Kasbach-Ohlenberg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Neuwied
Association municipality :	Linz on the Rhine
Height :	194 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.78 km 2
Residents:	1401 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	293 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53547
Area code :	02644
License plate :	NO
Community key :	07 1 38 501
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Am Schoppbüchel 5 53545 Linz am Rhein
Website :	www.linz-vg.de
Local Mayor :	Frank Becker
Location of the local community Kasbach-Ohlenberg in the district of Neuwied

Ohlenberg, aerial photo (2017)

Kasbach-Ohlenberg is a municipality in the Neuwied district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Linz am Rhein association.

geography

Kasbach-Ohlenberg is located on the right side of the Middle Rhine around 4.5 km south of the border with North Rhine-Westphalia, around halfway between Cologne and Koblenz on the B 42 . The municipality of Kasbach-Ohlenberg extends from the Rhine in the southwest (district Kasbach) to the foothills of the Westerwald (districts Ohlenberg and Erl) in the northeast. It reaches at around 325  m above sea level. NHN its highest point. The Rhine tributary Kasbach , to which the Ohlenberger Bach flows in the district of Kasbach, runs largely on the western boundary of the municipality .

Community structure

The following districts belong to Kasbach-Ohlenberg :

• Kasbach
• Ohlenberg
• Erl (Obererl and Untererl)

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Erpel in the west and north, Linz on the Rhine in the north and east and Ockenfels , again Linz on the Rhine and Remagen on the opposite side of the Rhine in the south.

history

On the nearby mountains Hummelsberg and Asberg , ring walls from before the turn of the century were found. It is believed that people already settled here at this time.

The Kasbach flowing through the municipality marked the beginning of the border between Engersgau in the south and Auelgau in the north as early as the Middle Ages . The Gau border later became the border between the archbishoprics of Trier and Cologne, which still exists today . Until 1935, Kasbach was divided along this border into the municipality of “Obercasbach” ( district area : 174  ha ) belonging to the Linz district and the municipality of “Niedercasbach” (district area: 66 ha) belonging to the district of Unkel .

The municipality of Kasbach-Ohlenberg was newly formed on January 1, 1976 from the dissolved municipalities of Kasbach (area: 240 ha) and Ohlenberg (area: 238 ha). The districts of Niederkasbach , Oberkasbach and Ohlenberg remained.

Kasbach

The first documentary mention of Kasbach was in an exchange contract of the Prüm Abbey from 882, a little later with the name "Casbach" also in the Prümer Urbar from 893. In a document from Archbishop Hildolf of Cologne from 1076, the donation of a farm in "Casbach" mentioned.

Parish Church of St. Nicholas, aerial view (2017)

Church of St. Maria Magdalena in the district of Kasbach

There must have been a chapel in Kasbach (Linz side) early on because it is reported that it collapsed around 1633. Together with the Catholics belonging to Trier and Cologne, a new chapel is built and St.  Michael is consecrated. The current Kasbach church was built in 1905 and is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene .

The communities of Niederkasbach and Oberkasbach were merged on October 1, 1935 to form the community of Kasbach.

On May 25, 1987 Kasbach had 644 inhabitants.

Ohlenberg

A donation from Countess Mechthild von Sayn shows that in 1250 she bequeathed her possessions, which also included Ohlenberg, to the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden . From then on, Ohlenberg belonged secularly to Kurköln until 1803, with the Archbishop of Trier remaining the head of the church. Ohlenberg was first mentioned in 1262.

The efforts of the Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann V von Wied, to reform in the 1540s also had an impact on the Electoral Cologne city of Linz on the Rhine and the parish. In the violent disputes, the citizens of Ohlenberg and Ockenfels as well as part of the city council of Linz confessed to the innovations of the Reformation. After the elector was deposed, they had to return to the old faith.

Parish church of St. Nikolaus in the district of Ohlenberg

A chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas was probably built in Ohlenberg in the 13th century . In the Taxa generalis , a kind of inventory of the Archdiocese of Trier , a chapel was mentioned around 1380. In 1903 the new building took place in the neo-Romanesque style. Part of the choir from the 13th century and the tower from the 17th century have been preserved from the old church. On December 6th, 2009 the church received four church bells from the bell foundry of Maria Laach Abbey in the tones b ¹ , d ² , f ² and g ² ( Salve-Regina motif); the two smaller bells were cast on October 10, 2009 in Erl on the open field. Apart from modern tools for melting the bronze, the bell was cast using the traditional clay mold process.

In addition, the church is home to the first bell that was cast in the workshop of what would later become the “ Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture” in 1852. Once again it was decommissioned, renovated and given a place of honor in the church. On special occasions, it can be attached with a rope. Their strike tone is g ² .

On May 25, 1987 Ohlenberg had 618 inhabitants.

Erl

→ Main article : Erl (Kasbach-Ohlenberg)

Erl was first mentioned in a document in 1257. In 1270, Gerhard von Rennenberg donated his property in Erl to the St. Katharinen Monastery , which he founded at the beginning of the 13th century , which he called "eyn precious hoiff". On May 25, 1987, the Untererl part of the municipality had 24 and the Obererl part of the municipality 46 inhabitants.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 439 1835 476 1871 694 1905 832 1939 976 1950 1,113

year Residents 1961 1,175 1970 1,265 1987 1,219 1997 1,330 2005 1,425 2017 1,394

politics

Ockenfelserbach near Kasbach

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kasbach-Ohlenberg consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG KO	FWG O	total
2019	3	5	8th	-	16 seats
2014	2	5	9	-	16 seats
2009	2	5	5	4th	16 seats
2004	3	4th	5	4th	16 seats

• FWG KO = Free Voting Group Kasbach-Ohlenberg e. V.
• FWG O = Free Voters' Group Ohlenberg e. V.

mayor

The honorary local mayor is Frank Becker, who was directly elected in the 2014 local elections with 81.7 percent of the vote . He replaced Dieter Sander in this position. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Becker was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 75.10%.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “The coat of arms is divided and shows at the top, split by a wave pole, a black cross in front and a red cross in the back; the wave pile is flanked at the foot end by two hexagonal columns; the lower half of the escutcheon shows a golden grape in red at the front and a golden ear of wheat at the back. "

Cultural monuments

See the list of cultural monuments in Kasbach-Ohlenberg

traffic

The district of Kasbach is on federal highway 42 . The next motorway junction is Bad Honnef / Linz on the A3 .

In Kasbach there is a train station of the Kasbachtalbahn , on which tourist traffic takes place between Linz and Kalenborn . The closest train station for regular passenger traffic is Linz (Rhein) train station .

Personalities

• Joseph Schölmerich (1913–1995), German medic, communist, anti-fascist and non-fiction author
• Paul Schölmerich (1916–2015), German physician, professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

literature

• Joseph Scholmer , Ursula Rumin : Naughty boys and bad boys. Adolescent years on the Rhine . Triga - the publishing house, Gründau-Rothenbergen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89774-764-7 .

Web links

• Internet presence of the Ohlenberg district

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 33 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ ^{A b} Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 69/70.
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 167 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
7. ↑ ELECTION RESULTS. Retrieved May 29, 2019 . 
8. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2014, election of the honorary local and city mayors
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Linz am Rhein, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .