Kroppach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Kroppach (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Hachenburg
Height :	319 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.01 km 2
Residents:	689 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	172 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57612
Area code :	02688
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 250
Association administration address:	Gartenstrasse 11 57627 Hachenburg
Website :	www.gemeinde-kroppach.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Birk
Location of the local community Kroppach in the Westerwaldkreis

Evangelical Church Kroppach

Ingelbach station near Kroppach

Kroppach is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . The agriculturally structured residential community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg .

geography

The community is 319 m high between Hachenburg and Altenkirchen and is known as the gateway to the nature and landscape protection area of Kroppacher Switzerland . Heimborn is in the northeast of the village , Heuzert in the east, Marzhausen in the southeast , Ingelbach in the southwest and Giesenhausen in the west . The Haus Mehl residential area also belongs to Kroppach .

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Panorama near Kroppach

history

Kroppach was first mentioned in a document in 1199. The place name research suggested a foundation between the 6th and 9th centuries AD. For a long time, Kroppach was the seat of the parish of Kroppach and a district court and had its own court seal. At least temporarily, the following places were part of the parish: Kroppach, Heuzert , Atzelgift , Helmeroth , Limbach , Mörsbach , Stein and Wingert , Giesenhausen , Burbach , Astert , Ehrlich , Idelberg-Gellershof , Kundert , Luckenbach , Marzhausen , Mudenbach , Nieder- and Obermörsbach , Oberhattert , Streithausen , Hommelsberg , Müschenbach as well as several deserted areas and small settlements in the region that have now disappeared in other places. Since the parish had not only religious functions, but also administrative tasks, Kroppach was an important political center in the region. In the High Middle Ages, a large proportion of the residents of the parish were bailiff people who, compared to serfs, had greater personal liberties and had to pay lower taxes. In the following centuries, however, the legal status of many residents deteriorated. Ecclesiastically, Kroppach was part of the Siegburg deanery in the Archdiocese of Cologne in the Middle Ages . A pastor of his own is documented for the first time in 1300, a teacher who was responsible for the entire parish for 1599. A chapel in front of the gate of the Marienstatt Abbey took over several central functions of the parish from the church in Kroppach.

Until the middle of the 17th century, Kroppach was a sovereign part of the County of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed . After the state division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Kroppach belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg . In 1661 a so-called parish winter school was set up, and from 1731 onwards there was also teaching throughout the year.

In 1680, the mining of slate in the Kroppacher district is recorded for the first time, a Leiendecker (slate roofer) in the village for the first time in 1589.

In 1799 the county was inherited by the princes of Nassau-Weilburg . In connection with the formation of the Rhine Confederation , the region and with it Kroppach came to the newly established Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, Kroppach was assigned to the Hachenburg office. After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau, the place came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 and from 1868 on belonged to the province of Hessen-Nassau and the Oberwesterwaldkreis . Kroppach has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1579 16 houses 1624 15 fireplaces 1669 16 persons subject to valuation 1760 128 1815 185 1835 183 1871 204

year Residents 1905 274 1939 362 1950 477 1961 487 1970 530 1987 567 2005 656

In addition, a Jewish resident is mentioned for the first time in 1681, two Jewish families in 1703 and three in 1782.

Lauterbach

The Lauterbach farm was first mentioned in 1335 and was located around one kilometer northwest of Kroppach. In 1812 it was divided into parcels and sold. By 1818 at the latest, the farm was desolate.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kroppach 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.

mayor

Michael Birk became mayor of Kroppach in June 2012. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 63.78% of the votes.

Birk's predecessor Rainerräder passed away unexpectedly at the beginning of March 2012.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In black a golden chalice with a red inner wall and a six-sided foot set with a red, blue and red gemstone."

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Kroppach

Kroppacher Switzerland

Kroppach is located in the middle of the Nistertal protected landscape area , which was designated in 1969 as Kroppach Switzerland . Kroppacher Schweiz is criss-crossed by numerous designated hiking trails along the course of the Great Nister . The most famous are the Westerwaldsteig , the Marienwanderweg - an old pilgrim path that connects the Cistercian monastery Marienstatt with the Franciscan monastery Marienthal - and the nature trail to the end of the world at Stein-Wingert .

church

For the Protestant church, which is under monument protection , it is assumed that it was built in the early 12th century, and it may be even older. It is documented for the first time in 1199. The choir and the south aisle are from the 13th century, the north aisle is younger. The west tower was built in 1835 after the old tower was destroyed by lightning. It was not until 1950 that the frescoes from the 16th century, hidden under the plaster in the choir, were discovered , some of which show figurative representations, others have an ornamental character. The pulpit is a 17th century work. The cast iron grave slab of Bertram von Holdinckhausen (1576) is an important work of the Siegerland iron foundry . Similar plates, only with different inscriptions, are in the Marienstatt monastery and in Ferndorf in the Siegerland. The stone baptismal font on Eifel basalt lava from the Romanesque period is also worth mentioning . It used to stand in front of the rectory and is now in the Westerwald Landscape Museum in Hachenburg.

More Attractions

The oak trees at the hunting lodge in the meadow valley between Kroppach and Marzhausen are considered a natural monument. There, there was Altkroppach. a desolation , which is also indicated by the name of the area "The old Kroppach". At this point was the older settlement of Kroppachs. The abandonment of the settlement may be related to the building of the chapel and later parish church in Kroppach.

The stone pillar. which is already in the forest in the Mudenbach district 100 m south of the federal highway 414 , was probably a sovereign pillar, a boundary stone or a distance measuring stone. It bears the year 1595 . Next to the column you can still see the lanes of the former unpaved Köln-Leipziger Strasse . It is protected as a cultural monument.

Stone pillars near Kroppach

traffic

• The B 414 runs south of the village and leads from Altenkirchen to Hachenburg.

• The next motorway junctions are in Siegen , Wilnsdorf or Herborn on the A 45 (Dortmund – Gießen).

• Not far from the village is the Ingelbach train stop on the railway line Limburg-Altenkirchen (Limburg (Lahn) -Westerburg-Nistertal / Bad Marienberg-Hachenburg-Altenkirchen (Westerwald) -Au (Sieg) -Betzdorf (Sieg) -Siegen-Kreuztal), on which the trains of the regional train line RB 90 of the Hessische Landesbahn HLB, area Dreiländerbahn , run approx. every hour according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .

• At the Au (Sieg) train station, which is about 15 km away, there is also a connection to the Rhein-Sieg-Express (RSX) trains , which run under the line number RE 9 between Aachen , Düren , Cologne , Siegburg / Bonn , Au (Sieg), Betzdorf (Sieg), Wissen und Siegen runs as well as to the S 12, which runs between Düren, Cologne, Siegburg / Bonn and Au (Sieg).

literature

• Hans-Josef Born: Evangelical Church in Kroppach. 1st edition, Kroppach 1999.
• Hellmuth Gensicke : The parish of Kroppach. In: Nassauische Annalen 83. 1972, pp. 209-231.
• Siegfried L. Lukowski: Kroppach - our village. 800 years ... and further. Kroppach 1999.
• Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the plan. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58. 2015, pp. 74–80.
• Dieter Trautmann: The year 1848 and then in the Hachenburg-Kroppach area. In: Wäller Heimat. 1998, pp. 26-34.
• Dieter Trautmann: The field names in Kroppacher Switzerland. Astert 2013.

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the local community Kroppach
• Local community Kroppach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 74 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ ^{a b} Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Michael Birk is the new local mayor of Kroppach. Westerwälder Zeitung, June 11, 2012, accessed on June 7, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, 14th line of results. Retrieved June 7, 2020 . 
8. ↑ On denominational development see Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74–80.
9. ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments, Westerwaldkreis 18 , page (PDF; 1.4 MB).
10. ^ Hermann Josef Roth : Der Westerwald, Cologne 1981, p. 77.
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Landscape Museum Westerwald Hachenburg: Westerwald contributions 1 - Natural and cultural-historical monuments in the Westerwald: Kroppacher Switzerland and Hachenburg, Hachenburg 1981, p. 56ff.