Elsaff

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Elsaff was an independent municipality in the Neuwied district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate , which existed under this name from 1815 to 1974. In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform that began in the mid-1960s , the municipality of Elsaff was dissolved on March 16, 1974 and the localities belonging to the then municipality area were transferred to the local communities Asbach and Buchholz (Westerwald ) divided.

Districts

Divided according to today's allocation, the localities of Elsaff belonged to:

today districts of Asbach

Bennau , Büsch , Drinhausen , Germscheid , Hofen , Köttingen , Limberg , Meierseifen , Pees , Rauenhahn , Rindhausen , Schluten and Walgenbach,

today districts of Buchholz

Buchholz, Diepenseifen , Heck, Krummenast, Muß , Oberelles, Sauerwiese , Unterelles and Wahl.

history

The Elsaff is an area described in a document as early as 893 in the Prümer Urbar . At that time there were five courtyards ( mansen ) here.

In the first half of the 13th century the area belonged to the county of Sayn and became part of the Electorate of Cologne in 1250 . By 1500, six tenth districts had been created in the area of ​​the Elsaff honors (order of origin): the Krautscheid-Gilgenberger tithing , the Steinmel-Köttinger tithing , the Blomen- and middle tenth (later also the blue middle tenth ), the big back , the big Bitz , the Leutzgen as well as the Büscher tithe .

The rule of Kurköln in the region ended in 1803 with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The Electorate of Cologne area in this region was initially the Wied-Runkel assigned and came in 1806 due to the Act of Confederation, the Duchy of Nassau . The Honnschaft Elsaff then was under the administration of the Nassau Office Altenwied . After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , the area was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815.

Elsaff became a municipality in the then newly formed district Neuwied in Koblenz and was supported by the mayor Asbach managed. According to a census from 1885, the municipality of Elsaff and its districts had 1,002 inhabitants who lived in 209 residential buildings and in 26 towns and places . The Kirchdorf Buchholz played a central role in this.

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform initiated in the mid-1960s, the municipality of Elsaff was dissolved on March 16, 1974 and incorporated into the newly formed local communities Asbach and Buchholz (Westerwald) . Elsaff last had 1,522 inhabitants with its districts. The distribution of the localities corresponded to their earlier affiliation to the parishes of Asbach and Buchholz. The former territory of the municipality of Elsaff, which was incorporated into the municipality of Asbach, corresponds to today's district of Elsaff-Asbach .

Municipal Mayor

The mayors since 1946:

  • 1946–1951 Peter Stockhausen, Germscheid
  • 1951–1960 Josef Stroh, Oberelles
  • 1960–1974 Heinrich Rüddel, Germscheid

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 169 and 173 (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.  
  2. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia . 1885, p. 40.
  3. ↑ Niklas Kindlinger: History of the German bondage: in particular the so-called serfdom: with documents . 1819, p. 283.
  4. ^ Josef Schäfer: The tenth districts of the Honschaft Elsaff. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Neuwied district. 1977, pp. 104-108.
  5. ↑ Nassauische Annalen: Yearbook of the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research. Volume 9-10 . 1868, p. 305.
  6. ^ Local community Asbach (Ed.): Asbach / Westerwald. Pictures and reports from the last 200 years. 1990, p. 47.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 24 ′  E