Bellingen (Westerwald)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Westerburg
Height :	430 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.29 km 2
Residents:	600 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	140 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56459
Area code :	02663
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 207
Association administration address:	Neumarkt 1 56457 Westerburg
Website :	www.bellingen.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Wisser
Location of the local community Bellingen in the Westerwaldkreis

Bellingen (2020)

Bellingen is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Westerburg .

Geographical location

Bellingen is located in a valley seven kilometers northwest of Westerburg .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1386, when properties of the St. Florinstift in Koblenz were leased in the tithe zu Höhn . The place name probably goes back to the personal name Baldo. In 1422 and 1462 the village was plundered by the Counts of Katzenelnbogen . In terms of church, Bellingen was part of the Rotenhain parish until the early 20th century .

In Bellingen there are 13 taxpayers for 1545, 21 taxpayers for 1572, 13 fireplaces for 1713, 165 inhabitants for 1809 and 217 for 1851.

The Sottenbach desert was located around two kilometers southwest of Bellingen between the Kramberg and the origin of the southern source brook of the Enspeler brook. The place was mentioned for the first time as a settlement in 1299 and for the last time at the end of the 16th century, after that only as part of field names. Sottenbach was the origin of a local knight dynasty that was first mentioned in 1299 with a Heinrich and in 1476 with a Thiele for the last time. Its possessions extended in addition to rights in the surrounding area to the surrounding area of Limburg an der Lahn and on to Königstein im Taunus , north to Ewersbach and in the west to Kettig and Moselweiß .

Other field names in the Bellingen district indicate desertification , which has not yet been documented by other sources, including Käsbach, possibly two kilometers west-southwest of Bellingen, and Weizingen, south of the village in the direction of Langenhahn and Hintermühlen .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 177 1835 218 1871 224 1905 291 1939 341 1950 375

year Residents 1961 377 1970 432 1987 484 1997 600 2005 581 2019 600

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Michael Wisser became the local mayor of Bellingen in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 85.44%.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split of gold and blue, covered with a bar in confused colors, five blue labels (shingles) at the top front, 3: 2 set, below a seven-leaf blue heart-shaped turnip, at the top back a slanted golden handle jug, a golden ray in one pouring a golden chalice, below three golden labels, 2: 1 placed. "

Declaration of the coat of arms: jug with handle with chalice, attributes of St. Florinus von Remüs , stand for the Koblenz St. Florinus pen and the first documentary mention of Bellingen. The blue-gold changing bar points to the submerged village of Sottenbach in the Bellingen district and to the noble family von Sottenbach (15th century) named after this village . The five blue shingles symbolize the five surrounding neighboring communities Langenhahn , Stockum-Püschen , Rotenhain , Wölferlingen and Rothenbach , the three golden shingles the three former lordships of Orange-Nassau , Kurtrier and Sayn-Hachenburg , which clashed on Dreiherrenstein in the south-western district of Bellingen . The beet symbolizes the agricultural character and times of need, the seven beet leaves stand for the seven neighboring districts of Hölzenhausen, Püschen, Rotenhain, Wölferlingen, Rothenbach, Hintermühlen and Langenhahn.

Cultural monuments

See list of cultural monuments in Bellingen (Westerwald)

traffic

• The B 255 runs south of the community and runs from Montabaur to Herborn .
• The next motorway junction is Montabaur on the A3
• The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

Personalities

• Johann Georg Baldus (* 1789 in Langenhahn , † 1855 in Bellingen), member of the Nassau Chamber of Deputies in the Duchy of Nassau , the second chamber of parliament, in Wiesbaden from 1832 to 1847, president of the chamber from 1834 to 1836, member of the pre-parliament of the Paulskirche in 1848 .

literature

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

Web links

• Website of the municipality of Bellingen
• Local community Bellingen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Westerburg
• Brief portrait of Bellingen on SWR television

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 - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ Chronicle. Bellingen Volunteer Fire Brigade, August 2013, accessed on July 10, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Westerburg, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .