Three churches

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Wallmerod
Height :	243 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.7 km 2
Residents:	1014 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	274 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56414
Area code :	06435
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 011
LOCODE :	DE DRN
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	; Richtstrasse 1 56414 Wallmerod
Website :	www.wallmerod.de
Local Mayor :	Volker Hannappel
Location of the local community Dreikirchen in the Westerwaldkreis

Dreikirchen is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Wallmerod Association .

geography

Three churches located in the Westerwald belonging Montabaurer sink . The community is divided into the districts of Oberhausen with the Bornshahn farm and Pütschbach with the Wolf house.

history

Today's local community Dreikirchen was newly formed on June 7, 1969 from the previously independent and dissolved communities Oberhausen (then 226 inhabitants) and Pütschbach (485 inhabitants). The new place name "Dreikirchen" was found by resolution of the two former municipal councils. The basis for this was the fortified church in the center of Pütschbach, first mentioned in 1292 , the chapel in Oberhausen and the new parish church in both places , built in 1957 .

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants based on today's area of the municipality of Dreikirchen, the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year	Residents
1815	253
1835	356
1871	413
1905	495
1939	570
1950	637

year	Residents
1961	670
1970	741
1987	783
1997	926
2005	1,023
2019	1.014

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Volker Hannappel became mayor of Dreikirchen in 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of 78.85% of the votes.

Hannappels predecessors were Rainer Zimmermann (local mayor 2004–2014) and Ansgar Ortseifen (1992–2004).

coat of arms

Blazon : “Late Gothic round shield divided into three parts by wavy silver lines. In red three silver / black stylized church towers, in front in green silver oak branch with two acorns, behind in blue four silver, black stylized basalt columns. "

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the local community Dreikirchen symbolizes essential traditional features of the two former independent local communities Oberhausen and Pütschbach and their merger to form the new local community Dreikirchen in April 1969.

The silver wavy lines represent the Häuserbach in the Oberhausen district and the former stream in the Pütschbach district, which symbolically flow together and form a new unit with a view of the three churches that were created together.

Oberhausen and Pütschbach belonged to the territory of the Nassau counts until 1564 . Subsequently, today's local area came to the Electorate of Trier and in the 19th century belonged to the Duchy of Nassau and then in Prussia to the province of Hesse-Nassau . This is documented by one of their coat of arms colors, namely blue for the predominantly Nassau territorial affiliation and red for the Electoral Trier period. Here the new place name can be found in the silver / white stylized towers of the three churches of the local community.

The dominant tower in the middle refers to the old fortified church from the 12th century, the left tower represents the reference to the chapel in the district of Oberhausen, while the right tower is in turn a connecting element of both former parishes as a reference to the parish church.

The front in green silver oak branch shown with two acorns points to the centuries existing in the district Pütschbach Eichwald and the related nature, the back in blue shown silver four stylized columns represent the reference to the in the district Oberhausen located basalt deposits and the local , represents basalt mining operated for generations.

Culture and sights

Pütschbach fortified church

General view of Dreikirchen, coming from Hundsangen as a winter idyll

Buildings

The Pütschbach fortified church has a tower from the 12th century in the old Gothic style. The rest of the construction dates back to the 13th century. In 1970 the building was renovated. Also worth seeing is a half-timbered farmhouse built around 1700 , which is now used as a residential building again after a renovation.

Economy and Infrastructure

local community

Dreikirchen is a residential community with a commercial settlement. Dreikirchen has been a focus community for village renewal since 1994 . A number of improvement measures have already been implemented; some are in the planning phase, others are currently being implemented.

traffic

The next motorway junction is Diez on the A3 Cologne - Frankfurt am Main , about five kilometers away.
Dreikirchen has a stop on the Limburg-Staffel – Siershahn (Unterwesterwaldbahn) railway , on which regional trains of the Hessian State Railway HLB, Dreiländerbahn area , run every hour as RB29 according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .

At Limburg (Lahn) train station there is a connection to regional trains in the direction of Frankfurt, Wiesbaden , Koblenz , Gießen / Fulda and Westerburg / Altenkirchen .

In Montabaur on the high-speed route Cologne – Rhine / Main there is a connection to the ICE in the direction of Cologne and Frankfurt am Main as well as to buses in the direction of Koblenz, Bad Ems , Westerburg, Rennerod , Hachenburg and Bad Marienberg . Long-distance buses in the direction of Frankfurt and Cologne also operate in front of the Montabaur train station.

There are bus connections from Dreikirchen in the direction of Hadamar , Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn .

Web links

Commons : Dreikirchen - Collection of Images

Dreikirchen local community on the website of the Wallmerod community

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 80 (PDF; 3 MB).

↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 175 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
↑ ^a ^b Angela Baumeier: Dreikirchen is celebrating a double anniversary: the towns merged 50 years ago - sports club twice as old. Westerwälder Zeitung, January 8, 2019, accessed on July 4, 2020 .
^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Wallmerod, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).

[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. 80 (PDF; 3 MB).