Ditscheid (Asbach)

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Ditscheid
Local community Asbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 55 "  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 38"  E
Height : 270 m above sea level NN
Residents : 10  (Dec 31, 2009)
Incorporation : March 16, 1974
Postal code : 53567
Area code : 02683
Ditscheid (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Ditscheid

Location of Ditscheid in Rhineland-Palatinate

Ditscheid is a district of the local community Asbach in the district of Neuwied in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is characterized by agriculture.

geography

The hamlet is located in the Niederwesterwald northeast of the main town Asbach. In the east, Ditscheid borders on the district of Hirz-Maulsbach in the Altenkirchen district . Ditscheid can only be reached via Kreisstraße 63, which connects the town with the Asbach district of Limbach .

history

The name Ditscheid as -scheid -Ort indicates the old age of the settlement. “Dit” is derived from “Diet” or “Diuto”, the Old High German word for “people”. The border with County Sayn ran east of the village . At Ditscheid and the hamlet of Graben to the north, there were several land forces .

Ditscheid belonged to the Electorate of Cologne and to the Altenwied office and was part of the " Honnschaft Limbach". According to an inventory ordered by Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660, Ditscheid had three courtyards. In 1787, 13 residents were counted in Ditscheid who lived in six farms.

After the Rhineland came to Prussia in 1815 , Ditscheid belonged to the Limbach community in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was administered by the Asbach mayor . According to a census from 1885, Ditscheid had 24 inhabitants who lived in 6 houses.

Until 1974 Ditscheid was part of the then independent municipality Limbach . On March 16, 1974, the local community Asbach was newly formed from it and the communities of Asbach and Schöneberg, which were dissolved at the same time, as well as part of the community of Elsaff . In 1987 Ditscheid had 13 residents.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Vogt: The place names in Engersgau , Neuwied: Strüder, 1890, page 21
  2. a b c Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 60
  3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 42
  4. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169, (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  5. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality