Höchstenbach

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Hachenburg
Height :	310 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.67 km 2
Residents:	697 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	123 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57629
Area code :	02680
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 241
Association administration address:	Gartenstrasse 11 57627 Hachenburg
Website :	www.höchstenbach.de
Mayoress :	Anke Fuchs
Location of the municipality of Höchstenbach in the Westerwaldkreis

Höchstenbach is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hachenburg community .

Geographical location

View of Höchstenbach

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen in the Wiedtal. The Wied flows through the village .

history

On May 27, 1269, Höchstenbach was first mentioned in a document .

Until the middle of the 17th century, Höchstenbach was a sovereign part of the County of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . After the state division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Höchstenbach belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg .

During the First Coalition War , the French General François Séverin Marceau was seriously wounded in Höchstenbach in September 1796 and died a few days later in Altenkirchen .

In 1799, Sayn-Hachenburg was inherited by the princes of Nassau-Weilburg . In connection with the formation of the Rhine Confederation , the region and with it Höchstenbach came to the newly established Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau, the place came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 and belonged to the province of Hessen-Nassau from 1868 on . Höchstenbach has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

On June 1, 1955, one of the worst bus accidents in Germany to date occurred in Höchstenbach. 18 women from the Protestant community in Rheinhausen were killed.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 335 1835 433 1871 405 1905 494 1939 539 1950 627

year Residents 1961 599 1970 629 1987 656 1997 717 2005 710 2019 697

politics

Municipal council

The council in Höchstenbach consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the volunteer local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Anke Fuchs became local mayor of Höchstenbach on June 13, 2004. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in her office for another five years with a share of the vote of 95.34%.

Anke Fuchs' predecessors were Karlheinz Röhrig, who was elected in 2001, and Jürgen Otto since 1997 and Erwin Schumacher since 1980.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split between gold and red; on the right a red St. John's cross , on the left a double-tailed blue-armored and tongued golden lion . "

Culture and sights

• The village church in the Romanesque transition style, built in the early 13th century, is worth seeing . There are valuable early Gothic frescoes inside the church .
• Above the village, at the beginning of the Höchstenbacher Wald, the Marceau monument is on the right of the road . It was built in 1863 by Emperor Napoleon III. donated in memory of General François Séverin Marceau . The memorial inscription says: "Weeping by his soldiers, respected by friend and foe."

See also : List of cultural monuments in Höchstenbach

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  Ev. Parish Church of St. George

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  Marceau monument

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  Memorial stone for the bus accident in 1955

traffic

The community lies at the intersection of federal highways 8 , which leads from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg , and the B 413 from Bendorf (near Koblenz) to Hachenburg . The next motorway junctions are in Dierdorf or Mogendorf on the A 3 from Cologne - Frankfurt am Main , about 20 kilometers away. The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

Personalities

• Andreas Balzar (called Balzar von Flammersfeld , * 1769 in Höchstenbach, † 1797 in Westerburg ) robbers, poachers and irregulars in the fight against the French.

literature

• Volker Ecker: Höchstenbach 1269–1994. Development of a Westerwald community from 1269-1994 , Höchstenbach 1994.
• Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
• Daniel Schneider: The battle of Altenkirchen 1796 in its historical context , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 55 (2012), pp. 183–194.

Web links

Commons : Höchstenbach  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the municipality of Höchstenbach
• Local community Höchstenbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen. 58. 2015, pp. 74-80.
3. ^ Daniel Schneider: The battle of Altenkirchen 1796 in its historical context. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen. 55. 2012, pp. 190-191.
4. ^ Chronicle of the school camps in Höchstenbach, Schullandheimverein Rheinhausen ( Memento from March 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data .
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections .
7. ↑ ^{a b} History. 750 years. Local community Höchstenbach, July 28, 2019, accessed on June 7, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .