Daubach (Westerwald)

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Coat of arms of the local community of Daubach
Daubach (Westerwald)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 51'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Montabaur
Height : 298 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.5 km 2
Residents: 462 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 185 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56412
Area code : 02602
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 008
Association administration address: Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 8
56410 Montabaur
Website : www.vg-montabaur.de
Local Mayor : Thorsten Hahn
Location of the local community Daubach in the Westerwaldkreis
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Daubach is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Montabaur community .

geography

The place is west of the federal highway 3 , five kilometers from Montabaur , in the slipstream of the Stelzenbachforstes, above the Gelbachtal and only seven kilometers from the Lahn valley with the bishop's city Limburg an der Lahn .

The Häusgesmühle residential area also belongs to Daubach .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1343.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Daubach belonged to the right bank of the Rhine from Kurtrier , which was assigned to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . After the formation of the Rhine Confederation , Daubach belonged to the Duchy of Nassau from 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, Daubach was assigned to the Nassau Office of Montabaur and until 1815 the administrative district Ehrenbreitstein , then the administrative district Wiesbaden .

According to statistics from the Duchy of Nassau from 1843, the Daubach community had 149 inhabitants who lived with 44 families in 32 houses. The residents were without exception Catholic.

In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau was annexed by Prussia . The municipality of Daubach became part of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau in 1867 and belonged to the newly formed Unterwesterwaldkreis . In 1946 the Daubach community became part of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Daubach is now a place of residence without any commercial settlement. The grocery store closed in 2000. The construction of our own chapel can be described as an outstanding achievement in the 1990s.

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 197
1835 179
1871 232
1905 207
1939 416
1950 222
year Residents
1961 214
1970 252
1987 351
2005 476
2011 464
2017 465

politics

Municipal council

The council in Daubach consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019Template: future / in 3 years in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Thorsten Hahn became the local mayor of Daubach in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of 98.58% of the votes.

Hahn's predecessor Raimund Hahn had held the office for 25 years.

coat of arms

Daubach coat of arms
 Blazon : “Wavy split of silver and green, in front a continuous, red bar cross; behind a sitting on a golden branch, turned to the right, facing, red-armored, golden owl with closed flight. "

Approval to use this coat of arms was granted on April 14, 1981.

See also

literature

  • Hermann-Josef Hucke: Daubach through the ages 1343-1993.

Web links

Commons : Daubach  - Collection of Images

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. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau. Beyerle, 1843, p. 669 ( online edition at Google Books ).
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  6. ↑ Pictures from 2014 - local elections. Thorsten Hahn - New local mayor of Daubach. Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur, accessed on June 20, 2020 .
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Montabaur, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Thanks for your voluntary commitment. Raimund Hahn. Structure and Approval Directorate North (SGD Nord) of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, July 11, 2017, accessed on June 20, 2020 .