Notches

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Coat of arms of the local parish notches
Notches
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′  N , 7 ° 21 ′  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Maifeld
Height : 210 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.71 km 2
Residents: 488 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 104 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56295
Area code : 02654
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 048
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Marktplatz 4
56751 Polch
Website : www.kerben.de
Local Mayor : Helmut Eberz
Location of the local community of Kerben in the Mayen-Koblenz district
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Place view

Kerben is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Maifeld Association , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Polch .

geography

Kerben is three kilometers east of Polch on a ridge sloping to the north and west. The Kaaner Kopf ( 267  m above sea  level ) rises to the southwest . In terms of natural space, the west of the municipal area can be assigned to the main town of the Niedermaifelder Senke , the east and north-east of this section of the Niedermaifelder Höhe and the Karmelenberghöhe . There it reaches almost 325  m above sea level. NHN its highest point on the ground , its lowest on the northern municipal boundary below the federal motorway 48 . The Minkelfeld district to the east of the main town belongs to notches.

Kerben borders (clockwise) on the local communities Ochtendung , Lonnig and Rüber as well as the city of Polch.

history

Kerben is first mentioned as kerve in a deed of donation in 981 . In that year the Archbishop of Trier Egbert von Holland donated an estate called Kerve to the Paulinerstift in Trier. However, local finds during excavations gave testimony to a settlement that had existed for a long time at that time and which dates back to the Stone Age.

For example, a hand-modeled pottery vase and several rubstones were found during a pumice harvest in today's Schirbedein building area in 1980, which provide information about this.

There have been many prehistoric finds in the Kerben area; Particularly sensational in 1938 was the recovery of a pair of scissors and a sword from graves of the Bronze Age at Kerben train station. The Romans also left their mark, as shown by finds in coins with the image of Emperor Augustus .

The district Minkelfeld was first mentioned in 1148 with the then name minchelue .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Kerben consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The twelve seats in the municipal council are divided between two groups of voters . The municipal council until 2019 consisted of eight council members who were elected in a majority vote in 2014 .

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Helmut Eberz was elected local mayor of Kerben for another five years with a vote of 73.33%.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of notches
 Blazon : "Divided by silver over blue, at the top two red wedges plunged diagonally against each other, at the bottom a white feather crossed with a white roll of paper or parchment."
Justification of the coat of arms: The upper part refers to the patron St. Goar of the parish church in Kerben, while the lower part refers to the patron of the Minkelfelder church, which is consecrated to the evangelist Markus .

traffic

Kerben is part of the Rhein-Mosel transport association . The nearest train stations are Lehmen and Kobern-Gondorf on the Moselle route Trier - Koblenz (each 10 to 11 km southeast of Kerben) and Thür on the Pellenz-Eifel-Bahn Kaisersesch - Andernach (12 km northwest). The bus line 353 of the Koblenzer Verkehrs-Service offers direct connections from Kerben to Koblenz on weekdays.

In the north of the municipality runs the federal highway 48 Koblenz - Trier ; the next connection points are Polch and Ochtendung .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : scores  - 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. 39 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  4. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Maifeld, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .