Norken
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Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 54 ′ E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Westerwaldkreis | |
Association municipality : | Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) | |
Height : | 458 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 6.05 km 2 | |
Residents: | 946 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 156 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 57629 | |
Area code : | 02661 | |
License plate : | WW | |
Community key : | 07 1 43 280 | |
LOCODE : | DE NRK | |
Community structure: | 2 districts | |
Association administration address: | Kirburger Strasse 4 56470 Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) |
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Mayoress : | Simone Jungbluth | |
Location of the local community Norken in the Westerwaldkreis | ||
Norken (dialect: Noorge ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) community .
geography
The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg an der Lahn and Siegen . The municipality is located between the Great Nister and the Small Nister .
history
Norken was first mentioned in a document in 1262.
Norken was part of the County of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Sayn, the inhabitants were first Lutheran and later reformed. After the county of Sayn was divided in the 17th century, Norken belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg . In 1799 the county came to the princes of Nassau-Weilburg and in 1806 to the Duchy of Nassau .
The district Bretthausen was incorporated in 1813 at the time of the Nassau government.
- Population development
The development of the population of Norken, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
Municipal council
The local council in Norken consists of twelve council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Up to 2009 the council had 16 members.
mayor
Simone Jungbluth became local mayor of Norken in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with 55.60% of the vote.
Jungbluth's predecessor Friedrich Wagner had held the office for 15 years.
coat of arms
Blazon : “Dividedby gold, red and black by Göpelschnitt ; in front a growing, vertically standing, red knife with a bent blade tip; behind a soaring, blue-armed, golden lion ; below a six-spoke, silver wheel . " | |
Justification of the coat of arms: The red knife, a Heep used until the Second World War , establishes the connection to the local inns . The wheel symbolizes the wagon traffic on the Cologne-Leipzig trade route, for which the Norkener had to provide prestressing services due to the steep incline here in earlier times. In earlier times Norken belonged to the County of Sayn and later to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg . The saynic lion indicates this affiliation. |
Culture and sights
Cultural monuments
A representative homestead from Norken was dismantled in the early 1980s and rebuilt as an entrance building in the Westerwald Landscape Museum .
Regular events
Events of the associations and the community take place in the village community center .
- At Easter , the Schibbelclub organizes the traditional Egg Schibeln on the Schibbelrain.
- Parish fair is celebrated in mid-August .
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The B 414 , which leads from Hohenroth to Altenkirchen , runs in the immediate vicinity of the village . The next motorway junctions are in Siegen or Wilnsdorf on the A 45 Dortmund - Hanau , about 26 kilometers away. The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .
education
The Norken Primary School and the Norken / Mörlen Kindergarten are sponsored by the local community. Since the end of 2009, both have been part of the UNESCO educational network . On March 8, 2010, the Norken-Mörlen e. V. founded.
Personalities
- Manfred Stock (* 1932), horticulturist and environmentalist, has lived in Norken since 1995.
- Detlef Schütz (* 1966), former soccer referee, was born in Norken.
literature
- Local community Norken (ed.): Chronicle of the community Norken. 1262-1987 , Norken 1987.
- Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
Web links
- Internet presence of the local community Norken
- Norken on the website of the Bad Marienberg Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ Hermann Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , 2010, page 3 (PDF; 132 kB)
- ^ Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Bad Marienberg, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th line of results. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
- ^ Nadja Hoffmann-Heidrich: Election of the local mayor in the Bad Marienberg community on May 26th. Westerwälder Zeitung, February 27, 2019, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Description of the coat of arms on norken.de