Müschenbach

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Müschenbach
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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Hachenburg
Height : 336 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.5 km 2
Residents: 990 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 283 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57629
Area code : 02662
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 269
LOCODE : DE M88
Association administration address: Gartenstrasse 11
57627 Hachenburg
Website : www.mueschenbach.de
Local Mayor : Birgitta Käckermann
Location of the local community Müschenbach in the Westerwaldkreis
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Müschenbach is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hachenburg community .

Geographical location

Müschenbach lies at an altitude of 336  m above sea level. NHN three kilometers from Hachenburg at the "entrance" of Kroppacher Switzerland . Hiking trails lead to the nearby valley of the Nister and to the Abbey of Marienstatt . Astert is to the north of the village , Nister and Hachenburg to the east and south-east, Hattert to the south and Marzhausen to the west .

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history

The first documented mention of Muskinbach goes back to 1348. However, the place is much older than Bach place. In 1359 the place appears as Mußenbach and in 1362 as Muchenbach . The name is derived from the Latin muscus (moss) and the old high German musse and means something like place on the Moosbach . The place was originally 700 m west of the old town center "In der Altenmüschenbach" ( desert ).

Müschenbach belonged to the old town parish and until the end of the 18th century it belonged to 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, Müschenbach belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg .

In 1799 the county came to the princes of Nassau-Weilburg by inheritance . In connection with the formation of the Rhine Confederation , the region and with it Müschenbach came to the newly established Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, Müschenbach 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 belonged to the province of Hessen-Nassau and the Oberwesterwaldkreis . Müschenbach has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 171
1835 219
1871 259
1905 341
1939 629
1950 682
year Residents
1961 760
1970 927
1987 983
2005 1,030
2011 999
2017 969

Cultural history / sights

Abteiliches Hofgut Müschenbach

One of the historical buildings of the place is the former Abteiliche Hofgut Müschenbach (today Haus Pritzer, Dorfstraße 14), which belonged to the Marienstatt Abbey and was first mentioned in 1359. The farm was constantly leased. The house, which was rebuilt in 1790, also included a barn, a stable and a bakery. After the abolition of the monastery , the farm was sold in 1803. Jakob Pritzer bought it in 1816 for 700 guilders.

Former Luisenlust hunting lodge

One kilometer west of the village on the B 414 was a built in the years 1747-1750 hunting lodge Luis pleasure of residing in Hachenburg viscount of Kirchberg , named after the wife of Viscount William Louis of Kirchberg, the game and the Rhine Countess Louise (1721-1791) . Nothing is left of the building. The lock was a miniature version of other famous hunting locks. It consisted of a main house and two pavilions and was surrounded by a large, landscaped garden, in which there was a pheasantry from 1754 to 1765 . In 1795 the maintenance of the outdoor area was stopped. From then on, the castle served primarily as a dwelling for forest workers. The main building was destroyed in 1796 by a fire that had developed from a not extinguished watch fire by French troops. In 1800 the pavilions were still standing, but they were already dilapidated and had been damaged by the theft of building materials by local residents.

Stone cross at the "Imperial Cemetery"

Imperial cemetery

500 m northwest of Marienstatt is the stone cross at the "Imperial Cemetery" . More than 600 Austrian soldiers are buried in this military cemetery. They were wounded during the coalition wars against the French revolutionary troops in 1793–1797 and died in the Marienstatt monastery hospital . In 1856 Archduke Stephan of Austria had a monument erected there for the fallen. It was renovated in 1901 and is now a cultural monument .

Castle ruins "Froneck-Nister" / "Felsenstübchen"

The so-called “Felsenstübchen”, the “Froneck-Nister” castle ruins, is located on the castle hill opposite Marienstatt . These are the remains of the Froneck ( Vroneck ) castle building, which the Counts von Sayn began in the 14th century . However, by order of the Archbishop of Cologne , the castle was demolished around 1343. The former castle dungeon is known under the name "Felsenstübchen". Before the Marienstatt Monastery was founded, Nister Castle was located here . It served as a road safety device for the trade route Cologne-Leipzig , which crossed the Nister here at Marienstatt before the Hachenburg was built and led through the Nauberg via Norken to Herborn .

Old iron road

In the Middle Ages, the "Alte Eisenweg" led from the Siegerland from Luckenbach along the Streithausen / Nister district boundary to the great ford at the Nistermühle , then up to the later Marienstatt stop of the railway, then on to the old town . He then continued south via Limburg an der Lahn to Frankfurt and Mainz . As a ravine he can be seen still good between the Nistermühle and B 414th

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Müschenbach consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019Template: future / in 3 years in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Up to 2014 the municipal council had 16 council members, in 2014 a majority election took place.

mayor

Birgitta Käckermann became the local mayor of Müschenbach in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with 68.59% of the vote.

Käckermann's predecessor Bernd Kolodziej did not run again in 2019.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Müschenbach
 Blazon : “A curved golden tip with three diamonds on top of each other; on the right, in blue, a silver rose with stalk and leaves,coveredwithgold, on the left, in red, a double-tailed, blue-armored and tongued golden lion . "

Events

The annual fair , the fountain festival and the carnival with parade are the event highlights of the community , in addition to the Meilerfest, which takes place every four years with a real charcoal pile and the associated charcoal burner .

Economy and Infrastructure

Municipal institutions

There is a primary school and a kindergarten in the community. There is also a community center with a community library as well as an educational forest trail and a network of hiking trails in the community.

traffic

  • Müschenbach is connected to the regional transport network via the B 414 . The autobahn connections of the A 3 Ransbach-Baumbach and Dierdorf can be reached via the B 8 / B 413 .
  • The town of Müschenbach is not far from the Hattert train station on the Oberwesterwaldbahn (Limburg (Lahn) -Westerburg-Hachenburg-Nistertal / Bad Marienberg-Altenkirchen-Au (Sieg) -Wissen (Sieg) -Siegen-Kreuztal) line, which is called the RB 90 ( Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn ) is operated by the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB).
  • The Au (Sieg) train station is about 17 km from Müschenbach. There is a connection to Cologne and Siegen via the Rhein-Sieg-Express RSX, which runs from Aachen via Düren, Cologne, Troisdorf, Siegburg / Bonn, Au and Betzdorf (Sieg) to Siegen, as well as to the S-Bahn line 12, which commutes from Düren via Cologne to Au.

literature

Web links

Commons : Müschenbach  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Walter Kwasnik and Dieter Trautmann: Westerwald Landscape Museum , Hachenburg: Westerwälder Articles 1 - Natural and cultural-historical monuments in the Westerwald: Kroppacher Switzerland and Hachenburg . Hachenburg 1981, p. 75 ff.
  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: My village, my city. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b For the general conditions see Daniel Schneider: The battle of Altenkirchen 1796 in its historical context, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 55 (2012), pp. 183–194.
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, 25th line of results. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  8. ^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Primary elections in the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg. Westerwälder Zeitung, April 30, 2019, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Friedel Dapprich: The Müschenbacher charcoal kiln festivals in retrospect . Müschenbach February 2013 ( edoweb-rlp.de [PDF; 996 kB ; accessed on July 16, 2018]).