Krastel

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Krastel
Local community Bell (Hunsrück)
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 403 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 141  (December 31, 2012)
Incorporation : March 17, 1974
Postal code : 56288
Area code : 06762
Krastel (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Krastel

Location of Krastel in Rhineland-Palatinate

The village of Krastel , official spelling until December 6, 1935: Crastel, is a district of the local community Bell in the Verbandsgemeinde Kastellaun , in the middle of the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in the Rhein-Hunsrück district , Rhineland-Palatinate . Krastel was an independent municipality until 1974.

geography

The place Krastel is located on a slight hillside ( 405  m above sea  level ) on the Hunsrück plateau on the upper reaches of the Brühlbach. The highest point is the Motzenberg at 455  m above sea level. NHN . The Heidhof is separated from the main town approx. 800 m to the east.

Neighboring places

Mastershausen Wohnroth and Buch Kastellaun
Reidenhausen Neighboring communities Bell
Blankenrath Leideneck Völkenroth and Hundheim

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1310. The place name Krastel only exists once in Germany. It probably goes back to the earlier meaning of the word "crane". This is how people used to refer to lower conifers such as juniper. Since March 17, 1974, the place belongs to the local community Bell.

politics

Politically that is local district Krastel from the mayor and the council Bell represented, but also has its own town council and a mayor .

The local council consists of three local council members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected by majority vote.

Mayor is Otmar Hennchen. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of the vote of 75.56%.

Web links

Commons : Krastel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939; Page 267
  2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 159 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  3. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Krastel. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Kastellaun, Verbandsgemeinde, fifth row of results. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .