Kemel

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Kemel
municipality Heidenrod
Kemel coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 516 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1216  (Feb. 11, 2014)
Incorporation : December 31, 1971
Postal code : 65321
Area code : 06124
Kemel from the southwest (near Hausen in front of the height)
Kemel from the southwest (near Hausen in front of the height )

Kemel is a part of the Heidenrod municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus district in southern Hesse . The place is right on the B 260 (Bäderstraße). At 517  m above sea level NN , Kemel is the highest village in the western Taunus .

geography

Kemel is located in the western Hintertaunus , in the south of the Kemeler Heide , which belongs to the Zorner plateau , on the Kemeler Ridge , a watershed between the Rhine and Lahn. About two kilometers northwest of the village, near Mappershain , rises the Mappershainer Kopf , at 548 meters the highest mountain in the western Hintertaunus.

The Aulbach flows south of Kemel .

history

→ For the Roman past of the Kemel area, see also the separate articles Small fort “Auf dem Pohl bei Kemel” and Kemel fort .

Kemel was first mentioned in a document in 812. In 983 Emperor Otto II donated a royal court in Kemel to the diocese of Mainz . The place is located on a road from the Rhine to the Lahn that was used in prehistoric times and crosses the Taunus here. In Roman times there was a fort here and the Limes ran nearby. In the Middle Ages , the Taunus crossing was part of the important trade route from Aachen to Nuremberg . The Counts of Katzenelnbogen ruled as Mainz bailiffs . After their extinction, the place came to the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1479 , in 1815, after a few years of French rule, to the Duchy of Nassau and became Prussian in 1866 . Many small villages in the area shared the fate of Kemel.

As part of the regional reform in Hesse , the municipality of Kemel merged with 15 other municipalities on December 31, 1971 on a voluntary basis to form the municipality of Heidenrod . For Kemel, as for all other districts, a local district with a local advisory council and a local mayor was set up.

Attractions

Kemel Evangelical Church
Catholic parish church St. Michael
  • The Protestant church (formerly St. Katharina ) with its late Romanesque church tower dates from the 13th century. The interior was changed several times, the nave was extended in the early 19th century.
  • The Catholic Church of St. Michael was built in 1966 as a parish and garrison church for what was then the Bundeswehr location in Kemel, and was consecrated on September 24, 1967. The group of buildings consisting of the church, rectory and free-standing bell tower were executed in exposed concrete according to plans by the Frankfurt architect Walter Nicol.

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

Kemel is surrounded by a lot of forest both on the Kemeler Heide and in the Wispertal and its side valleys. In addition, the region is part of the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park , which aims to enable people to relax in a natural environment. The spa town of Bad Schwalbach is also easy to reach.

traffic

The federal road 260 runs over the ridge of the Kemeler Heide in a north-west-south-east direction , directly past the village. Kemel is connected to this main artery of the western Hintertaunus. The road L3455 leads in the direction of the northeast on Huppert according Laufenselden , the central district of Heidenrod. In a southerly direction, the district town of Bad Schwalbach as well as Wiesbaden and the Rhine-Main area are reached on the federal road .

The Rheingau-Taunus-Verkehrsgesellschaft (RTV) is the local public transport company in the Rheingau-Taunus district . She is a partner in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund .

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through the village . This follows the Upper German-Raetian Limes over 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Taunus barracks

The vacant Taunus barracks in 2007

Until 2002, parts of anti-aircraft missile group 42 ( Luftwaffe ) were stationed in the Taunus barracks in Kemel . In addition to the main barracks area, the site also included a radio tower in the village of Kemel itself, the fire control area above the Kemel sports field and the rocket area to the east of the barracks. The main property on Bäderstraße has been vacant to this day (2012), and in May 2009 the barracks and the former fire control area were finally sold. The former rocket site has been used by a waste disposal company for a long time.

Web links

Commons : Kemel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Districts of the municipality of Heidenrod, population HW , accessed in April 2016
  2. ↑ Western Hintertaunus (Aartaunus, Zorner plateau, Katzenelnbogen plateau, Nastätter Mulde and Unterlahnhöhen)
  3. ↑ a b Topographic map 1: 25,000
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 378 .
  5. ↑ main statute. (PDF; 100 kB) § 5. In: Website. Heidenrod municipality, accessed February 2019 .
  6. ↑ Thorsten Stötzer: Tour of St. Michael: Council shaped architecture . In: Wiesbadener Kurier ( Memento from December 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Thorsten Stötzer: 50 years ago the foundation stone was laid for the Catholic Church in Kemel . In: Wiesbadener Kurier ( Memento from December 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt of January 30, 2007: Nobody is interested in Taunuskaserne  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.main-rheiner.de