Niederzissen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '  N , 7 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Brohl valley
Height :	203 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.95 km 2
Residents:	2722 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	228 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56651
Primaries :	02636, 02646 (Rodder)
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 055
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Kapellenstrasse 12 56651 Niederzissen
Website :	www.niederzissen.de
Local Mayor :	Rolf Hans ( CDU )
Location of the Niederzissen community in the Ahrweiler district

Panoramic view of Niederzissen

Parish Church of St. Germanus

Niederzissen is a municipality in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Brohltal , to which the municipality also belongs. According to state planning, Niederzissen is designated as a basic center.

geography

Geographical location

Niederzissen is located in a side valley of the Rhine that is interesting in terms of geology and culture. The historic valley path from the Rhine leads between volcanic mountains over the town to the Eifel, including the Bausenberg , Germany's best-preserved horseshoe-iron crater.

Community structure

The local community Niederzissen consists of the two districts Niederzissen and Rodder as well as the residential areas "Haus Waldfrieden" and "Kurheim Bausenberg".

history

Niederzissen is one of the oldest settlements in the wider area, the oldest finds of which, including a fragment of a jadeite ax, kept in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , date back to the Neolithic Age . The name "Zissen" comes from the Celtic and is rendered as "backward", for example from "Rhine backward = remote place". The presence of settling Celts is documented by finds of weapons and tools. Furthermore, excavations from Roman times have proven settlements near the old Roman road from Sinzig via Mayen to Trier, which suggests another name derivation from the Celtic god name Cissonius . Zissen, as the place was called at the time, is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation for the St. Cassiusstift in Bonn . The document without a date comes from the 9th century. The first dated document from 1179 contains a confirmation of “possession in Zissen” by Pope Alexander III. to Adalbert II of Metz . Zissen belonged to the Olbrück rule from around 1150 (construction of Olbrück Castle ) until the beginning of the French occupation in 1794 . Niederzissen has belonged to Prussia since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, to the then newly formed district of Ahrweiler in the Koblenz administrative district since 1816, and to the Rhine Province from 1822 . Initially under the mayor's office in Königsfeld , Niederzissen itself became the seat of a mayor's office in 1883 . The regional reform in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969/1970 made Niederzissen the administrative seat of the Brohlal Association, which was newly formed in 1970 .

On January 1, 1979, the place Rodder , an area with 121 inhabitants, was umgemeindet from the municipality of Niederdürenbach to Niederzissen. The incorporation happened at the request of a large part of the Rodder population.

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of Niederzissen in relation to today's municipal area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 476 1835 908 1871 942 1905 1,221 1939 1,326 1950 1,454 1961 1,494

year Residents 1970 1,667 1987 2.223 1997 2,573 2005 2,751 2011 2,653 2017 2,780 2019 2,722

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Niederzissen 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	FDP	WGR	total
2019	5	8th	1	6th	20 seats
2014	5	9	-	6th	20 seats
2009	6th	9	-	5	20 seats
2004	5	11	-	4th	20 seats

mayor

Rolf Hans (CDU) became the local mayor of Niederzissen on July 21, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 82.45%.

Ralf Hans's predecessor as local mayor, Richard Keuler (CDU), had held the office for five years, but did not take up office again in 2019.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Diagonally divided, above twelve-fold red-silver stiffeners, below in blue a growing silver truncated cone with a funnel-shaped opening, broken to the right."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The twelve-fold red and silver status is the coat of arms (there silver-red) of the Waldbott von Bassenheim family , who had owned the rulership of Olbrück since 1555, to which Niederzissen also belonged, the open cone shows the extinct volcano Bausenberg in stylized form , a geological peculiarity on the outskirts of Niederzissen.

Culture and sights

Drinking water from the Sauerbrunnen

Bausenberg horseshoe crater

Half-timbered house Brohltalstrasse 94

Buildings

• Late Romanesque parish church of St. Germanus from 1250, originally a three-aisled pillar basilica
• Former tithe house from 1550
• Station building from 1890
• Former synagogue from 1844 at Mittelstrasse 30, two large arched windows and the round gable window still remind us of its origins as a synagogue. In the exhibition room attached to the synagogue, some finds from Genisa Niederzissen are presented in showcases.
• Olbrück Castle is located nearby . It stands on a phonolite cone and is the symbol of the so-called "Zissener Ländchen".
• Klosterstrasse bunker system. A tunnel cut into the stone, the main passage of which can be walked up to a depth of 53 m (only with a guide). ⊙
• Trinity Chapel on the Arweg
• St. Anna Chapel from 1617
• Former school house from 1906 in the Rodder district

See also: List of cultural monuments in Niederzissen

Green spaces and recreation

• The Bausenberg near Niederzissen, which belongs to the Brohltal / Laacher See volcano park and is under nature protection, is Europe's best-preserved slag volcano with a horseshoe crater.
• Vulkan Express
• Healing mineral fountain in the Am Sauerbrunnen ⊙
• Kulturweg Niederzissen with information boards of the Kultur- und Heimatverein Niederzissen eV
• Multi-generation space on the market square offers play opportunities and relaxation
• Jewish cemetery from 1763 ⊙
• Johann Jacobs memorial on Kapellenstrasse
• Numerous hiking trails
• Niederzissen is the tourist center of the Eifelleiter long-distance hiking trail , and the German Vulkanstrasse is also one of its attractions here on Bausenberg.

See also: List of nature reserves in the Ahrweiler district

Sports

• Heubach Stadium. An athletics facility with a tartan track . ⊙
• Tennis court
• Gym

Regular events

• The annual fair or parish fair is celebrated on the second weekend in September on the market square.
• The Niederzissen Möhnentag is organized year after year on the Wednesday before Women's Thursday by the Möhnengesellschaft Niederzissen 1937/38 eV.
• The Nikolausmarkt is held annually on the first Sunday in Advent on the market square.
• The Easter market has been held on Palm Sunday on the market square and along Horststrasse since 1997.

Economy and Infrastructure

The industrial and commercial area Brohltal Ost is located on the A 61 . The Zakspeed racing team is also based there. A large number of companies have settled in and around Niederzissen.

education

Brohltalschule - Realschule plus in Ahrweg 19

traffic

The station Niederzissen is located on the Brohltalbahn , a narrow-gauge railway from Brohl-Lützing by angels, formerly until Kempenich . The federal motorway 61 on the left bank of the Rhine is reached in around 5 km at the Niederzissen junction. From there the federal highway 412 leads through the Brohl valley to the Rhine and in the opposite direction near the Nürburgring .

See also

• Synagogue district Niederzissen

photos

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  The Bausenberg in Niederzissen

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  Niederzissen station of the Brohl Valley Railway

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  Vulkanexpress in Niederzissen

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  The former school is now used as a community center

Web links

Commons : Niederzissen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Olbrück Castle
• Everything about Niederzissen
• Literature about Niederzissen in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ ^{A b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved December 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 9 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 190 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
5. ↑ Local election Rhineland-Palatinate 2014, municipal council
6. ↑ ^{a b} 1st meeting of the Niederzissen municipal council. In: Council and Citizen Information System. Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Brohltal, July 21, 2014, accessed on August 4, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Brohltal, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved August 4, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. (PDF) Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Niederzissen bunker tour. Retrieved December 10, 2017 . 
10. ^ Protective bunker in Lahar Niederzissen. Retrieved December 10, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Brohltal Castle Panorama Trail. Retrieved December 10, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Niederzissen hiking trail. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .