Antweiler
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Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ' N , 6 ° 50' E |
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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 |
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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:
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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. |
Attractions
Among the attractions of the community include:
- Catholic parish church St. Maximin , baroque hall building, 1762
- a working water mill
- restored farmhouses
- a half-timbered parish hall
- historic Ahr bridge
- Station building on the former Dümpelfeld – Lissendorf railway line
- Elementary school and kindergarten
- disused mine of the Wilhelm pit
Tourist facilities
Personalities
- Theodor Lerner (1866–1931), journalist and polar researcher
literature
- Agnes Gillig: Antweiler / Ahr in the course of the centuries. Incidents, stories, comments. Ahrweiler 1992 (not evaluated)
Web links
- Local community Antweiler
- Literature about Antweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 5 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ↑ a b Antweiler has new mayor election Newly constituted council votes by majority for Peter Richrath. In: Rhein-Zeitung. Genios press archive, June 21, 2014, accessed on August 6, 2020 .
- ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Adenau, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .