Leimersdorf

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Leimersdorf
Union Free Parish County
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 190 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1222  (Oct. 30, 2013)
Incorporation : March 16, 1974
Postal code : 53501
Area code : 02641
Leimersdorf (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Leimersdorf

Location of Leimersdorf in Rhineland-Palatinate
West of Leimersdorf
West of Leimersdorf

Leimersdorf is a district of the non-union municipality Grafschaft in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler . The Leimersdorf district currently has 1222 inhabitants. Until it was incorporated into the newly formed municipality Grafschaft on March 16, 1974, Leimersdorf was an independent municipality. The districts Niederich and Oeverich to the west also belong to Leimersdorf .

geography

Leimersdorf is right on the border with North Rhine-Westphalia . To the west is the place Fritzdorf , which belongs to the municipality of Wachtberg in the Rhein-Sieg district . The city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler is located south of Leimersdorf.

history

Leimersdorf was first mentioned in a document on March 31, 1131, when Pope Innocent II confirmed the "Hof Limorstorp together with the church with the whole tithe " to the Cassius Foundation in Bonn . The branches in Nierendorf ("Nithirindorp") and Birresdorf ("Biringistorp") were mentioned in a document as early as 1110. After the Liber valoris of the Diocese of Cologne , Leimersdorf belonged to the Argaudeananate. In today's district of Oeverich a chapel was mentioned in the 16th century, in 1668 the district of Niederich also had a chapel, in both of which a weekly mass was read. The current parish church of St. Stephen was built in 1729.

Wonderfully country Leimer village belonged to the resulting in the 13th century county Neuenahr .

A schoolmaster in Leimersdorf was mentioned for the first time in connection with the possession of the County of Neuenahr by Count Palatine Friedrich IV on April 24, 1609. A school building in Leimersdorf is mentioned for the first time in a visitation protocol from 1762. It was a thatched half-timbered house and stood near the cemetery. The school district included the villages of Leimersdorf, Niederich, Oeverich and Birresdorf . In 1834 a new school was built in Leimersdorf for the communities of Leimersdorf and Birresdorf. The school had two classrooms. Around 1850, 150 children attended the school, who were taught by a teacher. The teacher also held the positions of sexton, organist and bell ringer. In 1958 today's primary school was built.

From 1794 to 1814 Leimersdorf belonged to the canton of Remagen in the arrondissement of Bonn ( Rhine-Moselle department ).

Due to the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhineland , and with it Leimersdorf, was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Leimer village belonged from 1816 to the mayor Gelsdorf in the then newly formed district Mayen in Koblenz . According to statistics from 1843, there were 46 inhabitants in the village of Leimersdorf, 120 in Niederich and 310 in Oeverich. All but one Protestant inhabitant belonged to the Catholic faith.

politics

District

Leimersdorf is one of eleven local districts in the county of Grafschaft. It is represented by a local council and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of seven members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice SPD CDU FDP Green FWG 1 total
2019 1 4th 0 1 1 7 seats
2017 2 5 - - - 7 seats
2014 4th 2 1 - - 7 seats
2009 1 3 3 - - 7 seats
1 Free group of voters

On May 22, 2017, the former mayor and almost the entire local council resigned. The reason were differences with the county administration about how to deal with a planned landfill on the site of the Leimersdorf clay pit. Therefore, an extraordinary new election took place on September 24, 2017.

Mayor

Christoph Weber (CDU) became mayor of Leimersdorf in October 2017. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of 77.71% of the votes.

Weber's predecessors were Hans Christoph Rech (SPD), who was elected in 2014 and resigned on May 22, 2017, and Wilfried Klein until 2014.

Infrastructure

In Leimersdorf there is a primary school for the districts Birresdorf, Leimersdorf and Nierendorf as well as a kindergarten.

Culture and sights

East of Leimersdorf is the Frankensiedlung Nithrindorp , a building project to reconstruct an early medieval Frankish settlement.

Web links

Commons : Leimersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics for the municipality of Grafschaft, as of October 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 164 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  3. ^ A b Philipp Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier , 1887, page 96
  4. ^ Ottmar Prothmann: 375 years of school in Leimersdorf , home yearbook 1985, Ahrweiler district
  5. ^ J. Rausch: Von der Grafschaft and their history , Heimatjahrbuch 1955 Kreis Ahrweiler
  6. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , 1843, page 10
  7. ^ Main statute of the county county. (PDF) § 2 and 3. Gemeinde Grafschaft, June 18, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Leimersdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Günther Armbruster was elected deputy by the mayor. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, October 30, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Leimersdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Leimersdorf. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  12. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Grafschaft, association-free municipality, penultimate row of results. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  13. ↑ In four places there are new faces at the top. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, May 27, 2014, accessed on August 2, 2020 .
  14. ↑ nithrindorp.de