Eitelborn

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Montabaur
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.1 km 2
Residents:	2440 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	344 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56337
Area code :	02620
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 013
LOCODE :	DE 83L
Association administration address:	Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 8 6410 Montabaur
Website :	www.vg-montabaur.de
Local Mayor :	Daniel Best ( WGB )
Location of the local community Eitelborn in the Westerwaldkreis

View of Eitelborn (2020)

Eitelborn is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Montabaur community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Koblenz , Höhr-Grenzhausen , Montabaur and Bad Ems . Neighboring communities Kadenbach in the north, Arzbach in the east and Neuhäusel in the northwest. The Eitelborn Forest north of Kadenbach belongs to the district.

Eitelborn also includes the residential areas Am Stundenstein, Denzerheide, Forsthaus Eitelborn and Ölmühle.

history

Eitelborn was first mentioned in a document in 1325.

Around 1300, the Helfensteiners, who were ministerials in the service of the Archbishop of Trier, came into the possession of the manor “Denzinrode” (today Denzerheide) near Eitelborn. In 1310 Heinrich von Helfenstein built the Sporkenburg, so named after the Bannforst, at a dominant point above the valley of the Emsbach. In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the French destroyed the castle, the ruins of which are now owned by Rhineland-Palatinate. The family of those von Pfaffendorf with the sideline of the Meinefelder von Ehrenbreitstein was enfeoffed with the village Eitelborn in 1325 and 1375. These were replaced by the Helfensteiners in 1440. The lords of the Sporkenburg, the Wentz von Niederlahnstein (since 1524) and the Boos von Waldeck (since 1729) were involved in the Eitelborn Hubengericht.

Eitelborn, which has had its own Church of the Assumption since 1925, broke away from the Catholic parish of Arzbach in 1953. The pastor Quernheim and the church calculator Johann Wilhelm Simon (after whom a street to the church was named) played a decisive role in the construction of the church in Eitelborn.

From 1965 until the founding of the association community in 1972, the local communities Eitelborn and Neuhäusel merged to form a joint mayor's office. Their seat was Eitelborn with a branch in Neuhäusel. The mayor at that time was the later First Alderman of the Montabaur community, Heinz Reusch.

In 1967 the Augst -gemeinde Eitelborn was chosen as the “ most beautiful village ”.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	541
1835	802
1871	872
1905	1,068
1939	1.101
1950	1,254

year	Residents
1961	1,377
1970	1,787
1987	2,325
2005	2,517
2011	2,410
2017	2,454

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Eitelborn consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. In 2019 four groups of voters were elected to the municipal council. By 2009 the council had 20 council members.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	WGR	total
2019	3	-	10	16 seats
2014	6th	-	10	16 seats
2009	6th	-	10	16 seats
2004	6th	3	11	20 seats

WGR: various groups of voters (BL, WG Best, WG Schwarzer, WG Zerbach)

mayor

Daniel Best became the local mayor of Eitelborn in summer 2019. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he prevailed with a share of 51.59% of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had achieved a sufficient majority in the direct election on May 26, 2019.

Best's predecessor, Norbert Blath, had held the office for 25 years and did not take up again in 2019.

coat of arms


	Justification of the coat of arms: The three green lilies come from the coat of arms of the Lords of Helfenstein, the builders of the Sporkenburg . The golden castle shield wall shows the building stock that still exists today. The fountain stylizes the village fountain that existed on the old town hall square until 1950.

Culture and sights

Parish Church of the Assumption

Buildings

The Sporkenburg is located about a kilometer south of the village .
The parish church of the Assumption of Mary was built between 1923 and 1925 .

The Sporkenburg southeast of Eitelborn

Natural monuments

See the list of natural monuments in Eitelborn

traffic

Private transport

In Neuhäusel there is a connection to the federal highway 49.
In Montabaur there is a connection to the federal motorway 3 in the direction of Cologne and Frankfurt.

Public transport

Eitelborn is served daily by the busses of the Rhein-Mosel-Bus (Koblenz Hbf - KO Zentralplatz - KO-Ehrenbreitstein - Neuhäusel - Montabaur Adenauerplatz - Montabaur Bahnhof / FOM) , the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) applies. .

From Monday to Friday there are also connections with the 557 buses via Neuhäusel, Kadenbach and Arzbach to Bad Ems. There is a rail connection there.

There is a connection to long-distance rail traffic at Koblenz main station and at Montabaur station .

In Koblenz there is a connection to the local rail transport in the direction of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, Neuwied, Limburg, Mainz and Wiesbaden.