Argenthal

This article deals with the municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate. See also: Argental .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Simmern-Rheinböllen
Height :	458 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.52 km 2
Residents:	1666 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55496
Area code :	06761
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 003
Association administration address:	Am Markt 1 55494 Rheinböllen
Website :	www.argenthal.de
Local Mayor :	Hans-Werner Merg
Location of the local community Argenthal in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Town hall in the village center

Argenthal is a municipality in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Simmern-Rheinböllen community .

geography

Argenthal is located on the northwestern edge of the Soonwald , a part of the Hunsrück up to 657  m high, which is part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains .

To Argenthal includes the residential places Birkenhof, Eckelhornerhof, Weidenhof, Forsthaus Ellern, Forsthaus Thiergarten, Haus am Waldsee, Jägerhof and Wacholderhof.

With an area of ​​28.52 km², of which 19.85 km² is forest (Soonwald), the Argenthal district is the second largest in the Rhein-Hunsrück district after Boppard (source: state statistical office, as of December 31, 2007). Larger localities in the neighborhood are Simmern in the west and Rheinböllen in the east.

The highest point in Argenthal is the Opel at 649.3  m above sea level. NHN . The forest lake is located in the area of ​​the municipality, this bathing water originated from an ore mine closed in 1935.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1091 as "Argantal". Argindal was owned as an imperial fiefdom in the 13th century by Ritter von Schönburg auf Wesel . A Merbodo dictus de Argindal is mentioned by name . Since the 14th century, the sovereign was the Count Palatine of the Rhine . With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops in 1794 , the place became French. In 1815 he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 730 1835 880 1871 792 1905 851 1939 849 1950 1,023

year Residents 1961 1,091 1970 1,394 1987 1,479 2005 1,660 2011 1,661 2017 1,620

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Argenthal consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. In the previous local election, the council members were elected by majority vote.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	FWGA	ZA	total
2019	-	9	7th	16 seats
2014	by majority vote			16 seats
2009	7th	9	-	16 seats
2004	6th	10	-	16 seats

• FWGA = Free Voting Group Argenthal e. V.
• ZA = Future Argenthal e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Hans-Werner Merg (FWGA). In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed with a share of 59.49% of the vote, after none of the original three candidates had achieved the necessary majority in the local election on May 26, 2019. He is the successor of the previous mayor Sarah Groß.

Economy and Infrastructure

The place is embedded in the landscape

Argenthal is one of the larger Hunsrück towns in which only a few people are still active in agriculture. The majority of the population are employed as workers, employees, civil servants, artisans, tradespeople and soldiers.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Argenthal

Personalities

• Peter Engelmann (1823–1874), American-German pedagogue, author and founder of the German-English Academy (today: University School of Milwaukee )
• Dirk Jasper (1947–2011), a freelance journalist, non-fiction author and multimedia producer, lived with his family in Argenthal

traffic

The Argenthal stop was on the Langenlonsheim - Hermeskeil Hunsrück cross line, which has now been closed .

literature

• Achim R. Baumgarten and Fritz Schellack: 900 years of Argenthal 1091–1991. Argenthal 1991.

Web links

Commons : Argenthal  - Collection of Images

• Literature about Argenthal in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 59 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City council election 2019 Argenthal. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2009 Argenthal. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Simmern-Rheinböllen, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .