Ehrenstein (Asbach)

Ehrenstein Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	160 m above sea level NN
Residents :	3  (Dec 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Ehrenstein in Rhineland-Palatinate

Ehrenstein around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Place name sign Ehrenstein from Prussian times

Asbach-Ehrenstein, Ehrenstein Monastery and Castle

Ehrenstein is a part of the local community Asbach in the Neuwied district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate .

geography

Ehrenstein is the southernmost part of Asbach. The living space is in the Rhine-Westerwald nature park and in the area where the Mehrbach flows into the Wied, about six kilometers from the main town of Asbach. The next larger town is Neustadt (Wied) , which is about two kilometers downhill. In addition to the main town with the seat of the Ehrenstein monastery in the Mehrbachtal, Ehrenstein also has a detached house and a chapel, both of which are located directly on the Wied west of state road 269.

history

The former Ehrenstein Castle was built around 1330, and the Ehrenstein Monastery was built below the castle at the end of the 15th century. Apart from the castle and monastery occupants, a few families later lived along the monastery wall who were in the service of the lord of the castle. According to a census initiated by Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660 , there were three houses and a destroyed mill in Ehrenstein, in addition to the castle and the monastery.

After the Rhineland came to Prussia in 1815 , Ehrenstein belonged to the community of Schöneberg in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was initially administered by the Neustadt mayor and from 1823 by the Asbach mayor . According to a census from 1885, Ehrenstein had 15 residents who lived in three houses.

Until 1974, Ehrenstein belonged to the previously independent community of Schöneberg . On March 16, 1974, the local community Asbach was newly formed from it and the communities of Asbach and Limbach, which were dissolved at the same time, and part of the community of Elsaff .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Asbach (Westerwald)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} local community Asbach (ed.): Asbach / Westerwald. Pictures and reports from the last 200 years ; 1990, pages 240 and 387
2. ↑ August Welker: Inventory in the Altenwied office in 1660 in the 1977 homeland yearbook of the Neuwied district, page 101
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 44
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)