Harschbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Neuwied
Association municipality :	Puderbach
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.18 km 2
Residents:	403 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	185 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56307
Area code :	02684
License plate :	NO
Community key :	07 1 38 027
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 13 56305 Puderbach
Website :	www.puderbach.de
Mayoress :	Friederike Becker
Location of the local community Harschbach in the district of Neuwied

Harschbach is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . The community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Puderbach .

Harschbach, aerial photo (2016)

geography

Geographical location

The place is a little off the main traffic arteries south of Puderbach on the edge of the Rhine-Westerwald nature park . Harschbach also includes the living spaces Im Luch and Kochhof.

climate

The annual precipitation is 964 mm. The rainfall is high. They are in the upper quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 82% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with most rainfall in November. In November there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation hardly varies and is evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 16% of the measuring stations .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 109 1835 176 1871 216 1905 197 1939 231 1950 263 1961 259

year Residents 1970 328 1987 317 1997 384 2005 420 2011 414 2017 390

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Harschbach consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Friederike Becker became the local mayor of Harschbach on June 15, 2012. 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 65.91%. Friederike Becker's predecessor was Volker Mendel. He had given up the office he had held since 2004 after he was elected mayor of the Puderbach community.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by red and green by a silver oblique left bar; above a three-line silver ear, below a silver forest hook (Wolfangel). "

The reason for the coat of arms: The ear of wheat symbolizes agriculture, which used to be an important branch of the community, the Wolfsangel in green indicates Harschbach's share of the Märkerwald in the Urbach parish . The colors red and silver from the Isenburg coat of arms indicate that Harschbach belonged to the upper county of Wied , which was originally owned by Isenburg. The coat of arms has been legally valid since June 11, 1981 based on a design by Ernst Zeiler, Raubach.

See also the list of cultural monuments in Harschbach

traffic

• The state road 264 runs through the village from Rüscheid to Puderbach .
• The next motorway junction is Dierdorf on federal motorway 3
• The nearest ICE - Station is in Montabaur on the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine / Main .

literature

• Herbert Aufderheide, Gerhard Ebbinghaus, Ernst Zeiler: History of the parish Urbach. A Westerwälder Heimatbuch , Winters, Wissen 1987

Web links

Commons : Harschbach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Harschbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Puderbach
• Portrait and film about Dorfstraße in Harschbach ( memento from July 25, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR TV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, 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. 51 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ Wolfgang Tischler: Harschbach gets new mayor. NR-Kurier, May 16, 2012, accessed on March 16, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Puderbach, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved March 16, 2020 . 
7. ^ Ernst Zeiler: Harschbach - village history in the new community coat of arms . In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied 1984 , p. 93.