Fürthen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '  N , 7 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Hamm (victory)
Height :	160 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.2 km 2
Residents:	1168 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	531 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57539
Area code :	02682
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 038
Community structure:	5 districts
Association administration address:	Lindenallee 2 57577 Hamm (Sieg)
Website :	www.fürthen-sieg.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Rzytki
Location of the local community Fürthen in the Altenkirchen district (Westerwald)

This road forms the national border at 200 meters

Fürthen is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Hamm (Sieg) .

Community structure

The community consists of the main town and the districts of Opsen, Kappenstein, Mümmelbach and Oppertsau . The latter is a “divided” place: the border between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia runs through it . The part belonging to North Rhine-Westphalia is written Opperzau and belongs to the municipality of Windeck in the Rhein-Sieg district .

history

Until the middle of the 17th century Fürthen belonged to the county of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . After the division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Fürthen belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg .

Fürthen formed a separate administrative district called "Sende" within the parish of Hamm , to which the places Kappenstein, Mümmelbach, Oppertsau, Opsen and Walbach also belonged. The county of Sayn-Hachenburg fell to the princes of Nassau-Weilburg by inheritance in 1799 . In 1806 the two Nassau princes joined the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine and Fürthen was also part of the Duchy of Nassau from 1806 .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Fürthen was assigned to the Hamm mayor in the newly established Altenkirchen district ( Koblenz administrative district ), which from 1822 belonged to the Rhine province .

Population development

The development of the population of Fürthen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 156 1835 200 1871 303 1905 462 1939 587

year Residents 1950 680 1961 742 1970 852 1987 1,029 2005 1,245

politics

Municipal council

The council in Fürthen consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Michael Rzytki is the local mayor of Fürthen. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 78.71% of the vote.

particularities

• In 1990 the Ulu Mosque was opened in a converted former village school in Fürthen. It belongs to the umbrella organization DITIP .
• A 200 m long section of the L 112 / L 267, which separates the districts of Opperzau ( Windeck ) and Oppertsau (Fürthen), not only represents the municipal boundaries, but also the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate . In addition, the street has its own street name for each side: Siegstraße for the Oppertsauer side, Fürthener Straße for the Opperzauer side.

literature

• Otto-Ernst Löttgen: Municipality of Fürthen . In: Hans Günther Mack (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch für Hamm (Sieg) and the district of Hamm (Sieg) . Altenkirchen 1956, p. 187-193 .

Web links

Commons : Fürthen  - Collection of images

• Homepage of the community of Fürthen
• Local community Fürthen on the website of the Hamm (Sieg) Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 371.
4. ^ Negotiations of the by resolution of the State Deputy Assembly ..., Volume 1 , 1836, p. 583.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Fürthen. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hamm (Sieg), Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .