Torney

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Torney
City of Neuwied
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 124 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1835  (Jun 30, 2010)
Postal code : 56567
Area code : 02631
Torney (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Torney

Location of Torney in Rhineland-Palatinate
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Torney is a district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until it was incorporated into the town of Neuwied, Torney was part of the Niederbieber-Segendorf community.

location

The place is on the edge of the Neuwied Basin north of the city center. West of Torney are the Niederbieber district , northeast the Oberbieber district , east the Gladbach district and south the Heddesdorf district .

history

The name "Torney" is mentioned in documents from the region as early as the first half of the 16th century with "uff der Torney". In excerpts from the minutes of a Heimbach witch trial there is talk of witch dances "uff der Torney" and in a protocol of January 12, 1644 of "magical meetings and dances on the Thorhecke". In a document from 1668, Count Friedrich III. von Wied owns the oak grove "Thourney". The settlement of Torney began in 1938 with the settlement of 40 families.

Name interpretation

There are different attempts to interpret or derive the place name. One possibility is that the name is derived from the Middle High German tornei or turnei (also turnoi ) = tournament , then Torney would have been a place where tournaments were held. After all, the castles Altwied , Braunsberg , Isenburg and Sayn were nearby. The explanation for Torney as Thor's oak , dedicated to the Germanic thunder god Thor (Donar), would also be conceivable. The word could also be of pre-Germanic origin, a fusion of the Celtic duro - durono - durno (small fort; earth clod ) with the Latin word turris (tower).

colonization

The area was forested and unpopulated until the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1930s there were plans to build a settlement for workers in the surrounding factories. In autumn 1936 the construction of the first single and semi-detached houses began, 150 settlement sites were planned. In 1938 the first 38 families with 155 people moved in, from 1942 onwards there was no more construction. The second settlement period began in 1950. Houses were built for displaced persons and refugees , and the Mennonites also settled more and more during this period . In the 1950s, the "Rasselsteiner Houses" were also built. At the end of the 1970s, Mennonite late settlers came in large numbers from what was then the Soviet Union , mainly from the Asian part. Today Mennonites make up the population of Torney at 25%.

Reclassification

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The place was part of the municipality Niederbieber-Segendorf until it was reorganized into the town of Neuwied. In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate territorial and administrative reform that began in the mid-1960s , the “Eighth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate” of July 28, 1970, which came into force on November 7, 1970, became today's town of Neuwied newly formed. With the resolution of the Neuwied City Council on January 22, 1971, Torney became a district, which is represented by a local advisory council and a local mayor .

The coat of arms- like logo of the Torney district was never used in the sense of an official coat of arms .

politics

Local advisory board

The local council in Torney consists of 4 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice CDU SPD total
2019 3 1 4 seats
2014 3 1 4 seats
2009 1 3 4 seats

Mayor

Petra Grabis (SPD) is the volunteer mayor. She was confirmed in office in the local elections on May 26, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 173 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  2. ↑ a b Local elections 2019 - election results. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .

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