Arbach

This article explains the local community Arbach in Rhineland-Palatinate; for further names see Arbach (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 7 ° 3'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Kelberg
Height :	375 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.4 km 2
Residents:	140 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56769
Area code :	02657
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 201
Association administration address:	Dauner Strasse 22 53539 Kelberg
Website :	www.vgv-kelberg.de
Local Mayor :	Uwe Schöne
Location of the local community Arbach in the Vulkaneifel district

Catholic Church of St. Apollinaris in Arbach

Arbach is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the association community Kelberg .

Geographical location

The community is located in the northeast of the nature park Eifel and in the conservation area "Kelberg". The Auf der Höh residential area also belongs to Arbach .

history

The first mention of the place as Arrebarre , Arrebach can be found in a document from July 15, 1336 by Count Robert III. from Virneburg .

Arbach belonged to the county of Virneburg until the end of the 18th century . After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794), the place was part of the French state from 1798 to 1814 and was assigned to the canton of Virneburg in the Rhine-Moselle department . In 1815 the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . From 1816 on, Arbach belonged to the mayor's office in Virneburg in the Adenau district ( Coblenz district ) and from 1822 to the then newly formed Rhine province .

In 1932 the district of Adenau was dissolved, Arbach came to the district of Mayen .

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform , Arbach was reclassified together with 27 other communities on November 7, 1970 from the district of Mayen, which was dissolved at the same time, to the district of Daun (since 2007 district Vulkaneifel).

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 104 1835 182 1871 149 1905 156 1939 184 1950 202

year Residents 1961 173 1970 202 1987 159 1997 146 2005 154 2019 140

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, divided by an oblique blue wave bar, three black corn stalks in front, a red continuous cross in the back."

Kaiserlinde

As in several communities in this area, which were long under Napoleonic rule, the centenary liberation from the “yoke of the French” was celebrated here in 1913 and a so-called imperial linden tree was planted in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a memorial stone was erected. He can still be seen on Schulstrasse at the old school.

Personalities

Birthplace of Bishop Frederick Eis , (January 20, 1843), ordained a priest on October 30, 1870 in the titular diocese of Sault Sainte Marie in Michigan , Michigan , USA, ordained bishop on August 24, 1899 in St. Peter Cathedral (Marquette, Michigan) , death: May 5, 1926 in Marquette, Michigan, USA He was buried in the crypt of the cathedral in Marquette.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Arbach

literature

• Literature about Arbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Arbach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Arbach on the website of the association community Kelberg
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Arbach in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 73 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Wilhelm Iwanski: History of the Counts of Virneburg. From its beginnings to Robert IV (1383). Koblenz 1912, p. 61 ( dilibri.de )
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 156 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Bishop Frederick Eis. In: Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .