Ellern (Hunsrück)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 7 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Hunsrück district
Association municipality :	Simmern-Rheinböllen
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.36 km 2
Residents:	897 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55497
Area code :	06764
License plate :	SIM, GOA
Community key :	07 1 40 035
Association administration address:	Am Markt 1 55494 Rheinböllen
Website :	www.ellern.de
Local Mayor :	Friedhelm Demgen
Location of the local community Ellern (Hunsrück) in the Rhein-Hunsrück district

Soonwaldhalle

The village of Soonwald seen from

Memorial stone in the Soonwald near Ellern

Ellern (Hunsrück) is a local community at the foot of the Soonwald in the middle of the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in the Rhein-Hunsrück district , Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Simmern-Rheinböllen community .

geography

In terms of transport, Ellern is conveniently located near the A 61 and about ten kilometers from the district town of Simmern . To Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is a good car connection via the B 50 . The Middle Rhine Valley with Bacharach, Loreley , Oberwesel and Boppard can be reached quickly .

The municipal area is around ten square kilometers. The nature reserve "Kloppwiesen" is located directly on the Ellerner district in the Argenthal area .

The Lindenhof residential area also belongs to the community .

climate

The annual precipitation is 788 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 60% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is September, with most precipitation falling in June. In June there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in September. Precipitation hardly varies and is evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 15% of the measuring stations .

history

The "Desert Elira" ( deserta Elira ) mentioned in the boundary description of the church in Mörschbach in 1006 was probably not in the current location. The first written mention is from 1347. Local rulers were the Count Palatine . After the Reformation, Ellern became mainly Protestant. With the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops , the place became French and from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton of Simmern in the Rhine-Mosel department . In 1815 the region and thus the community of Ellern was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In 1798 Johannes Bückler , the Schinderhannes , stayed in Ellern and stole a horse .

time of the nationalsocialism

During the end of National Socialism , from spring 1944 to spring 1945 at Ellern, initially under the direction of the Hitler Youth , from mid-1944 the Gestapo operated a parole camp for young people aged 13 to 17 who were employed in the timber industry under the worst conditions . The prisoners, including many Edelweiss pirates from Cologne and the Ruhr area and young people who had evaded the fortification work on the Westwall , mostly stayed about three months until the older ones volunteered for the Reich Labor Service .

Population development

The development of the population of Ellern (Hunsrück), the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 452 1835 497 1871 453 1905 475 1939 466

year Residents 1950 578 1961 623 1970 604 1987 756 2005 874

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Ellern consists of twelve council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until the 2014 election, personalized proportional representation was used.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	by majority vote			12 seats
2014	3	3	6th	12 seats
2009	4th	3	5	12 seats
2004	4th	3	5	12 seats

• FWG = Free Voters' Group Ellern e. V.

mayor

The local mayor is Friedhelm Dämgen. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office with 79.30% of the votes.

Partner municipality

Ellern maintains a partnership with the town of Sünna in Thuringia.

economy

The wood industry is of great importance because of the nearby forest. The origin of the woodworking industry dates back to 1888, when Curt Müller von Berneck acquired land from the municipality and built a steam sawmill. After economic problems, the timber buyer Mathias Tenhaeff took over the saw gates on October 1, 1913 and operated it as the Mathias Tenhaeff company. Tenhaeff always pursued the idea of ​​processing the tree trunks from the local forests into a finished product. In 1920 he therefore started producing boxes with the aim of training skilled workers before a chair factory was built in 1926. In 1936 the product portfolio was expanded to include tables and in 1969 to include benches for the catering trade. At the moment five, around 200 meter high wind turbines are being built for the Ellern wind farm in the Ellern district . The client and provisional operator is juwi from Wörrstadt .

traffic

The station Ellern located on the hunsrückquerbahn .

leisure

Ellern is part of the Soonwald-Nahe Nature Park and offers a variety of hiking trails and cycling routes.

Ellern owes the ability to use wood in a variety of ways to the forest, which is why the Elljer Holzkerb was launched a few years ago . This gives the community the opportunity every year to systematically present wood and goods made from it. The Soonwaldfee , which is chosen on the occasion of the Holzkerb , personalizes and clarifies the proximity to the forest and its use through its name. Elljer Holzkerb is every year on the 4th weekend in August.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Ellern (Hunsrück)

literature

• Dieter Diether: Ellern - In the shadow of the alder . Argenthal 1995.
• Dieter Diether: The "military training probation camp" in Ellern . In: Rhein-Hunsrück-Kalender Vol. 50 (1994), pp. 55-60.
• Dieter Diether: 100 years of the woodworking industry in Ellern . In: Rhein-Hunsrück-Kalender Vol. 47 (1991), pp. 36-42.
• Literature about Ellern in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

• Internet presence of the local community Ellern
• Local community Ellern on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Rheinböllen
• Ellern in the SWR television program Hierzuland
• Literature about Ellern in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 38 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape  1 : From the oldest times to the year 1169. Koblenz 1874, p. 337 f. Reg. 285 ( full text in the Google book search).
4. ↑ Josef Heinzelmann : The way to Trigorium . In: Yearbook for West German State History . Volume 21, 1995, p.  66 .
5. ^ Museums Cologne, NS Documentation Center, Lexicon WE Probation Camp Ellern
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Ellern. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Simmern-Rheinböllen, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
10. ^ History of the Holzindustrie Hunsrück GmbH Mathias Tenhaeff
11. ↑ Rhein-Hunsrück Zeitung Wind turbines as an attraction for hikers