Altwied

Altwied City of Neuwied
	Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 58 ″ N , 7 ° 28 ′ 4 ″ E
Height :	82 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	657 (Jun 30, 2010)
Incorporation :	November 7, 1970
Postal code :	56567
Area code :	02631
Location of Altwied in Rhineland-Palatinate
	Altwied with the castle of the same name

Ruins of Altwied Castle and the entrance to the town with the main gate

Altwied is the smallest district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until it was incorporated into the town of Neuwied on November 7, 1970, Altwied was an independent local community.

location

Altwied is located in the north of the city of Neuwied in the Wiedtal . Above the old town center lies the ruins of Altwied Castle , the ancestral seat of the Counts of Wied . To the northeast, the district borders the local community of Melsbach , to the south is the Neuwieder district of Niederbieber , and to the northwest is the local community of Datzeroth . Altwied is located in the Rhine-Westerwald nature park .

The Kümmelberg settlement and the Laubachsmühle and Meinhof residential areas also belong to Altwied .

history

It can be assumed that at the time of the construction of Wied Castle (before 1129) by Metfried von Wied the basin at the foot of the castle rock was almost free of settlements. After the castle was built, a rural and bourgeois valley settlement developed in the valley below the castle in the 12th century. Craftsmen and servants soon settled under the protection of the castle. The village is first mentioned in 1275.

In the course of the further fortification of the castle, the Burgflecken was included in the fortification system. The wall had a total length of 500 m, the wall height was 4 to 5 m, in the east the wall reached 8 m and was provided with battlements , battlements and arched frieze . The wall was reinforced by four square towers, three round towers and three gate towers: The mill gate in the north, the Judentor in the south and the main gate ("Ahl Porz" = "old gate") in the east, which formed the entrance to the town and castle. In 1470, the St. Antonius Chapel, located within the market town, was first mentioned in a document. From the 14th century onwards, the term “ Burgfrieden ” often appears in the documents about the market town of Altwied . The people within the castle peace were entrusted to the count's special protection and enjoyed special rights, such as exemption from compulsory labor , certain taxes and billeting, the right to a vigilante guard, their own land guards and more. The rights and obligations of the citizens and the count were regulated in a contract.

Towards the end of World War II , Altwied was under American artillery fire from March 13, 1945 until soldiers of the US Army moved into Altwied on March 23, 1945. About 15 soldiers of the Wehrmacht , who had holed up at Altwied Castle, only offered brief resistance before surrendering to the US armed forces.

In 1975 Altwied won the silver plaque in the eighth national competition " Our village should be more beautiful " as one of the 31 winners among almost 5000 competitors and has since been officially one of the most beautiful places in Germany.

Altwied community

The previously independent municipality Altwied belonged to the incorporation into the town Neuwied for municipality Niederbieber Blessing village. The Rhineland-Palatinate territorial and administrative reform began in the mid-1960s . The “Eighth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate” of July 28, 1970, which came into force on November 7, 1970, dissolved the Niederbieber-Segendorf community and assigned the Altwied community to the new town of Neuwied. With the resolution of the Neuwied City Council on January 22, 1971, Altwied became a district represented by a local advisory council and a local councilor.

politics

Local advisory board

The local advisory council in Altwied consists of 4 council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice	SPD	FWG	WGP	WGS	total
2019	-	3	1	-	4 seats
2014	1	3	-	-	4 seats
2009	-	1	-	3	4 seats

FWG = Free Voter Group Altwied e. V.
WGP = voter group Prieß e. V.
WGS = voter group Strubel e. V.

Mayor

Liane Herbst (FWG) is the volunteer mayor.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the former municipality of Altwied shows in the shield head a castle tower with a ruinous crenellated crown, which represents the ruins of Altwied Castle, the ancestral castle of the Wied counts , and in the base of the shield a wave bar symbolizing the Wied.

Attractions

See also the list of cultural monuments in Neuwied

In addition to the castle ruins and the main gate of the defensive wall, the preserved part of the east wall with two towers is one of the sights from the fortification system. In the center of the village is the St. Antonius Chapel, first mentioned in 1357, a late Gothic quarry stone building, today's Protestant parish church. At times it was the burial place of the Counts of Wied. Late Gothic frescoes can be seen in the choir, the wooden ceiling of the nave is painted with tendril patterns. Iron and stone grave slabs, which were found in the 1920s, are embedded in the choir walls and on the outer walls. There are also some half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries in the village. One of the oldest hydroelectric power plants in Germany is located above the town center.

The "Ahl Porz" (old gate)
Altwied Castle
Defense tower of fortification
Altwied
"In the blacksmith" around 1710
Altwied, Evangelical Parish Church
Anthony's Chapel, southeast side
Antoniuskapelle, view from the gallery
Antonius Chapel, view through the nave to the west gallery
Altwied, Laubachs mill
Mill wheel of the Laubachs mill
Alm view into the Wiedtal
On the river Wied

Web links

Commons : Altwied - collection of images, videos and audio files

Altwied on the website of the city of Neuwied
Brief portrait of Altwied ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR television

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 46 (PDF; 3 MB).
↑ According to Ingeborg Wiemath-Binge's diary: Memories of March 1945. In: Home calendar 1965 of the Neuwied district. District Committee Neuwied (Ed.), Strüder KG, Neuwied 1965, p. 29 f.
^ Altwied on the website of the city of Neuwied
↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 173 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
↑ ^a ^b European and local elections 2019 - election results. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .

[1] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 46 (PDF; 3 MB).

[2] According to Ingeborg Wiemath-Binge's diary: Memories of March 1945. In: Home calendar 1965 of the Neuwied district. District Committee Neuwied (Ed.), Strüder KG, Neuwied 1965, p. 29 f.

[3] Altwied on the website of the city of Neuwied

[4] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 173 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

[Wahl2019-5] European and local elections 2019 - election results. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .