Feldkirchen (Neuwied)

Feldkirchen City of Neuwied
	Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 5 ″ N , 7 ° 25 ′ 21 ″ E
Height :	115 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	5316 (Jun 30, 2010)
Incorporation :	November 7, 1970
Postal code :	56567
Area code :	02631
Location of Feldkirchen in Rhineland-Palatinate
	Field church with rectory and court linden tree

Feldkirchen is a district and a local district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is made up of the districts of Fahr , Gönnersdorf , Hüllenberg and Wollendorf as well as the desolate district of Rockenfeld .

location

Feldkirchen is located in the west of the city of Neuwied directly on the Rhine, across from Andernach . To the northwest lies the local community Leutesdorf , to the east the district of Irlich . Feldkirchen is on the edge of the Rhine-Westerwald nature park . The districts of Fahr, Gönnersdorf, Hüllenberg and Wollendorf have now grown together.

history

Finds from the last glacial period

A find in spring 1968 during excavation work for a single-family house in the Gönnersdorf district was an archaeological sensation : A settlement site for Ice Age hunters from around 13,500 BC was discovered. The excavations under the direction of Gerhard Bosinski brought the traces of two smaller round tents and three larger, fur-covered dwellings to light.

In the systematically excavated settlement area with an area of 650 m², there were bones of mammoths , wild horses , bison , ur , reindeer , deer and arctic fox , as well as tools made of various rocks, jewelry and slate plates with scratched drawings . These finds give a clear picture of the life of the Ice Age hunters and led to the foundation of the Museum for the Archeology of the Ice Age (today Monrepos Archaeological Research Center and Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution , branch of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum - Leibniz Research Institute for Archeology), which has been in existence since 1988 in the villa "Waldheim" in Monrepos (in the Segendorf district ) (previously it was housed in the Swedish house there).

The late Ice Age hunters chose the location for the camp with care: it was almost exactly between the middle terrace area, where they mainly hunted wild horses, and the Rhine meadows, from where they could fetch wood for building and heating.

The last glacial period was slowly drawing to a close; the climate was continental with sunny days and very cold nights, with warm summers and frosty winters. There was little rainfall. Trees that need a lot of moisture could only grow along the banks of the Rhine, otherwise a steppe with various grasses and many flowers covered the Neuwied basin and its edge heights.

Wild horses and reindeer roamed the landscape in large herds, with large and small predators in their wake. Mammoths and woolly haired rhinos were rather rare during this period.

Drive

Fahr is first mentioned in 1152 as a river crossing point. Four decades later, the St. Thomas Monastery (in Andernach) acquired vineyards and fields for "Vare".

Gönnersdorf

The prehistoric settlement of Gönnersdorf has already been mentioned above. In 1906 a Frankish burial ground was found here. There is only sparse source material from the Middle Ages. The village name has been used in different spellings since then. It probably comes from a Franconian original free with the name Old High German (ahd.) Gunther or modern Günther. The so-called Beunehof remained as the last building of its courtyard. The owners were ennobled as knights in the Middle Ages, were closely related and related by marriage to the Burgraves of Hammerstein and inherited Hammerstein Castle after the actual family died out . The family of the Barons von Hammerstein presumably comes from Gönnersdorf like the Rockefeller family from Rockenfeld.

Hüllenberg

Hüllenberg is mentioned for the first time around 1280 in the protocol about the foundation and the patronage of the field church . The place was probably part of Gönnersdorf for centuries before it became independent at the end of the 1480s.

Rockenfeld

Rockenfeld was first mentioned in 1280 as Rukenvelt , because of its location on the first ridge between the Rhine and Westerwald . In 1693 he separated from Gönnersdorf, to which he had belonged until then. Due to the constant emigration of the inhabitants, the municipal council decided in 1965 to dissolve the village. Today Rockenfeld is a desert . The family names Rockenfeller (still common in Neuwied) and Rockefeller are derived from Rockenfeld .

Wollendorf

Wollendorf was also settled early. Finds from the Bronze, Roman and Franconian times testify to this. Wollendorf is first mentioned in a document in 1263. The district got its name with a probability bordering on certainty from an original free named Wulf or modern Wolf . Presumably his descendants were ennobled to knights and the castle of Wollendorf, which is still partially preserved today, developed from his court. The spellings for the name of the district Wolfendorf, then Wolpendorf and finally the current name Wollendorf have been handed down.

Incorporation

The previously independent communities of Fahr, Gönnersdorf, Hüllenberg, Rockenfeld and Wollendorf were merged into a large community under the historical name of Feldkirchen with effect from August 1, 1966 , following a majority decision of the individual municipal councils in May 1966, by order of the Koblenz district government . At that time, the Rockenfeld community was already in the process of being dissolved. Feldkirchen belonged to the office of Niederbieber-Segendorf (from 1968 Verbandsgemeinde Niederbieber-Segendorf). In the implementation of the administrative reform decided by the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament on July 13, 1970, which came into force on November 7, 1970, the municipality of Feldkirchen, as well as the city of Neuwied and the surrounding communities, were dissolved and the city of Neuwied was rebuilt. With the resolution of the Neuwied City Council on January 22, 1971, Feldkirchen became a district of Neuwied, which is represented by a local advisory council and a local councilor. The place names Fahr, Gönnersdorf, Hüllenberg, Wollendorf and Rockenfeld were retained within the district.

politics

Local advisory board

The local advisory council in Feldkirchen consists of 8 council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary mayor as chairperson.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice	AfD	FWG	WGS	WGN	total
2019	1	-	7th	-	8 seats
2014	-	-	8th	-	8 seats
2009	-	1	-	7th	8 seats

FWG = Free Voters' Group Neuwied e. V.
WGS = voters group Schuh e. V.
WGN = voter group Nussbaum e. V.

Mayor

Simone Schuh (WGS) has been the honorary mayor since 2014.

Attractions

Fahr

The Roentgen Villa "Haus Friedrichstein" : Country villa with the name "Haus Friedrichstein". Built in 1847 by privy councilor Dr. jur. August von Röntgen, the second son of the famous cabinet maker David Roentgen (1743–1807). Is not open to the public.
The "Rhenish House" : The half-timbered building built in 1584 with a complicated construction over a stone basement with a wide gate next to the house entrance is the oldest existing house in the Fahr district.

District of Wollendorf

The "field church" : The late Romanesque field church is one of the historically significant churches on the Middle Rhine and is also one of the oldest churches in today's urban area of Neuwied. See the main detailed article: Field Church .
The "castle" : remains of the castle-like fortified manor house have been preserved from the Middle Ages. Its foundation walls and cellar vaults are said to date from the 11th or 12th century.

societies

Feldkirchen Heimat- und Beautification Association

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 46 (PDF; 3 MB).

↑ 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.
↑ ^a ^b election results. City of Neuwied, accessed on May 29, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Feldkirchen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[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. 46 (PDF; 3 MB).