Eisighofen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Aar facility
Height :	316 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.42 km 2
Residents:	265 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56370
Area code :	06486
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 036
Association administration address:	Burgstrasse 1 56368 Katzenelnbogen
Website :	www.eisighofen.de
Local Mayor :	Alexander Lorch
Location of the local community Eisighofen in the Rhein-Lahn district

Eisighofen is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the municipality of Aar-Einrich .

history

The current place name is derived from the term iron and refers to the intensive historical iron mining in the region. The place belonged to the Duchy of Nassau or its predecessor counties. On March 1, 1676, Johann Graf zu Nassau-Saarbrücken gave the village the right to call itself free spots. In 1781 the village was destroyed by fire, but it was rebuilt with the help of the surrounding villages. The Duchy of Nassau, and with it Eisighofen, was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . Eisighofen has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 . In 1972, as part of an administrative reform, the Verbandgemeinde Katzenelnbogen was formed, to which the local community Eisighofen belonged until 2019 and which then became part of the Verbandsgemeinde Aar-Einrich.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 167 1835 164 1871 209 1905 199 1939 200 1950 255

year Residents 1961 228 1970 221 1987 207 1997 273 2005 266 2019 265

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

The local mayor of Eisighofen is Alexander Lorch. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 65.48% of the vote.

Regular events

• Every three years Eisighofen organizes the “Bornkerb”, which is also celebrated in Dörsdorf and Berghausen .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Eisighofen

Web links

Commons : Eisighofen  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Eisighofen
• Local municipality Eisighofen on the website of the municipality of Aar-Einrich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Aar-Einrich, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of results. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .