Charlottenberg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Charlottenberg (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Diez
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	0.76 km 2
Residents:	150 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	197 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56379
Area code :	06439
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 021
Association administration address:	Louise-Seher-Strasse 1 65582 Diez
Website :	www.vgdiez.de
Local Mayor :	Marco Vogt
Location of the local community Charlottenberg in the Rhein-Lahn district

Charlottenberg is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Charlottenberg is the smallest local parish and the youngest town in the Diez community .

geography

The street village of Charlottenberg is located in the Esterau west of Holzappel in northern Rhineland-Palatinate on a hill about 340  m above sea level. NHN on the edge of the Nassau nature park .

history

The village is relatively young in comparison with the other places in the Diez community. Charlottenberg goes back by name to the founding of Princess Elisabeth Charlotte von Schaumburg-Nassau (1640–1707), daughter of Peter Melander , in 1699. Eighty Waldensians were settled in the area, who were expelled from Fenestrelle in the southern French Alps (now Italy ) in 1698 and found a new home in Esterau . Until 1766, Charlottenberg was an independent parish in which services were held in French . The parish was then attached to the Protestant parish in Dörnberg .

From 1806 the place was part of the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . Since 1946 the place has been part of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

The language of instruction was French until the school in Charlottenberg was closed in 1767. It was not until 1870 and from 1874 in a new school building that school lessons took place again in Charlottenberg.

Lead and silver have been mined in the area around Charlottenberg since the middle of the 18th century .

The population developed as follows in the 19th and 20th centuries: 1843: 156 inhabitants, 1927: 190 inhabitants, 1964: 202 inhabitants.

religion

Charlottenberg is assigned to the Roman Catholic parish St. Bonifatius in Holzappel and belongs with it to the pastoral area Diez , which in turn is integrated into the Limburg district in the Limburg diocese .

On the Protestant side, the place is parish Dörnberg in the deanery Diez the provost South Nassau in the Evangelical Church in Hessen and Nassau (EKHN) belong.

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

The local mayor of Charlottenberg is Marco Vogt. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 78.75% of the vote.

Waldensian monument in Charlottenberg, erected in 1899

Culture and sights

Waldensian monument

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the village in 1899, a memorial was erected in honor of the founder, Elisabeth Charlotte von Nassau-Dillenburg-Schaumburg, at the exit of the village, with the inscription “Faith true! In memory of the noble founder of Charlottenberg - The Grateful Waldensians ”. The year of death 1706 on the memorial is wrong: the Countess died in March 1707.

Buildings

See also : List of cultural monuments in Charlottenberg

societies

There are three clubs in Charlottenberg, the Charlottenberg volunteer fire brigade founded in 1897 and the Charlottenberg sports club in 1921 , as well as the Kultur- u. Meeting place for women e. V. , who carries the women's country house in Charlottenberg.

Web links

Commons : Charlottenberg  - Collection of Images

• Local community Charlottenberg on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Diez
• The Waldensians: Charlottenberg (near Holzappel)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
3. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Diez, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth row of results. Retrieved November 9, 2019 . 
4. ↑ cf. Hessian Main State Archive Wiesbaden, Section 171, No. Z 2970.