Holzweiler (county)

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Holzweiler
Union Free Parish County
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 230 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1370  (Oct. 30, 2013)
Incorporation : March 16, 1974
Postal code : 53501
Area code : 02641
Holzweiler (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Holzweiler

Location of Holzweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate

Holzweiler (Grafschaft), aerial photo (2015)
Holzweiler (Grafschaft), aerial photo (2015)

Holzweiler is a district of the non-union municipality Grafschaft in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler . The Holzweiler district currently has 1,370 inhabitants. Until it was incorporated into the Grafschaft community, which was newly formed on March 16, 1974, Holzweiler was an independent community.

geography

Holzweiler is about 25 km south of Bonn and can be reached via the federal highway 61 , Kreuz Meckenheim, at the end of the federal highway 565 , junction Gelsdorf . The districts and residential areas Alteheck, Esch, Haus Schönberg and Mönchescher Hof belong to Holzweiler .

politics

District

Holzweiler is one of eleven local districts in the county of Grafschaft. It is represented by a local council and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of seven 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 SPD CDU FDP Green FWG 1 total
2019 - 3 0 2 2 7 seats
2014 - 4th 1 - 2 7 seats
2009 1 3 1 - 2 7 seats
1 Free group of voters

Mayor

Wilhelm Dreyer (FWG) became mayor of Holzweiler in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 74.71%.

Dreyer narrowly prevailed against his long-term predecessor Bruno Zimmermann (CDU) in the 2014 local elections.

Saint Martin Church
Alteheck (County), aerial photo (2015)
Esch (county), aerial photo (2015)

Culture and infrastructure

The Villa Bellestate, which is also one of the venues of the Villa Musica , is located in Holzweiler . The “Panorama Saunasauna facility is also well-known outside the region .

The parish church of St. Martin in Holzweiler was built in the neo-Gothic style towards the end of the 19th century. The first sketches and plans for the new parish church were drawn up in 1896/1897 by the Lüftelberg- born architect Anton Becker and approved by the Vicariate General in Trier in June 1897. When Becker had to go to a clinic for several months because of a serious illness, Lambert von Fisenne was commissioned to build the church. The solemn consecration of the new parish church took place on May 4, 1900.

Personalities

  • Antonius Mönch (1870–1935), auxiliary bishop in Trier, born in Niederholzweiler

Individual evidence

  1. Population statistics for the municipality of Grafschaft, as of October 30, 2013.
  2. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  3. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 5 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ^ Main statute of the county county. (PDF) § 2 and 3. Gemeinde Grafschaft, June 18, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Holzweiler. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Holzweiler. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Holzweiler. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  8. a b In four places there are new faces at the top. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, May 27, 2014, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Grafschaft, association-free municipality, second line of results. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  10. panoramasauna.de
  11. ^ Ottmar Prothmann: Church and parish "St. Martin “Holzweiler . In: Publications on the history of the parish county . tape 4 . Holzweiler 2000, p. 94 ff .

Web links

Commons : Holzweiler  - Collection of images