Idelberg

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 7 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Height :	288 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.13 km 2
Residents:	65 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57612
Area code :	02688
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 056
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 13 57610 Altenkirchen
Website :	www.vg-altenkirchen.de
Local Mayor :	Karl-Heinz Henn
Location of the local community Idelberg in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

Landscape in Kroppacher Switzerland
over Stein-Wingert with a view of Idelberg

Idelberg is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld community and is the smallest local community in the Altenkirchen district.

Geographical location

The municipality is located on a high terrace above the Nistertal between Altenkirchen and Hamm an der Sieg in the catchment area of Kroppacher Switzerland . In the north lies the hamlet of Alhausen, in the east Stein-Wingert , in the south Giesenhausen and in the west Eichelhardt .

history

A precise founding period for Idelberg is unknown, but it is assumed that the district has been settled for around 1000 years. There is documentary evidence in 1461 of a hen from Idelberg who worked as a judge and mayor in Altenkirchen .

The place has belonged to the parish of Altenkirchen since known times and thus, over the centuries, belonged to different rulers: The Counts of Sayn from around the 12th century to 1652, then the Dukes of Saxony-Eisenach and from 1741 the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach until this county fell to the King of Prussia in 1792 . Since 1803 the region belonged to the Principality of Nassau-Usingen , 1806 to the Duchy of Nassau , until it became part of the Prussian Province of Lower Rhine in 1815 and to the Rhine Province in 1822 . From 1816 on, Idelberg was administered by the Altenkirchen mayor .

After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . In 1787 there were nine houses in Idelberg, to which the shares of a forest interest group , which originated at the beginning of the 18th century, go back.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 41 1835 57 1871 66 1905 68 1939 60 1950 79

year Residents 1961 53 1970 61 1987 51 1997 59 2005 52 2019 65

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Idelberg consists of six 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

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Karl-Heinz Henn was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of 60.0% of the votes.

economy

In the Idelberg area, lead and copper ore were previously mined . A mine , the "Petersbach" , was mentioned in a document as early as 1674, but it is located in the area of ​​today's Eichelhardt municipality . After a number of farms had been active in Idelberg for decades, no farm has been reported since 1999.

literature

• Diethard Bahles: Idelberg. A small pearl on the edge of the Nistertal , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 35 (1992), pp. 74-75.

Web links

Commons : Idelberg  - Collection of Images

• Local community Idelberg on the website of the Association of Altenkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
3. ↑ For the history of forest interests in the Altenkirchen district, see Daniel Schneider: The history of the local community Obererbach (Westerwald). The localities Hacksen, Niedererbach, Obererbach and Koberstein from the Middle Ages to the present, Obererbach 2009, Vol. II, pp. 874–891.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data .
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Idelberg. Retrieved December 26, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, 28th line of results. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .