Meier soaps

Meier soaps Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 5 ″  E
Height :	250 m above sea level NN
Residents :	8  (Dec 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Meierseifen in Rhineland-Palatinate

Meierseifen is a district of the local community Asbach in the district of Neuwied in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is predominantly agricultural.

geography

The hamlet is located in the Niederwesterwald west of the main town Asbach on a hill above and west of the Pfaffenbach . To the north of the village is the Asbach district of Germscheid . Meierseifen is connected to Germscheid and Köttingen via the district roads 148 and 42 .

history

“ Soaps ” in the place name indicates a Franconian settlement and describes a place where water pours out of the ground everywhere. The part of the name "Meier" suggests that a Meier had his seat here in the 13th century as a subordinate of the Saynischen Vogts von Germscheid .

From the 14th century to 1803, Meierseifen belonged to 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, Meierseifen had two courtyards. In 1787 there were four courtyards here.

After the Rhineland became part of Prussia in 1815 , Meierseifen belonged to the municipality of Elsaff in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was administered by the Mayor's office of Asbach . According to a census from 1885, Meierseifen had 16 inhabitants who lived in 3 houses.

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

Web links

• Short portrait and film report on Hierzuland , SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Vogt: The place names in Engersgau , Neuwied: Strüder, 1890, page 32.
2. ^ ^{A b} Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 86.
3. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 420.
4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 40.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB).