Niederwörresbach

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 7 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.35 km 2
Residents:	864 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55758
Area code :	06785
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 060
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	Niederwoerresbach.de
Local Mayor :	Ralf Juchem
Location of the local community Niederwörresbach in the Birkenfeld district

Niederwörresbach is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Herrstein-Rhaunen community . Niederwörresbach is a state-approved resort .

Niederwörresbach was marked by the craft of agate - grinder and quarrying . The gymnastics team of the local sports club is recognized internationally.

geography

Geographical location

View from the Kehrwald

The village of the clickers in Niederwörresbach lies between the southern edge of the Hunsrück and the mountains of volcanic origin in the upper Nahe . It belongs to the Fischbachtal (near Idar-Oberstein ) and the eponymous Wörresbach (also Hinterbach ) flows into the Fischbach on its outskirts .

geology

The place is built on conglomerates from the upper Rotliegend . This is penetrated by igneous rocks such as porphyry and melaphyre . The material goes into the east from Devon derived slate of Rheinische Schiefergebirges over. The clay iron stones on the Wart and a sandstone quarry on the Klink are also worth mentioning . FL Juchem & Söhne still operates a quarry on the road in the direction of Fischbach today - in addition to a road construction company , an engineering office , a ready-mixed concrete plant and an asphalt mixing plant .

Parish parts

Niederwörresbach also includes the Hainbuch settlement and the “Auf Faustert” residential area .

Neighboring communities

In the north Niederwörresbach borders on Herrstein . A little further to the west is the Schieferrück Wirschheck , which extends to the neighboring town of Oberwörresbach . The B 41 and the town of Fischbach, which is about seven kilometers to the south, and the Idar-Oberstein district of Weierbach can be reached via the state road  160 . The German Edelsteinstrasse runs along this route, following Landesstrasse 175 to the west of the village in the direction of Herborn and Vollmersbach .

climate

The village, which belongs to the extended Nahe valley, has a relatively mild climate, which in principle even enables viticulture . The annual precipitation is 718 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 44% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in November. In November there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in April. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 1% of the measuring stations . The Wingert , which used to be between Nieder- and Oberwörresbach, is no longer ordered.

history

The village, located in what was then Nahegau , was first mentioned in a document in 1047 as the property of the Counts of Sponheim , when Eberhard von Sponheim donated two farms in Werngisbach . Sponheimer owned these until 1427, but were pledged and renamed at one point or another. Thereafter, Electoral Palatinate , Baden and Palatinate-Simmern ruled the area together until 1559. At times, together with the Zweibrücken princes, Baden still ruled until France took possession of the entire Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 . Meanwhile, the place belonged to the Département de la Sarre , Canton and Mairie Herrstein . When the Allied troops took the left bank of the Rhine in 1814 and Napoléon Bonaparte's rule ended, Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Oldenburg received the two exclaves Lübeck and the Birkenfelder Land. The latter existed as the Principality of Birkenfeld until the First World War . The part of the state of Birkenfeld, still in Oldenburg , was transferred to the state of Prussia on April 1, 1937 in exchange for Wilhelmshaven as the district of Birkenfeld as part of the Greater Hamburg Act .

church

Niederwörresbach Church

Already in 1560 the place had a parish seat with a branch in Fischbach. Later, Niederwörresbach, like the whole of the surrounding area, became Protestant - Lutheran . Today's church building was consecrated on January 26, 1833 by Pastor Karl Phillip Daniel Koch. However, botched masonry work meant that the original tower had to be removed again in 1865. Instead, a somewhat strange looking dome was put on. However, this was then replaced by the tower as it can still be seen today. The church is equipped with a Stumm organ.

The children's and youth home

portal

The 1830s and 1840s were marked by cattle epidemics and poor harvests in the Birkenfeld region , which led to food prices becoming more expensive and famine . The Principality of Birkenfeld had to enact a law on public poor relief in 1842 in order to provide the poorest with basic necessities, and soup kitchens were set up; Wood was given away for free, potatoes cheaply.

Parent company

On October 16, 1846, the Herrstein pastor Friedrich Adolf Koch, who came from Niederwörresbach, set up a reforming home in his parents' house, a small farmhouse on the way to Herrstein. He himself organized the financing of the necessary basic equipment for the home by drawing lots for donations in kind. Under the slogan of the Psalm “The Lord is the protection of the poor”, 18 girls were initially accepted there. The running maintenance costs were partly financed by handicrafts of the girls, which were raffled off again, and collections , but one was always in debt with several hundred thalers .

main building

After Cook's death in 1867 the closure could institute in 1894 finally only the acquisition by the deaconesses - parent Upper Rhine be prevented. The large new main building was completed in 1905/06, and the old main building was later converted into a farm building with communal apartments. In the 1980s, a modern building with additional apartments and offices was also built on the site. Today the kreuznacher diakonie foundation looks after young people in the home, while the care for babies and the elderly that has been set up in the meantime has been given to other institutions.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 308 1835 564 1871 793 1905 735 1939 946 1950 926

year Residents 1961 1,048 1970 1,155 1987 1,035 1997 1,033 2005 1.004 2019 864

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Ralf Juchem became mayor of Niederwörresbach in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 91.32% of the vote.

Juchem's predecessor as local mayor was Horst Lang.

Culture

The Kässchmierlecker

Niederwörresbach has a long tradition in the clicker trade. Clickers are spherically cut agates. Grinding was arduous work, the rough stones had to be taken from Idar to the village on foot and processed in the grinding shop the next morning. The so-called grinding disease - caused by the agate dust, lying in front of the grindstone , poor ventilation and the schnapps that was drunk to suppress the ailments - did not let the clickers live to be more than 40 years old. The click chain in the coat of arms of the village still testifies to their craft .

In those bad times, Kässchmier was a tasty, cheap and affordable food . It is a quark dish that is mixed with herbs and sugar and eaten as a spread or with jacket potatoes . Even today, the people of Niederwörresbach are jokingly referred to by their neighbors as "Werzbacher Kässchmierlecker". The personified Kässchmierlecker was immortalized as a bronze statue on the village square, which was redesigned in the 1980s .

Sports club

Performance center for artistic gymnastics

The sports club founded in 1888 has already shone nationally and internationally several times. The artistic gymnastics team achieved several championship titles at the German championships in the 1970s and 1980s under coach Marianne Reimann . At the height of her success, the Niederwörresbach gymnast Heike Schwarm was elected Regional Sportswoman of the Year 1983 and her squad was named Team of the Year . At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , SV Niederwörresbach with Heike Schwarm and Angela Golz provided a third of the German squad. At a ceremony in honor of Marianne Reimann and her gymnasts at the Artistic Gymnastics Center in Frankfurt am Main on January 20, 1989, representatives of the Rhineland-Palatinate state government proposed the construction of a state performance center for artistic gymnastics in Niederwörresbach, the large sports hall of which was completed together with the association in the early 1990s has been. The successes continued: In 1997 Wladimir Klimenko became German youth champion in artistic gymnastics.

Multipurpose hall

Among the footballers of the SV, the team of the A-Jugend deserves particular mention, which had been promoted to the district league and finally became runner-up in the 1977 season. A year later, then moved Michael Dusek of Niederwörresbach for Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern , where he until the season 1987 / 1988 remained. Until 2006 he coached and coordinated the youth of 1. FCK. The first team is currently playing in the Nahe district league. Independent youth work is offered from the Bambini to the C youth.

music Society

Gasthaus Weiß

The music association was founded on September 9, 1891 in the Gasthaus Weiß on the initiative of the first musical director Emil Weiß. From 1911 until the end of the First World War, the Germania music association existed in parallel . In its more than one hundred year history, the music association has made a name for itself in the cultivation of brass music and the promotion of local culture. In particular, a strong youth work should be mentioned here.

Other clubs

The oldest club is the male choir , which was founded in 1860 at the suggestion of the teacher Christian Schmidt, who also directed it until his death in 1890. In 1928 there was also a mixed choir affiliated with the association.

Niederwörresbach also has a volunteer fire brigade founded in 1933 , a local club of the German Red Cross , the shooting club in 1975 and a fishing club (since 1990). Die Wanderfreunde e. V. Niederwörresbach emerged in 1992 from the hiking department (founded in 1974) of the sports club.

people

• Walter Brusius (* 1950), German painter
• Michael Dusek (* 1958), soccer player and soccer coach
• Viktor Jakowlewitsch Klimenko (* 1949), artistic gymnast, Olympic champion
• Larissa Petrik (* 1949), gymnast, Olympic champion, trainer, choreographer and trained actress

Townscape

Today's townscape is predominantly characterized by the village square created in the 1980s and the local community street redesigned in 1997 and 1998. This redesign was made possible when Landesstraße 160 was moved to a bypass outside the town.

View over Niederwörresbach in December 2005

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Niederwörresbach

literature

• Rudolf Becker, contributions to the history of the village of Niederwörresbach (Birkenfeld district) with illustrations by Friedrich Heidrich, Niederwörresbach, messages from the Association for Local Studies in the District of Birkenfeld, special issue 7, 1962, published by the Association for Local Studies in the District of Birkenfeld.
• 950 years of Niederwörresbach , Festschrift for the 950th anniversary, published by the local community for the official inauguration of the local community street and the bridge over the Fischbach on June 25, 26 and 27, 1999 (anniversary celebration postponed by two years due to the extensive renovation work)
• 100 years of SV Niederwörresbach 1888 , festival week from June 24th to July 2nd, 1988, published by the association.

Web links

Commons : Niederwörresbach  - Collection of Images

• Local community Niederwörresbach on the website of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community
• Literature about Niederwörresbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 29 (PDF; 1 MB).
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Nitsch: Neuer is an old hand - Werzbachers should take part in village life. In: Nahe newspaper. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, November 8, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herrstein-Rhaunen, Verbandsgemeinde, 30th line of results. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .