Alpenrod

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Coat of arms of the local community Alpenrod
Alpenrod
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Alpenrod highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 52'  E

Basic data
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
Website : www.alpenrod.de
Mayoress : Beate Salzer ( SPD )
Location of the local community Alpenrod in the Westerwaldkreis
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Church (1843/44) in Alpenrod

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:

year Residents
1815 889
1835 921
1871 888
1905 914
1939 1,022
1950 1,078
year Residents
1961 1,047
1970 1,162
1987 1,271
1997 1,564
2005 1,601
2017 1,569

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
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

Coat of arms of Alpenrod
 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

Sons and daughters of the church

literature

Web links

Commons : Alpenrod  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ 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).
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  6. ^ Local Mayor Beate Salzer. Local municipality Alpenrod, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .