Aster

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Coat of arms of the local parish of Astert
Aster
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Hachenburg
Height : 235 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.39 km 2
Residents: 224 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 94 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57627
Area code : 02688
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 204
LOCODE : DE 5AZ
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Gartenstrasse 11
57627 Hachenburg
Website : www.astert.de
Local Mayor : Erich Wagner
Location of the local community Astert in the Westerwaldkreis
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Astert is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hachenburg community .

geography

Geographical location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen in Kroppach Switzerland , which is part of the protected landscape area is Nistertal. The Great Nister flows through the village . The district covers 239 hectares, of which around 50% is forest and 38% is agricultural land (as of 2012). Neighboring towns are Limbach in the north, Atzelgift in the east, the Marienstatt monastery in the southeast and Müschenbach in the south of the town. In the west of Astert is the Aßberg (327 m).

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Community structure

Districts of the community are Oberdorf and Unterdorf.

history

In 1282 Astert was first mentioned as asterode in a document from the Marienstatt monastery . As a clearing village , it was likely to have originated in the 10th century or before. In the 18th century the place name Asterode abraded itself to "Astert". Due to the many roof slate pits , a number of Leyendecker were resident in Astert from the 16th to 18th centuries . A former roof slate pit ( Hardt ) existed until around 1911 and was finally abandoned after 1945. In 1739 a winter school was first recorded in the village.

After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn , to which Astert was one, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . There was tension in the village due to immigrant Catholics from the Bergisches Land and Wildenburger Land , who were favored by the Marienstatt Monastery and the Catholic Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid as sovereign of the County of Sayn-Hachenburg , to which Astert had belonged since the 17th century. Only after decades, mostly through marriage, did they become fully entitled citizens. A process at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar in 1732 brought them complete religious freedom. The constant disputes between the religious groups were also expressed in spatial separation, while Catholics were found almost exclusively in the lower village , while the Reformed settled in the upper village that was now emerging . In 1793 the entire place had 20 houses with 125 inhabitants. After the coalition wars, the population became impoverished, and poverty persisted in the Nassau period since 1799. In 1866 the place came to the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1868 it belonged to the province of Hessen-Nassau and the Oberwesterwaldkreis . In 1926 the first school was opened in Astert. The slate mines, which were in operation from 1730 to 1760 and from 1840 to 1860, were economically significant. The bridge over the Nister, built in 1894, testifies to the beginning prosperity of the place.

In 1985, Astert was voted the most beautiful place in Rhineland-Palatinate in the competition Our village should be more beautiful .

Population development

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

year Residents
1579 13 houses
1624 11 fireplaces
1669 15 smokes
1714 30 men, 1 widow
1760 91
1815 152
1835 150
1871 175
1905 200
year Residents
1939 225
1950 220
1961 199
1970 206
1987 214
1997 259
2005 249
2019 224

politics

Municipal council

The council in Astert 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.

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Erich Wagner was confirmed in his office for a further five years with 81.29% of the votes.

coat of arms

Astert Coat of Arms
 Blazon : "Coat of arms divided by a silver oblique left wavy bar , diagonally crossed above in red, silver roofer's hammer and hoe , below in blue three golden earsgrowingout of the edge of the shield ."
The reason for the coat of arms: The ears of wheat symbolize the importance of agriculture in the past centuries, the hoe indicates the old place name Asterode as a clearing village and the roofer's hammer indicates the numerous Leyendecker and slate pits in the area that were located here in the 16th and 17th centuries .

The blue field refers to the former affiliation to the Duchy of Nassau (1806–1866), the red field to the centuries-long affiliation to the County of Sayn and Sayn-Hachenburg (until 1799). The silver wavy ribbon symbolizes the Great Nister .

Culture and sights

building

Notable houses include:

  • The old school , Alte Dorfstraße 3 (half-timbered house, 18th century, bought by the community in 1826 and converted into a school),
  • House Thiel , Alte Dorfstraße 12, (half-timbered house, 18th century with branch ),
  • Haus Ahlhäuser , Zur Ley 2, (half-timbered house, 18th century).

More Attractions:

  • Elevations of the former brickworks , west of the village below the road from Astert to Heuzert ,
  • Old bridge , road from Astert to Heimborn over the Große Nister, was built from basalt in 1894 , remnants of a former stream crossing downstream.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Astert

Natural objects

  • Küppermüllchen , 500 m west of the village, rock formation 40 m above the Great Nister,
  • Hohe Ley , 700 m northeast of Astert, rock formation, 50 m above the Great Nister, lookout point with a white cross visible from afar.

See also: List of natural monuments in Astert

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literature

  • Hellmuth Gensicke : The parish of Kroppach. In: Nassauische Annalen 83. 1972, pp. 209-231.
  • Landscape Museum Westerwald Hachenburg (Ed.): Westerwälder Contributions 1 , Hachenburg 1981.
  • Dieter Trautmann (Ed.): 700 years of Astert. Contributions to the history of a village in Kroppacher Switzerland. , Astert 1982.
  • Dieter Trautmann: 700 years Astert , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 25 (1982), pp. 160–163.
  • Dieter Trautmann: Astert in his earlier documents , in: From land and people at the Nister 14 (2004), pp. 1–36.
  • Dieter Trautmann: The Asterter Leyendecker and their slate pits , in: From land and people at the Nister 33 (2010), pp. 1–43.
  • Dieter Trautmann: The roof slate pit Hardt and other Kaulen in the Astert district , in: From land and people to the Nister 16 (2005), pp. 1-40.
  • Dieter Trautmann: The history of the Astert school and its teachers up to its dissolution in 1966 , Astert 2013.
  • Dieter Trautmann: The historic half-timbered houses of the 18th century in Astert. Early mention of Höfen , in: Wäller Heimat (2013), pp. 42–47.
  • Literature about Astert in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Astert  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ↑ a b c Landscape Museum Westerwald Hachenburg (Ed.): Westerwälder Contributions 1 . 1981, p. 38ff.
  4. ^ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
  5. ↑ Dieter Trautmann: The history of the school at Astert and its teachers up to its dissolution in 1966 , Astert 2013.
  6. ↑ Dieter Trautmann: 700 years Astert , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 25 (1982), pp. 160–163.
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ WW-Kurier: In Astert the groschen itched. MVV Medienverlag Westerwald-Sieg UG & Co. KG, Wissen, September 13, 2015, accessed on June 6, 2020 .