Meinborn

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Neuwied
Association municipality :	Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach
Height :	315 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.39 km 2
Residents:	511 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	116 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56584
Area code :	02639
License plate :	NO
Community key :	07 1 38 042
Association administration address:	Westerwaldstrasse 32–34 56579 Rengsdorf
Website :	www.meinborn.de
Local Mayor :	Helmut Blasius
Location of the local community Meinborn in the district of Neuwied

Meinborn (dialect: Mämer) is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach .

geography

The place is on the edge of the Westerwald directly on the hill of the Neuwied Basin in the Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park south of Rengsdorf .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 821 as "villa Meineburum in pago Engrisgoe", as part of the Engersgau in a document from Emperor Ludwig the Pious. For example, the document issued by Emperor Ludwig tells of a "common man" (quidam homo) called Fulquin, who was given back his own property for free disposal, which he had once handed over to an imperial administrator in trust when he went to war against the Slavs. This typical transfer of property to secure one's own property can be proven in many places in the early Middle Ages and in this specific case was tied to the condition: "If he should return alive, he would get his property back, otherwise it should be donated for the salvation of his soul." The Lords of Isenburg, a long-established noble family, which was first mentioned in 847/868, exercised manorial rights in their function as bailiffs of the remote property of the Fulda Abbey. According to a document in the Hessian-Lahngau Kartular (without Gau indication), the remote possession resulted from the donation of a Berhtrud, which numbered the goods in the village of "Meinabara" with three hubs, one of them a man's hat, a forest, 15 servants, two yoke fields and three meadows . Bruno I (* before 1179 † before 1210) of Isenburg founded the Isenburg-Braunsberg line with the construction of a castle on the Braunsberg around 1200, which on March 5, 1243 in consultation with Count Palatine Otto near Rhine, acquired the rights to the County of Wied childless uncle Lothar von Wied (d. 1244) should inherit in equal shares with the lords of Eppstein. However, the shares of the Lords of Eppstein were sold to the Counts of Virneburg as early as 1306. The lordship over Meinborn was then exercised by the Counts of Wied-Isenburg until the middle of the 15th century. With the extinction of the second count house in the male line, the manorial rule fell to Dietrich IV von Runkel, the founder of the third count house (Wied-Runkel), who was married to a niece of Wilhelm von Wied-Isenburg. The lordship over Meinborn remained until 1806 with the counts from 1784 Prince of Wied.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 171 1835 238 1871 255 1905 254 1939 268 1950 285

year Residents 1961 277 1970 301 1987 428 1997 508 2005 495 2019 511

politics

Municipal council

The council in Meinborn consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on 26 May 2019 a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Helmut Blasius became mayor of Meinborn on June 24, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 78.13% of the vote. The predecessor of Helmut Blasius was Gerhard Lindner.

coat of arms

The draw well symbolizes the basic word "born" of the place name. The green in the background of the fountain represents the wooded and meadow-rich surroundings of the place. The two red bars in gold are taken from the coat of arms of Bruno I. von Isenburg-Braunsberg (before 1179 to before 1210). The green ear of wheat symbolizes the importance of agriculture in the community.

Cultural monuments

List of cultural monuments in Meinborn

Old chestnut

Horse chestnut in Meinborn

In the center of the village opposite the former fire station is an old horse chestnut. This used to be in the courtyard of the "Ammeräsch" property, which was demolished in 1983. The village community center was to be built on the site and the old chestnut tree was to give way. But to the astonishment of the people of Meinborn, the Neuwied district administration placed it under nature protection. The chestnut was saved and the village community center found its place on the edge of the village.

Club life

In Meinborn there is, among other things, a boys' association, a mixed choir, a fruit and horticultural association and the former fire brigade.

1200 year celebration

The local community Meinborn can look back on an anniversary in 2021. The first written mention of the place comes from the year 821, so Meinborn is one of the oldest communities in the front Westerwald. This will be celebrated with a festival year 2021. For this purpose, committed people from Meinborn have come together in different working groups.

traffic

The next motorway junction is Dierdorf on federal motorway 3 . The nearest ICE - Station is in Montabaur on the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine / Main .

Web links

• Internet presence of the local community Meinborn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ MRUB I No. 53; Goerz MRI No. 453.
3. ↑ MRUB I No. 53
4. ↑ MRUB I No. 80.
5. ↑ Goerz MR III No. 2155.
6. ↑ MRUB II No. 218
7. ↑ Hellmuth Gensicke: Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes, courts and manors in the Middle Ages, Wiesbaden 1958, p. 86.
8. ↑ cf. Hellmuth Gensicke: Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes, The territories up to the end of the Middle Ages, 65. The county of Wied; Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1958/1999, pp. 250–262.
9. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Meinborn. Retrieved March 11, 2020 . 
11. ↑ RW-Direkt: Minutes of the constituent meeting of the local community council of the local community Meinborn. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, official gazette of the Verbandsgemeinde Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, edition 28/2019, June 24, 2019, accessed on March 11, 2020 . 
12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, Verbandsgemeinde, tenth line of the result. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .