Langscheid (Oberwesel)
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Langscheid
City of Oberwesel
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 46 ″ N , 7 ° 44 ′ 34 ″ E
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| Height : | 300 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 250 | |
| Postal code : | 55430 | |
| Area code : | 06744 | |
Location of Langscheid in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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.jpg) Catholic branch church St. Nicholas (18th century)
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Langscheid is the southernmost and smallest district of the city of Oberwesel in the Rhein-Hunsrück district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
Langscheid is located south of the Engebach on a plateau above the Rhine Valley at the eastern end of the Hunsrück . The district is mainly used for arable farming.
The district is connected to the main town of Oberwesel, five kilometers north on the banks of the Rhine, by Kreisstraße 89. After crossing Langscheid, the district boundary is reached and the road continues in the Mainz-Bingen district as K 21 to Henschhausen and Bacharach . In the village, the K 88 branches off from the K 89 and offers a connection to Perscheid in a south-westerly direction .
The Engelsburg and Reschscheider Hof residential areas also belong to Langscheid .
Surname
Over the centuries the place name varied slightly - after it was first mentioned in 1253 as Langesceiderbach, there were still various modifications, until in 1788 today's "Langscheid" appears for the first time. The place name is derived from Middle High German long scheit = "on the long wooded ridge".
history
Langscheid was probably founded in the 12th or 13th century, when extensive forest clearing areas were developed starting from Oberwesel. This is indicated by the ending “-scheid”, and the first mention in 1253 fits in with it.
With the pledge of Oberwesel, Langscheid also came under the control of Kurtrier .
The Thirty Years War also left its mark on Langscheid. Swedish troops looted, destroyed the church and set part of the place on fire.
In the years 1782/1783 the church of St. Nikolaus was rebuilt as a two-axis late baroque hall building, supplemented in 1856 by a third axis and the three-story west tower in neo-Romanesque form.
Together with the entire Left Bank of the Rhine , the community fell to the French Republic in 1798 and to the Napoleonic Empire in 1804 . As a result, Langscheid belonged to Marie Wiebelsheim , canton Bacharach in the Simmern arrondissement of the Rhine-Moselle department until 1814 .
After the defeat of Napoleon and the agreements of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the area of the left bank of the Rhine up to the Nahe was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1816, new groups were established and the Langscheid Sankt Goar county in Koblenz associated with the built in 1800 Mairie Wiebelsheim the Prussian mayor was and in fact continued to exist under another name.
After the formation of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , Langscheid was part of the Oberwesel district in the St. Goar district from 1948, and then became part of the St. Goar-Oberwesel community through the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform from 1972 .
From 1972 to at least 1982 Langscheid was the goal when discharged annually (International) ADAC -Rheingold- mountain race , a time trial on winding 3.6 kilometers of County Road 89 has been started in Oberwesel, as it used to define this particular discipline in motorsport heard that is driven on a predominantly uphill stretch. The race was organized by the Hunsrück-Auto-Club e. V. organized in the ADAC Simmern, the Heimatverein Langscheid supported this weekend event.
March 23 In 1974 at his own request the formerly independent municipality of Langscheid the incorporation to Oberwesel - coinciding with Dellhofen and now since 1999 independent Urbar .
Residents
The average number of inhabitants in recent years was around 250 people.
politics
Langscheid is designated as a local district and therefore has a local advisory board and a local councilor . The local council consists of seven local council members who were elected by majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 . The mayor, Egon Lambrich, was elected in the local elections with a share of the vote of 85.83% and is thus the successor to Roland Dietz junior.
Attractions
Several buildings are designated as individual monuments.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Langscheid
economy
The place is dominated by agriculture, apartments are available. Other workplaces are frequented by commuters, especially in the centers of Koblenz and Mainz.
Web links
- Langscheid at oberwesel.de
- Elmar Rettinger: On the history of Langscheid . Website "regionalgeschichte.net" of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 60 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ^ Elmar Rettinger, Regionalgeschichte.net: Ortlexikon Langscheid OT. (PDF) Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ^ Elmar Rettinger, Regionalgeschichte.net: On the history of Langscheid. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ^ City of Oberwesel: History of the Langscheid district. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
- ^ Regionalgeschichte.net: St. Nikolaus. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ^ Elmar Rettinger, Regionalgeschichte.net: Ortlexikon Langscheid OT. (PDF) Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz e. V., accessed October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Historical hill climb Rheingau, Matthias Seifert-Herwy: Rheingold hill climb . Retrieved October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ 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. 191, 198 (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 Oberwesel: main statute. (PDF) § 2. City of Oberwesel, August 27, 2019, accessed on October 1, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council elections 2019 Langscheid. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
- ↑ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, Verbandsgemeinde, 27th line of results. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
