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Coat of arms of the local community Kettig
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Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Weißenthurm
Height : 86 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.77 km 2
Residents: 3365 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 433 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56220
Area code : 02637
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 211
LOCODE : DE 82Y
Website : www.gemeinde-kettig.de
Mayor : Peter Moskopp ( CDU )
Location of the local community of Kettig in the Mayen-Koblenz district
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Kettig is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Weißenthurm .

Geographical location

Located on the edge of the Neuwied Basin with a favorable climate , the agricultural areas of the municipality are increasingly characterized by special crops (especially the naturally cultivated elderberry).

history

Kettig is mentioned for the first time in a written source as Ketichi in Gau Maifeld in a document from the Echternach monastery from the second quarter of the 10th century. Other forms of name after 1200 were Ketge , Ketghe , Ketige and Kettich . From the 13th to the 16th centuries, St. Thomas Abbey owned land and interest-bearing goods in Kettig.

Kettig was hit hard by the Thirty Years War . Of 128 houses that have been handed down from 1563, only 85 were left in 1648. The castle, which Elector Werner III. von Falkenstein had built between 1409 and 1419 and was destroyed. The Second World War hit Kettig just as hard : in a bomb attack on December 29, 1944, 25 residential buildings, 15 agricultural buildings, 1 industrial plant, school and church were destroyed or seriously damaged. The war ended for Kettig on March 8, 1945, when the site was taken by American units of Combat Command B (CCB) of the 4th Armored Division .

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 634
1835 1,050
1871 1,049
1905 1,343
1939 1,527
1950 1,709
year Residents
1961 1,954
1970 2,577
1987 2,656
1997 2,977
2005 3,331
2017 3,320

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kettig consists of 20 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 FDP FWG total
2019 3 10 1 6th 20 seats
2014 4th 11 1 4th 20 seats
2009 8th 6th 2 4th 20 seats
2004 7th 7th 2 4th 20 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Kettig e. V.

mayor

Local mayor of Kettig is Peter Moskopp (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed with a vote of 76.35%.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Kettig
 Blazon : "Divided, above in red a silver eagle with blue stand, below in silver a continuous red bar cross."
Justification of the coat of arms: The red cross reminds of Kurtrier , whose office of mountain maintenance Kettig belonged. The eagle is taken from the coat of arms of the Knights von Kettig, who owned a castle house in the village and whose line died out in the 17th century. They carried a white eagle with blue stands as a coat of arms in a red shield.

education

Kettig is the location of the Kettig primary school.

See also

Web links

Commons : Kettig  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Gerhard Elingshäuser: The Story of Kettig through the ages . Edited by Gerhard Elingshäuser, Kettig 2000.
  3. ↑ Lt. Col. George Dyer: XII Corps, Spearhead of Patton's third Army
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Weißenthurm, Verbandsgemeinde, third line of results. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .