Bennau (Asbach)

Bennau Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	196  (December 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Bennau in Rhineland-Palatinate
Bennau, aerial photo (2016)

Bennau district

Bennau is a district of the local community Asbach in the district of Neuwied in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is characterized by agriculture, but has now developed into a place of residence in the sense of a residential community .

geography

The village is located in the Niederwesterwald west of the main town Asbach on a hill above the Pfaffenbach . Bennau is surrounded by a number of smaller villages and hamlets , in the west Bennau borders the Asbach district of Germscheid . The sub-village “Bennauthal” is located on Landesstraße 272, which connects Bennau with the main town Asbach and with the federal motorway 3 (AS Bad Honnef / Linz ).

history

Bennau is located in the historical area of ​​"Elsaff", which was already mentioned in 893 in the Prümer Urbar under the name "de Elsaffe". The first written mention of the place is the naming of the Bennauer Mühle in 1554.

Bennau belonged to the electorate of Cologne and to the Altenwied office and was part of the " Honnschaft Elsaff" in the parish of Asbach. According to an inventory ordered by the Cologne elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660, Bennau had three courtyards, in 1787 33 residents were counted here who lived in 12 houses.

After the Rhineland came to Prussia in 1815 , Bennau belonged to the municipality of Elsaff in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was administered by the mayor's office of Asbach . According to a census from 1885, Bennau had 87 inhabitants who lived in 17 houses. 1931 Bennau got its own post office Class II in the district of the post office Asbach.

Until March 16, 1974 Bennau belonged to the then independent municipality of Elsaff , which was dissolved on the same date and whose localities were assigned to the newly formed local communities Asbach and Buchholz according to the former parish affiliation . Here Bennau came to Asbach and has been part of the Elsaff-Asbach district since then . In 1987 Bennau had 169 inhabitants.

School and chapel

Bennau received a school in 1845, in which the children of the villages of Bennau, Büsch , Germscheid , Köttingen , Limberg , Meierseifen , Rauenhahn and Schluten were taught. In 1955 a new school was built. Today the children attend the primary school in Asbach.

With private funds, construction of a chapel began in Bennau in 1889 and was completed in 1902. She is consecrated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception . The present chapel was rebuilt in 1973 by the Catholic parish of Asbach.

Bennauer Kopf quarry

Basalt was mined from the 19th century on the Bennauer Kopf (formerly also known as Steimelskopf) to the west of the town . After the construction of the railway line from Hennef to Asbach built by the Bröltalbahn in 1892, the Bennauer quarry was the largest in the Asbacher Land. The “Bennau-Thal” train station and a basalt loading station were set up below the village. From 1912 onwards, the basalt from the quarry in Hinterplag was also loaded here and transported to the loading station via a 1.2 km long cable car.

Basalt mining in Bennau was stopped at the end of the 1950s. There has also been no railway connection since 1956. The former route is now used as a hiking trail.

The abandoned quarry area, filled with groundwater and surface water, is now designated as a fauna and flora habitat . In the biotope you will find the Bechstein's bat and the great mouse-eared bat , midwife toads and grass snakes . In 2008 the "Working Group for Nature and Environmental Protection Asbacher Land" bought a large part of the site and the lake.

Water pipeline association Bennau

Bennau has its own water supply recognized by the responsible state office. The well provides over 10,000 cubic meters of drinking water for the almost 200 inhabitants per year . The water supply is operated by the "Wasserleitungsverein Bennau eV"; all households in the area are members of the association.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Asbach (Westerwald)

Web links

• www.bennau.de - private homepage
• Short portrait and film report on SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 83
2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 40
3. ^ Theo Winterscheid: From the history of the post in the Windhagener area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 113.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
5. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
6. ^ Foundation for Nature and the Environment Rhineland-Palatinate: "Old Bennau Quarry"
7. ↑ Homepage of the "Working Group for Nature and Environmental Protection Asbacher Land"
8. ↑ Water supply plan for Rhineland-Palatinate ( memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pages 43 and 106 (PDF; 1.4 MB)