Oberplag

Oberplag Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	280 m above sea level NN
Residents :	184  (December 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Oberplag in Rhineland-Palatinate

Oberplag is a district of the local community Asbach in the Neuwied district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The place is characterized by agriculture, but is increasingly developing into a place of residence in the sense of a residential community .

geography

The village is located in the Niederwesterwald around three kilometers south of the main town of Asbach. In the north, Oberplag borders on the Asbach district of Straßen , in the west on the district of Hinterplag and in the south on the town of Bruchen, which belongs to the Neustadt (Wied) community . Oberplag is on Landesstrasse 255, which connects Asbach with Neustadt (Wied).

history

The three places Oberplag, Hinterplag and Vogtslag formed a community that was collectively referred to as "Plag" since the Middle Ages. The main town was Hinterplag. Around 1475 a country school from the Electoral Cologne office of Altenwied had its seat in a small moated castle.

From the Middle Ages until 1803, Oberplag belonged to the Electorate of Cologne . The place was part of the " Honnschaft Schöneberg", which belonged to the parish of Asbach and was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne office of Altenwied . On the hill called "Spielhügel" near today's state road there was a court of justice of the Altenwied office, which was called "Spillhüll" at the time.

According to an inventory ordered by Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660, Oberplag and Hinterplag had a total of nine courtyards; in 1787, 20 houses were counted here.

After the Rhineland became part of Prussia in 1815 , Oberplag belonged to the Schöneberg community in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was initially administered by the Neustadt mayor and from 1823 by the Asbach mayor . According to a census from 1885, Oberplag had 94 inhabitants who lived in 19 houses. 1931 Oberplag got its own post office Class II in the district of the post office Asbach.

Up until March 16, 1974, Oberplag belonged to the previously independent community of Schöneberg , which was dissolved on the same date and merged into the newly formed local community of Asbach. In 1987 Oberplag had 153 inhabitants.

Attractions

Are under monument protection:

• A two-zone residential part of a transverse house with a branch; Half-timbered from the 18th century (Im Weidchen 3)
• A wayside cross , marked 1884 (Am Spielhügel)
• See also : List of cultural monuments in Asbach (Westerwald)

Personalities

• Hubert Willi Klein (* 1949), engineer and university lecturer born in Oberplag

Web links

• Short portrait and film report on SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Josef Schäfer: Geschichte des Asbacher Land , 1980, p. 78
2. ^ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes . 3. Edition. Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 420.
3. ^ Local community Asbach (Ed.): Asbach / Westerwald. Pictures and reports from the last 200 years ; 1990, p. 240
4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, p. 44
5. ^ Theo Winterscheid: From the history of the post in the Windhagener area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 113.
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
7. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
8. ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments, Neuwied district , status: January 3, 2013, p. 5 (PDF; 1.6 MB)