Ingelbach

This article explains the local community Ingelbach in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald) . For the stream of the same name, see Ingelbach (Wied) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 42 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Height :	255 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.08 km 2
Residents:	502 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	99 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57610
Area code :	02688
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 057
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 13 57610 Altenkirchen
Website :	www.ingelbach.de
Local Mayor :	Dirk Vohl
Location of the local community Ingelbach in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

Ingelbach is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld . The community is divided into the districts Niederingelbach and Oberingelbach.

Geographical location

Ingelbach is about four kilometers east of Altenkirchen , not far from the meeting point of state roads 265, 290 and federal road 414. Meadows and mixed forest surround the local community. The Wied , which reaches its northernmost point at Niederingelbach, flows southwest along the settlement.

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Ingelbach village

history

Ingelbach was first mentioned in 1262 in a document from the Cistercian monastery of Marienstatt . A mayor Konrad von Ingelbach ( Ingellenbach or Ingillinbach ) is listed as a witness to a donation from Count Gottfried von Sayn to the Marienstatt monastery. The knowledge of this document goes back to Wolf-Heino Struck , who in 1965 transferred all Marienstatter documents for book printing in a document book . In Struck's work “The Cistercian Monastery of Marienstatt in the Middle Ages. Urkundenregesten, goods directories and Nekrolog "(Wiesbaden 1953) is the parchment document on page 28 under the number 59 edited printed. The certificate is kept in the Hessian Main State Archive Wiesbaden under the signature department 74, no. 46.

The seal of a Thele von Ingelbach was on a document from 1362 . A Gerhard von Ingelbach was the town scholar in Hachenburg from 1355 to 1372 . The seal of a Godart von Ingelbach hung on a document from the Marienstatt Abbey from 1428 .

Ingelbach and its districts belonged to the county of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . After the state division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Ingelbach was part of the County of Sayn-Altenkirchen .

The municipality of Oberingelbach was incorporated into the municipality of Niederingelbach on April 1, 1939. The united community was named Ingelbach in 1950 .

In memory of Jewish fellow citizens - four members of the Veit family - who lived in Ingelbach and who were deported during the National Socialist era , four inscribed brass plates were laid near the old school as part of the Stolpersteine artistic project .

Stumbling blocks in Ingelbach

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 213 1835 268 1871 282 1905 322 1939 343 1950 398

year Residents 1961 421 1970 472 1987 441 1997 569 2005 587 2019 502

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Dirk Vohl became mayor of Ingelbach in summer 2014. Elected for the first time in the direct election on May 25, 2014, he was confirmed in his post on May 26, 2019 with a share of the vote of 76.55% for another five years. Dirk Vohl's predecessor was Jürgen Janke, who held the office for ten years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Black rooster striding in gold, armored inred, with a red comb and a red neck flap."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The Ingelbach coat of arms goes back to the medieval seal of the von Ingelbach family, which is documented by documents from the 14th and 15th centuries.

traffic

Ingelbach has a train station on the Oberwesterwaldbahn railway line . Here the trains of the regional railway line 90 (Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn) ( Limburg an der Lahn - Diez Ost - Westerburg - Hachenburg - Altenkirchen - Au (Sieg) - Kirchen (Sieg) - Siegen - Kreuztal ) of the Hessian state railway , area Dreiländerbahn to the Rheinland-Pfalz-Takt on behalf of the Zweckverband SPNV Nord daily every hour. The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel VRM applies . The VRS tariff applies as a transitional tariff for journeys with the start / destination station in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg VRS. The station was put out to tender by the DB with an invitation to tender from August 14, 2006.

Ingelbach is on the B 414 , which leads in the direction of Hachenburg.

Trivia

Ingelbach served as the setting for Isabel Abedi's youth novel whisper . In the book there are some localities in Ingelbach, such as B. the old train station or the small restaurants. The old half-timbered houses, like that of the farmer Hallenscheidt, to which the novel refers, are actually in the place.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Ingelbach
• List of natural monuments in Ingelbach
• List of stumbling blocks in Ingelbach

literature

• Local community Ingelbach (ed.): 750 years. Ingelbacher story (s). 1262-2012. 1st edition, Ingelbach 2012.

Web links

Commons : Ingelbach  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of the local community Ingelbach
• Local community Ingelbach on the website of the Association of Altenkirchen

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  View of Ingelbach

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  Westerwald country house in Ingelbach

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  Old toilet house

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  View of the fields

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  Old school in Ingelbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Document with first mention of Ingelbach's HHStA Wiesbaden, Department 74 (Marienstatt Abbey), No. 46.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Oberingelbach. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ Ingelbach town portrait
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data .
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Ingelbach. Retrieved December 26, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, 29th line of results. Retrieved December 26, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Wolfgang Wachow: Former council members and local mayors honored. Bürger Kurier, Rhein-Westerwald-Sieg, November 19, 2014, accessed on December 26, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Jürgen Janke: The coat of arms of the local community Ingelbach . In: Ortsgemeinde Ingelbach (Hrsg.): Ingelbacher Geschichte (n) . S. 62 (copy of the approval certificate dated December 4, 1991).
11. ↑ Jürgen Janke: The coat of arms of the local community Ingelbach . In: Ortsgemeinde Ingelbach (Hrsg.): Ingelbacher Geschichte (n) . S. 57-64 .