Meudt

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Wallmerod
Height :	325 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.69 km 2
Residents:	1895 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	129 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56414
Area code :	06435
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 263
LOCODE :	DE 83R
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	; Richtstrasse 1 56414 Wallmerod
Website :	www.wallmerod.de
Local Mayor :	Egid Zeis
Location of the local community Meudt in the Westerwaldkreis

Church in 1908

Meudt is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Wallmerod community and is the largest community in terms of area.

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Westerburg .

It is divided into the four districts of Dahlen, Eisen, Ehringhausen and Meudt. For the district of Dahlen also includes residential places Bodener mill and Langwiesen.

Ehringhausen is located between Meudt and Hahn am See not far from the federal highway 8 and has about 40 inhabitants. The Eisenbach rises here .

history

With the first documentary mention in 1097 as muda or muede , the place is one of the oldest settlements in the Westerwald. Due to the old name muda or muede , it can be assumed that the place is older. Muda points out an old customs office.

Meudt came from the County of Diez to Kurtrier in 1564 and to the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . In Nassau there was the Meudt office from 1809 to 1831 , later the Wallmerod office .

The Meudt synagogue was destroyed during the November pogroms in 1938 .

On January 1, 1969, the previously independent community Ehringhausen was incorporated into Meudt. Today's community was formed on June 7, 1969 from the communities Meudt, Dahlen and Eisen.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Meudt 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	CDU	WGR	total
2019	5	11	16 seats
2014	7th	9	16 seats
2009	11	5	16 seats
2004	9	7th	16 seats

mayor

Egid Zeis became local mayor of Meudt in the summer of 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 72.86% of the votes.

Egid Zeis' predecessor as mayor was Karl-Heinz Müller.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In blue, ride a golden key with a cruciform beard and a heart."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms officially awarded on January 22, 1938 is taken from the community seal as it has been used since the beginning of the Nassau period (since 1816) and is tinged with the Nassau colors. The local church patron St. Peter is marked with the key.

Culture and sights

Buildings

town hall

The town hall, built in 1596, is the oldest preserved in the Westerwald . Its roof construction with the curved dwarf house is striking . Today there is a restaurant there. Further sights are the Gangolfusbrunnen, which contains the source of the Eisenbach, and the Jewish cemetery .

The Gangolfushalle, which has been newly opened since 2006, offers modern event space for over 500 seats.

church

The current Catholic parish church (St. Peter) dates largely from 1910. The Romanesque church tower is older. As part of the new building at that time, the local parish office prepared a monument protection report in 1908. The site inspection revealed that the Romanesque church tower was to be preserved, but the nave and choir were worthless from a conservation point of view. Because of the picturesque silhouette of the late Gothic choir covered with a pointed tent roof, an attempt should be made to preserve it in the new building design.

traffic

To the west of the village is the federal highway 255 , which connects Montabaur and Herborn , and to the east, the federal highway 8 from Limburg an der Lahn to Hennef (Sieg) .
The next motorway junction is Montabaur on the A3 ( Cologne - Frankfurt am Main ), about seven kilometers away.
The Montabaur train station , which is on the high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main and the Unterwesterwaldbahn , offers connections to long-distance traffic in the direction of Cologne and Frankfurt am Main as well as the RB29 from Limburg (Lahn) via Diez Ost, Elz Süd, Montabaur and Wirges to Siershahn.
Meudt is on the Westerwaldquerbahn (Herborn – Rennerod – Westerburg – Wallmerod – Montabaur), but only goods traffic between Wallmerod and Montabaur and handcar rides between Westerburg and Rennerod take place.

Personalities

Ludwig Falkenstein (1910–1990), since 1975 honorary citizen of Meudt

Web links

Commons : Meudt - Collection of Images

The local community Meudt on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Wallmerod

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 80 (PDF; 3 MB).
↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 171 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Election of the honorary local and city mayors. Westerwaldkreis from 2014. Accessed July 5, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Wallmerod, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
↑ Susanne Willke: Carnival in Meudt is in crisis. Local Mayor Karl-Heinz Müller on the situation. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2014, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
↑ Annals of the Nassau Antiquities Association, year 1908, annex, page 13.
↑ Joachim Jösch, Uli Jungbluth a . a. (Ed.): Jews in the Westerwald. Life, suffering and remembrance. A guide to the search for clues. Montabaur 1998, pp. 138-146 (with photo).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 80 (PDF; 3 MB).

[3] Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 171 (PDF; 2.8 MB).

[4] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.

[5] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Election of the honorary local and city mayors. Westerwaldkreis from 2014. Accessed July 5, 2020 .

[6] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Wallmerod, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .

[7] Susanne Willke: Carnival in Meudt is in crisis. Local Mayor Karl-Heinz Müller on the situation. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2014, accessed on July 5, 2020 .

[8] Annals of the Nassau Antiquities Association, year 1908, annex, page 13.

[9] Joachim Jösch, Uli Jungbluth a . a. (Ed.): Jews in the Westerwald. Life, suffering and remembrance. A guide to the search for clues. Montabaur 1998, pp. 138-146 (with photo).