Mörlen

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Coat of arms of the local community Mörlen
Mörlen
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 53'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height : 416 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.07 km 2
Residents: 527 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 172 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57583
Area code : 02661
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 264
Association administration address: Kirburger Strasse 4
56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website : www.moerlen-westerwald.de
Local Mayor : Thomas Ax
Location of the local community Mörlen in the Westerwaldkreis
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Mörlen (dialect: Mörle, Mierlen ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen. The place is located in a hollow on a southern slope to the stream of the Kleine Nister and is one of the most wooded communities in the Westerwaldkreis.

The Mühlengrund residential area also belongs to Mörlen .

history

The place is one of the oldest settlements in the Upper Westerwald . While the brook name Nigra Morlaha was first mentioned in 914/1048, the first documentary evidence can be found on November 13, 1262 in a document from the Abbey of Marienstatt .

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 136
1835 202
1871 249
1905 311
1939 343
1950 380
1961 394
year Residents
1970 441
1987 510
1997 576
2005 597
2011 564
2017 536
2019 527

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Mörlen consists of twelve council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The twelve seats in the municipal council are divided between two groups of voters .

mayor

Thomas Ax became mayor of Mörlen in 2004. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of 77.78% of the votes.

Culture and sights

Buildings

The jewel of the place is the Catholic parish church of the Conception of Mary . It was built in 1866, expanded in 1882 and 1949 and fundamentally renovated in 2003.

Regular events

The traditional fair takes place every year on the first weekend in July .

traffic

Web links

Commons : Mörlen  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Hermann Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as local nonsense. ( Memento of January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 2010, p. 3 (PDF; 132 kB).
  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. 72 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ At that time the brook was the border of the mother parish Haiger , Kirburg its westernmost parish.
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
  7. ^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Election of the local mayor in the Bad Marienberg community on May 26th. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2019, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .