Koblenz-Arenberg

Arenberg City of Koblenz Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 39 ′ 6 ″ E
Area :	6.46 km²
Residents :	2486 (Sep 30, 2012)
Population density :	385 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	56077
Area code :	0261
	Location of the Arenberg district

Koblenz-Arenberg is a high-altitude district of Koblenz . In 1970 unincorporated area is rechtsrheinisch above Ehrenbreitstein and west of B 49 to Montabaur . Arenberg is the easternmost part of Koblenz. It has been a Catholic pilgrimage site since the 19th century with a landscape bible that is unique in Europe .

history

King Ludwig the German donated the Herrenhof Arenberg to the women's monastery in Herford in 868 , which was the first documentary mention of Arenberg. The farm was called Overanberg ("Ober am Berg"), in contrast to the "Nieder am Berg" located deeper in the slope, today's Niederberg . In 1226, the monastery transferred responsibility for the management to a Maier from the von Helfenstein house, who had to pay the lease in kind.

The Lords of Helfenstein built Mühlenbach Castle around 1300 . The family called themselves from now on Ritter von Mühlenbach and the imperial rule Mühlenberg arose , which in addition to the parish Arenberg also included the neighboring Immendorf and some mills on the Mühlenbach. The castle was largely destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

Herford Monastery sold the Arenberg rule to Kurtrier in 1692 and from then on belonged to the Ehrenbreitstein office . Through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss the place came briefly to the Duchy of Nassau and finally to Prussia through the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . The Ehrenbreitstein office was added to the Koblenz district in 1816. After Ehrenbreitstein was incorporated into Koblenz in 1937 , Arenberg first came to the Vallendar office . In 1968 Arenberg celebrated its 1100th anniversary. On June 7, 1969, Arenberg briefly formed the municipality of Arenberg-Immendorf together with the neighboring town of Immendorf. On November 7, 1970, this community was dissolved and Arenberg also became a district of Koblenz. In the year 1630 the horse unstitching station Roter Hahn with an associated inn is mentioned for the first time. The whole place was usually called the Red Rooster after her . This post station was on the post connection from the Rhine via Ehrenbreitstein to the Lahn , which only lost its importance in the 19th century when a continuous road was built along the Lahn. In 1789, the Elector of Kurtrier expanded the road from Koblenz via Arenberg and Montabaur to Limburg an der Lahn .

During the French siege of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress from 1795 to 1799, a French general had his quarters in Arenberg. During this time, the viticulture, which was previously documented in the Eselsbach and Hangarsberg sites , was destroyed and not revitalized after the Congress of Vienna.

In addition to agriculture and viticulture, zinc and lead ore mining played an important role in the Mühlenbach mine in the 19th and 20th centuries . The dismantling has been documented since 1842 and was completely abandoned in 1960 with short interruptions.

In the middle of the 19th century, Pastor Johann Baptist Kraus gave Arenberg a new identity as a place of pilgrimage . The restored grounds continue to shape the cultural and historical significance of the district, although the purpose originally intended by Pastor Kraus has been lost since the 1950s.

Arenberg was connected to the Koblenz tram network in 1901 and is now a residential district of Koblenz. Since 2002, Arenberg, with its cultural monuments and the pilgrimage site, has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley .

politics

Local advisory board

A common district was formed for the districts of Arenberg and Immendorf . The local council consists of eleven members, the chair of the local council is chaired by the directly elected mayor.

For the composition of the local council, see the results of the local elections in Koblenz .

Mayor

The mayor is Tim Michels (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 63.26% of the vote, making him the successor to Gerd Giefer (CDU).

Attractions

Place of pilgrimage, church and monastery

The founder of the pilgrimage site Arenberg was Pastor Johann Baptist Kraus (1805-1893), who built the Pfarrer-Kraus-Anlagen with the pilgrimage church of St. Nicholas (1860-1872) in the mid-19th century . In order to maintain the landscape picture Bible, which is unique in Europe, Pastor Kraus brought the Dominican Sisters to Arenberg in 1864 , who founded the Arenberg Monastery there. The monastery now also houses an education and recreation center. In 1930, a memorial to Pastor Kraus was erected south of the rectory of St. Nikolaus .

Profane structures

Mühlenbach mine

Former Elisenhof estate

Lourdes grotto in the Pfarrer-Kraus-Anlage
Pilgrimage Church of St. Nicholas
Arenberg Monastery - Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters
The main tower of the former Mühlenbach Castle

Arenberg drinking water for the Ehrenbreitstein fortress

The springs that provided the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress with drinking water for a long time were located in the Arenberg district . The electoral fortress has probably drawn its water from the Eselsbach area since the 16th century, perhaps even from the Riddelsborn. During the sieges of the Ehrenbreitstein from 1795 to 1799, the French troops who held Arenberg interrupted the water supply several times.

From 1866 onwards, the Prussian fortress relied on the Riddelsborn, which from now on supplied all the works on the right bank of the Koblenz fortress . From 1909 these fortifications got their water from the Meerkatzer spring. It first flowed into an elevated tank at the Arenberg Monastery and then - with increased pressure - into the Ehrenbreitstein and from there to the other plants. The Riddelsborn now only supplied Fort Asterstein . Its excess water was directed to Ehrenbreitstein. The Riddelsborn is still part of Koblenz's drinking water supply today.

traffic

Koblenz-Arenberg is on Landstrasse 127, which connects the federal highways B42 and B49.
The EVM bus line 9 runs from Koblenz-Immendorf via the districts of Arenberg, Niederberg and Ehrenbreitstein to the city center and the main station, while the bus line 460 from Rhein-Mosel-Bus runs from Koblenz main station via Koblenz-Arenberg and Neuhäusel to Montabaur.
There is a connection to long-distance rail traffic at Koblenz main station .

Personalities

The following personalities were born in Arenberg:

1898: Karl Weber , politician
1901: Father Otto Pies , Jesuit
1905: Josef Ackermann , NSDAP politician and SA brigade leader

literature

Rainer Schwindt (ed.): The pastor Kraus plants to Arenberg. Calvary, Bible garden and pilgrimage site (sources and treatises on the history of the Middle Rhine Church, Volume 139). Self-published by the Society for Middle Rhine Church History, Mainz 2015, ISBN 978-3-929135-75-6
Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Silvia Maria Busch: The Grail Temple Idea and Industrialization. St. Nicholas of Arenberg. A pilgrimage site of the Catholic Late Romanticism in the Rhineland (1845–1892) . Diss. Univ. Frankfurt. - Frankfurt a. M .: Art History Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 1984 (= Frankfurt Fundamentals of Art History, Volume IV).

Web links

Commons : Koblenz-Arenberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Arenberg - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: Roter Hahn - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ 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. 183 (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.
^ City of Koblenz: main statute. (PDF) § 9 to July 11, 2019, accessed on October 20, 2019 .
^ City of Koblenz: Mayor Arenberg / Immendorf 2019. Accessed on October 20, 2019 .
↑ Hans-Joachim Sander : From the holiness of the homeland - the holy places in Arenberg. On the 100th anniversary of the death of Johann Baptist Kraus . In: Trier theologische Zeitschrift , vol. 102 (1993), pp. 146–156.

[1] 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. 183 (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.

[2] City of Koblenz: main statute. (PDF) § 9 to July 11, 2019, accessed on October 20, 2019 .

[3] City of Koblenz: Mayor Arenberg / Immendorf 2019. Accessed on October 20, 2019 .

[4] Hans-Joachim Sander : From the holiness of the homeland - the holy places in Arenberg. On the 100th anniversary of the death of Johann Baptist Kraus . In: Trier theologische Zeitschrift , vol. 102 (1993), pp. 146–156.