Miesenheim

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Miesenheim
City of Andernach
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Miesenheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 4 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 37 ″  E
Height : 95 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 3276  (Jun 30, 2010)
Incorporation : November 7, 1970
Postal code : 56626
Area code : 02632
Miesenheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Miesenheim

Location of Miesenheim in Rhineland-Palatinate

Miesenheim ( dialect : Missem ) is the southernmost district of Andernach , a large city in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in northern Rhineland-Palatinate .

Location and language

Miesenheim located about four kilometers south of the main town Andernach in Pellenz limited in the south-east of the two arms of Nice , a 45-kilometer-long river, which in Hohenleimbach on the Hohe Acht in the Eifel springs and white tower in the Rhine flows .

The name Miesenheim with the characteristic ending indicates the place as a Franconian settlement. Accordingly, the dialect form of the language of the place is the Moselle Franconian , which is also reflected in Missem , the name on local Platt. Presumably the part of the name "Mies" was derived as a synonym from the Middle High German " Moos , Sumpf", probably related to the swamp landscapes originally formed in the lower Nettetal.

history

Miesenheim is known for its large number of archaeological sites that go back to 500,000 years ago ( Old Palaeolithic ). This is unique on the Rhine and one of the few sites from this time in the world.

The remains of a Roman villa and Roman water pipes are evidence of high civilization development two thousand years ago.

The place was mentioned in a document around the year 1000.

In 1167 Andernach came to Kurköln as a gift from Emperor Friedrich I (Barbarossa) to his Imperial Chancellor and Archbishop of Cologne , Reinald von Dassel . Since then, Miesenheim has been a fortified place with a rampart and moat.

In the 15th century the noble family of Hausmann von Andernach held the bailiwick right in Miesenheim, which was followed by von Klepping and von Solemacher after the family died out in 1664 .

A number of water mills settled on the Nette , which in addition to agriculture - at its peak over 60 businesses - nourished the village and its residents. Originally only grain mills, oil (Rauscher Mühle), hammer and paper mills were added in the following centuries. The Abbey of St. Thomas, after Thomas Becket named and then located outside the city walls Andernach, also owned a flour mill in Miesenheim, to large estates, as well as the provost Himmeroder Hof in Andernach.

In 1727, the Abbey of St. Thomas received permission from its abbess von der Hees to convert the grain mill on the Nette into a hammer mill for iron processing with a heavy double iron hammer system, which significantly increased the prosperity of the place. Until the secularization of the Rhineland by Napoléon in 1803, the estate was owned by the St. Thomas Monastery. Since 1742 Wilhelm Remy operated as a tenant and since 1797 Carl Wilhelm Remy and his descendants as owners of the hammer mill, which was called "Gut Nettehammer", for 100 years. In 1777 a devastating fire destroyed the entire village, which mainly consisted of wooden houses, except for the church with rectory and two other houses.

On February 17, 1800, on the orders of Emperor Napoléon, the Mairie Andernach was created in the Département de Rhin-et-Moselle , to which, in addition to Andernach, the communities Brohl, Eich , Namedy , Nickenich and Miesenheim belonged. Old family documents written in French testify to this brief episode in the history of the community.

In 1808 Carl W. Remy enlarged the facility and employed over 100 mill workers, woodworkers and charcoal burners. In the meantime, four water-powered hammer mills produced 175 tons of bar iron per year.

In 1846 Peter Backhausen took over the Nettehammer estate and expanded it again considerably by acquiring the Miesenheim wire pen company Quirin and Dreher and adding it to the estate.

Gut Nettehammer, aerial photo (2016)

After 1860, seventeen hammers were working and 120 employees produced metal dishes, pots, pens, etc. until 1923.

The town's early industrial development did not create any strong incentives for emigration in the 19th century. Only a few cases of emigration to the areas around Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and St. Louis (Missouri) preferred by Germans in the USA are recorded. The Nederland , as the Ruhr region around Essen was called at the time, was more attractive to the inhabitants , especially in the technically attractive railway system and in the flourishing trade.

During the Second World War , the place was spared major destruction, although it was in the dispersion area of ​​the bombings of the strategically important Eifelquerbahn leading to the western front and the Neuwied Rhine bridge. After the Allies had reached the Rhine in the spring of 1945, they set up the Miesenheim POW camp on the northern outskirts between the Eifelquerbahn, Mayener Chaussée and Nette . Many of the nearly one hundred thousand prisoners of war in the camp perished in the open field without protection against the cold and wet weather and without adequate nutrition and medical care.

Up until the Second World War, paper mills were the town's primary employers; after the war, as in many other places in the region, pumice stone production flourished, made possible by the recent volcanic eruptions in the southeastern Eifel. Up to over 800 small to large farms were counted in the Neuwied basin . In addition to medium-sized companies in the building materials industry, the grain and agricultural industry, mechanical engineering and printing, the neighboring tinplate manufacturer Rasselstein, which belongs to ThyssenKrupp, forms the solid basis for employing the residents.

Until 1970, Miesenheim was an independent municipality that belonged to the Andernach-Land Association, today Pellenz Association . On November 7, 1970, Miesenheim became a district of Andernach . Miesenheim has ten neighborhoods and more than twenty clubs.

coat of arms

The former municipality of Miesenheim had its own coat of arms , which is still used today as an emblem by the citizens of the district.

Miesenheim coat of arms
Blazon : “Under a silver shield head, in it a continuous black bar cross, split in gold and blue, in front the enthroned, nimbled and gold crowned Queen of Heaven in a blue cloak over a red dress,holdingthe golden scepter in her right hand, with the left nimbled the silver clad baby Jesus collectively, which is based on an oval shield in red a silver bar with about two beams as provided silver Mühleisen , right arm the blue-tinged, standing around the neck of the Virgin legend and in his left hand, set in gold orb supporting, behind two to one Silver rings piercing each other on stakes. "
Justification of the coat of arms: In the shield head, the coat of arms of the High Archbishopric of Cologne ( Kurköln ) points to the membership of the civil parish of Miesenheim as part of the old imperial estate with the city of Andernach, which was awarded by Emperor Friedrich I. Rotbart in 1167 to his Chancellor and Archbishop of Cologne , Reinald from Dassel . The front split part of the coat of arms shows the seal of the St. Thomas monastery, which owned a water mill and former Springiersbach property in Miesenheim (confirmed by the Archbishop of Trier Albero von Montreuil in 1138). This monastery seal always showed in gold the crowned Mary with the baby Jesus over the family coat of arms of the incumbent headmistress or abbess, here the Baroness von der Hees from the 18th century , who, through the installation of the Nettehammer in 1727 from a flour mill, the economic and thus financial situation of The village and its inhabitants improved considerably. The rear part of the Miesenheim coat of arms represents the seal (silver rings in blue) of the provost's office at Andernach of the Himmerod Abbey (founded in 1134), which, in addition to St. Thomas, also owned large estates under Miesenheim's ban .

politics

Local advisory board

Miesenheim is designated as a local district and, according to the main statute, has a local advisory board and a local mayor .

The local council consists of twelve local council members. In the local elections on May 26, 2019 , the advisory board members were elected in a personalized proportional representation. The distribution of seats in the elected local council:

choice SPD CDU FWG total
2019 4th 6th 2 12 seats
2014 4th 7th 1 12 seats
2009 4th 7th 1 12 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Andernach e. V.

Mayor and mayor

  • from 1894 Johann Müller
  • from 1908 Johann Assenmacher
  • from 1918 Josef Thelen
  • from 1928 Mathias Bauer
  • from 1932 Alexander Schäfer
  • from 1940 Johann Hoffmann
  • 1945/46 Heinrich Schneider (acting)
  • 1947/48 Franz Ring (acting)
  • from 1948 Josef Saftig
  • from 1960 Heinrich Frank
  • from 1964 Franz Röhrig
  • 1968 Josef Fuhrmann (acting)
  • 1969–1999 Gerhard Josef Simon
  • 1999–2009 Herbert Becker
  • 2009 – today Gerhard Masberg

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Gerhard Masberg (CDU) was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of 55.25% of the vote.

Attractions

Church tower from the 12th century

The so-called Old Church from the 12th century (first mentioned in 1248), whose bell tower has outlasted the times, the parish church of St. Castor von Karden , with a traditional parish festival, and the outside Gut Nettehammer from the 17th century should be mentioned, in addition to the St. Antonius Chapel in the Blauwiesen, the Way of the Cross on the road to Kettig with the Trinity Chapel at the beginning and the recently renovated Hochkreuz Chapel from 1848 at the end of the path ( Weißenthurmer Straße). The gravestones of fellow citizens in the Jewish cemetery south of the Nette on the road to Saffig are deeply moving . A memorial stone at the location of the prisoner of war camp commemorates the suffering and death caused by war. The center of Miesenheim impresses with its beautifully restored half-timbered houses. Houses made of black lava-Krotzenstein and light-colored tuff stone in this type only in the volcanic area of ​​the Eifel are of high architectural value.

partnership

There is a partnership with the municipality of Nivelle ( Hauts-de-France ), France .

traffic

Rail transport

Miesenheim stop, 2018

The Miesenheim stop is on the Eifelquerbahn and is served by the regional train lines RB 23 and RB 38, the Lahn-Eifel-Bahn . The two side platforms on the double-track line are each in the direction of travel behind the level crossing on Andernacher Straße.

Road traffic

To the west, parallel to the railway line, the federal highway 256 was laid out as a bypass road, it connects Miesenheim with the Andernach city center or Weißenthurm in the north and with Plaidt or the federal highway 61 in the south.

Personalities

literature

Family book Miesenheim (and Nettehammer), 16th - 20th century, Karl Heinz Scheuren - Klaus Marzi - Peter Thewalt, Cardamina Verlag Susanne Breuel, Plaidt 2010.

Web links

Commons : Miesenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 157 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  2. Historical information on the Miesenheim district , accessed on January 26, 2014.
  3. ^ City of Andernach: Main Statute. (PDF) § 3. City of Andernach, July 10, 2014, accessed on September 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Miesenheim. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Local council election 2014 Miesenheim. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Andernach, community-free municipality, third line of results. Retrieved January 19, 2020 .