Kirchwald

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Coat of arms of the local community of Kirchwald
Kirchwald
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Kirchwald highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′  N , 7 ° 9 ′  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Vordereifel
Height : 500 m above sea level NHN
Area : 9.51 km 2
Residents: 961 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 101 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56729
Area code : 02651
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 049
LOCODE : DE KHW
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Kelberger Strasse 26
56727 Mayen
Website : www.kirchwald.de
Local Mayor : Armin Seiwert
Location of the Kirchwald community in the Mayen-Koblenz district
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Kirchwald is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Vordereifel , which has its administrative headquarters in Mayen . Kirchwald is a state-approved climatic health resort .

geography

Kirchwald is located 8 km northwest of Mayen in the "Rhein-Ahr-Eifel" conservation area . Districts are the two immediately adjacent places Kirchesch and Waldesch. The community also includes the residential areas Landhaus Kratz and Riedener Mühlen.

The district consists of 58 percent forest areas and 28 percent agricultural areas (as of 2010) .

history

The oldest documented mention of Kirchesch comes from December 10, 1136. The name appears again in a document from November 25, 1238. In 1366 the Counts von Eltz bought Kirchesch from the Steinfeld Abbey . On January 21, 1472, the Breitbach-Bürresheim estate bought Waldesch from the Olbrück estate .

A school building was built in Kirchesch around 1700; teachers can be verified there from 1713. The old schoolhouse was replaced by a new building in 1826. Today's Kirchescher school house was built in 1936/37.

A new schoolhouse was built in Waldesch in 1894.

In 1909 a water pipe was built between Kirschesch and Waldesch.

The Bürresheim-Kirchesch Höhenstraße, which was completed in 1935, was continued from 1936 to 1937 up to the Hohen Acht .

On June 7, 1969, the community of Kirchwald was formed from the two dissolved communities of Kirchesch (then 493 inhabitants) and Waldesch (292 inhabitants).

Population development

The development of the population of Kirchwald in relation to the current municipality area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 384
1835 481
1871 526
1905 548
1939 669
year Residents
1950 642
1961 714
1970 789
1987 898
2005 1.006

religion

The first pastor is mentioned in a document on January 25, 1269, and the first known church was built between 1620 and 1630. In 1906/07 a new parish church was built in Kirchesch.

The rectory, which has been a listed building since 1989 , was built in 1722. A second was built in the village in 1912/13.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kirchwald consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote 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 WGR total
2019 by majority vote 12 seats
2014 4th 8th 12 seats
2009 4th 8th 12 seats
2004 3 9 12 seats

Local mayor

Armin Seiwert became the local mayor of Kirchwald in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 80.67% of the vote. Armin Seiwert's predecessor is Erich Pung, who held the office for 22 years.

coat of arms

Kirchwald coat of arms
 Blazon : "Shield of red and silver divided diagonally, in front a golden, growing lion to the left, behind a red dragon."

Personalities

Erich Pung (* 1953), former detective, was made an honorary citizen in 2019. He was honored for his outstanding services to the local community. Living in Kirchwald since 1981, he has been active in club life and local politics ever since. He was a member of the municipal council from 1984 to 1997 and subsequently held the office of local mayor for 22 years until 2019.

Others

The first restaurant was built in Kirchesch in 1844, later the Gasthaus Döbber . Fires hit Kirchesch (1846) and Waldesch (1874). On June 23, 1882, Wilhelm Schäfer from Waldesch received a liquor license.

The Waldesch bachelor club was founded in 1890, and the Kirchesch and Waldesch volunteer fire departments were founded in 1897.

See also

literature

  • Gottfried Rausch: Kirchesch, Waldesch, Kirchwald: a local history . tape 1 . Kirchwald: Local community Kirchwald, ISBN 3-9800360-0-6 .
  • Gottfried Rausch: Kirchesch, Waldesch, Kirchwald: a local history . tape 2 . Kirchwald: Local community Kirchwald, ISBN 3-9800360-1-4 .

Web links

Commons : Kirchwald  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ A b c State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 27 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 182 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  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. Retrieved on February 15, 2020 (see Vordereifel, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results).
  7. ↑ a b Local community Kirchwald: Erich Pung - honorary citizen of Kirchwald. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .