Roth (Altenkirchen district)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 7 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Hamm (victory)
Height :	267 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.8 km 2
Residents:	1464 (December 31, 2019)
Population density :	385 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	57539, 57537 (Thal)
Primaries :	02682, 02742
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 096
Community structure:	8 districts
Association administration address:	Lindenallee 2 57577 Hamm (Sieg)
Website :	www.hamm-sieg.de
Local Mayor :	Udo Hammer
Location of the local community Roth in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

Roth is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Hamm (Sieg) .

geography

Roth is located about three kilometers southwest of Wissen at the meeting point of Bundesstraße 256 and Bundesstraße 62 .

Districts are Roth, Oettershagen, Hohensayn, Nisterbrück, Hämmerholz, Thal, Nisterau and Schlade.

history

The place Roth was first mentioned in 1487 in the Miracle Book of Marienthal .

In the Middle Ages Roth was part of the County of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in County Sayn, the inhabitants became Lutheran and later Reformed. After the state division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Roth belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg .

Roth formed a separate administrative district called "Sende" within the parish of Hamm , which also included the places Hämmerholz, Hohensayn, Oettershagen and Thal. The county of Sayn-Hachenburg fell by inheritance to the Principality of Nassau-Weilburg in 1799 , which became part of the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Roth was assigned to the Hamm mayor's office in the newly established Altenkirchen district , which from 1822 on belonged to the Rhine Province .

Population development

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

Population development in Roth from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

year Residents 1815 185 1835 336 1871 563 1905 699 1939 801 1950 921

year Residents 1961 1,044 1970 1,173 1987 1,247 2005 1,519 2011 1,474 2017 1,458

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Church in the district of Oettershagen

politics

Municipal council

The council in Roth consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Udo Hammer is the local mayor of Roth. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 82.21% of the vote.

literature

• Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the plan. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74–80.
• Kunibert Stock: 500 years of Roth. 1487-1987. A contribution to the local history of Roth, Hämmerholz, Hohensayn, Thal, Schlade, Heckenhof, Kohlrich, Herrgottsau, Oettershagen, Oettershagener Mühle / Nisterbrüch, Au an der Nister / Nisterau, Schlafhausen etc. 1st edition, Roth 1987.
• Kunibert Stock: The grain cultivation in Roth around 1900. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 33 (1990), pp. 175–178.
• Kunibert Stock: Meadows and pastures around Roth. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 35 (1992), pp. 175–179.

Web links

Commons : Roth  - Collection of Images

• Local community Roth on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Hamm (Sieg)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ See Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the plan, pp. 74-80.
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 371.
4. ↑ Negotiations of the State Deputy Assembly by resolution ..., Volume 1 , 1836, p. 583.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Roth. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hamm (Sieg), Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .