Oberhonnefeld-Gierend

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Coat of arms of the local community Oberhonnefeld-Gierend
Oberhonnefeld-Gierend
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Oberhonnefeld-Gierend highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Neuwied
Association municipality : Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach
Height : 391 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.97 km 2
Residents: 1029 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 259 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56587
Area code : 02634
License plate : NO
Community key : 07 1 38 053
Association administration address: Westerwaldstrasse 32–34
56579 Rengsdorf
Website : www.oberhonnefeld.de
Local Mayor : Oliver frankincense
Location of the local community Oberhonnefeld-Gierend in the district of Neuwied
Neuwied Buchholz (Westerwald) Asbach (Westerwald) Windhagen Neustadt (Wied) Rheinbreitbach Unkel Bruchhausen (Landkreis Neuwied) Erpel Vettelschoß Linz am Rhein Kasbach-Ohlenberg Ockenfels Sankt Katharinen (Landkreis Neuwied) Dattenberg Leubsdorf (am Rhein) Bad Hönningen Rheinbrohl Hammerstein (am Rhein) Leutesdorf Isenburg (Westerwald) Kleinmaischeid Großmaischeid Stebach Marienhausen Dierdorf Oberdreis Woldert Rodenbach bei Puderbach Ratzert Niederwambach Steimel Döttesfeld Puderbach Dürrholz Hanroth Raubach Harschbach Niederhofen Dernbach (Landkreis Neuwied) Urbach (Westerwald) Linkenbach Breitscheid (Westerwald) Waldbreitbach Roßbach (Wied) Hausen (Wied) Datzeroth Niederbreitbach Hümmerich Oberhonnefeld-Gierend Oberraden Straßenhaus Kurtscheid Bonefeld Ehlscheid Rengsdorf Melsbach Hardert Anhausen Rüscheid Thalhausen Meinborn Nordrhein-Westfalen Landkreis Altenkirchen (Westerwald) Landkreis Ahrweiler Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz Koblenz Marienhausen Westerwaldkreismap
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Oberhonnefeld-Gierend is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . The community belongs to the community of Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach .

geography

The community is located in the Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park north of Rengsdorf .

Community structure

  • Oberhonnefeld
  • Yawing
  • Yaw height
Oberhonnefeld-Gierend, aerial photo (2018)

history

A church in Oberhonnefeld is first mentioned around 1000.

See also the list of cultural monuments in Oberhonnefeld-Gierend

Population development

The development of the population of Oberhonnefeld-Gierend in relation to today's municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 118
1835 177
1871 266
1905 287
1939 326
1950 364
year Residents
1961 408
1970 412
1987 706
1997 835
2005 1,022
2019 1,029

politics

Municipal council

The council in Oberhonnefeld-Gierend consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the volunteer local mayor as chairman. Until 2014, the municipality council had twelve council members.

mayor

Oliver Weihrauch became the local mayor of Oberhonnefeld-Gierend on July 9, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 87.96% of the vote. Oliver Weihrauch's predecessor was Rita Lehnert, who held the office for ten years.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Oberhonnefeld-Gierend.png
Blazon : “Split by a curved tip, inside a black church in front view, the tower with an open arched gate, split and open window in the bell storey and a pointed tent roof with a weathercock; front eight times diagonally divided by gold and red, occupied by an eight-spoke black gear wheel; behind in green a three-line golden ear, the stalk with two bent leaves. "

The coat of arms has been legally valid since June 3, 1981 based on a design by Albert Meinhard, Neuwied.

Foundation of the coat of arms: The golden-red diagonal division is the herald image of the oldest coat of arms of the Counts of Wied from 1218 and indicates that the municipality belonged to the allodial possession of the Counts of Wied. The gear symbolizes the former iron and copper mines and smelters in the parish of Honnefeld , which were in operation until the end of the 18th century . The ear of wheat symbolizes the cultivation of grain, the green the wooded surroundings of the community. The church shown is supposed to represent the Protestant parish church in Oberhonnefeld, a classicist hall church .

traffic

The federal highway 256 runs east of the community and leads from Neuwied to Altenkirchen . The next motorway junction is Neuwied on federal motorway 3 . The nearest ICE - Station is in Montabaur on the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine / Main .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Oberhonnefeld-Gierend  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  4. RW-Direkt: Minutes of the constituent meeting of the local community council of the local community Oberhonnefeld-Gierend on July 9th, 2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, official gazette of the Verbandsgemeinde Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, edition 31/2019, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rengsdorf-Waldbreitbach, Verbandsgemeinde, 13th line of results. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  6. Oberhonnefeld-Gierend is about to start over. NR-Kurier, May 9, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2020 .