Günterscheid

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Günterscheid is a district of the local community Windhagen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

Günterscheid is located two kilometers southeast of the center of Windhagen on an area sloping from west to east to a left tributary of the Elsaffer Bach . The tributary flows through the so-called Appental and is dammed in ponds north of Günterscheid , an alder forest accompanying the stream is designated as a biotope complex here . The village covers altitudes between 210 and 250  m above sea level. NHN . The closest localities include Dinkelbach in the east, Unterelsaff in the southeast, Mittel- and Oberelsaff in the south (all local parish Neustadt (Wied) ) and Hohn in the west. District road 26 runs through Günterscheid (state border towards Rottbitze - Hallerbach - Unterelsaff).

history

The place name Günterscheid was interpreted as a “settlement of Gegunten ”, medieval landlords who were free as free . The vernacular name of the place is "Jönnich". Günterscheid belonged to the Rederscheid Honnschaft (formerly also known as Hohner Honschaft ) in the Windhagen parish and was under the administration of the Altenwied Office of the Electorate of Cologne . The place appeared in a document in 1660 under the name Gunnerscheidt during an inventory in the Altenwied office, when three houses were counted here.

In Prussian times (from 1815) Günterscheid remained a part of the Honnschaft, later the municipality of Rederscheid, since 1823 in the administrative district of the Asbach mayor . At the end of the 19th century, the place was listed under the name Günderscheid . 1892 Günterscheid part of the delivery area of the postal agency Vettelschoß , in 1931 it got its own post office Class II in the district of the post office Asbach . In 1953 the post office was assigned to the Linz post office . In 1961 the Günterscheider local transit (K 26) was expanded. As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform , Günterscheid was incorporated into the municipality of Windhagen on November 7, 1970 with the municipality of Rederscheid. The district belonging to the former municipality of Rederscheid remained. As a result of the local reorganization, the post office in Günterscheid was closed in 1973.

In 1979 Günterscheid was connected to the gas supply network. The Günterscheid tunnel of the high-speed railway line Cologne – Rhine / Main was built between 1999 and 2001 to the north-east of the village .

Population development
year Residents
1816 33
1828 36
1843 47
1885 47
1910 49
1987 84

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Ehlen: Place names and field names in the municipality of Windhagen. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 76.
  2. ↑ Helmut Wolff: The Windhagen dialect. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 196.
  3. ↑ August Welker: Inventory in the Altenwied office anno 1660. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied , 1977, pp. 101-103.
  4. ↑ a b Theo Winterscheid: From the history of the post in the Windhagener area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 112.
  5. ^ Alfred Tiemeyer: The amalgamation of the communities Windhagen and Rederscheid. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 390.
  6. ↑ Erwin Rüddel: Supplying the community with gas. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 363.
  7. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817; Page 88
  8. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 693
  9. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 66
  10. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (ed.), 1888, page 44
  11. ↑ Günther Muders: Review of the development of schools in the Windhagen area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 98.
  12. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 10 ″  E