Kestert
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Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ N , 7 ° 39 ′ E |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Kestert
Sons and daughters of the church
- Johann Schlaad (1822–1892), organ builder
- Manfred Schneider (1953–2008), composer and musician
Web links
- 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