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Ill Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	280 m above sea level NN
Residents :	176  (December 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Krankel in Rhineland-Palatinate

District Krankel

Krankel is a district of the local community Asbach in the Neuwied district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is characterized by agriculture, but is increasingly developing into a place of residence in the sense of a residential community .

geography

The village is located in the Niederwesterwald, southeast of the main town Asbach, on a hill above and north of the Dinspeler Bach . Krankel is near the state road 272, which connects Asbach with Flammersfeld . From Krankel the district road 68 leads to the Asbacher district Dinspel and the district road 69 to the district Kalscheid .

history

In the first documentary mention in 1496, a farm belonging to the Lords of Ehrenstein is mentioned. In 1517 there was also a farm "im Rückers" (Röckersberg), which later went under. Krankel belonged to the electorate of Cologne and the Altenwied office since the Middle Ages and was part of the " Honnschaft Schöneberg". According to an inventory ordered by Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660, Krankel had two courtyards, in 1787 20 houses and 40 residents were counted.

After the Rhineland became part of Prussia in 1815 , Krankel belonged to the Schöneberg community in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was initially administered by the Neustadt mayor and from 1823 by the Asbach mayor . According to a census from 1885, Krankel had 103 inhabitants who lived in 19 houses. 1931 was Krankel own mailroom Class II in the district of the post office Asbach.

Until 1974, Krankel belonged to the previously independent community of Schöneberg . On March 16, 1974, the local community Asbach was newly formed from it and the communities of Asbach and Limbach, which were dissolved at the same time, and part of the community of Elsaff . In 1987 Krankel had 124 inhabitants.

Wendelinus Chapel

The predecessor of the chapel in the center of the village was completed in 1903 and largely destroyed in the Second World War. The choir of the old chapel is preserved as a side aisle in the later new building.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , pp. 203 and 420.
2. ^ ^{A b} Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 76
3. ^ Local community Asbach (Ed.): Asbach / Westerwald. Pictures and reports from the last 200 years ; 1990, page 240
4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 44
5. ^ Theo Winterscheid: From the history of the post in the Windhagener area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 113.
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
7. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality