Oberirsen

coat of arms	Germany map
Help on coat of arms	Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Height :	235 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.45 km 2
Residents:	609 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	64 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57635
Area code :	02686
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 082
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 13 57610 Altenkirchen
Website :	vg-altenkirchen.de
Local Mayor :	Wilfried Stahl
Location of the Oberirsen municipality in the Altenkirchen district (Westerwald)

Oberirsen is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld .

Geographical location

The main town of Oberirsen is located in the Scharfenbach valley between Rimbach in the north and Marenbach in the west. Neighboring towns are Wölmersen in the southeast and Birnbach in the south. Rimbach borders in the north on Mittelirsen in Leuscheider Land , which is already in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The districts of Marenbach and Rimbach belong to Oberirsen.

history

It is believed that the settlement took place between the 6th and 9th centuries. The first written mention is from 1219.

In March 1945, four Wehrmacht officers were sentenced to death in Oberirsen and Rimbach because they failed to blow up the Ludendorff Bridge near Remagen. The fifth co-defendant, Captain Bratge, was sentenced to death in absentia. At the time of his conviction he was already a prisoner of war. The Flying Stand Court West was ordered by a Führer decree . Three of the officers sentenced to death are buried on the war cemetery in Birnbach (coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 11.8 ″  E ).

Memorial stone in memory of the four officers sentenced to death here in March 1945

On May 1, 1969, the two previously independent communities of Marenbach and Rimbach were incorporated.

Population development

The development of the population of Oberirsen in relation to today's municipal area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 258 1835 352 1871 481 1905 531 1939 474 1950 503 1961 504

year Residents 1970 509 1987 567 1997 664 2005 672 2009 661 2013 623 2017 614

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Wilfried Stahl became the mayor of Oberirsen in 1994. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 53.26%.

Cultural monuments

→ List of cultural monuments in Oberirsen

Web links

Commons : Oberirsen  - Collection of images

• Ortgemeinde Oberirsen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen
• Brief portrait of Oberirsen ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at SWR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, 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. 11 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 174 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local council election 2019 Oberirsen. Retrieved December 27, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, 42nd line of results. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .