Kaimig

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Kaimig is a part of the local community Sankt Katharinen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

The hamlet Kaimig closes immediately southeast of Hargarten and is on 350- 355  m above sea level. NHN at the confluence of Landesstraße 251 ( Linz –Hargarten) on Landesstraße 254 ( Kretzhaus - Ginsterhahn –Weißfeld). In terms of natural space, the village within the Niederwesterwald can still be assigned to the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge , but is located at the transition to the Rhine-Wied ridge . The terrain slopes down to the east towards the Brochenbach .

history

The village did not emerge until the second half of the 19th century and belonged to the municipality of Hargarten in the administrative district of the Linz mayor from the beginning . It is named after the hill called Kaimig on which it is located. Its development into a residential area is largely due to a two-kilometer-long cable car from Phoenix AG for mining and smelting , which was built by the Anxbach mine in 1876 ​​to transport the iron ore extracted there to the Kaimig. Here there was a transshipment point for further transport by horse-drawn vehicles to Linz am Rhein , for which stables and a forge were built on site. The traffic of numerous miners led to the establishment of an inn with the name Rheinhöhe . In 1885 the village had 18 inhabitants in two residential buildings.

In 1908 Phoenix AG sold its premises on Kaimig, and after 1923 it was closed. In 1927, land on Kaimig was developed for further residential development . Towards the end of the Second World War the restaurant was destroyed in heavy tank battles in March 1945 , and the subsequent reconstruction took place by 1952. However, the associated courtyard fell victim to the widening of Landesstraße 251. In the 1950s the village grew to its present size through the creation of a new development area , at that time it comprised around 50 residents. In the census on May 25, 1987, only 10 residents of Kaimig were recorded due to a different spatial survey basis.

literature

  • Parish of St. Katharinen (ed.); Heiner Strauss: St. Katharinen. Fest- und Heimatbuch , St. Katharinen 1994/2001, pp. 46–48.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.), 1885, page 40/41
  2. ↑ Parish St. Katharinen (ed.); Heiner Strauss: St. Katharinen. Fest- und Heimatbuch , St. Katharinen 1994/2001, p. 74.
  3. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 27 ″  E