Mammelzen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.12 km 2
Residents:	1074 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	261 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57636
Area code :	02681
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 067
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 13 57610 Altenkirchen
Website :	www.vg-altenkirchen.de
Local Mayor :	Dieter Rütscher
Location of the local community Mammelzen in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

Mammelzen is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld .

geography

The street village of Mammelzen is located at an altitude of 236 m, about three kilometers northeast of Altenkirchen . In addition to the eponymous place, the higher-lying districts of Hüttenhofen and Reuffelbach belong to the local community . Parts of the southern district of Ziegelhütte are already in the area of ​​the city of Altenkirchen. Other neighboring towns are Eichelhardt in the north-west, Sörth in the west and Niedererbach in the north-west of Mammelzen.

Aerial photograph of Reuffelbach (2015)

history

Mammelzen was first mentioned before 1430 in the miracle book of the church in Hilgenroth as Mammelshausen , Hüttenhofen is mentioned in the same source in 1427 . Reuffelbach is mentioned in 1528 on the occasion of the tithing for the Count of Sayn . The name endings -hausen and -hofen suggest a settlement period around the 12th century, while settlements with the ending -bach did not appear until the 14th century.

Mammelzen and its districts 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 . In 1603 Peter Müller zu Mammelzen was tenant of the Marzau mill in the parish of Höchstenbach together with Wilhelm zu Borod . After the division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Eichelhardt was part of the County of Sayn-Altenkirchen .

By order of the Prussian state , the three places were united in 1938.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 178 1835 279 1871 395 1905 427 1939 447 1950 566

year Residents 1961 625 1970 669 1987 749 1997 934 2005 1,080 2017 1,062

politics

Municipal council

The council in Mammelzen consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. In the local elections in 2009, a personalized proportional representation took place in which two groups of voters were represented.

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Dieter Rütscher was confirmed in his office for a further five years with 84.50% of the votes.

economy

The place, which was originally dominated by agriculture, has developed in the last few decades into a residential and commercial area with the usual occupancy of commercial and commercial enterprises. Until 2007, four farms had survived.

Culture

List of cultural monuments in Mammelzen

literature

• Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2016), pp. 219–237.
• Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
• Daniel Schneider: The history of the local community Obererbach (Westerwald). The localities Hacksen, Niedererbach, Obererbach and Koberstein from the Middle Ages to the present , 2 volumes, Obererbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027494-7 (with numerous references to Mammelzen).

Web links

Commons : Mammelzen  - Collection of Images

• Local community Mammelzen on the website of the Association of Altenkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 8 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
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. ^ Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2016), pp. 221–222.
5. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data .
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Mammelzen. Retrieved December 26, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, 36th line of results. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .