Alpenrod
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Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ' N , 7 ° 52' E |
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State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Westerwaldkreis | |
Association municipality : | Hachenburg | |
Height : | 450 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 12.15 km 2 | |
Residents: | 1579 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 130 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 57642 | |
Area code : | 02662 | |
License plate : | WW | |
Community key : | 07 1 43 202 | |
LOCODE : | DE 5AB | |
Community structure: | 3 districts | |
Association administration address: | Gartenstrasse 11 57627 Hachenburg |
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Mayoress : | Beate Salzer ( SPD ) | |
Location of the local community Alpenrod in the Westerwaldkreis | ||
Alpenrod is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hachenburg community .
geography
The community is located southeast of Hachenburg in the Westerwald on the left bank of the Great Nister and the Enspeler Bach.
With the in the southwest of the district Alpenrod graves Berg ( 513 m above sea level. NHN ) is located on the district of the municipality the highest elevation in the association Hachenburg. On the Gräbersberg there is an observation tower with a publicly accessible visitor platform at a height of 30 meters.
Districts of the community are Alpenrod, Hirtscheid and Dehlingen. The community also includes the residential areas Haus Alpenrod, Hof Eichwiese, Hof Welterstein, Neuhof and Talmühle.
history
The village is first mentioned as Albrechtsrode in a document from 1320 . There was also a castle here to protect the paths on the “Nöchel”. But there had been a chapel with a small settlement earlier (at least 1131).
The tower of the current church dates from this time. Estimates go back to the 9th century. The villages of Dehlingen (first settler named Dillinger, 1618) and Hirtscheid (around 1100 Hirnscheid ) belong to Alpenrod . There was a valley mill here from 1551. Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid-Sayn tried (1657 and 1678–1680) to direct traffic on Cologne-Frankfurter Straße (today's B 8 ) via Hachenburg . So he built a post road that ran above Alpenrod and is now known as the old post road. The Cologne-Leipziger Strasse and the Cologne-Frankfurt road were the main trunk routes since the time of the Merovingian kings. Since the valley was swampy and difficult to access in old times, all roads led over the heights like the old post road . It can be assumed that this road was already used in Celtic times.
- Population development
The development of the population of the municipality of Alpenrod, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Alpenrod consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the municipal council:
choice | SPD | JUL | Flat share 1 | Flat share 2 | total |
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2019 | 9 | - | 2 | 5 | 16 seats |
2014 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 seats |
2009 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 16 seats |
2004 | 7th | 2 | 3 | 4th | 16 seats |
- JUL = Young Independent List e. V.
mayor
Beate Salzer (SPD) became the local mayor of Alpenrod in 2004. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in office for a further five years with 88.06% of the vote.
coat of arms
Blazon : "A blue sloping bar in gold, covered with three silver balls, three stylized green trees above, a red bell below." | |
Justification of the coat of arms: The three spheres in the sloping bar also indicate the three villages of Alpenrod, Dehlingen and Hirtscheid, which belong to the municipality, and the local medieval noble family of Schönhals zu Albrechterode , which had three spheres in its coat of arms. The bell symbolizes the church and the parish of Alpenrod, the trees the wealth of forests. The colors gold and red (bell) are an indication of the earlier belonging to the County of Sayn . |
traffic
- The community is located between the federal highway B 414 which connects Koblenz and Hachenburg , and the B 255 which leads from Montabaur to Herborn .
- The A 3 with the Montabaur junction (AS 40) is 25 km away.
- The closest connections to rail traffic are the train stations in Hachenburg, Erbach, Büdingen and Enspel. Here the trains of the regional railway line 90 of the Hessische Landesbahn, Dreiländerbahn area, operate daily in accordance with the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle on the route Limburg (Lahn) - Diez Ost - Westerburg - Hachenburg - Altenkirchen - Au (Sieg) - Wissen (Sieg) - Siegen Hourly.
- Due to the location of Alpenrod in the Westerwaldkreis, the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel applies to bus and rail transport .
See also
- Gräbersberg observation tower
- List of cultural monuments in Alpenrod
- List of natural monuments in Alpenrod
Sons and daughters of the church
- Hellmuth Gensicke (1917-2006), was director of the Hessian main state archive in Wiesbaden and an important historian for the national history of the Westerwald.
- Erich Klöckner (1913–2003) was a flight pioneer and test pilot.
literature
- Literature about Alpenrod in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Web links
- Website of the local municipality of Alpenrod
- The local community Alpenrod on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 73 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ↑ Summary from "The parish of Alpenrod in the Westerwald and its inhabitants in the 17th and 18th centuries" by Heinrich Heimann and Irmtraut Weinknecht 1967; Ed .: Central Office for Persons and Family History Frankfurt am Main.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ Local Mayor Beate Salzer. Local municipality Alpenrod, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .