Dreisbach (Westerwald)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.62 km 2
Residents:	570 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	123 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56472
Area code :	02661
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 216
Community structure:	5 districts
Association administration address:	Kirburger Strasse 4 ; 56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website :	www.bad-marienberg.de
Local Mayor :	Andrea Theis
Location of the local community Dreisbach in the Westerwaldkreis

Dreisbach (dialect: Draasbich ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen . The Nister , which belongs to the catchment area of the Sieg , flows in an east-west direction through the local area.

The residential areas Landhaus Daheim, Markushof, Hof Nistertal and Hof zur Hohen Linde belong to Dreisbach .

history

Dreisbach was first mentioned in a document in 1252.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	260
1835	308
1871	262
1905	314
1939	339

year	Residents
1950	347
1961	317
1970	371
1987	513
2005	606

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Andrea Theis became mayor of Dreisbach in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with a share of 80.42% of the vote.

Andrea Theis's predecessor, Jürgen Held, had held the office for ten years.

Culture and sights

traffic

The B 255 runs south of the village and leads from Montabaur to Herborn .
The next motorway junction is Montabaur on the A3 Cologne - Frankfurt am Main , about 22 kilometers away.
The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

Others

Since 1982 the Bikerparty Westerwald , one of the oldest and largest motorcycle meetings in Germany, has been held in Dreisbach every year on the first Saturday in August . Some editions of the events took place in the nearby towns of Fehl-Ritzhausen and Norken . Motorcyclists from all over Germany, some from neighboring countries, traditionally meet at the festival and tent site in Dreisbach. The 30th edition of the event in 2011 was headlined by the rock band Tito & Tarantula . On August 7, 2004, the German metal queen Doro Pesch attended the biker party. A few years later on August 1st, 2009, the German metal band Grave Digger played there.

Sons and daughters of the church

Matthäa Held (1942–2018), religious sister in the Congregation of the Sisters of Christian Love

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

^ Hermann Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as local nonsense ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , 2010, p. 2 (PDF; 132 kB)

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 72 (PDF; 3 MB).

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .

^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Election of the local mayor in the Bad Marienberg community on May 26th. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2019, accessed on June 2, 2020 .

↑ "Bikes & Legends" attracts the masses of Rhein-Zeitung in Dreisbach