Orfgen

This article deals with the German community; for the German actress see Samy Orfgen .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′  N , 7 ° 32 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.74 km 2
Residents:	236 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57632
Area code :	02685
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 088
Community structure:	5 districts
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 13 57610 Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Website :	www.vg-altenkirchen-flammersfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Deisting
Location of the local community Orfgen in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

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

geography

The place is about two kilometers north of Flammersfeld , not far from the meeting point of Bundesstraße 256 and Landesstraße 267 near Schürdt .

history

Orfgen was first mentioned in writing from 1427–1430 in the Miracle Book of the Church of Hilgenroth . It is not known exactly where the place name comes from. The name of Orfgen has changed several times since then: Orffe (1452), Orffge (1470, 1523), Orffgen (1576), Orfgen (1675) - other forms are known. Orfgen was part of the Flammersfeld parish early on (1452) . The parishes were also administrative districts in the county of Sayn . The parish court of Flammersfeld belonged to the high fortress Birnbach -Altenkirchen (from 1430) and later (1636) to the district court of Hachenburg .

In the Middle Ages Orfgen was part of the County of Sayn . After the introduction of the Reformation in County Sayn, the inhabitants became Lutheran and later Reformed. After the division of the County of Sayn in the 17th century, Orfgen belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg .

The municipality of Orfgen consists of four, previously five, districts: Hofacker, Berg, Hahn and Höllburg. Ziegenhahn is now part of the Ziegenhain community . The municipality of Orfgen founded its own school in 1755, as the largest town in the Flammersfeld parish, for which premises in Orfgen and Berg were rented. In 1842 the local council decided to unite the evacuated school in Berg (for the districts Hahn and Berg) with the school of Orfgen and to build its own school building. The building was completed in 1846. It stood a little more diagonally and below the building that is still standing today on the same site at Hofacker. The teacher August Flammersfeld from Oberbieber founded a reading club in 1905 and a public library in Berlin with the support of the “ Society for the Spread of Popular Education ” . In 1908 the local council decided to build a new school - supposedly because the old school had become dilapidated. In reality it should have been about creating a new building with suitable rooms for this public library. The old half-timbered building from 1846 was sold for 500 marks , dismantled and rebuilt in the Höllburg district, where it still stands today. A new school was opened on the old school premises in 1910, which was in operation until the closure of small village schools in the 1960s. Starting in August 1965, the school was taken over by the central school in the neighboring municipality of Flammersfeld and the old school building came into private hands. It still stands today and has been renovated since 2004.

In 1917 Orfgen received a telephone connection, and in 1925 the village was connected to the power grid. Water was taken from wells and springs until the community was connected to the Flammersfeld water network in 1984. It was not until 2007 that the last remains of the former spring water extraction were removed.

Since 1932 there has been a rifle club in Orfgen, the KKSV - small caliber rifle club Orfgen with its own rifle house , shooting range and an annual rifle festival .

Population development

The development of the population of Orfgen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 210 1835 267 1871 368 1905 287 1939 238

year Residents 1950 269 1961 231 1970 246 1987 190 2005 248

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Orfgen consists of six council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Michael Deisting became the local mayor of Orfgen in October 2019. In the re-election on September 1, 2019, he was elected for five years with 54.7% of the vote. The re- election became necessary because in the direct election on May 26, 2019, the only applicant could not get the necessary majority of votes. Michael Deisting's predecessor was Manfred Lichtenthäler, who held the office for 15 years.

coat of arms

The golden lioned leopard on a red background refers to the county of Sayn as the heraldic animal of the Counts of Sayn. The black mill wheel on a golden background is reminiscent of the former mill in Orfgen. The black plow on a golden background symbolizes how the village was shaped by agriculture. The five golden ears of corn on a green background stand for the five Orfgen districts of Altenhof, Hofacker, Höllburg, Berg and Hahn.

Cultural monuments

List of cultural monuments in Orfgen

literature

• Local parish Orfgen: Orfgen. A Westerwald community through the ages, Orfgen 2002.
• Ottilie Müller: A coat of arms for Orfgen , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 56 (2013), pp. 80–81.
• Daniel Schneider: The mill trade in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 59 (2016), pp. 219–237.
• Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
• Elfriede Thiell: Orfgen celebrates his birthday , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 55 (2012), pp. 116–119.

Web links

Commons : Orfgen  - Collection of Images

• Ortgemeinde Orfgen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ See Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the ground plan, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 2015, pp. 74–80.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Orfgen. Accessed December 31, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Information sheet Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen: Michael Deisting appointed local mayor of Orfgen. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, edition 42/2019, accessed on December 31, 2019 . 
6. ^ Rhein-Zeitung: Orfgen has decided: Michael Deisting will be the local mayor. September 1, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, 48th line of results. Accessed December 31, 2019 . 
8. ↑ For the historical development of the mills in the county of Sayn see Daniel Schneider: Das Mühlengewerbe in der Grafschaft Sayn-Altenkirchen, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 2016, pp. 219-239.
9. ↑ See Ottilie Müller: A coat of arms for Orfgen, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 2013, pp. 80–81.