Nesting valley

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height :	323 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.93 km 2
Residents:	1192 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	303 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57647
Area code :	02661
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 279
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Kirburger Strasse 4 56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website :	www.nistertal-westerwald.de
Local Mayor :	Christian Benner
Location of the local community Nistertal in the Westerwaldkreis

Erbacher Bridge over the Nistertal

View of Nistertal from above Hirtscheid

Nistertal is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen .

Nistertal consists of the districts of Büdingen with the Büdinger Mühle residential area and Erbach with the Birkenhof and Talhof residential areas (dialect: Bejrenge and Äärwisch ).

history

Büdingen was first mentioned in a document in 1274. Erbach was first mentioned in 1353.

Büdingen belonged to the parish and court of Rotenhain from the second half of the 15th century at the latest . The place was detached from the parish in 1563 in the course of the Reformation and parish changed to Marienberg . In 1719 the construction of a mill on the Nister near Büdingen was allowed. Their designation "New Mill" indicates an older, nearby mill.

In 1922 the church Assumptionis B Mariae V was built in the village. The following year the place left the parish of Rotenhain and became a parish vicarie .

The municipality of Nistertal was re-formed on June 7, 1969 in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform from the dissolved municipalities of Büdingen (558 inhabitants) and Erbach (Westerwald) (599 inhabitants). The Great Nister , which flows between the two places, has formed a political, linguistic and denominational border for centuries. The geographical name Nistertal was as a brand name in the neighboring even before the establishment of the municipality of the same knowledge -based commercial vehicle manufacturer Nistertal Walter Niepenberg Maschinenfabrik used.

Population development

In Büdingen five Turkish taxpayers were registered in 1545 , six fireplaces in 1578, eleven families in 1711, 164 residents in 1809 and 56 families in 1851.

The development of the population in relation to today's area of ​​the local community Nistertal, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 333 1835 406 1871 398 1905 601 1939 964 1950 1,046

year Residents 1961 1,124 1970 1,225 1987 1,151 1997 1,360 2005 1,326 2017 1,222

politics

Municipal council

The council in Nistertal consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Christian Benner became mayor of Nistertal on July 22, 2016. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 86.02%.

Benner's predecessor Beate Held resigned from office after six and a half years for reasons of time on June 30, 2016.

coat of arms

Blasonierung : "Split in the shaft section and divided up front in blue, a silver hexagon, is a black hammer and chisel , above the back of gold, a green alder branch with two leaves and three fruits left, down a growing dreirundbogige bridge to the division in confused colors . "

Justification of the coat of arms: The two top coat of arms figures represent the two districts of Büdingen and Erbach. The hexagon and the mountain hammers symbolize the rich basalt deposits and its mining as a characteristic industry and source of income for the community. The alder branch interprets the district name Erbach as Erlenbach . The split shows the location of the municipality on the Nister, Büdingen on the left and Erbach on the right. The bridge that fills the lower part of the coat of arms is a symbol for the Erbacher bridge and the road bridge between the districts. The colors gold and blue are the colors of the Nassau coat of arms. They indicate that the municipality has belonged to the territory for centuries.

Buildings

St. Mary's Assumption in Büdingen

The railway bridge over the Nister near Erbach was the largest concrete bridge in Germany when it was completed in 1911 . With a length of around 300 m and a height of almost 40 m, at that time still built without steel reinforcement , it was considered a technological wonder. After the Erbach – Fehl-Ritzhausen railway was closed in 1971 for passenger traffic, the Erbacher Bridge was preserved as a technical monument . The "water bridge" is also worth mentioning. At this bridge, the water is directed over the tracks from the Nistertal-Bad Marienberg line.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Nistertal

traffic

Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station

• The B 414 runs north of the village and leads from Driedorf -Hohenroth to Hachenburg .
• The nearest motorway junctions are Montabaur on the A 3 Cologne - Frankfurt am Main , around 25 kilometers away, and Haiger / Burbach on the A 45 Dortmund - Hanau , around 27 kilometers away.
• Nistertal is connected to the Oberwesterwaldbahn railway line through the Nistertal-Bad Marienberg train station and the Büdingen (Westerwald) railway station , on which the trains of the regional railway line 90 (Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn), ( Limburg an der Lahn - Diez Ost - Westerburg - Hachenburg - Altenkirchen (Ww) - Au (Sieg) –Wissen– Siegen - Kreuztal ) of the Hessian State Railway HLB operate every hour in both directions according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .
• At the Au (Sieg) train station there is a connection to the RE 9, which runs as the Rhein-Sieg-Express RSX from Aachen via Cologne, Siegburg / Bonn, Wissen and Betzdorf to Siegen, to the S-Bahn line 12 (Düren-Cologne-Siegburg / Bonn-Au (Sieg)) as well as to the RB of the Hessische Landesbahn from Au to Siegen.
• At Limburg (Lahn) train station there is a connection to regional trains in the direction of Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Gießen / Fulda, Koblenz and Montabaur / Siershahn

literature

• Hellmuth Gensicke : Parish and court of Rotenhain. In: Nassau Annals . 79th Volume, 1968, pp. 241-262.

Web links

Commons : Nistertal  - collection of images

• Web presence of the local community Nistertal
• Local community Nistertal on the website of the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Hermann Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , 2010, p. 3 (PDF; 132 kB)
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 73 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 191 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Benner youngest local mayor in the association. In: Informations - Archiv 2016. Ortsgemeinde Nistertal, July 22, 2016, accessed on June 4, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, 15th line of results. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .