Kirburg

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 55 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height :	482 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.05 km 2
Residents:	580 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	143 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57629
Area code :	02661
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 248
Association administration address:	Kirburger Strasse 4 56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website :	www.kirburg.de
Local Mayor :	Janosch Becker
Location of the local community Kirburg in the Westerwaldkreis

Protestant Church Kirburg

Kirburg (dialect: Kirbursch, Kirberich ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen . The Waschebach, which belongs to the catchment area of ​​the Sieg , flows through the local area.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1215. At that time Kirburg was the westernmost parish of the mother parish of Haiger , whose border river "Nigra Morla" gave the place Mörlen its name. The half-timbered church built in 1866 gave way to a stone building in 1959.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 206 1835 194 1871 199 1905 232 1939 336 1950 396 1961 357

year Residents 1970 413 1987 455 1997 588 2005 622 2011 560 2017 599

Population development in Kirburg from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

politics

Municipal council

The council in Kirburg consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Janosch Becker became mayor of Kirburg in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 88.89% of the vote.

Becker's predecessor Hans-Alfred Graics first took over the office in 1989. He did not run for the 2014 local elections. However, his successor at the time, Annabelle Kehl-Beckmann, had to resign in 2016 for family reasons. Since no other candidate was found, Graics took over the task again until the end of the 2019 election period.

Culture and sights

• List of cultural monuments in Kirburg
• List of natural monuments in Kirburg

traffic

The B 414 , which leads from Driedorf -Hohenroth to Hachenburg , runs directly through the village . The next motorway junction is Haiger / Burbach on the A 45 Dortmund - Hanau , about 25 kilometers away. The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line , around 40 kilometers away.

Web links

Commons : Kirburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the local church Kirburg
• Kirburg on the website of the Bad Marienberg Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Hucke, Hermann Josef: place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as local nonsense. ( Memento of January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 2010, p. 3 (PDF; 132 kB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved June 3, 2020 . 
6. ^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Election of the local mayor in the Bad Marienberg community on May 26th. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2019, accessed on June 3, 2020 .