Montabaur

Montabaur
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: [1]

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Montabaur
Height :	230 m above sea level NHN
Area :	33.76 km 2
Residents:	13,998 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	415 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56410
Area code :	02602
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 048
LOCODE :	DE MON
City structure:	7 districts
Association administration address:	Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 8; 56410 Montabaur
Website :	www.montabaur.de
City Mayor :	Gabriele Wieland ( CDU )
Location of the city of Montabaur in the Westerwaldkreis

Aerial photograph of Montabaur (2016)

Montabaur [ ˈmɔntaˌbaʊ̯ɐ ] is the district town of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is also the administrative seat of the Montabaur Association , to which a further 24 local communities belong. According to state planning , Montabaur is designated as a medium-sized center. The Montabaur Castle , the Fashion Outlet Center and the Montabaur train station with ICE connection on the high-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main are known nationwide .

geography

Montabaur is located in the southern Westerwald .

Districts

In addition to the old and inner city, the city has seven districts, which are also local districts.

District	associated living spaces	Residents	Area in ha
Bladernheim		151	102.23
Elgendorf		1,271	259.92
Eschelbach	Bahlsmühle, Hillhof, Hüttenmühle	627	300.28
Ettersdorf	Hedge mill	186	109.95
Horresses	Pit field	1,759	282.18
Reckenthal	Kurhotel Waldesruhe	114	151.34
Wirzenborn	Pit house, Wirzenborn mill	62	142.87

Residents with main residence as of August 1, 2018

Neighboring communities

Clockwise, starting from the north: Dernbach , Staudt , Heiligenroth , Großholbach , Girod , Steinefrenz , Heilberscheid , Nomborn , Daubach , Stahlhofen , Untershausen , Holler , Niederelbert , Arzbach , Kadenbach , Neuhäusel and Hillscheid

climate

The annual average temperature is 9.1 ° C. The warmest month is July with a temperature of 17.5 ° C, the coldest is January with 0.4 ° C. The annual precipitation is 703 mm. The driest month is April, with most rainfall in June and July. In June and July there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in April.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Montabaur

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2.8	4.4	8.5	13.4	17.8	21.1	22.1	21.7	19.1	13.4	7.3	4.1	O	13
Min. Temperature (° C)	−2	−1.5	0.6	3.9	7.5	10.9	12.4	12.2	9.6	5.8	2.1	−0.5	O	5.1
Temperature (° C)	0.4	1.4	4.5	8.6	12.7	16	17.5	16.9	14.3	9.6	4.7	1.8	O	9.1

Precipitation ( mm )	58	46	52	45	61	69	69	67	57	54	59	66	Σ	703

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	1.3	2.3	3.4	4.8	6.0	6.0	6.4	5.9	4.6	3.3	1.6	1.2	O	3.9

Source: [2]

Cityscape

Montabaur's old town is characterized by the neo-Gothic Red Lion Town Hall , numerous half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries and the large late Gothic Catholic parish church . The medieval city wall has been preserved in remains, including the so-called Wolfsturm .

Montabaur Castle, aerial view (2016)

Montabaur Castle

Cityscape: the Schlossberg with the castle complex (photo 2011)

Montabaur Castle with the old city wall and Sauertalstrasse

The Montabaur town hall is suitable for various events such as meetings, conferences, concerts, theater and events. The historic Wolfsturm is available to the residents of the city of Montabaur and can be rented for their own use.

lock

Montabaur Castle, until 1945 the seat of the district office of the Unterwesterwaldkreis , then the seat of the Montabaur district government , is now owned by the Academy of German Cooperatives , which has expanded it as a conference hotel and training center for the Raiffeisen and Volksbanks . It is clearly visible in the middle of the city on the Schlossberg ( 321 m above sea level ).

Mons Tabor with a baroque castle. Landmark and namesake of the city of Montabaur.

history

Montabaur has a history that can be traced back to 959 , when the Humbach Castle , castellum Humbacense , today's castle , was first mentioned in a document. The Archbishop of Trier , Dietrich von Wied , had returned from a crusade from the Holy Land around 1217 and had the destroyed castle humbacense rebuilt. He called them because of the similarity of Humbacher hill with the Mount Tabor in today's Israel , which as a place of Transfiguration applies Mons Tabor . This became Montabaur. In 1291 King Rudolf von Habsburg (1218 to 1291) granted Montabaur city rights together with Welschbillig , Mayen , Bernkastel and Saarburg .

Until 1968, Montabaur was the administrative seat of one of the five administrative districts into which the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate was divided in 1946. Through the incorporation of seven surrounding communities (Bladernheim, Elgendorf, Eschelbach, Ettersdorf, Horressen, Reckenthal and Wirzenborn), Montabaur essentially reached its present size on April 22, 1972.

RakArtBtl 350

From the mid-1960s to the beginning of 2004, Montabaur and the Westerwald barracks were a Bundeswehr location , where the 350 rocket artillery battalion and later repair units were stationed from 1966 to 1993 . The RakArtBtl 350 was the rocket artillery battalion of the III. (GE) Corps and equipped with the Sergeant short-range ballistic missile or, from the mid-1970s, the Lance short-range missile .
The nuclear special ammunition was stored in the special ammunition depot Horressen and near Bellersdorf, it was under the 83rd US Army Missile Detachment.

politics

City council

The city council in Montabaur consists of 28 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections in 2019 , and the honorary city mayor as chairman.

Distribution of seats:

choice	SPD	CDU	Green	FDP	FWG	BfM	Flat share	total
2019	4th	11	2	2	8th	-	1	28 seats
2014	6th	14th	2	-	4th	2	-	28 seats
2009	6th	13	2	2	3	2	-	28 seats
2004	5	15th	-	-	8th	-	-	28 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group Montabaur e. V.
BfM = Citizens for Montabaur e. V.
WG = WG Stendebach

mayor

Gabriele Wieland (CDU) became mayor of Montabaur on July 2, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was confirmed in her office with a vote of 73.42%.

badges and flags

The city has the so-called Petrus coat of arms as its coat of arms. The city's flag bears the colors blue, red and white in vertical stripes, in that order.

Blazon : “In blue behind a silver tinned city wallgrowing out of the lower edge of the shieldin one of two red-roofed and gold-knobbed five-story black-windowed and black-portaled silver towers, each accompanied by a silver shield, inside a red cross, flanked andcrownedby a silver eyelash portal , surmounted by a growing, tinned, red-roofed and gold-kneaded central tower with a central, golden, six-pointed star, a seated golden nimbly saint in a red robe and goldenundergarmentwith a golden key with an inside-turned beard in the right hand and a golden cross-staff in the left, on both flank towers each a flat wall arch attached to the outside, each with four battlements and a red-roofed, silver building to the edge of the shield. "

Justification of the coat of arms: towers and walls represent the medieval city fortifications and the defensive strength of Montabaur, the saint represents Simon Petrus , and the coats of arms symbolize the city's earlier affiliation to Kurtrier until 1803. The coat of arms was approved in 1906 and goes back to a city seal from 1300 .

Town twinning

Montabaur maintains partnerships with the French city of Tonnerre , the British city of Brackley and the Saxon city of Sebnitz . In addition, the Texan city of Fredericksburg is the twin town of the Montabaur community.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Aerial view of the former Westerwald barracks, which is to become a commercial area

Fashion outlet center in Montabaur

Montabaur train station

traffic

Federal motorway 3

Bundesstrasse 49

Bundesstrasse 255

Montabaur station with ICE section on the high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main , Himmelberg tunnel
Montabaur is connected to local rail passenger transport by the regional train line RB 29 ( Unterwesterwaldbahn ) ( Limburg - Diez East - Elz South - Montabaur - Wirges - Siershahn ) of the Hessian State Railway , Dreiländerbahn area . This is operated on behalf of the SPNV Nord association according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .

The two most important stops for connection to the regional bus service, which is mainly operated by Rhein-Mosel-Bus , Griesar Reisedienst and Orthen Omnibusbetrieb, are Konrad-Adenauer-Platz and Montabaur / FOM train station.

Connection to the long-distance bus service from Flixbus and the company Univers at the station Montabaur / FOM.

In the evening hours, outside the regular bus service hours, call and shared taxi lines operate from Montabaur within the Montabaur community .

Sports airfield for gliders

Culture and sights

The town hall in the neo-Gothic style

Chancel of the catholic church Saint Peter in chains

Former watch tower of Montabaur

Museums and cultural centers

The "b-05 Art and Culture Center" is located in a forest near Montabaur in a former NATO weapons warehouse that has been converted into a museum. The small bunkers are used for video installations , the large ones as picture galleries. The focus of the museum is contemporary art .

Cultural institutions

Amateur theater "The Oasis"
House of Youth
library
Catholic public library
"Capitol" cinema
City Archives
City Hall House Mons-Tabor
Kulturwerkraum

Historic Buildings

Secular buildings

historical advertising house
Neo-Gothic town hall (built 1866 to 1868)
Montabaur Castle
Parts of the city wall
Wolfsturm (→ city wall)
numerous, well-preserved historic half-timbered houses, including a house belonging to Freiherr vom Stein

Sacred buildings

St. Peter in chains
Brothers Church (Catholic), church of the order of the "Brothers of Mercy Montabaur"
Pauluskirche (Protestant)
Luther Church (Protestant)
Anna or carter chapel
Marien pilgrimage church in the Wirzenborn district in the Gelbachtal valley

leisure

Glider airfield of the Luftsportclub Westerwald e. V.
Mons Tabor Bath
Fitness path
Nordic walking park
Bicycle paths from Montabaur through the romantic Gelbachtal to the Lahn valley
Schützenhaus of the Montabaur shooting club
Model flying club Montabaur-Heiligenroth e. V.
BCM Box Club Montabaur e. V.

Sports

1. FFC Montabaur ( Football Regionalliga Südwest (women) )
Montabaur Fighting Farmers ( American Football )
Schützengesellschaft St. Sebastianus Montabaur (shooting sports)
TUS Montabaur (Football District League East (men))
FC Kosova Montabaur (District League A (Men))

Events

Cobbler market
Jazz weekend in Montabaur
Verbandsgemeinde cup shooting
Pub festival
MonsTaRock
Mair1 Festival

education

schools

Joseph Kehrein School

Large urban elementary school of Montabaur (in 2006 370 pupils, 16 classes) with the pre-school class school kindergarten, voluntary all-day school Monday to Thursday until 4 p.m. including lunch, homework supervision, supervised leisure time and numerous additional educational offers. Integrated foreign language work in English and French. Partner school École Louis Pasteur in Tonnerre , Burgundy.

Forest school (elementary school) in the Horressen district
Landesmusikgymnasium Rheinland-Pfalz (Peter-Altmeier-Gymnasium)

The Peter Altmaier Gymnasium Montabaur was until 1999 Aufbaugymnasium . In 1991 the first music students started their fifth grade, this first year of music students graduated from high school in 2000.

Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium : Gymnasium with a bilingual and natural science branch
Anne Frank Realschule plus
Heinrich Roth Realschule plus
Vocational School Montabaur

Adult education

Grone training centers NRW-Rheinland gGmbH
Vocational training center (bfw)
Bildungswerk Sport - Westerwald branch
Information point for further training
Catholic adult education, the Westerwald - Rhein - Lahn educational institute is one of nine district educational institutes of the Limburg diocesan educational institute based in the Haus am Dom in Frankfurt.
District Adult Education Center (KVHS)
State teaching and research institute
Adult Education Center of the Verbandsgemeinde Montabaur (VHS)
Institute for Training and Work (ISB)
Bildungswerk der Hessen Wirtschaft (BWHW)

Aid organizations

The Montabaur Integrated Control Center has been based in Montabaur since 2008 . The control center is operated by the DRK Rescue Service Rhein-Lahn Westerwald gGmbH, which is also located there, and looks after the districts of Altenkirchen, Neuwied, Rhein-Lahn and Westerwald.

Montabaur Volunteer Fire Brigade

Fire fighting train Montabaur

Fire fighting group Horressen

Elgendorf fire fighting group

Technical relief organization (THW), local branch Montabaur
German Red Cross , local association Montabaur
German Red Cross, Rescue Service Rhein-Lahn Westerwald gGmbH (administrative headquarters)
DLRG Montabaur, local association Montabaur

Personalities

Born in Montabaur

Peter Josef Weber (1750–1821), Catholic clergyman, moral theologian and cathedral chapter
Georg Pingler (1815–1892), medical advisor, founder of the spa system in Königstein im Taunus
Heinrich Cramer (1831-1893), psychiatrist
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874–1951), draftsman and illustrator
Wilhelm Neuss (1880–1965), Catholic priest, church historian and art historian
Maximilian Sauerborn (1889–1963), lawyer, administrative officer and politician
Anton Diel (1898–1959), politician (SPD), 1949–1959 member of the Bundestag
August Kunst (1898–1980), politician (CDU), 1957–1961 member of the Bundestag
Hans Becker (1905–1980), Roman Catholic priest, church historian and local researcher
Julius Decker (1926–2013), politician, Member of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Heinz König (1927–2002), economist, rector of the University of Mannheim, founding father of the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim
Hermann Josef Roth (* 1938), Cistercian father, environmental activist, author of numerous books, lives in Bonn-Bad Godesberg
Hermann Ament (* 1936), historian, professor of prehistory and early history
Ernst-Ewald Roth (* 1953), politician (SPD) and theologian, from 2008 to 2019 member of the Hessian state parliament in Wiesbaden
Frank Decker (* 1964), political scientist, professor of political science at the University of Bonn

Associated with Montabaur

Cobbler boy

Johann V. von Isenburg (1507–1556), Archbishop and Elector of Trier, last lived in Montabaur Castle and died there
Matthias Langer (1765–1833), writer and manufacturer
Joseph Kehrein (1808–1876), honorary citizen of Montabaur, teacher, philologist, historian and director of the Montabaur teachers' college
Georg Hilpisch (1846–1928), theologian and church historian, spent his youth here and went to the Progymnasium
Karl Walter (1862–1929), organist, pedagogue, scientist and organ and bell expert, died in Montabaur and is buried here
Heinrich Roth (1889–1955), Mayor of Montabaur, District Administrator of the Unterwesterwaldkreis, member of the Reichstag
Klaus-Heinrich Standke (* 1935) became the first German director at the United Nations, New York, and spent his school days in Montabaur
Ralph Dommermuth (* 1963), founder of United Internet and Internet entrepreneur with administrative headquarters in Montabaur at the ICE train station
Andreas Nick (* 1967), politician (CDU), member of the German Bundestag since 2013
Andreas Lubitz (1987–2015), co-pilot on Germanwings flight 9525 , went to school in Montabaur

Others

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Montabaur was known for its shoemaking, which is why the citizens are sometimes jokingly called "shoemakers" many decades later. Between 1864 and 1866, 66 shoemakers were active in Montabaur who sold their shoes and boots in the area as far as the Westerwald. After that, the number fell, to only nine in 1898. Since June 1985 the sculpture of the shoemaker's boy by Ernemann Sander on the corner of a house on Konrad-Adenauer-Platz, which “shows the bird” every quarter of an hour towards the town hall opposite , has been a reminder of the great times of the shoemaking trade in Montabaur .

literature

KAA Meister: History of the city and Montabaur Castle. Edited and published according to documented sources. Reprint of the Montabaur 1876 edition. Ed .: FJ Löwenguth. Montabaur 1977.
Georg Hilpisch : The Cooperative of the Merciful Brothers of Montabaur. A brief history of their creation and development up to the present. Hermann Rauch, Wiesbaden 1926
Walter Kalb: Alt-Montabaur. Motifs from Montabaur by Walter Kalb. Publishing house of the Westerwälder Volkszeitung, Montabaur 1926
The parish church "St. Peter in Ketten" in Montabaur. For the millennial return of the inauguration of the first stone church in Montabaur in 959. Ed. By the association for the care of the home Catholic. Churches Montabaur. Montabaur 1959.
100 years of the Great Carnival Society of Montabaur. Montabaur 1984
Hermann Josef Roth : Endangerment of the spit pond near Montabaur. In: Hess. Florist. Br. 24, 1, 1975, pp. 13-16, 1 fig .; Darmstadt
Hermann Josef Roth: Comments on the close-up investigation for the Montabaur community. In: Landeskdl. Quarterly leaflet 21, 1, 1975, pp. 40-48; Koblenz
Hermann Josef Roth: Montabaur in old views. Zaltbommel / NL: Europ. Bibl., 1982. ISBN 90-288-1907-X
Josef Otto Schneider: Carnival in Montabaur. Happy cobblers, old dudes. Arfeller, Montabaur 1988. ISBN 3-9801980-0-6
700 years of city rights for six Electoral Trier cities. 1291-1991. Bernkastel, Mayen, Montabaur, Saarburg, Welschbillig, Wittlich. Edit v. Dietmar Flach u. Jost Hausmann. Catalog for the anniversary exhibition of the State Main Archives Koblenz on the occasion of the Rhineland-Palatinate Day on May 24, 1991 in Montabaur. Koblenz 1991
History of the city of Montabaur. 1st part: Humbach - Montabaur. By Bernd Schwenk, Hermann Josef Roth a. Michael Hollmann. Ed .: City of Montabaur. Montabaur 1991.
Dieter Fries: Montabaur. Pictures from yesterday and today. City of Montabaur (Ed.) 1992
25 years of brotherhood of the Ex-Princes Montabaur. 1970-1995. Montabaur 1995
Hans Frischbier: Montabaur is changing. From the Electorate of Trier to the Duchy of Nassau. 1768-1819. Ed .: City Archives Montabaur. Montabaur 1998 (= series of publications on the town history of Montabaur, issue 5).
Hermann Josef Roth: City of Montabaur (= Rheinische Kunststätten, H. 227). 2. verb. Edition Cologne, Neuss 1989. ISBN 3-88094-647-7
Bernd Schwenk, Hermann Josef Roth & Michael Hollmann: History of the City of Montabaur, Part 1: Humbach-Montabaur. Ed .: City of Montabaur. 2000
Hermann Josef Roth: Montabaur. Castle and City (= Gr. Art Guide, Vol. 273). Vlg. Schnell & Steiner Regensburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-7954-2671-2 .
Wolfgang Ackva: Chronicle of the parish of St. Peter in chains from 940 to 1803 during the time of the electorate of Trier . Ed .: Catholic Parish of St. Peter. Montabaur 2017. With a contribution by Hermann Josef Roth: "To the equipment of the church", pp. 189–250.

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