Hellenhahn-Schellenberg

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '  N , 8 ° 2'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Rennerod
Height :	460 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.28 km 2
Residents:	1217 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	167 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56479
Area code :	02664
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 237
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Hauptstrasse 55 56477 Rennerod
Website :	www.rennerod.de
Mayoress :	Birgit Schmidt
Location of the local community Hellenhahn-Schellenberg in the Westerwaldkreis

Hellenhahn-Schellenberg is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod .

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg an der Lahn .

The Eichelhof, Brückenhof, Marienhof and Jagdhaus Oberhirzberg residential areas also belong to Hellenhahn-Schellenberg .

history

Hellenhahn was first mentioned in a document in 1062 as Hildenhagen . Schellenberg, 220 years younger, was united with Hellenhahn in 1831 by order of Duke Wilhelm von Nassau . Since then the community has been called Hellenhahn-Schellenberg.

Population development

The development of the population of the community of Hellenhahn-Schellenberg, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 321 1835 553 1871 625 1905 589 1939 729 1950 718

year Residents 1961 817 1970 1.109 1987 1,126 2005 1.311 2011 1,254 2017 1,221

politics

Municipal council

The council in Bright-Schellenberg consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the volunteer local mayor as chairman. In the previous elections up to 2009, the council members were elected in a personalized proportional representation.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	FWG	total
2019	Majority vote		16 seats
2014	Majority vote		16 seats
2009	9	7th	16 seats
2004	9	7th	16 seats

mayor

Birgit Schmidt became the local mayor of Hellenhahn-Schellenberg in 2014. 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 86.99%.

Schmidt's predecessors were Horst Henne (CDU) from 1991 to 2014, and before that Herbert Hering.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue on a growing, silver rock, accompanied on the right and left by two golden ball clamps , a red-armored rooster with a red comb and a golden tongue."

Culture and sights

The basalt cone of the side stone in the forest near the place

Attractions

In Hellenhahn-Schellenberg there are some cultural monuments and the Seitenstein natural monument .

Hellenhahn

• The Catholic parish church of St. Petrus in Ketten, a cross-shaped basalt quarry stone building from 1926.
• Several half-timbered houses from the 18th century.
• A wayside cross from the 18th century.

Schellenberg

• A wayside cross from 1815.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Hellenhahn-Schellenberg  and List of natural monuments in Hellenhahn-Schellenberg

societies

The SV Blau Weiß Hellenhahn-Schellenberg was founded on April 1st, 1920, in which football , handball , batting and athletics were initially practiced . After the end of the Second World War, it was re-established in October 1945 and joined the Rhineland Football Association . The club currently consists of the football and table tennis departments (each active in regional leagues) and gymnastics. The sports home, built in 1978, was replaced by a multi-purpose building in 2013.

Regularly taking place traditional events are the potato festival and the fair , whereby both festivals alternate in an annual rhythm.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• The federal highway 255 runs directly through the community, which leads from Montabaur to Herborn and connects with the A 3 and A 45 motorways.
• The closest ICE stop is Montabaur and Limburg stations on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

education

• Hellenhahn-Schellenberg kindergarten
• Hellenhahn-Schellenberg primary school

Web links

Commons : Hellenhahn-Schellenberg  - Collection of images

• Information from the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod about the local community Hellenhahn-Schellenberg.

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. 78 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved September 5, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Based on local elections on May 26, 2019. Birgit Schmidt's second term of office. In: Hoher Westerwald - weekly courier for the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod, issue 28/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, accessed on July 17, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rennerod, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved July 17, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Hellenhahn-Schellenberg elects new local chief in 2014. In: Westerwälder Zeitung. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, October 27, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2020 . 
8. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Westerwaldkreis. Mainz 2019, p. 22 (PDF; 4.8 MB).