Berod near Wallmerod

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Wallmerod
Height :	305 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.92 km 2
Residents:	542 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	138 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56414
Area code :	06435
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 208
Association administration address:	Richtstrasse 1 56414 Wallmerod
Website :	www.wallmerod.de
Local Mayor :	Collin Schmidt
Location of the local community Berod near Wallmerod in the Westerwaldkreis

The half-timbered house (built around 1700) in Berod near Wallmerod (Germany) is one of the village's cultural monuments.

The church (parts built between 1150 and 1200) in Berod near Wallmerod with a Romanesque west tower is the oldest cultural monument in the village.

The half-timbered house was first designated in 1688. It is the third cultural monument in the village.

Berod bei Wallmerod is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Wallmerod Association .

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Wetzlar . Immediately to the east of the village, the Eisenbach flows from north to south . The Bruchhäusermühle and Dammsmühle residential areas also belong to Berod near Wallmerod .

history

Berod was first mentioned in 1292 as Berrinrode in a necrology of the Dietkirchen monastery . The word ending -rode refers to the medieval clearing of forests to gain arable and pasture land between 800 and 1200. The first chapel in Berod must have been built between 1150 and 1200. The west tower of today's church and parts of today's sacristy were already part of this building. The chapel and the place belonged to the parish Hundsangen in the Middle Ages . In 1729 the chapel was enlarged and given a baroque interior. In 1900 the church was rebuilt again and was given a north-south direction while retaining the former baroque choir room. The current transept with the former baroque main altar (in the current side choir) corresponds to the original orientation of the chapel in an easterly direction.

In 1762 Berod was raised to a parish by the Archbishop of Trier, Johann Philipp von Walderdorff, together with Wallmerod and part of Ruppach . In 1789 the part of Ruppach was replaced by Zehnhausen . In 1963 Wallmerod became a separate parish, but remained within the Berod parish. In 1976 Molsberg was added to the parish Wallmerod and thus to the parish of Berod. On January 1, 2016, the parish of St. Agidius Berod was merged into the newly founded large parish of St. Laurentius Nentershausen after 254 years of existence.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 276 1835 326 1871 312 1905 304 1939 341 1950 365

year Residents 1961 360 1970 410 1987 440 1997 501 2005 560 2017 550

politics

Municipal council

The council in Berod bei Wallmerod consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the Chairman.

mayor

Collin Schmidt became the local mayor of Berod on June 21, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 90.44% of the vote.

Schmidt's predecessor Berthold Schönberg had held the office for 15 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split by a red-silver double flank and divided in a wavy cut a pointed, cross-cut, black-grooved church tower with a silver window, raised by a silver double window set in a round arch, a lifting hoe in front, a clay digger's spade in the back, everything in mixed up colors."

societies

The fishing club , the sports club , the Liederkranz men's choir and the St. Agidius church choir are all active in the village .

traffic

• The B 8, which connects Altenkirchen (Westerwald) and Limburg an der Lahn , runs in the immediate vicinity of the village .
• The next motorway junction is Diez on the A3 Cologne - Frankfurt am Main , about ten kilometers away.
• The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Berod near Wallmerod

Web links

Commons : Berod bei Wallmerod  - Collection of images

• Local community Berod near Wallmerod on the website of the Wallmerod Association

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 80 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Forests and people through the ages
4. ↑ Lemke, Volker .: History of the parish St. Agidius Berod: a contribution to the local history of Berod, Wallmerod, Zehnhausen and Molsberg . 1997, OCLC 174428951 .
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} Constituent meeting of the municipal council. In: We about us - Wallmerod Association, issue 26/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, Höhr-Grenzhausen, accessed on July 2, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Wallmerod, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .