Limberg (Asbach)

Limberg Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	265 m above sea level NN
Residents :	14  (Dec 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Limberg in Rhineland-Palatinate

Limberg is a district of the local community Asbach in the district of Neuwied in northern Rhineland-Palatinate .

geography

The hamlet is located in the Niederwesterwald northwest of the main town Asbach on a hill east of the Pfaffenbach and below 292  m above sea level. NN high Limberg head . To the west and north of the place runs the border to the local community Buchholz (Westerwald) . The place is connected to Buchholz and the Asbach district of Bennau via Kreisstraße 48 .

history

Limberg is located in the historical area of ​​the "Elsaff", which was already mentioned in 893 in the Prümer Urbar under the name "de Elsaffe".

In the middle of the 13th century, the region of today's Asbacher Land came into the rulership of the Electorate of Cologne . The place was part of the " Honnschaft Elsaff", which belonged to the parish of Asbach and was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne office of Altenwied . In an inventory ordered by Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660, Limberg had two farms.

After the Rhineland became part of Prussia in 1815 , Limberg belonged to the municipality of Elsaff in the then newly formed district of Neuwied and was administered by the Mayor's Office Asbach . According to a census from 1885, Limberg had seven residents who lived in three houses.

Until March 16, 1974 Limberg belonged to the then independent municipality of Elsaff, which was dissolved on the same date and whose villages were assigned to the newly formed local communities Asbach and Buchholz according to the former parish affiliation . Here Limberg came to Asbach and has been part of the Elsaff-Asbach district since then . In 1987 Limberg had eleven residents.

Limberg head

East of the village is the 292  m above sea level. NN high Limberger Kopf , on which basalt was mined from the end of the 19th century to the end of the 1950s . The Bröltalbahn has been running below the town of Limberg since 1892 , the route is now used as a hiking trail, the ramp walls of the former Limberg loading point have been preserved. A lake has formed in the abandoned quarry, the Limberger Kopf and the lake are now designated as protected landscape components.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 88
2. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau , Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 420.
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 40
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
5. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
6. ↑ Information from the local community of Asbach ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.12 MB)