Breitscheid (Westerwald)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Neuwied
Association municipality :	Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach
Height :	320 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.21 km 2
Residents:	2175 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	178 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53547
Area code :	02638
License plate :	NO
Community key :	07 1 38 006
Community structure:	16 districts
Association administration address:	Westerwaldstrasse 32–34 56579 Rengsdorf
Website :	www.rengsdorf-waldbreitbach.de
Mayoress :	Roswitha Schulte ( CDU )
Location of the Breitscheid community in the Neuwied district

Breitscheid (Westerwald), aerial photo (2016)

Hochscheid, aerial photo (2018)

Nassen (left), Siebenmorgen (right), aerial photo (2018)

Breitscheid is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach and has 2,175 inhabitants.

geography

location

The place is located in the Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park northeast of Waldbreitbach. The districts of the municipality are located on an extensive mountain ridge up to 360 m high above the Wiedtal and Elsbachtal. Well-developed hiking trails lead into the side valleys of the Wied.

Districts

In addition to the main town of Breitscheid, the community has 15 other villages and residential areas :

• Birkenhof
• Lead sheath
• Dasbach (partly)
• Elsbach
• Fichtelshohn
• Fockenbachsmühle
• Barley cock
• Gersthahnsmühle
• Goldscheid
• Hochscheid
• Hollig
• Hunting lodge Elsbach
• Wet
• Seven mornings
• Differ

history

The accumulation of place names in today's municipality with the ending "-scheid" suggests that settlement began in Franconian times . In the 13th century, Breitscheid belonged to the Thuringian legacy of Mechthild von Sayn , which she gave to the Archbishop of Cologne , Konrad von Hochstaden , in 1250 . The Archbishopric of Cologne assigned the Breitscheid Honschaft to the Neuerburg Office , to which it belonged until 1803. Ecclesiastically and with regard to the lower jurisdiction , Breitscheid belonged to the parish Waldbreitbach in the Deanery Engers of the Archdiocese of Trier . The Breitscheid Honschaft comprised the same localities as today's local community, at times the Cologne part of Kurtscheid and Escherwiese also belonged to the Honschaft.

At the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (1803) the electorate of Cologne was finally dissolved, the offices of Altenwied and Neuerburg, including Breitscheid, were awarded to Prince von Wied-Runkel as compensation for his lost properties on the left bank of the Rhine . As early as 1806, this area became part of the Duchy of Nassau when the Rhine Confederation was formed . As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), this area finally came under the Kingdom of Prussia and was initially assigned to the registrar district of Neuwied in 1816, and in 1848 to the district of Neuwied in the administrative district of Koblenz , which belonged to the Rhine province from 1822 on .

After the Second World War , Breitscheid became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . Since 1968 Breitscheid belonged to the Verbandsgemeinde Waldbreitbach , which merged in 2018 into the Verbandsgemeinde Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 771 1835 678 1871 784 1905 784 1939 786 1950 802 1961 832 1970 1.102 1987 1,528

year Residents 1997 1,958 2005 2,312 2007 2,247 2010 2,196 2011 2.135 2013 2,096 2015 2.120 2017 2,177 2018 2.157

Population development of Breitscheid (Westerwald) from 1815 to 2018 according to the table below

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Breitscheid consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWGB	total
2019	3	8th	5	16 seats
2014	3	9	4th	16 seats
2009	5	11	-	16 seats
2004	4th	12	-	16 seats

• FWGB = Free Voting Group Local Community Breitscheid e. V.

mayor

Roswitha Schulte (CDU) became local mayor of Breitscheid in 1993. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in her office for another five years with a share of 78.99% of the votes.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split by a curled golden tip, in it four different high black hexagonal columns growing on a green three-mountain, five silver rings in front in green (2: 1: 2), behind in red three golden two-line ears."

Foundation of the coat of arms: The five rings are reminiscent of the lower aristocratic family “those of Breitscheid”, mentioned in a document as early as 1155. The ears of wheat symbolize the earlier importance of agriculture for the community. The Dreiberg indicates the location of the villages of Breitscheid above the Wiedtal. The pillars stand for the earlier basalt mining on the Roßbacher Häubchen , which is in the district of Breitscheid.

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality has made efforts to increase the number of jobs on site and the financial strength by creating the preconditions for the settlement of further medium-sized companies by designating new industrial areas ("Breitscheid industrial park"). Favorable location factors are the close proximity to the A 3 and the central location to the metropolitan areas Rhine / Main, Cologne / Bonn and Neuwied / Koblenz.

Public facilities

• Municipal kindergarten "House Kunterbunt"
• Primary school "Marienschule"
• Sports field with sanitary and changing building
• Village community center with barbecue area and a newly built bakery
• Fire station of the Breitscheid volunteer fire brigade, Nassen site.

traffic

The state road L 256 runs through the village from Linz am Rhein to Neustadt (Wied) . The next motorway junction is Neustadt / Wied on the A3 .

The Linz am Rhein train station on the right bank of the Rhine can be reached quickly from Breitscheid. In addition, the high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main runs northeast of the town , the nearest station of which is in Siegburg .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Breitscheid
• List of natural monuments in Breitscheid

literature

• Albert Hardt: In the land of Neuerburg an der Wied , Second Edition 1988, published by the Waldbreitbach Association

Web links

Commons : Breitscheid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Breitscheid local community on the website of the Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach community
• Breitscheid village, private site

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 34 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Paul Vogt: The place names in Engersgau , Neuwied, 1890, p. 12, 20 ( dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate )
4. ↑ Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Nassau territories from the property holdings immediately before the French Revolution until 1866 , Wiesbaden: Stein, 1870 p. 53, 55 ( dilibri Rheinland-Pfalz )
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ The Federal President: Awarding of the Order on Volunteer Day 2014. from Rhineland-Palatinate: Roswitha Schulte, Breitscheid - Merit Cross on Ribbon . December 5, 2014, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .