Gorse rooster

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gorse tap with transmitter Linz on the Rhine

Ginsterhahn is a village that is largely part of the local community of Sankt Katharinen and the smaller part of the local community Dattenberg . Both local communities belong to the Linz am Rhein association and are located in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

The hamlet of Ginsterhahn is between 355 and 375  m above sea level. NHN on both sides of the Ginsterhahner Kopf ( 375.6  m above sea level ), a gentle hill on the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge ( Niederwesterwald ). The Dattenberg Forest borders to the south . Ginsterhahn is accessed from the state road 254 ( Kretzhaus –Weißfeld) running in north-south direction over the ridge , which also connects to the northern neighboring town of Hargarten, one kilometer away, and at whose highest point Ginsterhahn is located. The southwest of the district with a holiday home area belongs to the local community Dattenberg .

history

The earliest mention of Ginsterhahn as a settlement was in 1636 in a Linz tax list under the name Ginsterer Hohn , the place appears in baptismal registers from 1671. The population increased from 15 inhabitants in 1670 over 30 inhabitants in 1803 to 73 in 1885. Until the beginning of the 19th century, the village was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne Office of Linz as part of the Linzer Höhe . After the parish of Linz was divided into districts in 1809 , most of Ginsterhahn belonged to the Hargarten community, while two courtyards west of the Landstrasse belonged to the city of Linz am Rhein . In the middle of the 19th century, along with the Weidgenshof in the south of Ginsterhahn, the municipality of Dattenberg also came into partial ownership of the place, which, like Linz and Hargarten, also belonged to the Linz mayor . In the context of censuses in the first half of the century, Ginsterhahn was recorded as a hamlet , in 1843 the Hargarten part had five residential buildings and 16 farm buildings.

The hamlet, initially dominated by agriculture, found a new source of income at the end of the 19th century with the operation of several quarries in the area. In Ginsterhahn itself, the gorse rooster head was exploited from 1869. In 1925 a field railway was built between the quarries on the Stümperich and the Hummelsberg , which also tied the gorse cock. The mining of the Ginsterhahner Kopf, which was last operated by Linzer Basalt AG , was stopped in 1938. The Second World War led to severe damage in Ginsterhahn, the area around which was particularly fought in March 1945. Some farms were given up in the post-war period, and gorse rooster has increasingly turned into a commuter place. In 1955, the Linz am Rhein transmitter was built in the north-west of the town with a 156-meter-high guyed half-timbered mast.

On June 7, 1969, the new community of Sankt Katharinen was formed from the community of Hargarten with its Ginsterhahn district and the communities of Notscheid and Lorscheid. In order to end the municipal tripartite division of Ginsterhahn, area corrections were carried out in 1974, in which the Linz part of Ginsterhahn, west of the state road, and a southern part belonging to the local community Dattenberg fell to Sankt Katharinen. The weekend area with around 15 houses built in the southwest of Ginsterhahn remained at Dattenberg. In 1987 the hamlet had 98 inhabitants (63 of them in St. Katharinen and 35 in Dattenberg).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, pp. 38, 40, 41. ( online )
  2. ^ AA Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Verlag KA Kümmel, Halle 1823, fourth volume, p. 32. ( online )
  3. ^ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz . Hölscher, Coblenz 1843, page 62. ( online )
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 195 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality

literature

  • Parish of St. Katharinen (ed.); Heiner Strauss: St. Katharinen. Fest- und Heimatbuch , St. Katharinen 1994/2001, pp. 61–75.

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 37"  E