Bitches

This article deals with that of the municipality of Bitzen. For the district of the same name in Much see here .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 7 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Hamm (victory)
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.3 km 2
Residents:	721 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	313 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57539
Area code :	02682
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 010
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Lindenallee 2 57577 Hamm (Sieg)
Website :	www.bitzen-online.de
Local Mayor :	Armin Weigel
Location of the local community Bitzen in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

Bitzen is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Hamm (Sieg) .

Geographical location

Bitzen and the district of Dünebusch are on the northern side of the Sieg . The towns border on North Rhine-Westphalia and the municipality of Windeck (Sieg) in the west, Forst in the north of Bitzen and Oppertsau , a district of Fürthen, in the south .

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Bitzen (from Opperzau )

history

Bitzen was first mentioned in a document in 1445.

Until the middle of the 17th century, Bitzen belonged to the county of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . After the state division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Bitzen belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg .

Bitzen formed a separate administrative district called "Sende" within the parish of Hamm , to which the places Dünebusch and Pirzenthal (today part of Wissen ) also belonged. The county of Sayn-Hachenburg fell to the princes of Nassau-Weilburg by inheritance in 1799 . In connection with the formation of the Rhine Confederation , Bitzen came to the newly established Duchy of Nassau in 1806 .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the area was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Bitzen was assigned to the Hamm mayor in the newly established Altenkirchen district ( Koblenz administrative district ), which belonged to the Rhine Province from 1822 onwards.

From 1720 to 1931 the St. Andreas iron ore mine was operated in the village .

On March 28, 1993, a Robinson R22 helicopter crashed between Dünebusch and Pirzenthal . The two occupants did not survive the accident.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Bitzen

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 162 1835 183 1871 319 1905 402 1939 620

year Residents 1950 674 1961 728 1970 717 1987 736 2005 833

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Local mayor of Bitzen is Armin Weigel. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 91.53% of the vote.

literature

• Literature about Bitzen in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Web links

Commons : Bitzen  - collection of images

• Official homepage of the local community of Bitzen
• Bitzen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Hamm (Sieg)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 371.
4. ↑ Negotiations of the State Deputy Assembly by resolution ..., Volume 1 , 1836, p. 583.
5. ↑ Wikibase entry on the helicopter crash in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data .
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Bitzen. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
8. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hamm (Sieg), Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .