Bengen

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

Bengen Union Free Parish County
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 7 ″  E
Height :	125 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	512  (Oct. 30, 2013)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53501
Area code :	02641
Location of Bengen in Rhineland-Palatinate
View of Bengen

Bengen is a district of the community -free municipality Grafschaft in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler . The Bengen district currently has 512 inhabitants. Until it was incorporated into the newly formed municipality of Grafschaft in 1974, Bengen was an independent municipality.

Geographical location

The place Bengen is located in the southeast of the municipality Grafschaft in the valley of the Bengen brook at the foot of the Vulkaneifel . The town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is located two kilometers south of Bengen . The next big city Bonn is about 25 km away and is in the north. Neighboring villages are Leimersdorf , Nierendorf , Kirchdaun , Gimmigen , Heppingen , Bad Neuenahr and Karweiler .

history

Bengen was first mentioned in a document in 1289 under the name "Benghoven". The monastery of St. Dionysius (St. Denis) in Liège owned land in Bengen and had the right of patronage for the church. These rights were transferred to Steinfeld Monastery in 1289 .

Until the end of the 18th century, Bengen belonged to the County of Neuenahr , which at times exercised sovereignty itself . In 1794 the French Revolutionary Army occupied the Rhineland , and Bengen was assigned to the Mairie Heimersheim in the canton of Remagen and the Rhine-Moselle department under French administration . After the Congress of Vienna in the area in 1815 came to the Kingdom of Prussia , Bengen was an independent municipality and the newly formed Mayor's Gelsdorf in district Ahrweiler in Koblenz has been assigned. In 1817 Bengen had 272 inhabitants. In 1936 the previous mayor's office in Gelsdorf was renamed to Amt Ringen and from 1968 to 1974 Bengen belonged to the community of Ringen .

In the course of the administrative and territorial reform of Rhineland-Palatinate, the non-association municipality Grafschaft was newly formed with effect from March 16, 1974. The municipal council of Bengen had spoken in favor of incorporation with only two votes, three votes in favor of the continued existence of the association, one vote abstained.

politics

District

Bengen is one of eleven boroughs in the county of Grafschaft. It is represented by a local council and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of seven members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. By the 2014 local elections there were five council members.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice	SPD	CDU	total
2019	3	4th	7 seats
2014	by majority vote		7 seats
2009	by majority vote		5 seats

Mayor

Rainer Kratz (CDU) has been the mayor of Bengen since 2011. 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 57.24%.

Kratz's predecessor, Karl-Heinz Manhillen, died in October 2010 after 16 years in office.

Cultural monuments

In Bengen there are some cultural monuments that are listed as historical monuments.

• The Catholic parish church of St. Lambertus, a hall building from 1910, the core of the tower from the 17th century and raised in 1950

In the cemetery there are twenty grave crosses from the 18th century, an old cemetery cross from 1807 and a new cemetery cross from 1900

• The former rectory, a half-timbered building from the mid-19th century (Kirchstrasse 5)
• A half-timbered house from the 18th / 19th centuries Century (Bogenstrasse 5)
• A way cross (niche type) from 1731 (Lindenstraße 31)

See also: List of cultural monuments in the county

Economy and Infrastructure

Bengen is characterized by two full-time and seven part-time farms. There are five craft and commercial businesses in the village, which offer around 25 jobs.

societies

Bengen has a lively club culture. This finds its manifestations in a bachelor club, the Bengen volunteer fire brigade , a quartet club, a Möhnen club and a football club . Over 500 members are organized in these associations.

Web links

Commons : Bengen  - Collection of Images

• Bengen County website
• Literature about Bengen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics for the municipality of Grafschaft, as of October 30, 2013.
2. ↑ Ottmar Prothmann: 300 years of village history of Bengen in the mirror of the parish chronicle , 1981 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
3. ↑ Various subpages of the Grafschaft Bengen website
4. ↑ Jakob Rausch: 150 years Ahrweiler district , 1966 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
5. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division , Coblenz, Pauli, 1817, page 49
6. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
7. ↑ Hans Josef Moeren: The "Grafschaft" - now a municipality , 1975 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district
8. ^ Main statute of the county county. (PDF) § 2 and 3. Municipality Grafschaft, June 18, 2019, accessed on July 30, 2020 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Bengen. Accessed July 30, 2020 . 
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council Election 2014 Bengen. Accessed July 30, 2020 . 
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Bengen. Accessed July 30, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Rainer Kratz is the mayor of Bengen. In: General-Anzeiger. General-Anzeiger Bonn GmbH, March 28, 2011, accessed on July 20, 2020 . 
13. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Grafschaft, association-free municipality, first line of results. Accessed July 30, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Rainer Kratz is running as mayor in Bengen. In: Rhein-Zeitung. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, January 28, 2011, accessed on July 30, 2020 . 
15. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Ahrweiler district. Mainz 2020, p. 31 (PDF; 5.1 MB).