Antweiler

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Adenau
Height :	289 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.46 km 2
Residents:	489 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	110 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53533
Area code :	02693
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 004
LOCODE :	DE 5AS
Association administration address:	Kirchstrasse 15 ; 53518 Adenau
Website :	www.antweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Richrath
Location of the local community of Antweiler in the Ahrweiler district

Antweiler is a municipality in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Adenau community .

geography

Antweiler is located about 50 km west of Koblenz on the southern edge of the Ahr Mountains in the upper Ahr valley. At 286 m above sea level NHN (measuring point at the church) below the Arembergs the place is traversed by the Ahr . Antweiler to include the residential places Old Castle and House Ginsterhahn.

history

There was already a settlement in Antweiler during the Merovingian era . The place was first mentioned in documents in 975, when the Trier archdeacon Wicfried assigned various lands to the St. Maximin Abbey in Trier, which bordered on "Amentwilere" (Antweiler) and "Musca" or "Musche" ( Müsch ). From the 12th to the end of the 18th century the place belonged to the rule, most recently to the Duchy of Arenberg . The local development over the past 300 years is reflected in numerous, well-preserved buildings.

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine . Under the French administration, Antweiler belonged to the canton of Adenau , which was assigned to the Rhine-Moselle department . After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , the region, including Antweiler, became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . From 1816 on, Antweiler belonged to the Aremberg mayor's office in the Adenau district , which was part of the Coblenz administrative district and from 1822 to the Rhine province . As early as 1820, the seat of the mayor's office was relocated to the more easily accessible and larger Antweiler, but the name of the administrative district "Mayor's office Aremberg" was retained until the 20th century. 20 parishes belonged to it. At the end of the 1920s the name was changed to “Amt Antweiler”. In 1932, the Adenau district was dissolved and the Antweiler district was assigned to the Ahrweiler district . The municipality has belonged to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 and to the Adenau association since 1970 .

In Antweiler there is a school camp , which is operated by the school camp association Antweiler / Ahr and mainly hosts students from Duisburg.

The new development area "Auf den Dreiviertel" is currently under construction.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	266
1835	307
1871	277
1905	317
1939	457
1950	614

year	Residents
1961	554
1970	553
1987	551
1997	615
2005	565
2017	518

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Antweiler consists of twelve 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

Peter Richrath became the local mayor of Antweiler on June 17, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 70.57% of the votes.

Richrath's predecessor Egon Honerbach did not run again in 2014.

coat of arms


	Justification of the coat of arms: The three yellow medlars indicate that it belonged to the Arenberg domain before ; Book (Holy Scriptures), bishop's staff, miter and hiking bag are the attributes of Saint Maximin , the patron saint of the place; Hammer and Schlegel point to the earlier Bergau.