Boden (Westerwald)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '  N , 7 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Montabaur
Height :	265 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.3 km 2
Residents:	584 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	254 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56412
Area code :	02602
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 005
Association administration address:	Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 8 56410 Montabaur
Website :	www.vg-montabaur.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Stamm
Location of the local community of Boden in the Westerwaldkreis

Boden is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Montabaur community .

Floor (2020)

geography

The place is north of the A3 , five kilometers from Montabaur . The Ahrbach flows through the Boden district .

The residential areas at Niederahr station, Guterborn and Wiesenmühle also belong to Boden .

Neighboring communities include Ruppach-Goldhausen , Heiligenroth , Moschheim , Niederahr and Meudt .

history

Today's municipality of Boden lies in the area of ​​the Humbach Bannes and parish (later called Montabaur), which was first described between 930 and 959 . The place was first mentioned in 1212 in the Liber annalium iurium , in which the extensive property of the Archbishops of Trier was recorded, under the name "Bodime".

According to a directory from 1548, Boden was one of seven villages that together formed the "Big Colliery". The "Große Zeche" was one of a total of 16 administrative districts ("Zechen") in the Electorate of Trier Montabaur . The administration of a colliery was one of Montabaurer bailiff used Heimburger transmitted. In addition to the village of Boden, the “Große Zeche” included the villages of Stude (today Staudt ), Bergenscheit ( Bannberscheid ), Lutterode ( Leuterod ), Oberoitzingen and Niederoitzingen ( Ötzingen ) and Muschheim ( Moschheim ). The entire colliery had 71 fireplaces in the middle of the 16th century ( Fuyrstette = households). In the Trier fire book of 1563 , eleven fire places are named for the village "Bodenn", which corresponds to about 60 inhabitants. Eight Trier , five Isenburg , one Reifenberg and one Steinkenterscher subjects (families) were counted.

The first chapel was built in 1716. The church “Maria Himmelfahrt”, built between 1914 and 1916, characterizes today's village.

Clay degradation plays an important role in the development of soil, the consequences of which are clearly visible around soil.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 210 1835 323 1871 343 1905 331 1939 336

year Residents 1950 377 1961 390 1970 437 1987 545 2005 543

religion

church

The vast majority of the population is Roman Catholic. In the village is the Church of the Assumption, which belongs to the parish Ruppach-Goldhausen / Boden in the diocese of Limburg . The approximately 70 Protestant Christians are looked after by the Evangelical Martin Luther Church Congregation in Wirges, which is part of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Boden 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

Peter Stamm became mayor of Boden in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 76.85%.

Stamm's predecessor Rudolf Eulberg held the office from 1999 to 2009.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Split of purple and silver, in front a curly, golden majuscule 'M', raised by a red-lined, golden lily crown , in the back a purple, left-sloping wavy bar."
	Explanation of the coat of arms: The symbols on the front part of the shield - the golden monogram 'M' and above it a golden crown of lilies - refer to the crowned Virgin Mary , the patron saint of Bodens. The rear part of the shield indicates the Ahrbach , which winds its way through the white clay mining area.

Culture and sights

The moated castle Hof Langwiesen is located near the village .

• See also List of Cultural Monuments in Boden

music

• The "Big Band Boden" offers a varied music program and has performed through performances and a. Achieved national fame on the Loreley.

Sports

• In the municipality, the ASV Boden is the sports club that offers wrestling and gymnastics as sports.
• The Sportfreunde Boden e. V. are active in the fields of table tennis, badminton and athletics. In 2012 the Sportfreunde Boden e. V. the 1st Bodener Brinkenlauf, a five-kilometer fun run through the district.

Hiking trails

• Two “themed clay paths” lead along current and former clay mining sites through Boden and some neighboring communities and offer information about the “white gold” of the Westerwald.

traffic

Due to its central location in western Germany and the well-developed transport connections, Boden is easy to reach:

• The federal highway 255 , which connects Montabaur and Marburg , runs along the town .
• The next motorway junction is Montabaur on the federal motorway 3 Cologne - Frankfurt am Main .
• The Kannenbäckerstraße connects Boden with Neuhäusel and runs through the Kannenbäckerland .
• Boden is on the 116 regional bus route (Montabaur Adenauerplatz - Montabaur train station / FOM - Boden - Westerburg train station), which is operated by the Rhine-Moselle bus .
• The next connection to the railway traffic is the Montabaur station , which is on the high-speed line Cologne-Rhein / Main and the Unterwesterwaldbahn , there are long-distance trains in the direction of Cologne, Mainz / Wiesbaden and Frankfurt as well as the local trains of the RB 29 (Limburg (Lahn) - Diez East - Elz South - Montabaur - Wirges - Siershahn).

Web links

Commons : Soil  - collection of images

• Ortgemeinde Boden on the pages of the Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur

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. 75 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Josef Hörle: Die westerwälder deadlines, the tenth district of the church in Montabaur , archive for Middle Rhine church history, 5th year 1953, p. 363 ff ( online edition at dilibri )
4. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume 2, Hölscher, Coblenz 1865, p. 424 ( online edition at dilibri )
5. ↑ Melchior Thamm: Directory of the villages and fireplaces as well as the pensions and validities of foreign masters in the city and under the spell of Monthabaur, anno domini 1548 , Montabaur: Sauerborn, 1906, p. 29 ff. ( Online edition at dilibri )
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
7. ^ Diocese of Limburg, Parish of the Assumption of Mary in Ruppach-Goldhausen / Boden . Retrieved January 8, 2011.
8. ↑ Evangelical Martin Luther Church Congregation Wirges . Retrieved January 8, 2011.
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
10. ↑ ^{a b} Susanne Willke: Boden is a place with many sides. Anniversary 800 years. Westerwälder Zeitung, May 26, 2012, accessed on June 20, 2020 . 
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Montabaur, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .