Old town (Hachenburg)
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Old town
City of Hachenburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 48 ′ 40" E
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| Height : | 335 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 912 (June 30, 2011) | |
| Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 57627 | |
| Area code : | 02662 | |
Location of the old town in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Altstadt (formerly Hachinberg ) was a formerly independent municipality in the Westerwald and is now part of the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Hachenburg in the Westerwaldkreis .
Geographical location
Altstadt is located on the south-western outskirts of Hachenburg . The highest elevation and vantage point is the Hebeberg at 379.3 m above sea level. NHN .
history
The place Hachinberg (= a mountain surrounded by scrub, bushes) was about one and a half kilometers from today's Hachenburg Castle, 100 meters lower lying valley of the Rothbach. Hachinburg was built around Hachenburg Castle in the Middle Ages before the settlement and seems to have been an important resting place between the two early Carolingian road safety devices Altenkirchen and Neukirch . At the end of the 12th century, the Counts of Sayn built a castle to protect this road and to secure the eastern border of their territory. When the castle and the town that was created under it, took on the name "Hachinburg" in 1222, the old Hachinberg was differentiated by the name "Altstadt". When Ludwig IV granted city rights in 1314 and the counts soon made this castle their residence and administrative seat of the county , the city gradually outstripped the old town. The district of Altstadt was first mentioned in 1343 as Alderstadt .
The Bell family came from the Bellen farm in the old town parish ; they first appeared in 1455 and died out in 1645. The tithe she owned in Hahn passed from her to Sayn.
Old Town was - as Kroppach , Alpenrod and Hachenburg - one of the four altsaynischen parishes of the eau de Cologne diocese belonging Auelgaues . Politically, the old town later belonged to the Saynian office of Hachenburg. The St. Bartholomäus church, to whose district Hachenburg belonged until 1654, seems to have been a chapel of Altenkirchen in 1221 , which was under the Cassius monastery in Bonn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . After the division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Altstadt belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg .
The church, which was also the parish church of Hachenburg until 1656 , is a simple, flat-roofed, late Romanesque and three-aisled pillar basilica with three semicircular apses , which adjoin the vaulted crossing dome and the cross wing. It is reminiscent of similar buildings in the region, such as the Evangelical Church in Birnbach and Flammersfeld .
Old town was incorporated into the city of Hachenburg on June 7, 1969.
politics
The Altstadt district is the only local district in the city of Hachenburg and has its own local advisory board and mayor .
The town council is composed of seven members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the volunteer local Head as Chairman.
The deputy mayor Christoph Leyendecker has been in office since March 2020. The mayor Anne Nink, who has been in office since 2012 and was re-elected in the direct election on May 26, 2019 with a share of 74.47% of the votes, resigned all of her municipal political offices and mandates on March 9, 2020 for health reasons.
Attractions
Among the sights still preserved today in the old town are
- the Evangelical Church of St. Bartolomew (1241),
- the Protestant parsonage (built in 1594 on the foundations of the first parsonage),
- Former bone and saw mill on the eastern outskirts of the old town (1821) in operation until 1950,
- Old oak (natural monument) at the southwest exit of the city in the direction of Höchstenbach , around 220 years old.
Old town Hachenburg
Parish church Altstadt-Hachenburg
Parish church old town Hachenburg
Old half-timbered house in old town
literature
- E. Heyn: The Westerwald. 1893. Niederwalluf, Martin Sendet, reprint 1970.
- Wilhelm Söhngen: History of the city of Hachenburg. At the same time commemorative publication for the city's six hundredth anniversary . Reprint of the 1914 edition, Wiesbaden 1973.
- Hermann-Josef Roth: The Westerwald . Cologne, DuMont, 1981.
- Landscape Museum Westerwald (Ed.): Westerwald Articles 1 - Natural and cultural-historical monuments in the Westerwald: Kroppacher Switzerland and Hachenburg . Hachenburg 1981.
- City administration Hachenburg (Hrsg.): Hachenburg in the Westerwald in the past and present . Hachenburg 1985.
- Stefan Grathoff: History of the city of Hachenburg . Hachenburg 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-036381-8 .
- Marcel Oeben / Daniel Schneider: The city charter to Altenkirchen, Hachenburg and Weltersburg. With edition of the document from 1314 , in: Nassauische Annalen 125 (2014), pp. 53–65.
- Daniel Schneider: The granting of city rights to Altenkirchen, Hachenburg and Weltersburg in 1314 within the framework of imperial politics , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen (Westerwald) 57 (2014), pp. 103-110.
- Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
- Daniel Schneider: The urban policy of the Counts of Sayn in the late Middle Ages . In: Jahrbuch für Westdeutsche Landesgeschichte 41 (2015), pp. 33–49.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Illustration of the town charter and source critical edition by Marcel Oeben / Daniel Schneider: The town charter to Altenkirchen, Hachenburg and Weltersburg. With edition of the document from 1314, pp. 53–65. For the historical background of the granting of city rights, see Daniel Schneider: Die Stadtrechtsverleihung 1314 in the context of imperial politics, pp. 103-110 and Daniel Schneider: Die Städteppolitik der Graf von Sayn in the late Middle Ages, pp. 33–49.
- ↑ On denominational development cf. Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the plan, pp. 74-80.
- ^ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, pp. 74-80.
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 165 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ Main statute of the city of Hachenburg. § 2. August 19, 2019, accessed on June 6, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Old Town. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: With immediate effect: Hachenburger mayor withdraws from local politics. Westerwälder Zeitung, March 11, 2020, accessed on June 6, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .