Melsbach
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Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ N , 7 ° 29 ′ E |
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| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| County : | Neuwied | |
| Association municipality : | Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach | |
| Height : | 170 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 2.8 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 2035 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 727 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 56581 | |
| Area code : | 02634 | |
| License plate : | NO | |
| Community key : | 07 1 38 043 | |
| LOCODE : | DE MS8 | |
| Association administration address: | Westerwaldstrasse 32–34 56579 Rengsdorf |
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| Local Mayor : | Holger Klein | |
| Location of the local community Melsbach in the Neuwied district | ||
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Melsbach is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . The community has been part of the newly formed Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach association since January 1, 2018 .
Geographical location
The place is on the edge of the Westerwald directly on a hill at the Neuwied basin in the Rhein-Westerwald nature park southwest of Rengsdorf near the Wied .
history
In 1956, a bronze bucket ( Situla ) was found on the site of what was then the clay mine of " Didier-Werke AG " , which was assigned to the Hallstatt period (600 to 300 BC) and which is now in the Neuwied District Museum. This suggests that the area around today's Melsbach was already inhabited in the Bronze Age . The first written mention of Melsbach dates back to 1267: Count Gottfried von Eppstein , the younger, sold his ancestral farm.
In 1278 Melsbach belonged to the parish of Rengsdorf. In 1357 Melsbach became a customs post. The Kreuzkirche was first mentioned as a place of pilgrimage in 1399. In 1747 Melsbach came to the parish Altwied . Around 1750, blue roofing slate was extracted in nine pits on the Laubach .
When the entrepreneur Heinrich Wilhelm Remy needed coal for his iron and steel works and the “ Rasselstein ” rolling mill in the Wiedtal near Neuwied , around 1780 he had drillings carried out in what is now the Melsbach district of Kreuzkirch, where coal deposits were suspected. However, only unusable brown coal was found between clay deposits . However, in 1786 the princely Wiedische forest and mountain ridge Engelhardt recognized the raw material of alum in the clay deposits , which led to the construction of the oldest alum plant in the Rhineland in the Kreuzkirch district . It was shut down in 1880 and demolished in 1882. The Melsbach sports field is now located on its former spoil dump .
In 1863 the first Melsbacher fair with the wine Melsbacher Goldberg took place. In 1865 the Melsbach Boys' Association was founded. In January 1896 the first school building was built in Melsbach and an elementary school was set up. In 1907 the Melsbach volunteer fire brigade was established. Twelve years later the sports club SV Melsbach 1919 eV was born. Active gymnasts and footballers had come together.
As a result of the armament of the Wehrmacht in the Third Reich , steel production flourished again from 1935 . The associated growing demand for clay for lining the blast furnaces made the clay deposits in Melsbach for the companies “ Dr. C. Otto & Comp. "( Bendorf ) and" Didier-Werke AG "( Wiesbaden ) are interesting. The latter had a mining shaft built to a depth of approx. 86 m in 1938/39 . After mining was interrupted in the Second World War, clay mining was resumed in 1948 and continued until the plant was closed in 1983. The clay mine of the “Dr. C. Otto & Comp. ”Was operated until 1990.
In 1971 the elementary school Melsbach was to be dissolved as a result of the state-wide school reforms. After repeated protests by several local councils, however, it was decided to set up a community primary school in the school building. It still exists today.
From 11 to 14 August 2017, the place celebrated its 750th anniversary.
As part of the special tradition of the 100th anniversary of SV Melsbach 1919 eV, a game between the SV Melsbach all-star team and a selection of Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach , including ex-team captain Hans-Jörg Criens , was played on June 15, 2019 . The game against the Weisweiler -Elf, the traditional team of Borussia Mönchengladbach, was lost with 1: 4.
"Football plays a major role in the village, it brings people of all generations together."
Statistics on population development
The development of the population of Melsbach, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Melsbach consists of 16 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 distribution of seats in the municipal council:
| choice | SPD | CDU | FWG | total |
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| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 seats |
| 2014 | 5 | 4th | 7th | 16 seats |
| 2009 | 7th | 4th | 5 | 16 seats |
| 2004 | 8th | 4th | 4th | 16 seats |
- FWG = Free Voting Group Melsbacher Bürger e. V.
mayor
Holger Klein became the local mayor of Melsbach on June 30, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 93.60%. Holger Klein's predecessor was Joachim Herzog, who held the office for 15 years.
Territorial reforms
Until 1970, Melsbach belonged to the Niederbieber-Segendorf community, which was dissolved as part of the regional reform in Rhineland-Palatinate that took effect on November 8, 1970. On the same date, Melsbach was assigned to the Rengsdorf Association.
Since January 1, 2018, Melsbach has belonged to the newly founded community of Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach . The plans to merge the two municipalities began in October 2017 and were completed and approved on December 29, 2017. Since January 1, 2018, a new coat of arms has also been in effect for the new municipality. Melsbach's village coat of arms remains unchanged.
coat of arms
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Blazon : "Under a green tortoiseshell , in it a left slanting silver wave bar, in silver on a green three-mountain a green oak." |
| The reason for the coat of arms: The wave bar symbolizes the basic word “-bach” of the place name, the Dreiberg the altitude of the place between Wied- and Wallbachtal, the oak its wooded area. The coat of arms has been legally valid since August 31, 1966 based on a design by A. Brust, Kirn. |
Culture and sights
Cultural monuments
Kreuzkirche
The Kreuzkirche was possibly built around the year 1399, at least it is mentioned for the first time in documents from this time. But it may be significantly older. The name of the actual client and builder is unknown. When it was first mentioned, the Kreuzkirche was part of the St. Thomas Abbey in Andernach . Until around 1558 it was an important and much-visited place of pilgrimage. Then it was given up and fell into disrepair. Documents from 1625 already refer to them as “ruins” and “former” pilgrimage sites. The ruins were added to a small homestead, which until 1880 contained the entrances to the alum factories. Today the Kreuzkirche is under special monument protection.
limes
Only a few meters from the Kreuzkirche, scanty remains of the Limes can still be found today . The remains of the Limes wall were relatively easy to see until around 1962, and several boundary stones were still in situ . Today only boundary stone No. 45 remains.
Headframe
Not far from the Kreuzkirch ruins is the iron winding tower of the disused clay mine of Dr. C. Otto & Comp. , it was built around 1938/1939. Although it is still possible to visit the winding tower today, it cannot be climbed due to the risk of collapse.
Natural monuments
- Waterfall of Laubachs (see also: List of waterfalls in Germany )
Regular events
On the second weekend in August, the fair in Melsbach has traditionally been celebrated for more than 140 years, with the exception of the time of the world wars. The fair is traditionally organized by the Burschenverein 1865 Melsbach. There are currently 25 boys and 17 May girls in Melsbach with a pair of May kings and a “debt”.
Since 2006 the fair has been organized in cooperation with a specially founded association. The Kirmes- und Kulturgesellschaft Melsbach eV has set itself the task of enriching cultural life in the village through other events in addition to the funfair. In 2011 the fair society dissolved again. So since 2011 the boys' club has been on its own again.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The federal highway 256 runs east of the municipality and leads from Neuwied to Altenkirchen (Westerwald) . The next motorway junction is Neuwied on federal motorway 3 .
The closest train station is Neuwied train station , the next ICE train stations are Koblenz main train station and Montabaur train station on the Cologne-Rhine / Main high-speed line .
Public facilities
Melsbach has had its own elementary school (former elementary school) since 1971, the school building has existed since 1896. Since 1907 there has been a volunteer fire brigade in the village.
literature
- Albert Hardt: Melsbach and its history . In: In the Wiedisches Land . Rengsdorf 1989, p. 377 ff . (History of the places in the Verbandsgemeinde Rengsdorf).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b Information on the merger of the municipalities of Rengsdorf and Waldbreitbach on rengsdorf-waldbreitbach.de ; last accessed on January 2, 2018.
- ↑ Information board in front of the former clay mine of "Didier-Werke AG" in Melsbach
- ^ History of SV Melsbach
- ↑ SV Melsbach celebrates its anniversary
- ↑ SV Melsbach celebrates its 100th birthday
- ↑ Lars Tenorth: SV Melsbach is celebrating its anniversary: the Weisweiler-Elf is a guest on Saturday . In: Rhein-Zeitung . June 13, 2019.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Local community Melsbach: 1st meeting of the local community council of the local community Melsbach (public). June 30, 2014, accessed March 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Friedrich von Alberti: Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian: which the most important and pleasant geographical, historical and political peculiarities of the entire Rhine, from its outflow into the sea to its origin, represents, Volume 3 . Hergt Verlag, Koblenz 1856, page 655.
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius: Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province: Fifth volume: The two maps of the church organization, 1450 and 1610; second half: the Trier and Mainz church provinces; the development of church associations since the Reformation . Bendt, Bonn / Trier 2015 (reprint from 1913), pp. 231 & 566.
- ^ Wilhelm Schleiermacher: The Roman Limes in Germany: an archaeological guide for road trips and hikes . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1967, pp. 72 & 235.
- ↑ Ralf Schaumann: Technology and technical progress in the industrialization process: presented. using the example of d. Paper, sugar and chem. Industry d. northern Rhineland (= Rheinisches Archiv, vol. 101 ). Röhrscheidt Verlag, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3792803909 , pp. 233 & 403.
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