Gladbach (Neuwied)

Gladbach City of Neuwied
	Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 44 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 14 ″ E
Height :	105 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	3060 (Jun 30, 2010)
Incorporation :	November 7, 1970
Postal code :	56566
Area code :	02631
Location of Gladbach in Rhineland-Palatinate
	Gladbach (Neuwied) ; aerial photo (2016)

Gladbach at sunset.

Gladbach is a district and a district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until it was incorporated into the town of Neuwied on November 7, 1970, Gladbach was an independent municipality.

location

Gladbach is located southeast of the Oberbieber district . The Heimbach-Weis district is further southeast of Gladbach, and the Block district to the south . The actual city of Neuwied lies to the southwest. The hills of the Lower Westerwald begin in the north of Gladbach . Gladbach is located in the Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park .

history

The name of the district comes from the stream that flows through the place - the name Gladbach emerged from the shining stream over time . The village was first mentioned in 1098 when Emperor Heinrich IV confirmed his ownership to St. Simeon Abbey in Trier .

To the west of the village, the remains of an early medieval settlement with several burial sites were excavated in the 1930s.

Gladbach municipality

Gladbach belonged to Heimbach in the Electorate of Trier until 1803 , then to Nassau-Weilburg , came to the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 and to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, Gladbach became a municipality in the Neuwied district , which belonged to the Koblenz administrative district and from 1822 to the Rhine province and was administered by the Engers mayor .

In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate territorial and administrative reform that began in the mid-1960s , the “Eighth State Law on Administrative Simplification in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate” of July 28, 1970, which came into force on November 7, 1970, the municipality of Gladbach assigned to the new town of Neuwied. With the resolution of the Neuwied City Council on January 22, 1971, Gladbach became a district represented by a local advisory council and a local councilor.

politics

Local advisory board

The local advisory council in Gladbach consists of 6 council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	WGG	total
2019	-	3	2	1	6 seats
2014	1	4th	-	1	6 seats
2009	2	3	-	1	6 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group Gladbach e. V.
WGG = voter group for Glabbach e. V.

Mayor

2001–2019: Matthias Maxein, CDU ⁽¹⁾
since 2019: Guido Hahn, CDU

⁽¹⁾ Year of taking office unknown.

Attractions

Wülfersberg Chapel

Wülfersberg Chapel

The Wülfersberg Chapel dates from the middle of the 12th century and was the monastery church of the Wülfersberg Monastery, a subsidiary of the neighboring Premonstratensian Abbey of Rommersdorf . The chapel is the only remaining part of this monastery.

Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary

The parish church of Maria Himmelfahrt was built in 1914 in a post-Gothic style with an onion dome, which is unusual for the Rhineland. The side altar from the previous chapel with a statue of the Madonna from the 15th century is well worth seeing.

Born in Gladbach

Gertrud Sauerborn (1898–1982), social worker, born and buried locally
Josef Wittlich (1903–1982), painter

literature

Reinhard Lahr: The Middle Rhine communities Heimbach, Weis and Gladbach between manorial rule and industrialization: (1680 - 1880); rural social and economic structure in transition, dissertation, 1995.
Walter Sage: The Franconian settlement near Gladbach, Neuwied district. Ed .: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (= small museum books . Volume 7 ). Düsseldorf 1969.

Web links

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

Gladbach on the website of the city of Neuwied

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).

^ W. Sage: The Franconian settlement near Gladbach, Neuwied district. Kl. Museumsh. Rhine. Landesmus. Bonn 7 (Düsseldorf 1969).

↑ L. Grunwald, Rainer Schreg: Early medieval settlements and grave fields in the district of Neuwied-Gladbach. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 43, 2013, pp. 569–585.

^ Rainer Schreg : The early medieval settlement of Neuwied-Gladbach - a preliminary report after 75 years. In: Archaeologik. February 9, 2014, accessed June 11, 2019 .

↑ 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.
↑ European and local elections 2019 - election results. City of Neuwied, accessed on June 11, 2019 .

[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).

[2] W. Sage: The Franconian settlement near Gladbach, Neuwied district. Kl. Museumsh. Rhine. Landesmus. Bonn 7 (Düsseldorf 1969).

[3] L. Grunwald, Rainer Schreg: Early medieval settlements and grave fields in the district of Neuwied-Gladbach. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 43, 2013, pp. 569–585.

[4] Rainer Schreg : The early medieval settlement of Neuwied-Gladbach - a preliminary report after 75 years. In: Archaeologik. February 9, 2014, accessed June 11, 2019 .