Niederhofen
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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ' N , 7 ° 36' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Neuwied | |
Association municipality : | Puderbach | |
Height : | 264 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 1.38 km 2 | |
Residents: | 432 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 313 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 56316 | |
Area code : | 02684 | |
License plate : | NO | |
Community key : | 07 1 38 048 | |
Association administration address: | Hauptstrasse 13 56305 Puderbach |
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Local Mayor : | Jürgen Kuhlmann | |
Location of the local community Niederhofen in the district of Neuwied | ||
Niederhofen is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . She belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Puderbach .
Geographical location
The place is a little off the main traffic arteries south of Puderbach on the edge of the Rhine-Westerwald nature park .
Population development
The development of the population of Niederhofen, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The municipal council in Niederhofen consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.
mayor
Jürgen Kuhlmann became mayor of Niederhofen on June 27, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 87.19%. Jürgen Kuhlmann's predecessor was Dieter Schmidt.
coat of arms
Blazon : "In gold above a green three-mountain, a six-spoke red mill wheel with twelve blades, each accompanied by a two-line green ear of wheat."
The coat of arms has been legally valid since March 16, 1981 based on a design by Ernst Zeiler from Raubach. |
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Justification for the coat of arms: The mill wheel and the ears of corn refer to the grain mill in Niederhofen, which was operated for centuries, originally a Counts-Wied ban mill for the six villages of the Urbach parish . The Dreiberg symbolizes the location on the slopes of the Kirchdorfer Bach valley. The colors red and gold, the Wiedische coat of arms colors indicate the former territorial affiliation. |
traffic
The next motorway junction is Dierdorf on federal motorway 3 . The nearest ICE - Station is in Montabaur on the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine / Main .
literature
- Herbert Aufderheide, Gerhard Ebbinghaus, Ernst Zeiler: History of the parish Urbach. A Westerwald homeland book. Winters, Wissen 1987.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ↑ Niederhofen community has new top management. NR-Kurier, July 3, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Puderbach, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .