Dattenberg

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

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 18'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Neuwied
Association municipality :	Linz on the Rhine
Height :	170 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.33 km 2
Residents:	1469 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	157 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	53547, 53562 (Brochenbach, Hahn, Gorse Hahn)
Area code :	02644
License plate :	NO
Community key :	07 1 38 009
Community structure:	6 districts
Association administration address:	Am Schoppbüchel 5 53545 Linz am Rhein
Website :	www.gemeinde-dattenberg.de
Local Mayor :	Stefan Betzing ( CDU )
Location of the local community Dattenberg in the Neuwied district

Country house of the Dattenberg Castle

Dattenberg is a municipality in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate , close to the border with North Rhine-Westphalia . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Linz am Rhein , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Linz am Rhein .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located on the right bank of the Rhine on the B 42 , about halfway between Cologne and Koblenz . Dattenberg's geographical location extends from the Rhine over the foothills of the Westerwald to the Wiedtal .

Dattenberg, aerial photo (2018)

Districts

The following districts belong to Dattenberg :

• Arnsau
• Brochenbach (Dattenberg part)
• Dattenberg
• Gorse tap (Dattenberger part)
• Taps
• Heeg
• Ronig
• Ripples

Neighboring communities

• Linz on the Rhine and Sankt Katharinen in the north
• Neustadt (Wied) , Roßbach and Hausen (Wied) in the east
• Leubsdorf in the south

history

The first documentary mention dates from the year 1217. In this document a Konrad and a Werner von Dadenberg are named as witnesses. The family of the `` Knights of Dadenberg '' can be documented for the first time with Werner in a Rennenberger document from 1242. The construction of Dattenberg Castle , of which only parts of the keep have been preserved, is likely to have started at this time .

A Wolfram von Dadenberg is mentioned in 1254 as a tenant of the Linz Apostelhof, in 1260 we meet a Gumbert and in 1269 a Hermann von Dadenberg . They were probably Werner's sons.

At the beginning of the 14th century, the Dattenberg knight dynasty was in the service of the Elector of Trier and was enfeoffed by him in Nickenich , Andernach and Kobern (covers). When the Archbishop of Trier and Elector Baldwin of Luxembourg enfeoffed Count Dietrich von Isenburg again with Arenfels Castle in 1318, the Archbishop and Elector of Cologne, Heinrich von Virneburg , who had just made Linz a city, reacted by telling Wilhelm von Dattenberg around 1330 Bought the castle and the lordship, thus rounding off and securing his right bank territory in the south.

Tower of Dattenberg Castle

In 1331 the castle came to the Knight Rollmann von Sinzig zu Ahrenthal as a fief of the Archbishopric of Cologne . Rollman and his son Heinrich now called themselves: Herr von Ahrenthal and Dadenberg . After an inheritance distribution, his son Heinrich was enfeoffed with Dattenberg in 1363. He and his descendants now called themselves von Dattenberg . In 1664 the male line died out.

As a new “man's fief” in 1767, “Castle and Court Dattenberg” was awarded to Johann Friedrich Raitz von Frenz zu Gustorf on the condition that he punctually paid the land tax contribution to be made by the subjects of the rulership to the city of Linz and that all components (fields and Vineyards) in good condition again. Johann died in 1674, also without a male heir. Now the electoral court chamber finally withdrew the fief. Dattenberg belonged to the parish of Linz and has been under the administration of the Electoral Cologne Office of Linz since the 15th century , which was elevated to the Oberamt around 1700.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Dattenberg came first to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen in 1803 , and to the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 with the Rhine Confederation Act . Dattenberg was then under the administration of the Nassau Office of Linz . After the Rhineland was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, the municipality of Dattenberg was assigned to the Linz district (incorporated into the Neuwied district in 1822 ) and administered by the Linz mayor's office.

In 1822, the Prussian tax authorities sold the former Electoral Cologne goods in Dattenberg. After two changes of ownership, the ruins of Dattenberg Castle, with a country house that had meanwhile been built in the outer bailey, including outbuildings, vineyards and land, came to the Berlin builder Adolf Fuchs . In 1890 he had the country house converted into a castle-like villa. Since the 1920s, the villa, also known as "Neue Burg Dattenberg", has been used in various ways, which can be summarized as the "domicile of youth": training of Catholic girls by the Jesuits, "land year camp" during the Nazi era, "youth training center" and "school camp" of the Rhein-Erft district ". The villa had been empty since 1996, and its intended use as a seminar hotel failed. The villa has been privately owned and restored since 2003.

Dattenberg, country house of the Dattenberg Castle

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 499 1835 673 1871 756 1905 894 1939 1,075 1950 1,062

year Residents 1961 1.109 1970 1,244 1987 1,235 2005 1,584 2010 1,576 2015 1,514

politics

Municipal council

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

Distribution of seats in the elected municipal council:

choice	CDU	SPD	FWG	Green	total
2019	8th	5	3	-	16 seats
2014	7th	6th	2	1	16 seats
2009	8th	6th	2	-	16 seats
2004	7th	7th	2	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voters Group Dattenberg eV

mayor

Stefan Betzing (CDU) became the local mayor of Dattenberg in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 73.16% of the vote. Stefan Betzing's predecessor was Dieter Runkel (SPD), who had not run again after 17 years in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "A shield divided seven times by silver and black, covered with a red-armored and tongued double-tailed golden lion."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms corresponds to that of the Lords of Dadenberg, documented since 1242.

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Dattenberg

Attractions

Rest of the former braking track

Catholic Church Holy Guardian Angels

• Dattenberg Castle with the reconstructed fortifications. The castle, which was built in the first half of the 13th century, is the ancestral seat of the noble von Dattenberg family (also von Dadenberg ). The ruins of the twelve-meter-high residential tower can only be viewed from the outside.
• Choir of the old parish church from the 13th century
• neo-Romanesque church from the 19th century

Regular events

• Wine festival with a big pageant: first weekend in October
• Fair : first weekend in September
• Castle Festival : (mostly) the first Saturday in July

Hiking trails

The Rheinsteig , as well as the more than 100 year old Rheinhöhenweg as long - distance hiking trails on the right bank of the Rhine from Bonn to Wiesbaden , lead through Dattenberg on the stage from Unkel to Leubsdorf (16.7 km, 500 meters in altitude).

traffic

The place is connected to the federal highway 42 via the district road 10 . The next motorway junction is Bad Honnef / Linz on federal motorway 3 .

Dattenberg is close to the right-hand Rhine route (next train stations in Leubsdorf and Linz am Rhein ).

literature

• Hellmut Gensicke: State history of the Westerwald. Wiesbaden 1958.
• Joachim J. Halbekann: possessions and rights of the Counts of Sayn until 1246/47 and their heirs (=  Historical Atlas of the Rhineland . Supplement V.5). Cologne 1996.
• A. Rings, R. Willscheid: Dattenberg. A home book. Cologne 1991.

Web links

Commons : Dattenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Dattenberg
• Local community Dattenberg on the website of Verbandsgemeinde Linz

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 32 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ ELECTION RESULTS. Retrieved May 29, 2019 . 
5. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Linz am Rhein, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved February 20, 2020 . 
6. ^ Sabine Nitsch: Arrived in office: Dattenberg mayor relies on village renewal. Rhein-Zeitung, January 29, 2020, accessed on February 20, 2020 .