Elgendorf

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Elgendorf
City of Montabaur
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 47 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 257  (256-310)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.6 km²
Residents : 1271  (Aug 1, 2018)
Population density : 489 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 22, 1972
Postal code : 56410
Area code : 02602
Elgendorf (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Elgendorf

Location of Elgendorf in Rhineland-Palatinate
Elgendorf (2020)

Elgendorf (dialect "Elschedorf") is a district and a local district of Montabaur in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The place used to be dominated by agriculture, today it is a place of residence in the sense of a commuter community . Until 1972 Elgendorf was an independent municipality in what was then the Unterwesterwaldkreis .

geography

The village of Elgendorf is located in the north of the Westerwald part of the Nassau nature park, about three kilometers northwest of downtown Montabaur. In the south of Elgendorf is the Montabaur district of Horressen , in the north the local community of Dernbach (Westerwald) . The state forest of Montabaur extends west of Elgendorf .

history

Middle Ages and Electoral Trier times

Elgendorf lies in the area of ​​the ban and parish of Humbach (later called Montabaur), which was first described between 930 and 959 . The place was first mentioned under the name "Elchindorf" in the 1220 inventory of the Archdiocese of Trier " Liber annalium iurium ". Every year 600 earthen  (?) Bowls were to be delivered to the sovereign, those from the stone were the tithe lords . The place name "Elchindorf" indicates a first settlement in the Franconian period. The name Elkindorf is interpreted as “settlement or village of the elkhos ”.

According to a directory from 1548, the three localities Dernbach , Eschelbach and Elgendorf ( Elchendorff ) formed a "colliery" (administrative district) of the Electorate of Montabaur . The management of "mine" was one of Montabaurer bailiff used Heimburger transmitted. The three villages together had 39 fireplaces ( courtyards ). The St. Florin Abbey in Koblenz had to give six Malter oats a year. In the Trier fire book of 1563 five fireplaces are given for Elgendorf ( Elchendorff ), five Trier subjects and one Nassau subjects (families) were counted. In 1684 there were eleven fireplaces.

In 1786 Elgendorf had 216 inhabitants.

Nassau and Prussian times

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Elgendorf belonged to the right bank of the Rhine from Kurtrier , which was assigned to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 . After the formation of the Rhine Confederation , Elgendorf belonged to the Duchy of Nassau from 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, Elgendorf was assigned to the Nassau Office of Montabaur and until 1815 to the administrative district of Ehrenbreitstein, then to the administrative district of Wiesbaden .

According to statistics from the Duchy of Nassau from 1843, the municipality of Elgendorf had 438 inhabitants who lived with 110 families in 60 houses. 435 of the inhabitants were Catholic, 3 Protestant.

In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau was annexed by Prussia . The municipality of Elgendorf became part of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau in 1867 and belonged to the then newly formed Unterwesterwaldkreis . In 1946 the municipality of Elgendorf became part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Incorporation

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal reform that had begun in the mid-1960s , the previously independent municipality of Elgendorf was incorporated into the city of Montabaur on April 22, 1972 with 958 inhabitants.

church

The Church of the Nativity of Mary

Elgendorf always belonged to the parish of Humbach / Montabaur in the Archdiocese of Trier , which in 1827 was assigned to the then newly established diocese of Limburg . In 1952 Elgendorf and Horressen were raised to a separate parish with the parish church in Horressen.

A first chapel was built in Elgendorf around 1630, expanded in 1850, laid down in 1901 and a new chapel built, which was closed in 1969 due to dilapidation. Today's Catholic branch church of the Nativity of Mary was built in its place between 1972 and 1974 and is now part of the parish vicarie of St. John the Baptist in Horressen.

school

There is already news of school lessons in Elgendorf from the Electorate of Trier, the children of the village were first taught in private rooms and later in a school house. At the time of the Nassau government , a new schoolhouse was built in 1823. In 1896 a new school building was built. In 1922 there was a teacher in Elgendorf. Today the primary school students go to the “forest school”, which was built in 1967 on the border between Horressen and Elgendorf.

District

The district of Elgendorf is identical to the district of the same name , which corresponds to the former municipality of Elgendorf. The interests of the local district are represented by a local council and a local councilor.

The town council is composed of seven members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Andreas Lorenz became Mayor of Elgendorf in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with a share of 70.41% of the vote. Predecessor Hermann Wolf had held the office for over 20 years.

Attractions

  • See also list of cultural monuments in Montabaur
  • At the Catholic branch church of the Birth of Mary from 1974 the church tower is from the previous building (1901).
  • There are three under in the center monument standing half-timbered houses from the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • The “Elk Hiking Trail” set up in 2007 leads over six kilometers around the village.

Infrastructure

  • Elgendorf is connected to the city center of Montabaur and the municipality of Dernbach in the north via the L 312 state road . The district road K 126 leads through the forest area to the west to Ransbach-Baumbach and in an easterly direction to the Eschelbach district .
  • The Elgendorf Volunteer Fire Brigade was founded in 1932. Today's Elgendorf fire fighting group is part of the Montabaur base fire brigade.
  • Elgendorf has a community hall and a sports field (natural grass).
  • The “Löwenzahn” kindergarten in Elgendorf is run by local authorities.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Hörle: Die westerwälder deadlines, the tenth district of the church in Montabaur , archive for Middle Rhine church history, 5th year 1953, p. 363 ff ( online edition at dilibri )
  2. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume 2, Hölscher, Coblenz 1865, p. 424 ( online edition at dilibri )
  3. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau , 1843, p. 673 ( online edition at Google Books )
  4. ^ Paul Vogt: Die Ortnames im Engersgau , Neuwied: Strüder, 1890, p. 24 ( online edition at dilibri )
  5. ↑ a b Melchior Thamm: Directory of the villages and fireplaces as well as the pensions and validities of foreign masters in the city and under the spell of Monthabaur, anno domini 1548 , Montabaur: Sauerborn, 1906, p. 28 ff. ( Online edition at dilibri )
  6. ↑ Melchior Thamm: The Montabaur official description of the Trier court councilor Damian Linz from the year 1786, Montabaur: Sauerborn, 1909, p. 9 ( online edition at dilibri )
  7. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel: Description of the Duchy of Nassau , Beyerle, 1843, p. 669 ( online edition at Google Books )
  8. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 187 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  9. ↑ Pastoral area Montabaur
  10. ^ Westerwald address book, 1922, p. 129
  11. ↑ Main statutes of the city of Montabaur (PDF; 121 kB) from July 15, 2004, as of April 15, 2010
  12. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council Election 2019 Elgendorf. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  13. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Montabaur, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th line of results. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  14. ^ City of Montabaur (press release): New city council of Montabaur begins its work. see picture 3 of 4. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, August 27, 2019, accessed on June 21, 2020 .