Lind (near Altenahr)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '  N , 6 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Altenahr
Height :	450 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.35 km 2
Residents:	539 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53506
Area code :	02643
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 047
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Rossberg 3 53505 Altenahr, Germany
Website :	www.lind-ahr.de
Local Mayor :	Werner Zavelberg
Location of the local community Lind in the Ahrweiler district

Lind

Lind-Obliers district

St. Marternus in Lind-Plittersdorf

St. Notburgis in Lind

Lind is a municipality in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Altenahr .

geography

The municipality Lind is located in the conservation area Rhein-Ahr-Eifel . It is divided into the four districts of Lind, Obliers , Plittersdorf and Laubachshof.

history

The oldest documentary evidence for the existence of Lind (linden tree) is the Prümer Urbar , a list of goods from the Prüm Abbey from 893. In 1222 Lind is a fiefdom of the Counts of Are-Hochstaden and in 1316 it becomes a parish in the Liber Valoris as a parish in the Ahrgaudekanat of the Archdiocese Cologne , to which it belonged until 1802. In 1692, Lind is robbed three times by Brandenburg troops during the 2nd Bonn siege.

Today's community was formed on March 30, 1971 from the dissolved communities Lind (287 inhabitants), Obliers (58 E.) and Plittersdorf (101 E.).

Population development

The first more precise information is from 1670: 30 houses = approx. 150 inhabitants, then 1684: 130 communicants = approx. 175 inhabitants and 1743: 180 communicants = approx. 240 inhabitants.

The further development of the population of Lind in relation to today's municipal area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 378 1835 428 1871 349 1905 340 1939 432 1950 458 1961 418

year Residents 1970 453 1987 483 1997 607 2005 600 2011 553 2017 550 2019 539

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Lind 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

Werner Zavelberg became the local mayor of Lind on August 13, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 54.83% of the vote.

Zavelsberg's predecessor Helmut Hengsberg had held the office for 15 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “A fallen, curly silver tip in green, inside a green linden tree with roots. In front a golden tower with black building openings. In the back an upright golden key. "
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The three fields with three different symbols refer to the three localities of the municipality of Lind. The linden tree stands for the municipality of Lind. The tower - representation of the Wensburg - for obliers. The key represents the attribute of St. Maternus for Plittersdorf.

tourism

The main hiking trail 2a of the Eifelverein , the 183 km long Karl-Kaufmann-Weg , leads through Lind . Four circular hiking trails run by the Lind e. V. with a total length of 35 km convey lasting impressions of the landscape. Once a year there is a mountain time trial with a length of approx. 4 km and an altitude difference of 255 meters from Ahrbrück to Lind, an incline that also attracts numerous cyclists from the region. The Ahr cycle path in the Ahr valley is not far away. The AhrSteig long-distance hiking trail has been running through Lind since 2012 .

Attractions

• Ruins of the Wensburg
• Catholic parish church of Notburgis with a medieval core
• St. Roch chapel in the district of Obliers from 1891
• St. Marternus chapel in the Plittersdorf district
• Laubachshof - a square courtyard with a chapel from the 19th century. (Private property) ⊙
• Numerous hiking trails in and around Lind

See also: List of cultural monuments in Lind

Web links

Commons : Lind (near Altenahr)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the local community Lind
• Ignaz Görtz: Castle and rule Wensberg. 1967 homeland yearbook.
• SWR site portrait Lind 2002
• SWR site portrait Lind 2016
• Literature about Lind in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Ordinance on the "Rhein-Ahr-Eifel" landscape protection area. (PDF) District government Koblenz, May 23, 1980, accessed on December 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 8 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ 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. 185 (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.  
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved December 17, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Constituent meeting of the local council of Lind. In: Council and Citizen Information System. Verbandsgemeinde Altenahr, August 13, 2019, accessed on August 5, 2020 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenahr, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved August 5, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Description of coat of arms / justification. Retrieved August 16, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Lind (Ahr) hiking route. Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Lind panorama trail (Ahr). Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Lind (Ahr) hiking trails. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .