzhaus at around 350 m above sea level. NHN is the Reifstein residential area , which includes a former forester's house and a hunting lodge. Further places to live in the municipality are Erpeler-Ley -Plateau and Sankt Severin brewery .
Neighboring communities
In the north, the municipality borders on Unkel and Bruchhausen , in the northeast on Windhagen , in the east on Vettelschoss and in the south on Kasbach-Ohlenberg and Linz am Rhein . The western municipal border to Remagen runs in the middle of the Rhine.
history
After there was increased urban development in Erpel from the 14th century, it received market rights around 1420 . The state sovereignty and undivided judicial rule exercised in Erpel since 1493 at the latest the Cologne cathedral chapter . Thus, Erpel as rule (also referred to as “glory”) was independent of the secular power of the Electorate of Cologne , whose territory included the surrounding localities administered by the Linz Office. Bruchhausen , Casbach (on the Erpel side), Heister and Orsberg also belonged to the Erpel rulership. In 1670 it comprised 124 houses.
The rule of Kurköln ended in 1803 after more than 500 years with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The Electorate of Cologne area in this region was initially the Principality of Nassau-Usingen assigned and came in 1806 due to the Act of Confederation, the Duchy of Nassau . The former Herrlichkeit Erpel was then under the administration of the Nassau Office of Linz . After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , the area was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Erpel was a municipality in the then newly formed Linz district (from 1822 Neuwied district ) in the Koblenz administrative district and administered by the Unkel mayor . In 1843 drakes were referred to as stains . Wine became the most important trade item. Viticulture was very important for drakes until the 20th century.
The Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine to Remagen was built between 1916 and 1918 in order to be able to bring more troops and war material to the western front . Kaiser Wilhelm II gave it this name in 1918, out of gratitude to the first Quartermaster General of the Infantry, Erich von Ludendorff . Today, the traffic structure is more known as a bridge from Remagen , also due to the feature film of this name . Its conquest by US troops on March 7, 1945 is an important event of the Second World War . A little later, the railway and pedestrian bridge collapsed; it was not rebuilt. However, both bridge portals and the rail tunnel leading to it on the Erpel side still exist. The listed east portal on the Erpeler side has been in a little changed condition since the end of the war. Access to the towers is walled up from one side, but is possible from the other through a steel door. A Peace Museum has been set up in Remagen's west portal since March 7, 1980.
On June 7, 1969, the previously independent community Orsberg was incorporated into Erpel.
- Population development
The development of the population of Erpel in relation to today's municipal area; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Erpel consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the municipal council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | DvO | FWG | total |
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| 2019 | 4th | 8th | 8th | - | 20 seats |
| 2014 | 4th | 10 | - | 2 | 16 seats |
| 2009 | 4th | 12 | - | 4th | 20 seats |
| 2004 | 4th | 12 | - | 4th | 20 seats |
* FWG = Free Voter Group Erpel e. V.
* DvO = local democracy Erpel e. V.
mayor
Günter Hirzmann (CDU) became the local mayor of Erpel on August 12, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with a share of the vote of 52.86%. Hirzmann's predecessors were Cilly Adenauer (CDU, Mayor 2009–2019), Heinrich Schwarz and Edgar Neustein.
coat of arms
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Blazon : “Under the red head of a shield, in it three golden foliage crowns set 1: 2, split by silver and blue; in front a continuous black bar cross; at the back two slanted golden keys. " |
| Justification for the coat of arms: All symbols of the coat of arms - the crowns of the Holy Three Kings , the Petruskeys and the black cross - refer to the Cologne cathedral chapter , which owned the "Erpel rule" from 1130–1803 as a fiefdom of the Archbishop of Cologne. It is not known since when the coat of arms became legally valid. |
Culture and sights
Attractions
Erpel's medieval townscape with the remains of the rectangular walling from 1420, the location on the Rhine within a view of the Siebengebirge ( Erpeler Ley lookout point with impressive basalt formations), along with the two preserved city gates (Rheintor and Neutor) and the renovated town hall, make up a significant part of its tourist potential out.
The baroque town hall with a mansard roof and a small turret was built in 1780 on the site of a smaller town hall and court house from 1624 by the master bricklayer and architect Franz Ignaz Freeg. From 1803 to 1966 it was owned by the parish of Erpel (comprised Bruchhausen , Niederkasbach , Heister, Orsberg and Erpel), from 1816 to 1822 it was the residence of the district administrator of the Linz district . The town hall was renovated in 1930, 1976 and 1990.
