Eschelbach (Montabaur)

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Eschelbach
City of Montabaur
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 235  (226-258)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 3 km²
Residents : 627  (Aug 1, 2018)
Population density : 209 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 22, 1972
Postal code : 56410
Area code : 02602
Eschelbach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Eschelbach

Location of Eschelbach in Rhineland-Palatinate
church

Eschelbach is a district and a 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 Eschelbach was an independent municipality in what was then the Unterwesterwaldkreis .

geography

Eschelbach is north of the motorway ( A3 ), about 1.5 km from the city center of Montabaur, on the right bank of the Aubach . To the northwest of Eschelbach is the local community Dernbach (Westerwald) , to the northeast the local community Staudt and southwest of the Montabaur district of Elgendorf . The Bahlsmühle, Hillhof and Hüttenmühle residential areas also belong to Eschelbach .

history

Middle Ages and Electoral Trier times

Eschelbach lies in the area of ​​the ban and parish of Humbach (later called Montabaur), which was first described between 930 and 959 . In an undated document from Archbishop Ludolf of Trier , who was in office from 994 to 1008, Eschelbach was mentioned under the name "Aschebach". The "religiosa Domina" Mathilde mentioned in the document was a granddaughter of Duke Hermann I of Swabia , who founded the St. Florin Abbey in Koblenz . Mathilde, she was the abbess of the Essen monastery , gave the Eschelbach court to the Archbishop of Trier, whereupon he gave the Florinsstift in Koblenz various tithe under the spell of Humbach (later Montabaur). Until the 12th century, Eschelbach was the administrative center for the archbishopric forest "Spurginberch" (Spurkenberg). In the list of goods of the Archdiocese of Trier, “ Liber annalium iurium ”, which was created around 1220 , the place was listed in the spelling “Eschilbach” and “Eschelenbach”.

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 , 11 fire places are given for Eschelbach. In 1684 there were 15 fire places, which corresponds to about 75 inhabitants. 13 Trier subjects and one Nassau subjects (families) were counted.

In 1786 Eschelbach had 150 inhabitants.

Nassau and Prussian times

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Eschelbach belonged to the right bank of the Rhine from Kurtrier , which was assigned to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg in 1803 as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . After the formation of the Rhine Confederation , Eschelbach belonged to the Duchy of Nassau from 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, Eschelbach 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 Eschelbach had 315 inhabitants who lived with 78 families in 44 houses. The residents were without exception Catholic.

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

Incorporation

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal reform that began in the mid-1960s , the previously independent municipality of Eschelbach was incorporated into the city of Montabaur on April 22, 1972 with 658 inhabitants.

church

Eschelbach originally belonged to the parish of Humbach / Montabaur in the Archdiocese of Trier , later to the parish of Wirges, which was assigned to the then newly established diocese of Limburg in 1827 . In 1786 the St. Blasius Chapel was built in Eschelbach. The branch church, built in 1951 and now part of the Montabaur parish of St. Peter in Ketten, was also consecrated to this patron saint.

school

Waldbachhalle, former school

Eschelbach had its own school as early as the middle of the 18th century. In 1821 a new schoolhouse was set up in Eschelbach, which was followed by another new school building in 1907. In 1922 there was only one teacher working in Eschelbach. In 1961 the school building was modernized. Since 1972 the pupils have been attending schools in the city of Montabaur. Eschelbach belongs to the school district of the Joseph Kehrein Elementary School.

District

The district of Eschelbach encompasses the Eschelbach district with the exception of the part of the district south of the A3. The interests of the local district are represented by a local council and a local councilor.

The town council consists of five members in the municipal election held on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Joachim Gerlach was confirmed in his office as mayor for another five years with a share of 91.67% of the vote.

Infrastructure

For the cultural monuments of the place see the list of cultural monuments in Eschelbach .

Web links

Commons : Eschelbach (Montabaur)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 76 (PDF; 3 MB).
  2. ↑ 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 )
  3. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume 1, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, Certificate 277 Online edition at dilibri
  4. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, page 102; ISBN 3-922244-80-7
  5. ^ 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. 423, 424 ( online edition at dilibri )
  6. ↑ 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 ( online edition at dilibri )
  7. ↑ 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 )
  8. ^ Christian Daniel Vogel : Description of the Duchy of Nassau , Beyerle, 1843, p. 669 ( online edition at Google Books )
  9. ↑ 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.  
  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 for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Eschelbach. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  13. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Montabaur, Verbandsgemeinde, 17th line of results. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .