Elsaffhal

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Elsaffhal was an independent municipality in the Neuwied district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate , which existed under this name from 1817 to 1969. Today the twelve districts of the former community belong to the local community Neustadt (Wied) .

Districts

  • Dinkelbach
  • Kodden
  • Mittelelsaff
  • Oberelsaff
  • Red
  • Rotterheide
  • Steeg
  • Lower Elsa
  • Wahrenberg
  • Wied
  • Wiedmühle
  • Wölsreeg

history

Honnschaft Elsaff im Thal

Wonderfully country , the region formerly belonged to the Electorate of Cologne . As an early form of communities, monks arose in the Middle Ages , which were an amalgamation of the residents of individual farms and the villages that were forming. The honor "Elsaff im Thal" belonged to the parish of Neustadt, which was under the administration of the Cologne Electoral Office of Altenwied , which was established in the middle of the 13th century . In 1670, Altenwied Castle and the towns of Dinkelbach, Heide (Rotterheide), Kodden, Mittelelsaff, Oberelsaff, Rott, Steeg, Unterelsaff, Wahrenberg and Wölsreeg belonged to the Honnschaft. The districts of Wied and Wiedmühle were not yet mentioned in 1670.

By order of the Elector Maximilian Heinrich , an inventory of the settlements in all honnships in the Altenwied office was carried out in 1660. The following were named for the Elsaff im Thal community:

In Wiedt, auf der Heide (Rotterheide), zu Wallenberg (Wahrenberg), Wolffges Rech (Wölsreeg) and Dinkelbach there was only one farm, the one in Dinkelbach was called Obristen-Hof. Two yards belonged to the Steeg. There were five farms each in the valley to Rodenau, to Rott and in the Elsaff (Lower, Middle and Upper Elsaff).

Elsaffhal community

The rule of Kurköln ended in 1803 after more than 500 years 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 "Elsaff im Thale Wied" honnship was then subordinate to the administration of the Nassau office of Altenwied . After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , the area was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 .

Elsaffhal was a municipality in the then newly formed district of Neuwied in the administrative district of Koblenz and initially from 1817 to 1823 administered by the Altenwied mayor , then by the Neustadt mayor . By drawing lots, the municipality of Elsaffhal received a forest area from the former Lorscheid II district . According to a census from the year 1885, the municipality of Elsaffhal with its then 14 districts had 551 inhabitants who lived in 108 residential buildings.

Due to the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform that began in the mid-1960s, the municipality of Elsaffhal with its last 802 inhabitants was dissolved on January 1, 1969. From it, together with the also dissolved municipalities of Bühlingen (915 inhabitants), Neustadt (Wied) (2,090 inhabitants) and Rahms (999 inhabitants), today's local municipality Neustadt (Wied) was newly formed. The district of Elsaffhal within the boundaries of the former municipality still exists today.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke: Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, p. 420; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  2. ↑ August Welker: Inventory in the Altenwied office in 1660 in the 1977 homeland yearbook of the Neuwied district, page 101
  3. ↑ Nassauische Annalen: Jahrbuch des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, Volume 9-10 , 1868, page 305
  4. ^ Verbandsgemeinde Linz am Rhein (ed.); Adalbert N. Schmitz: Around the Hummelsberg. The Verbandsgemeinde Linz am Rhein , 1984, p. 132.
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.), 1888, page 40
  6. ↑ 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. 189 (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.