Kestert

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Loreley
Height :	70 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.88 km 2
Residents:	561 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	82 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56348
Area code :	06773
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 072
Association administration address:	Dolkstrasse 3 ; 56346 St. Goarshausen
Website :	www.kestert.de
Local Mayor :	Uwe Schwarz
Location of the local community Kestert in the Rhein-Lahn district

Kestert is a municipality in the Loreley valley in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Loreley community and is part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kestert consists of twelve 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	LEFT	FWG	total
2019	5	7th	-	-	12 seats
2014	4th	7th	1	-	12 seats
2009	2	7th	1	2	12 seats
2004	2	7th	-	3	12 seats

mayor

Uwe Schwarz is the local mayor of Kestert. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 81.67% of the vote.

history

Kestert is first mentioned in a document in the year 755, when the Abbey of Fulda came into the possession of several vineyards "ad Castrionis".

In the next few centuries Kestert was part of the Boppard Empire . When Boppard lost its imperial immediacy in 1327 and was pledged to his brother, Archbishop Balduin von Trier , by King Henry VII , Kestert also came to the Electorate of Kurtrier and remained there until the Imperial Deputation Headquarters in 1803, when all spiritual territories were dissolved . During this time, Kestert was part of the Boppard Office. Then it was slammed in Nassau-Weilburg and after the Congress of Vienna in 1815/16 it finally came to the Duchy of Nassau , in which it belonged to the newly established St. Goarshausen Office . In 1866 Kestert came to Prussia . In the occupation times after the First and Second World War , it belonged to the French occupation zone.

Then Kestert was incorporated into the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate and there in the district of St. Goarshausen and Loreley, which in 1969 became part of the Rhein-Lahn district .

religion

In February 2018 the ten formerly independent parishes St. Martin ( Osterspai ), St. Margaretha ( Filsen ), St. Nikolaus ( Kamp-Bornhofen ), St. Jakobus the Elder ( Dahlheim ), St. Georg (Kestert), St. Martin ( Wellmich ), St. John the Baptist ( St. Goarshausen ), St. Nikolaus ( Kaub ), St. Peter and Paul ( Nastätten ) and St. Florin ( Strüth ) to the newly founded Roman Catholic parish “Heilige Elisabeth von Schönau ”, based in Kamp-Bornhofen, is part of the Limburg diocese .

Attractions

St. George Church

View of Kestert and the Catholic Church of St. Georg

The Catholic Church of St. George was built in 1779 in the Baroque style. In 1958 a side aisle was added, which was torn down again in 2011. Inside there are several baroque figures of saints.

Nearby

The enemy brothers with Burg Liebenstein and Burg Sterrenberg near Kamp-Bornhofen and the Loreley near St. Goarshausen , Marksburg near Braubach and Burg Lahneck near Lahnstein.

Sons and daughters of the church

Johann Schlaad (1822–1892), organ builder
Manfred Schneider (1953–2008), composer and musician

Web links

Commons : Kestert - Collection of Images

Internet presence of the local community Kestert
Local community Kestert on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Loreley
Historical information about Kestert at regionalgeschichte.net
JF Dielmann, A. Fay, J. Becker (draftsman): FC Vogel's panorama of the Rhine, pictures of the right and left banks of the Rhine. Lithographic institute FC Vogel, Frankfurt 1833

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Kestert. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Loreley, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Regional history Kestert. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
↑ www.rhein-zeitung.de: Founding service: Parish "Heilige Elisabeth von Schönau" has its seat in Kamp-Bornhofen , accessed on February 6, 2018.
^ Report in the Rhein-Zeitung from September 9, 2011

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).