Niedermühlen

Niedermühlen Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 38"  E
Height :	200 m above sea level NN
Residents :	22  (Dec 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Niedermühlen in Rhineland-Palatinate

Niedermühlen is part of the local community Asbach in the Neuwied district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is characterized by agriculture, but is increasingly developing into a place of residence in the sense of a residential community .

geography

The village is located in the Niederwesterwald, southeast of the main town Asbach in the Mehrbachtal . In the east, Niedermühlen borders the local community of Kescheid in the Altenkirchen district . In the northwest the place borders on the Asbacher district Altenhofen . Niedermühlen is connected to Schöneberg and Limbach via Kreisstraße 64 .

history

The first written mention of the place dates from the year 1456. In a division agreement of the low-nobility Munt von Neustadt , a meadow was named "bi der Neder Moelen". In 1579 a farm in Niedermühlen is mentioned that belonged to the Junker Everhard von Holdinghausen . The Holdinghausen family, based near Hachenburg , had several farms in the Asbacher Land, and the mill was an own mill for the Holdinghausischen courtiers. In 1740 the mill was refurbished. Today the "Youth Home Niedermühlen" stands at this point.

Niedermühlen belonged to the Electorate of Cologne and to the Altenwied office and was part of the " Honnschaft Schöneberg". According to an inventory ordered by Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660, Niedermühlen had a farm, and in 1787 eight houses with 14 residents were counted.

Niedermühlen has been a place of pilgrimage since the beginning of the 17th century . The place was directly on the border with the County of Sayn-Hachenburg and consequently on the border with a territory belonging to the Reformed denomination . Today's chapel was built by Vincenz Statz in 1861 and renovated by Carl Rüdell in 1892 .

After the Rhineland became part of Prussia in 1815 , Niedermühlen belonged to the Schöneberg community in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was initially administered by the Neustadt mayor and from 1823 by the Asbach mayor . According to a census from 1885, Niedermühlen had 29 inhabitants who lived in seven houses.

Until March 16, 1974, Niedermühlen belonged to the previously independent community of Schöneberg , which was dissolved on the same date and merged into the newly formed local community Asbach. In 1987 Niedermühlen had 22 inhabitants.

Attractions

Are under monument protection:

• The cath. Pilgrimage and Rectorate Chapel "To the painful Mother of God" from 1892/93 (consecrated in 1894) and the choir from 1862: an eight-sided Gothic central building made of quarry stone; the Pietà was created around 1450
• A stately half-timbered house , partly massive, from the first half of the 19th century (Niedermühlen 2)
• See also : List of cultural monuments in Asbach (Westerwald)

Web links

• Short portrait and film report on SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 63
2. ↑ ^{a b} Informational directory of cultural monuments, Neuwied district , status: January 3, 2013, pages 4 and 5 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
3. ^ Local community Asbach (Ed.): Asbach / Westerwald. Pictures and reports from the last 200 years ; 1990, page 240
4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 44
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
6. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality