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This article covers the Eifel village. For Kehrigk in the Mark, now part of Storkow, see Kehrigk .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 17 '  N , 7 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality :	Vordereifel
Height :	390 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.41 km 2
Residents:	1211 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	116 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56729
Area code :	02651
License plate :	MYK, MY
Community key :	07 1 37 043
Association administration address:	Kelberger Strasse 26 56727 Mayen
Website :	www.kehrig-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Stefan Ostrominski ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Kehrig in the Mayen-Koblenz district

St. Kastor and Katharina in Kehrig

Kehrig is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Vordereifel , which has its administrative headquarters in Mayen .

geography

The community is located in the Eifel in the immediate vicinity of the A 48 , which crosses the Elzbachtal on a 350 meter long and 110 meter high bridge .

The Kehrigermühle, Lohbrückermühle, Mädburgermühle, Neumühle, Gertrudenhof and Haus Ahlen residential areas also belong to Kehrig .

history

Kehrig was first mentioned in a document as a church around 1100 . The Ravengiersburg Abbey exchanged an estate in Kirricha with the St. Stephen's Abbey in Mainz around 1103 according to a forged document at the beginning of the 13th century . In 1138 the property of the Abbey of St. Thomas near Andernach in Kehrig can be proven.

The parish church of Kehrig and the tithe , consecrated to Castor von Karden , belonged to the Kastorstift in Karden until 1802 . 1656 owned the church of Kehrig, which after de Lorenzi from the 13./14. It is said to have originated in the 18th century, three altars. The main altar was consecrated to Castor, the side altars to Mary and Peter.

Today's parish church, which was built by the Düsseldorf architect Pickel from 1869 to 1872 , is consecrated to St. Kastor and St. Katharina . There was also a Wolfgang chapel at the end of the village. Another chapel formerly consecrated to Lucia was the so-called Mädburgkapelle. This church, supposedly donated by the von Monreal family , is said to have been consecrated to Our Lady for a long time in 1350. Knight Heinrich Muhl von der Neuerburg provided the chapel with a benefice at that time . The right to propose the chaplain went to the Karden monastery after Heinrich's death. A hermitage used the chapel in the 18th century . The facility no longer existed in 1887. The Mädburg monastery ruins of the chapel have been preserved today.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 407 1835 579 1871 686 1905 894 1939 988

year Residents 1950 995 1961 962 1970 969 1987 1.002 2005 1,146

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kehrig consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	9	4th	16 seats
2014	6th	6th	4th	16 seats
2009	7th	6th	3	16 seats

* FWG = Free Voting Group Kehrig e. V.

Local mayor

Stefan Ostrominski (CDU) became local mayor of Kehrig on June 19, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with a share of 71.37% of the vote. Stefan Ostrominski's predecessor was Herbert Keifenheim (SPD), who did not run again after 20 years in office.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In the shield split by a twisted silver tip, a golden ear of wheat in front in blue, a silver slate hammer with black handle in blue, below a black wheel."

Attractions

In the vicinity of the cloister brook, which rises in Kehrig, the Elz flows around a twenty-meter high plateau on which the Mädburg cloister ruins are located. In the village itself and in the immediate vicinity of the village there are many crossroads , some of which are very artfully designed and donated by families, associations and individuals and are intended to remind of certain people or events from the village.

• See also the list of cultural monuments in Kehrig

education

Kehrig has its own elementary school and kindergarten.

traffic

The place has three bus stops and is served by buses on the Mayen - Kaisersesch line.

literature

• Hanna Adenauer, Josef Busley and Heinrich Neu: The art monuments of the Mayen district. Vol. I. and II. Düsseldorf 1943, pp. 132-135.

Web links

Commons : Kehrig  - collection of images

• Official website of the local parish Kehrig
• Local community Kehrig on the website of the association community Vordereifel
• Literature about Kehrig in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 27 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ Election 2019
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Vordereifel, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved February 15, 2020 . 
7. ^ Local community Kehrig: Constituent meeting of the local community council. June 14, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 . 
8. ↑ municipality Kehrig: former Mayor Herbert Keifenheim adopted. August 21, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .