Arzbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Arzbach (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Bad Ems-Nassau
Height :	200 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.93 km 2
Residents:	1694 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	171 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56337
Area code :	02603
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 201
Association administration address:	Bleichstrasse 1 56130 Bad Ems
Website :	www.arzbach.de
Local Mayor :	Claus Eschenauer (FWG)
Location of the local community of Arzbach in the Rhein-Lahn district

Arzbach is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Ems-Nassau community .

geography

Arzbach is located in the Westerwald part of the Nassau nature park about nine kilometers southwest of Montabaur and eleven kilometers east of Koblenz . The Emsbach flows through the village .

The hamlet of Bierhaus, southwest of the town, also belongs to Arzbach .

history

Arzbach is located on the Upper German-Raetian Limes . On the Großer Kopf mountain ( 422.2  m above sea  level ) about one kilometer southeast of the village stands the Stefansturm , a reconstruction of a Roman watchtower made of stone and wood.

Arzbach was first mentioned in 1235 as the center of the parish of Augst and belonged to the Electorate of Trier until 1803 . From 1806 the place was part of the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Arzbach has belonged to the Bad Ems community since its establishment in 1972 and on March 16, 1974, it was incorporated from the former Unterwesterwaldkreis into the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis . In 2019 the place became part of the new Bad Ems-Nassau association .

For the Roman archeology and history of Arzbach, see also: Arzbach Castle .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 567 1835 877 1871 1,073 1905 1,090 1939 1,247 1950 1,430 1961 1,549

year Residents 1970 1,948 1987 1.961 1997 1,884 2005 1,889 2011 1,699 2017 1,666

Municipal council

The local council in Arzbach 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.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	6th	1	9	16 seats
2014	10	-	6th	16 seats
2009	10	-	6th	16 seats
2004	7th	6th	3	16 seats

* FWG: Free Voters Group Arzbach e. V.

mayor

The local mayor of Arzbach is Claus Eschenauer (FWG). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 90.75% of the vote and is the successor to Marlene Meyer (SPD), who has held the office since 2014. Her predecessor was Franz Josef Fetz (SPD).

Culture and sights

Stefansturm on the big head

Arzbach is on the German Limes Road .

Since 2003, the association Naturfreunde und Freiflieger Großer Kopf Westerwald e. V. performed paragliding.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Arzbach

Soil monuments

→ Main article : List of ground monuments in Wackersberg

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Arzbach is part of the Rhein-Mosel transport association . The bus lines 460 and 557 connect the place with the next regional train station Bad Ems as well as with the long-distance train stations Koblenz Hbf and Montabaur .

The B 49 Gießen –Koblenz runs about three kilometers northwest of Arzbach .

Bike trails

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through Arzbach . This follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

education

In Arzbach there is a kindergarten and the “Limesschule” elementary school. The closest secondary schools in Bad Ems are the Adolf-Reichwein- Fördererschule, the Goethe -Gymnasium and the Schiller-Realschule plus.

Web links

Commons : Arzbach  - Collection of Images

• Arzbach local parish
• Arzbach local community on the website of the Bad Ems-Nassau community
• Literature about Arzbach 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. 72 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 154 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Accessed July 31, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Accessed July 31, 2019 . 
7. ^ The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Ems-Nassau, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 3, 2019 .