Engehöll
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Engehöll
City of Oberwesel
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 46 ″ N , 7 ° 42 ′ 45 ″ E
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| Height : | 126 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 300 | |
| Postal code : | 55430 | |
| Area code : | 06744 | |
Location of Engehöll in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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 View over Engehöll to Schönburg
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Engehöll is a district and a district of the city of Oberwesel in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Surname
The name, Engehell in the local dialect , is derived from Halde , here a steep slope. The narrowness refers to the valley floor of the slope. Vineyards in the area are also called Hell . The place is first mentioned in 1256 as angel heroes , which still has a clear reference to Halde .
location
The place is located as a street village in the valley of the Oberbach (from the Oberwesel point of view) or the Engehöller Bach , which flows into the Rhine as a stream on the left bank of the Rhine below the center of Oberwesel . The place is connected by the state road 220 with Oberwesel and the federal highway 61 leading over the Hunsrück . The former Simmerner Strasse is now called Rieslingstrasse .
history
The living space has always been one Oberwesel, until the French period for kurtrierischen Office from 1798 to commune Oberwesel in Canton Bacharach .
Residents
The number of inhabitants in recent years, together with the associated smaller hamlet of Boppard, was around 300 people.
politics
Engehöll is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor . The local council consists of seven local council members who were elected by majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 . The mayor, Frido Persch (CDU), was confirmed in his office in the local elections with a share of 69.17% of the votes.
Attractions
The small chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows has long had the status of a Catholic branch church . In place of a previous Baroque chapel from the 17th century, which stood in the middle of the village, it was built in 1923/25 from rubble stones in the slope above the old village school according to plans by Karl Hertzner from Oberwesel. It is a small neo-baroque hall building with three curved windows on each side and two hexagonal windows in the drawn-in polygonal choir closure, slate hipped roof , octagonal roof turret with and curved hood lantern , which is crowned by a weathercock . The 17th century altarpiece is from the beginning of the 18th century, the Vespers from the 15th century and the crucifix from the end of the 15th century. The Enthroned Mother of God comes from the second quarter of the 15th century.
economy
The place is dominated by agriculture with a focus on viticulture as a main and sideline. The left slope is cultivated, which faces south or southwest and is less steep than the wooded right valley slope. The locations are called: Engehöller Bernstein (brown and gray slate soil) and Engehöller Goldemund (combination of slate soil with embedded quartzite and a high proportion of clay). The trend towards land abandonment in steep-slope viticulture, with its difficult working conditions and limited use of machines, is sought through modern cultivation methods, cellar technology and marketing, as well as merging areas . The wine is also served in their own taverns, of which the smaller ones are only open in the season and on weekends. For the emerging tourism in the World Heritage cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley , holiday apartments are offered. Other workplaces are sought in the easily accessible centers of Koblenz and Mainz .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Other examples from Hessen
- ↑ see also German dictionary for Halde online
- ^ City of Oberwesel: main statute. (PDF) § 2. City of Oberwesel, August 27, 2019, accessed on October 1, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council elections 2019. Accessed on October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, Verbandsgemeinde, 26th line of results. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Chapel at regionalgeschichte.net
- ↑ Description at a winery