Herold (Rhineland-Palatinate)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 7 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Aar facility
Height :	344 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.09 km 2
Residents:	417 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	102 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56368
Area code :	06486
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 054
Association administration address:	Burgstrasse 1 56368 Katzenelnbogen
Website :	www.vg-aar-einrich.de
Local Mayor :	Jörg Schramm
Location of the local community Herold in the Rhein-Lahn district

Council and bakery Herold

Herold is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the municipality of Aar-Einrich .

geography

Herold is located in the western Hintertaunus , on the Einrich the somewhat lower north-western part of the Taunus . The Dillenbergermühle and Haarmühle residential areas also belong to the community .

history

The place was mentioned in the year 1260 in the partition contract of the Katzenelnbogen counts under the name Herberod . From this time until 1775 Herold was “quadrilateral”. The quadrilateral was an area in the facility that was ruled jointly by several princes. One half belonged to the Counts of Katzenelnbogen, the other half belonged to three Nassau count houses . The Gronau Monastery was an important landlord until 1839 . The Duchy of Nassau and with it Herold was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . Herold has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 . In 1972, as part of an administrative reform, the Verbandgemeinde Katzenelnbogen was formed, to which the Herold community belonged until 2019 and which then became part of the Aar-Einrich Association.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 178 1835 291 1871 277 1905 290 1939 245 1950 240

year Residents 1961 255 1970 277 1987 329 1997 417 2005 481 2017 420

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in the municipality of Herold 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

The local mayor of Herold is Jörg Schramm. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 89.73% of the vote and is the successor to Wolfgang Seelbach, who did not run again.

coat of arms

The Herolder coat of arms is divided into two parts: gold and blue. At the top two crossed lifting hoes in red; below 2: 1 set silver clovers.

Herold was originally called Herveroth, which means: clearing of the Herv or Herbert. The village was created as a clearing in the forest. That is why the hoes are included in the coat of arms.

The lower part relates to the tetrarchy. Of the three Nassau count houses, two had small gold bars next to the Nassau lion in their coat of arms, one of them had clovers instead of the bars . The designer of the coat of arms opted for the clovers, probably because he liked them better.

The colors red and gold are the colors of the Counts von Katzenelnbogen. The colors blue and gold are the colors of the Nassau counts .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Otto Meyer , Minister of Agriculture in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate from Helmut Kohl

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Herold

Web links

Commons : Herold  - Collection of Images

• Local community Herold on the website of the municipality of Aar-Einrich
• Local portrait in the SWR broadcast Hierzuland

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 42 (PDF; 2.2 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. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Aar-Einrich, Verbandsgemeinde, 15th line of results. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .