Neunkhausen

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Coat of arms of the local community Neunkhausen
Neunkhausen
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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Height : 455 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.89 km 2
Residents: 1021 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 129 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 57520
Area code : 02661
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 270
Association administration address: Kirburger Strasse 4
56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Website : www.neunkhausen.de
Local Mayor : Rudi Neufurth
Location of the local community Neunkhausen in the Westerwaldkreis
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Neunkhausen (dialect: Nuinkhouse ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .

Geographical location

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg an der Lahn and Siegen on the state border with North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Altenklosterhof and Altenklostermühle residential areas also belong to Neunkhausen .

history

In 1215, the nobility of Molsberg donated the Kirburg parish to found a monastery. At the place that is still called Zum Altenkloster today , a chapel reminds of the past. Today it belongs to the local community of Neunkhausen. For the monks at that time, the harsh climate of the area known as the Neunkhäuser Plateau was too harsh. They moved on and settled at the Nister , where they built the Marienstatt Monastery .

The place Neunkhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1259. All details and information about Neunkhausen in the Middle Ages come from documents from the Marienstatt monastery. Neunkhausen is the birthplace of the journalist Johannes Gross (1932–1999).

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 312
1835 374
1871 332
1905 423
1939 520
1950 599
year Residents
1961 617
1970 761
1987 816
1997 1,097
2005 1.109
2019 1,021

politics

Municipal council

The council in Neunkhausen consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Rudi Neufurth became mayor of Neunkhausen in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with 79.84% of the votes.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Neunkhausen
Blazon : “Split of black and red with inserted, silver half point , inside a growing, red chapel with a golden pointed portal, surrounded by two silver pointed windows, the third in the black crossed and roofed roof turret, in front a growing, golden abbot's staffand behind a blue armored and -tongued, golden, looking lion . "
Justification of the coat of arms: In addition to belonging to the Kirburg parish , the municipal coat of arms also shows the lion of the County of Sayn (Sayner lion). The chapel in the lower part of the coat of arms symbolizes both the chapel in Altenkloster and the St. Wendelinus chapel . The St. Wendelinus Chapel is first mentioned in a document from 1447. It was located on today's Brunnenplatz in Neunkhausen and was donated by the Counts of Sayn. The chapel existed until 1822.

Culture and sights

→ see list of cultural monuments in Neunkhausen

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

The company Fingerhut Haus has its headquarters in Neunkhausen. Prefabricated houses have been manufactured since the 1950s; The company was founded in 1903. It has nine sales offices and twelve show house locations in Germany, Luxembourg and Austria .

traffic

Personalities

literature

  • Heinz Kuppler: The coats of arms of the cities, municipalities and municipalities in the Westerwaldkreis , in: Wäller Heimat 24 (2012), pp. 31–33.
  • Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2016), pp. 219–237.

Web links

Commons : Neunkhausen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. Hermann Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortsneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), 2010, p. 3 (PDF; 129 kB).
  3. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 72 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. On the historical development of the mills in the County of Sayn cf. Daniel Schneider: The milling industry in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen. Pp. 219-239.
  5. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  7. Election of the local mayor in the Bad Marienberg community. Verbandsgemeinde Bad Marienberg, 2014, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  9. See Heinz Kuppler: The coats of arms of the cities, communities and association communities in the Westerwaldkreis. Pp. 31-33.