Gutenacker

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Gutenacker (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '  N , 7 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Aar facility
Height :	286 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.83 km 2
Residents:	345 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	90 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56370
Area code :	06439
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 050
Association administration address:	Burgstrasse 1 56368 Katzenelnbogen
Website :	www.ortsgemeinde-gutenacker.de
Local Mayor :	Udo master
Location of the local community of Gutenacker in the Rhein-Lahn district

Gutenacker is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the municipality of Aar-Einrich . The village of Gutenacker is built around a basalt rock.

geography

Gutenacker is located in the western Hintertaunus on the Einrich the slightly lower north-western part of the Taunus , in the Nassau Nature Park about eight kilometers east of the city of Nassau . In the north and west, the Lahn forms the municipal boundary .

Gutenacker also includes the Laurenburg station ( Lahntalbahn ), Bahnhaus, Häuserhof, Justus-Mühle, Lindenhof and Rupbach (part) residential areas .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1197 as a Katzenelnbogisches village. It was given as a fief to one of their followers, the Lords of Allendorf, by the Count von Katzenelnbogen . He lived in Gutenacker in a castle-like building next to the highest point. When the Counts died out in 1479, the village came to the Landgraves of Hesse and later the Duchy of Nassau . Nassau, and with him Gutenacker, was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . Gutenacker has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 . In 1972, in the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate "functional and territorial reform", the community of Katzenelnbogen was formed, to which the local community of Gutenacker belonged until 2019 and which then became part of the community of Aar-Einrich.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 180 1835 254 1871 339 1905 324 1939 333 1950 378 1961 366

year Residents 1970 359 1987 335 1997 381 2005 387 2011 371 2017 359 2019 345

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gutenacker consists of eight council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The eight seats are divided between two groups of voters .

mayor

Udo Meister is the local mayor of Gutenacker. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 80.53% of the vote.

Attractions

The so-called Kipp - a basalt rock in the middle of the village - used to be a basalt quarry. There was a crusher there that was used to grind the basalt, it was then transported by cable car to the Rupbach and from there by train to the customers.

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Gutenacker
• List of natural monuments in Gutenacker

Web links

Commons : Gutenacker  - Collection of Images

• Gutenacker parish
• Local community Gutenacker on the website of the municipality of Aar-Einrich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 65 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved December 23, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Accessed on November 21, 2019 (see Aar-Einrich, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results).