Alterkülz

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 28 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Kastellaun
Height :	380 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.58 km 2
Residents:	400 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56288
Area code :	06762
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 001
Association administration address:	Kirchstrasse 1 56288 Kastellaun
Website :	www.kastellaun.de
Local Mayor :	Alfons Rockenbach
Location of the local community Alterkülz in the Rhine-Hunsrück district

Alterkülz is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Kastellaun .

geography

The place Alterkülz is located in the Külzbachtal , it stretches as a street village remarkably long on the state road L 108, which leads through the place as the "main street". For this, Alterkülz was also given the nickname "Longest Village in the Hunsrück". The settlement Osterkülzmühle, located southeast in the Osterkülztal , and the Wehr district belong to the village.

Neighboring places

Hasselbach	Expense red	Laubach
		Klosterkumbd
Dog home	Michelbach	Neuerkirch

history

The parish hall is centrally located in the village

Alterkülz belonged to the Vorderen Grafschaft Sponheim until 1417 . After this Sponheimer line became extinct, the place came with Kastellaun to the Hintere Grafschaft. Within the county of Sponheim the place belonged to the Hasselbacher care in the office Kastellaun . Over the centuries, Alterkülz has grown together from several places (Unterdorf, Mitteldorf, Überbach and Wehr). In 1865, the district of Wehr was mentioned as a separate hamlet.

Behind the southern exit of the village, near the Külzbach , you will find the remains of a medieval iron smelter (Schmelz) and the remains of the Eid mine, as well as a hill, cut through by the country road, on which a Roman estate ( Villa rustica ) stood.

From 1901 to 1983 the place was a train station on the Hunsrückbahn Simmern - Kastellaun - Boppard. At the beginning of the 21st century, the former railway line was converted into an asphalt cycle and hiking path, the Schinderhannes cycle path .

In 2005, the Hunsrück community achieved fifth place in the regional decision of the state competition “ Our village has a future ”.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 320 1835 377 1871 388 1905 423 1939 420 1950 493

year Residents 1961 454 1970 464 1987 400 2005 460 2011 413 2017 415

Municipal council

The local council in Alterkülz consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Local mayor is Alfons Rockenbach. No candidate ran in the local elections on May 26, 2019; he was elected by the local council on July 2, 2019 and is thus the successor to Klaus Häfner.

Business

Businesses are u. a. a large steel construction company, two carpenters, a stonemasonry, a restaurant and several farms. On a hill east of the town on the districts of Alterkulz and Spesenroth, the wind farm is located Alterkuelz seven wind turbines of manufacturer Vestas and Enercon E-82 .

Personalities

• Sebastian Furck (around 1600–1655), 17th century engraver born in Alterkülz
• Walter Desch (* 1944), sports official, board member of the German Football Association and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Alterkülz

literature

• Literature on Alterkülz in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• Otto Berg: Memoirs 1929–1945 . Berg-Verlag, November 2012 ( online [PDF; 6.1 MB ; accessed on November 7, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Alterkülz  - Collection of Images

• Alterkülz in the SWR show Hierzuland
• Website of the Musikverein Alterkülz
• Literature on Alterkülz 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 56 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 25, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kastellaun, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved October 7, 2019 . 
6. ^ Official Journal Kastellaun: Local elections 2019 - announcement. Edition 33/2019. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .