Irmtraut

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Coat of arms of the local community Irmtraut
Irmtraut
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Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 8 ° 4'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Rennerod
Height : 360 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.52 km 2
Residents: 767 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 170 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56479
Area code : 06436
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 246
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 55
56477 Rennerod
Website : irmtraut.de
Local Mayor : Jens Heun
Location of the local community Irmtraut in the Westerwaldkreis
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Irmtraut is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod .

geography

The municipality of Irmtraut is located on the Hessian border in the Westerwald between the cities of Siegen (36 kilometers north), Wetzlar (30 kilometers east) and Limburg an der Lahn (19 kilometers south).

The residential areas Georgshof, Hubertushof, Sonnenhof and Hof Petersheide belong to Irmtraut .

history

Based on the first mentions, Irmtraut is the oldest municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod. Irmtraut was first mentioned in a document in 879, when Count Gebhard in Lahngau donated goods to St. Severus Abbey in Gemünden .

The toponym 879 Ermetrode, Irmtroit, Ermentrut, Eremtraut, 1215 Irmentroth, 1276 Irmittrerode, 1296 Yrmentrade, around 1300 Yrmetroyde, 1354 Irmtrode, 1453 Ermentraide, 1492 Irmtrode, 1516 Irmptroit, 1525 Irmtrudt, 1711 in many other ways of writing, Irmtrudt in 1778 , is one of the numerous place names on -rod. However, as with the name of the small desert Obentraut on the Dornburg, this is no longer recognizable in its current form of name and in the dialect forms Irndert, Indet, Erndert.

Today's St. Mary's Church was first mentioned in 1355 as a chapel and in 1454 as a church consecrated to St. Anthony . The early Gothic choir tower , however, suggests that its origin is much older.

Irmtraut's

In Irmtraut, an extensive, 500-year-old low - nobility family developed. Her coat of arms showed a black goat in silver. The oldest tangible member of the family is Heinrich, mentioned for the first time in 1215, who was ministerial subordinate in Westerburg . There are only a few documents about the family that have survived today, but they show a main focus of ownership in the Westerwald and free float in the northern Taunus , in the Rheingau , on the lower reaches of the Moselle , in the Maifeld and on the Ahr . Those of Irmtraut appear particularly frequently as bailiffs and bailiffs in Westerburg and as abbesses in Gnadenthal . Adam Fole († 1455), archdeacon in Dietkirchen , and Margarete, abbess of Neuburg Abbey in 1482, also descended from the family . With Ludwig Wilhelm Heinrich, the male line died out in 1741. Shortly thereafter, Count Palatine Karl Theodor transferred the name of Irmtraut to von Werkamp due to her female descent. This family died out in 1913.

Two former seats of the Lords of Irmtraut have been preserved in Westerburg : the vassal house to the west of Westerburg Castle and a building from the 16th century at the Gemündener Tor, which housed the side branch Fole von Irmtraut. The Langwiesen farm , a former small moated castle of the family between the villages of Boden and Ruppach-Goldhausen, has also been preserved .

Cultural monuments

→ see list of cultural monuments in Irmtraut

politics

Irmtraut town hall

Municipal council

The municipal council in Irmtraut consists of twelve 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

Jens Peter Heun became local mayor of Irmtraut on June 19, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 67.80% of the vote.

Heun's predecessor Alfons Giebeler had held the office of mayor for 30 years.

coat of arms

Irmtraut coat of arms
 Blazon : “Quartered; Fields 1 and 4 in silver a black goat, fields 2 and 3 in black a silver fir tree. "

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Personalities

literature

Hellmuth Gensicke: Irmtraut's. In: Nassau Annals . 74th Volume (1963), pp. 171-184.

Web links

Commons : Irmtraut  - Collection of Images

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. 78 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 13 .
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  5. ^ Report on the constituent meeting of the municipal council on June 19, 2019. In: Hoher Westerwald - Wochenkurier for the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod, edition 28/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rennerod, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  7. ^ Elke Hufnagl: Honors and farewells to council members and local mayors. In: Hoher Westerwald - weekly courier for the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod, issue 28/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, accessed on July 17, 2020 .