Hunzel

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '  N , 7 ° 50'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Nasta
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.02 km 2
Residents:	254 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56355
Area code :	06772
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 063
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 1 56355 Nastätten
Website :	www.gemeinde-hunzel.de
Local Mayor :	Thilo Dehe
Location of the local community of Hunzel in the Rhein-Lahn district

Hunzel is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the association of Nastaetten .

geography

The place is in the western Hintertaunus and in the Nassau nature park . The Lindenhof residential area also belongs to Hunzel .

history

Limes - UNESCO World Heritage

Between the middle of the 2nd and the middle of the 3rd century, Hunzel was a garrison place of an unknown Roman number . The Imperial Limes Commission had the Hunzel fort excavated in 1896. It is located around 750 m southwest of today's town center.

The place Hunzel was first mentioned in a document in 1096. In 1260 it was called "Hundeszagel" (dog's tail) and in 1361 "Hondiszale". By 1467 at the latest, the place had its own chapel. At the end of the 15th century, a Hubengericht was first mentioned in Hunzel. An own winter school master is mentioned for the first time in 1783.

Until 1775, Hunzel belonged to the quadrilateral court on the Einrich (Nassau-Diezisches Quartier) and then to the Nassau office , which at the time was jointly owned by three Nassau lines . In 1806, Hunzel came to the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 .

On March 27, 1945, Hunzel was occupied by US troops. Hunzel has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1526 8 fireplaces 1583 12 house seats 1631 13 house seats 1648 4 house seats 1681 75 1771 36 households 1815 170 1835 179 1871 184

year Residents 1905 194 1939 201 1950 227 1961 215 1970 200 1987 213 2005 264 2011 259 2017 256

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Local mayor of Hunzel is Thilo Dehe. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 83.75% of the vote.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Hunzel

literature

• Hellmuth Gensicke : On the local history of Nassau: The parish of Marienfels. In: Nassauische Annalen 1980 , pp. 284-297.

Web links

Commons : Hunzel  - Collection of Images

• Local parish Hunzel
• Local community Hunzel on the website of the association community Nastätten
• The Hunzel Fort

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. 67 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2019 Hunzel. Retrieved November 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. Retrieved on November 6, 2019 (see Nastätten, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results).