Willmenrod

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 59'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Westerburg
Height :	305 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.63 km 2
Residents:	656 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	181 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56459
Area code :	02663
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 312
Association administration address:	Neumarkt 1 56457 Westerburg
Website :	www.willmenrod.de
Local Mayor :	Günter Weigel
Location of the local community Willmenrod in the Westerwaldkreis

Willmenrod im Westerwald is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in northeast Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Westerburg .

geography

Geographical location

Willmenrod is located in the valley of the Elbe stream between the 475 m high Watzenhahn and the Stromberg in the middle of the Westerwald .

geology

The landscape is characterized by basalt and clay deposits . Until after the war, basalt was mined in Willmenrod and broken into chippings and gravel on site . 120 hectares of the municipality consist of forest.

Neighboring places

• In the north: Sainscheid and Westerburg
• In the east: Wengenroth and Berzhahn
• In the south: Girkenroth and Dorndorf
• In the west: Weltersburg and Guckheim

climate

The climate here is moderate. In winter the snow is limited, in summer it is seldom unbearably hot and when it storms, the two mountain ridges keep the wind from the local situation.

history

Willmenrod was first mentioned in 1212 as Wernbolderode . It has had its current name since 1712.

Willmenrod belonged to Westerburg until the beginning of the 19th century and came to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 when the Rhine Confederation was formed under Napoleon . In 1813 Willmenrod came temporarily to the House of Orange-Nassau and as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the Duchy of Nassau . Under the Nassau administration, the community of Willmenrod belonged to the lordship of Leiningen-Westerburg in the Rennerod district . In 1858 there were 118 families and 477 residents in Willmenrod. In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau and with it Willmenrod became part of the Kingdom of Prussia .

In 1805, almost all of Willmenrod fell victim to a major fire. Due to the way of covering the roofs with straw at the time and the narrow construction of the houses, such a catastrophe was almost inevitable. Due to its location on the Elbbach and the steep gradient here, it was possible to operate five mills in the village.

Population development

The development of the population of Willmenrod, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 384 1835 440 1871 506 1905 483 1939 480

year Residents 1950 541 1961 523 1970 541 1987 596 2005 691

religion

The population in Willmenrod is predominantly Protestant.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Willmenrod consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	WfW	WG Pro	total
2019	by majority vote		12 seats
2014	7th	5	12 seats
2009	8th	4th	12 seats
2004	by majority vote		12 seats

• WfW = We for Willmenrod e. V.
• WG Pro = voter group Pro Willmenrod e. V.

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Günter Weigel was confirmed in his office as local mayor of Willmenrod for another five years with a share of the vote of 74.92%.

coat of arms

	Justification of the coat of arms: The mill wheel stands for the former importance of the five mills. The diagonally placed diamonds represent the noble family of those von Willmenrod. The blue wavy band stands for the special importance of the Elbbach . The different colors represent the changing power relations.

Culture and sights

See the list of cultural monuments in Willmenrod

societies

Volunteer fire brigade , sports club and mixed choir

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Eduard Hof (* 1937), local mayor from 1966 to 1994

Sons and daughters of the church

The best-known Willmenroder citizen was the television chef Clemens Wilmenrod (1906-1967), who derived his stage name from the name of the community and is buried in the local cemetery.

traffic

• Willmenrod is located between federal highways 8 , 54 and 255 . The next motorway junction is Diez on the A3 ( Cologne - Frankfurt am Main ), about 18 kilometers away.

• The place Willmenrod is connected to the railway line Oberwesterwaldbahn (Limburg (Lahn) - Diez Ost-Westerburg-Nistertal / Bad Marienberg - Hachenburg - Altenkirchen (Westerwald) - Au (Sieg) - Betzdorf (Sieg) - Siegen - Kreuztal ) via the railway stop of the same name , on which the trains of the regional train line RB 90 ( Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn ) of the Hessische Landesbahn HLB, business division Dreiländerbahn run every hour in both directions according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .

• At the bus station at Westerburg train station, which is approx. 3 km away, there is also a connection to regional bus routes in the direction of Montabaur, Rennerod and Bad Marienberg.

Web links

Commons : Willmenrod  - Collection of Images

• Willmenrod's website
• Local community Willmenrod on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Westerburg
• Gudrun Fünter: Willmenrod - A portrait of the place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research , Volume 10, 1870, p. 321 ( Google Books )
3. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1859 , p. 118 ( www.dilibri.de )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Westerburg, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .