Karweiler

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Karweiler
Union Free Parish County
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 180 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 634  (Oct. 30, 2013)
Incorporation : March 16, 1974
Postal code : 53501
Area code : 02641
Karweiler (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Karweiler

Location of Karweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate
View of Karweiler
View of Karweiler

Karweiler is a district and a district of the community -free municipality Grafschaft in the district of Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Karweiler district currently has 634 inhabitants. Karweiler was an independent municipality until it was incorporated into the newly formed municipality of Grafschaft in 1974. The Tornfelderhof residential area is part of today's Karweiler district . Until December 6, 1935, the official community name was "Carweiler".

Karweiler, aerial photo (2015)

geography

The place Karweiler is located in the southeast of the municipality Grafschaft at the foot of the Vulkaneifel . The town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is located two kilometers south of Karweiler . The next big city Bonn is about 25 km away and is in the north. Neighboring villages are Bengen , Lantershofen and Ringen .

history

The first mention of the place Karweiler with its church took place on March 31, 1131, as Pope . Innocent II to the Bonn Cassius pin confirmed a number of possessions. Including the property of the church in Karweiler: calewiiere ecclesiam cum decimis - "Karweiler, church with tithes". A total of 30 churches are listed in this document.

Until the end of the 18th century, Karweiler belonged to the county of Neuenahr , which at times exercised sovereignty itself . In 1794 the French Revolutionary Army occupied the Rhineland , Karweiler was assigned to the Mairie Ringen in the Canton of Remagen and the Rhine-Moselle department under the French administration . After the Congress of Vienna in the area came to the Kingdom of Prussia , Karweiler became an independent congregation that in 1816 the newly formed Mayor's Gelsdorf in district Ahrweiler in Koblenz has been assigned. In 1817 Karweiler (then still written “Carweiler”) had 151 inhabitants. In 1936 the previous mayor's office in Gelsdorf was renamed to Amt Ringen, and from 1968 to 1974 the local community of Karweiler at that time belonged to the community of Ringen .

In the course of the administrative and territorial reform of Rhineland-Palatinate, the non-association municipality Grafschaft was newly formed with effect from March 16, 1974. The municipality of Karweiler had voted six to four in favor of incorporation.

politics

West tower of St. Catherine

District

Karweiler is one of eleven local districts in the county of Grafschaft. It is represented by a local council and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of seven members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice SPD CDU total
2019 3 4th 7 seats
2014 2 5 7 seats
2009 2 5 7 seats

Mayor

Dieter Bornschlegl (SPD) became Mayor of Karweiler in 2019. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he was elected for five years with a 56.96% share of the vote, after none of the original three applicants had prevailed in the direct election on May 26, 2019.

Bornschlegl's predecessor Albert Mertens (CDU) did not run again as mayor candidate in 2019 after 20 years in office.

Attractions

There are some cultural monuments in Karweiler .

About 30 tombstones are embedded in the outer wall

Web links

Commons : Karweiler  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics for the municipality of Grafschaft, as of October 30, 2013.
  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. 5 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ↑ Statistics of the German Empire, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Empire. Part I, Berlin 1939, p. 267.
  4. ^ Hermann Bauer: The papal bull of 1131 for the Bonn Cassius Foundation. In: 1980 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Johann Friedrich Schannat: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel. Ed. 3, 1852, p. 493.
  6. ↑ Jakob Rausch: 150 years Ahrweiler district. 1966 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district.
  7. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division. Pauli, Coblenz 1817, p. 49.
  8. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  9. ↑ Hans Josef Moeren: The "Grafschaft" - now a municipality. 1975 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district.
  10. ^ Main statute of the county county
  11. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Board Election 2019 Karweiler. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Karweiler. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  13. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Karweiler. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  14. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Grafschaft, non-association municipality, eighth line of results. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  15. ↑ CDU loses an absolute majority in the county. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, May 27, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Michael Robrecht is candidate for mayor. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, May 14, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  17. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Ahrweiler district. Mainz 2020, p. 34 (PDF; 5.1 MB).