Berghausen (furnishing)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '  N , 8 ° 0'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Aar facility
Height :	338 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.37 km 2
Residents:	294 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56368
Area code :	06486
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 010
Association administration address:	Burgstrasse 1 56368 Katzenelnbogen
Website :	berghausen.co
Local Mayor :	vacant (representative: Torsten Heuser)
Location of the local community Berghausen in the Rhein-Lahn district

Berghausen is a local community in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate , it is part of the Aar-Einrich association.

geography

The place is in the western Hintertaunus in the landscape of the Einrich near Katzenelnbogen . The residential areas Hof am Buchenbusch and Taunus-Sprudel also belong to Berghausen . The highest point near Berghausen is the Sandkopf at 401  m above sea level. NHN .

Neighboring villages are Dörsdorf (south), Allendorf (north-west) and Bonscheuer, a district of Mudershausen (north-east).

history

Berghausen is first mentioned in a document in 1260. The Counts of Katzenelnbogen were sovereigns of the Niedergrafschaft Katzenelnbogen and thus Berghausen as well until 1479 . The largest landlord in Berghausen was the Ferrutiusstift in Bleidenstadt until secularization . Since 1806 the place belonged to the Duchy of Nassau , from 1866 to the Kingdom of Prussia . Berghausen has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 . In 1972, in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate “functional and territorial reform”, the community of Katzenelnbogen was formed, to which the local community of Berghausen belonged until 2019 and which then became part of the community of Aar-Einrich.

There is a mineral water spring in the village, the water of which was temporarily bottled and marketed under the brand name "Taunussprudel Katzenelnbogen".

Population development

In the years around 1260 the place had about 60 inhabitants, in 1584 already 120 inhabitants.

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

year Residents 1815 168 1835 204 1871 189 1905 232 1939 200 1950 237 1961 214

year Residents 1970 240 1987 236 1997 269 2005 313 2011 320 2017 290

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Berghausen consists of six (up to the 2019 election eight) council members, who were elected in a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

The office of local mayor is vacant, Torsten Heuser was appointed as representative. The previous mayor Thomas Pfaff did not run again in the direct election on May 26, 2019. There was no other applicant either, and the local council has not yet been able to find a successor for Pfaff.

coat of arms

The coat of arms, which has been in use since 1980, shows a golden mountain with a golden house on the top. Above the house there is a golden sword and a golden lance, which cross each other. The coat of arms colors red and gold correspond to the colors of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen. Lance and sword refer to Saint Ferrutius . The house on the mountain is a " talking coat of arms ".

Personalities

• Rudolf Diels (1900–1957), lawyer, first head of the Gestapo , district president of the Cologne administrative district

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Berghausen

Web links

Commons : Berghausen  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the Berghausen community
• Local municipality Berghausen on the website of the municipality of Aar-Einrich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 65 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Aar-Einrich, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved November 19, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Uschi Weidner: Five months after the election: Berghausen is still looking for a mayor. Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung, Diez, October 22, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019 .