The Neutor was built around 1420 and was part of a second fortification built as a circular wall after the town center was expanded to the north. The Linzer Tor in the south and the Schleidentor east of the market square have not been preserved, the Rheintor from the early 13th century was built over with the Fronhof around 1589. Remains of a round tower are still preserved south of the Rhine.
The church of St. Severinus , built around 1230, combines early Romanesque and early Gothic construction phases, the tower comes from an older single-nave church, probably from the 10th century. The tower also contains the large Osanna bell from 1388. The church windows in the choir were enlarged in the 15th century, and further alterations were made in the 18th century. According to a legend, the older church temporarily held the bones of the three kings when Archbishop Rainald von Dassel brought them from Milan to Cologne in 1164 . The three crowns in the upper field of the town's coat of arms remind of this.
The outstanding evidence of recent history in Erpel are the remains of the Remagen Bridge (see section History ).
Hiking trails
The Rheinsteig , the long - distance hiking trail on the right bank of the Rhine from Bonn to Wiesbaden , leads on the stage from Unkel to Leubsdorf (16.7 km, 500 meters in altitude) through the Orsberg district and over the Erpeler Ley . This towering rock offers one of the most beautiful views of the Rhine Valley.
Regular events
- Carnival procession on Carnival Sunday
- Rhine in flames : on the first Saturday in May. Large fireworks and boat tour from Linz along the Rhine along Erpel, Unkel , Remagen , Rheinbreitbach , Rhine island Nonnenwerth near Bad Honnef , Bad Godesberg , Königswinter to Bonn's Rheinaue near Bonn .
- Fair : Every third weekend in June (from Friday up to and including Monday).
- Wine festival : Every weekend with the third Sunday in September (from Friday up to and including Monday) with a parade / flower parade on Sunday
Economy and Infrastructure
Crafts, trade and services, to a lesser extent tourism.
traffic
Erpel is the stopping point for regional train 27 ( Mönchengladbach - Cologne - Koblenz ) and individual trains of regional express 8 (Mönchengladbach - Cologne - Koblenz) on the right-hand Rhine route .
The B 42 runs through Erpel and connects it with the cities in the direction of Bonn ( Unkel , Bad Honnef , Königswinter ) and in the direction of Koblenz (including Bad Hönningen , Neuwied ). The route in Erpel was raised from August 2001 to July 2002 in order to reduce the number of closures due to flooding. The elevation was very controversial because part of the city wall was built.
The Rhine ferry "Nixe" at km 633 offers a direct crossing of the river to Remagen for people and bicycles.
Personalities associated with drakes
- Anna Katharina Spee (1590–1631) was a victim of witch persecution .
literature
- Neustein, Edgar / Noll, Gregor / Siebertz, Heribert: Photo book "Herrlichkeit Erpel", edited by Ruland, Wolfgang. Translated by Braun, Elke / Sarfatti, Céline / Golm, Britta. Wolfland Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-936414-19-6
- Martina Rohfleisch: Between the Rhine and Wingert. Reading, picture and hiking book for Bruchhausen, Erpel, Rheinbreitbach and Unkel . edition Wolkenburg, Rheinbreitbach 2004, ISBN 3-934676-13-8 .
- Hans Vogts , revised. from Paul-Georg Custodis: Erpel am Rhein. Numerous illustrations, graphic representations . ISBN 3-88094-828-3
- Ulrich Ritzerfeld: Rheinischer Städteatlas Lfg XIII. No. 69.Drake . Habelt, R, 1998, ISBN 3-7927-1730-1
Web links
- Local municipality Erpel on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Unkel
- Private homepage for the local community Erpel
- Short portrait of drakes on SWR television
- Kölner Straße in Erpel on SWR TV - Hierzuland
- Rhine Valley Guide Erpel
- In this country: Kölner Straße in Erpel. State show Rhineland-Palatinate, SWR television, June 29, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 52 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ^ Hellmuth Gensicke: Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 2. Reprint. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 431/432.
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 70.
- ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz, Neuwied district , p. 63
- ↑ http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 163 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Unkel, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Current view: Former Mayor Cilly Adenauer sworn in her successor Günter Hirzmann. August 20, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 .
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