Kidney village

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Nierendorf (disambiguation) .

Kidney village Union Free Parish County Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	145 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	836  (Oct. 30, 2013)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53501
Area code :	02641
Location of Nierendorf in Rhineland-Palatinate
Catholic Church of St. Peter and Vincent

Nierendorf is a local district of the community -free municipality Grafschaft in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler . The local district of Nierendorf currently has 836 inhabitants. Until it was incorporated into the newly formed municipality of Grafschaft in 1974, Nierendorf was an independent municipality. The Rischmühle and Herrensteiner Mathildenhof residential areas also belong to Nierendorf .

geography

Nierendorf is located on the left bank of the Rhine near the Ahr valley . The main road through the village is state road 80. The A 61 runs between Nierendorf and the neighboring town of Bengen . The eastern part of the district is hilly pastureland, orchards and mixed forest, in the west is the agricultural area behind a former embankment . Coronation Street passed south of the village .

history

Nierendorf was already settled in Roman times. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1117, when the citizens of Remagen donated money and a vineyard to the newly founded provost office on the mountain near Remagen . At that time the place was called Nithirindorp . In 1666 it had 75 inhabitants. Nierendorf belonged to the Landskron rule until the French occupation around 1800 . 1724 a school was built, as since the 1970s town house is used. The rectory was rebuilt in 1890. An aqueduct has existed in Nierendorf since 1957. On March 16, 1974, the previously independent municipality of Nierendorf was incorporated into the municipality of Grafschaft by the Verbandsgemeinde Ringen .

Surname

Several centuries ago the houses in this village were very scattered. “It will never be a village” (never-a-village), people said. In reality the name is simply lower village (nithiri = lower ).

church

Nierendorf was never an independent parish , although it had a priest for 64 years. The branch church was rebuilt in 1898/1899 by the architect Anton Becker, who was born in Lüftelberg . The place belongs to the Catholic parish of Leimersdorf and Ringen .

politics

District

Nierendorf is one of eleven local districts in the county of Grafschaft. It is represented by a local council and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of seven members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	Green	FWG 1	total
2019	2	4th	-	1	-	7 seats
2014	2	4th	-	1	-	7 seats
2009	3	2	0	1	1	7 seats

¹ Free group of voters

Mayor

Josef Braun ( CDU ) became mayor of Nierendorf in 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for a further five years with a share of 65.82% of the votes.

Braun's predecessors were Matthias Werner ( SPD ), who died on March 11, 2009, and Günter Bach until 2004.

Culture and sights

• See list of cultural monuments in Grafschaft (Rhineland)

North of Nierendorf is the Frankensiedlung Nithrindorp , a building project to reconstruct an early medieval Frankish settlement.

Web links

Commons : Nierendorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Local homepage
• Literature about kidney village in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics for the municipality of Grafschaft, as of October 30, 2013.
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 5 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
4. ^ Main statute of the county county. (PDF) § 2 and 3. Gemeinde Grafschaft, June 18, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 . 
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Nierendorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Nierendorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Nierendorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Election of the mayor in the district of Nierendorf. 2009 runoff. Parish County, accessed August 2, 2020 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Grafschaft, non-association municipality, last line of results. Retrieved August 2, 2020 . 
10. ^ Archive 2009. "Mourning for Matthias Werner". Heimat- und Bürgererverein Nierendorf e. V., accessed on August 2, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Archive 2004. “Nierendorf shows the flag” and “General meeting of the home and citizens' association”. Heimat- und Bürgererverein Nierendorf e. V., accessed on August 2, 2020 . 
12. ↑ nithrindorp.de