Heimbach-Weis

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Heimbach-Weis
City of Neuwied
Former Heimbach-Weis municipal coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 2 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 95 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 7281  (Jun. 30, 2018)
Incorporation : November 7, 1970
Postal code : 56566
Area code : 02622
Heimbach-Weis (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Heimbach-Weis

Location of Heimbach-Weis in Rhineland-Palatinate

Heimbach-Weis is a district and a district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate . Until 1960 Heimbach and Weis were independent communities in the Neuwied district .

location

The two villages Heimbach and Weis, which have grown together today, are located on the northeastern edge of the Neuwied Basin . The former municipality area already reaches the first heights of the Westerwald with the Heimbacher Wald . The city center of Neuwied is to the southwest, the Engers district in the south of Heimbach-Weis. With over 8,000 inhabitants, Heimbach-Weis has not only been the most populous but also the largest district in the city of Neuwied since 1970.

history

Weis was first mentioned in a document in 1059 as "Wissa". In a document from 1204 the place name was "Wise".

Heimbach was first mentioned in the spelling "Hembach" in 1093.

Legal disputes about sovereignty over the parish of Heimbach , to which Weis and Gladbach also belonged, had been going on since the Middle Ages until well into modern times . Because of this special historical-political situation, Heimbach-Weis could have called a “peasant free state”, or as put elsewhere, a “free imperial city in country format”.

Incorporation

  • Former Heimbach-Weis municipal coat of arms

  • Former municipality coat of arms Weis

The district is a double place , merged on September 1, 1960 from the larger place Heimbach and the smaller Weis. On November 7, 1970, it was incorporated into the "new town of Neuwied". With the resolution of the Neuwied City Council on January 22, 1971, Heimbach-Weis became a district represented by a local advisory council and a local councilor. Before that, Heimbach and Weis, like Gladbach, belonged to the Engers association.

politics

Parish church of St. Margaretha in Heimbach-Weis
Trinity Chapel
Maria Goretti School

Local advisory board

The local advisory council in Heimbach-Weis consists of 10 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 CDU SPD AfD FWG WGN WGZ total
2019 4th 2 1 1 2 - 10 seats
2014 6th 2 - - 2 - 10 seats
2009 4th 3 - 1 - 2 10 seats
  • FWG = Free Voters' Group Neuwied e. V.
  • WGN = voter group Nink e. V.
  • WGZ = voter group Zils e. V.

Mayor

Markus Blank (CDU) has been the honorary mayor since 2019.

Attractions

After extensive restoration work, the former Premonstratensian Abbey in Rommersdorf on the Heimbach-Weiser area has become one of the most important cultural assets of the city of Neuwied. The cloister concerts of the Rommersdorf Abbey are among the cultural highlights of the city of Neuwied.

The ornately decorated half-timbered house from the 17th century in Hauptstraße 111 is well worth seeing .

The Neuwied Zoo is located in the Heimbach-Weis district . He keeps around 1200 animals from 155 species. The total area is around 13.5 hectares.

various

Heimbach-Weis is known to many for its traditional carnival parade. The tradition of the carnival has been cultivated since 1827 with the establishment of the first carnival societies in associations. This makes the Heimbach-Weiser Carnival the fourth oldest in the entire Rhineland , after Cologne (1823), Koblenz (1824) and Bonn (1826), ahead of Aachen (1829) and Mainz (1837). The large number of clubs in the village are a lively expression of conviviality and cheerfulness and of maintaining local cultural assets and customs. This fits in with the characterization of the Heimbach-Weiser group of people by a Prussian official inspector from 1829: "The residents are quick, easily irritable, lively."

The four clubs active in the carnival (2 carnival societies and 2 Möhnen clubs) and the many loosely organized carnival groups have a significant impact on what goes on in town. For the 175th anniversary of the two carnival societies Heimbach and Weis, the largest clown parade in the world took place on November 11, 2001 in the carnival stronghold, which led to an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

Among the most famous sons of Heimbach-Weis counts Franz Xaver Wagner , the 1880 invention of the Wagner-gear the typewriter revolutionized technology.

Helmut Der, who grew up in Heimbach, is bishop of the Aachen diocese.

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.

Web links

Commons : Heimbach-Weis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our city in numbers on neuwied.de
  2. ↑ a b Paul Vogt: The place names in Engersgau , Neuwied: Strüder, 1890, p. 6, 22 ( dilibri.de )
  3. ↑ 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.  
  4. ↑ a b European and local elections 2019 - election results. City of Neuwied, accessed on June 12, 2019 .