Niederfischbach

This article covers the community in the Altenkirchen district. For the abandoned village of Niederfischbach in today's Rhein-Lahn district, see Mittelfischbach or Oberfischbach .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Churches (victory)
Height :	282 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.48 km 2
Residents:	4117 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	284 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57572
Area code :	02734
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 076
Community structure:	7 districts
Association administration address:	Lindenstrasse 1 57548 Kirchen (Sieg)
Website :	www.niederfischbach.de
Local Mayor :	Dominik Schuh ( CDU )
Location of the local community Niederfischbach in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

Niederfischbach is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Kirchen (Sieg) . Niederfischbach is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

Niederfischbach is located in the west of the gable forest , in the valley of the middle Asdorfer Bach between the towns of Freudenberg and Betzdorf ; Neighboring communities and neighboring villages are Harbach in the west, Niederndorf in the east and Wehbach in the south.

The districts of Altenthal, Eicherhof, Fischbacherhütte, Hahnhof, Hüttseifen , Langenbach and Oberasdorf belong to Niederfischbach .

history

The original Niederfischbach was first mentioned in 1377, but there the place still appears under the name “Vispe”. Over the centuries, the spelling has developed from, for example, "Niedernfischpe" to Niederfischbach.

Today's municipality was formed on June 7, 1969 from the previously independent municipalities Niederfischbach (2,856 inhabitants) and Hüttseifen (1,494 inhabitants) as well as an area of ​​the municipality of Harbach with 124 inhabitants.

Population development

The development of the population of Niederfischbach in relation to today's municipal area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 874 1835 1,031 1871 1,507 1905 2,344 1939 3,006 1950 3,349 1961 4,051

year Residents 1970 4,623 1987 4,452 1997 4,851 2005 4,892 2011 4,425 2017 4.178

Population development of Niederfischbach from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Niederfischbach consists of 20 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
2019	8th	12	-	20 seats
2014	9	11	-	20 seats
2009	7th	13	-	20 seats
2004	7th	12	1	20 seats

mayor

The local mayor of Niederfischbach is Dominik Schuh (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 61.80% of the vote, making him the successor to Matthias Otterbach (CDU), who had not run again after 20 years in office.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided obliquely to the left by silver and blue. In the upper area there is a red four-leaf clover, at the bottom there is a silver cornucopia.

The shamrock or Mauritius cross indicates the patronage of St. Mauritius and thus the historical importance of the place in the Middle Ages. The Mauritius cross has been in use as a symbol in the representation of Mauritius, on coats of arms and places associated with it since the Middle Ages. The old church of St. Mauritius, the tower of which has been preserved at today's Protestant church, was probably a branch church of Haiger in the 11th century, later a parish church. It is the oldest building in Niederfischbach.

The colors silver and red correspond to the coat of arms of the Elector of Trier , the former sovereign: a continuous red cross in silver.

The upright silver horn of plenty is taken from the Fischbacher Erstlingstaler from 1750. It relates to the silver finds and the historical importance of mining in the community.

The blue color of the coat of arms indicates the origin of the name Niederfischbach “Vispe”, in which the word “ apa ” for water, small stream, is contained in the suffix “-pe”. This name is evidence of the old age of the place, as it must come from a time when the word "apa" and not "Bach" was in use.

(According to W. Arnold and J. Heinzeling, the "apa" locations in our homeland were founded before 500 AD, according to L. Bald even before our era. B. Solbach)

Parish partnership

• Martigné-Ferchaud , Ille-et-Vilaine department , France

St. Mauritius Catholic Church and Companions

Protestant church

Culture and sights

Buildings

The Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius and Companions is the only four-tower church in the Altenkirchen district. The neo-Romanesque basilica was built from 1896 to 1898 according to the plans of the architect Hermann Ritzfeld and renovated for the first time from 1956 to 1958. 1986 to 1990 another extensive interior renovation took place. The floor mosaic The Root Jesse in the central aisle of the nave is particularly worth seeing . It is popularly called "Siegerland Cathedral".

Museums

• Railway Museum

Parks

• Niederfischbach animal park
• Asdorftal public park

Regular events

• Fun fair - 3rd weekend of August
• Carnival Parade - Carnival Tuesday
• Fountain Festival - every 1st Sunday in May
• Children's festival in the Niederfischbach zoo
• March to the Bürgerpark (Musikverein)

Cultural and natural monuments

• List of cultural monuments in Niederfischbach
• List of natural monuments in Niederfischbach

Economy and Infrastructure

Transport links

Railway Museum

Local public transport now only takes place with buses of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Westfalen-Süd.

Until 1983 there was also passenger traffic in Niederfischbach. By train, you could take the Asdorftalbahn from Betzdorf via Freudenberg and Olpe along Lake Bigge to Finnentrop . Freight traffic was stopped in 1994 and the tracks were finally dismantled in 2000. The station churches is km accessible via the L280 in just the eighth Now the Asdorftal cycle path runs along the route. A railway association has received a remnant piece of track in Niederfischbach station and has set up a few vehicles there.

The road provides a connection to the A 45 as well as to Siegen and the Westerwald.

education

• WE Ketteler primary school in Niederfischbach

Personalities

Born in Niederfischbach

• Josef Brenner (1899–1967), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
• Rudolf Müller (1924–1987), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag

Connected with Niederfischbach

• Franz Schwarz (1940–2017), politician (SPD), MdL (Rhineland-Palatinate), municipal councilor and alderman of Niederfischbach
• Georg Bätzing (* 1961), Roman Catholic theologian, Bishop of Limburg, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, grew up in Niederfischbach

Web links

Commons : Niederfischbach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Niederfischbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Kirchen (Sieg)
• The official homepage of the local community Niederfischbach and the action group Niederfischbach eV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ www.niederfischbach.de The name Niederfischbach
4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 190 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Niederfischbach. Retrieved November 9, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see churches (Sieg), Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 9, 2019 . 
8. ↑ In the footsteps of the Asdorftalbahn www.drehscheibe-foren.de with photo comparison of the train station (1975) and the cycle path (2005)