Quirks

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Coat of arms of the local community Macken
Quirks
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Macken highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 24 ′  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Rhine-Moselle
Height : 320 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.61 km 2
Residents: 351 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56290
Area code : 02605
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 215
Association administration address: Bahnhofstrasse 44
56330 Kobern-Gondorf
Website : www.macken.de
Local Mayor : Marco Kneip ( CDU )
Location of the local community Macken in the district of Mayen-Koblenz
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Macken is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Mosel community , which has its administrative headquarters in Kobern-Gondorf .

The place is on the Moselle heights in the Hunsrück . There are almost 500 hectares of forest in the district.

history

To the southwest of the village, not far from the road in the direction of Eveshausen, Michael Hammes (ARRATA e.V.) found a fragment of a pecked oval hatchet that dates back to the Neolithic Age. Comparable finds have been made in Mermuth , Beulich , Morshausen and Oberfell since 2005 .

In the Old Kingdom , Macken belonged to the tribal Beltheim court .

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Marco Kneip (CDU) became local mayor of Macken on November 27, 2018. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for five years with 88.63% of the vote. Marco Kneipp's predecessor was Werner Wolf, who died unexpectedly in August 2018.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Macken
 Blazon : "Divided by lowered golden bars, split above by silver and blue, in front a red bar cross, behind a golden church, in the green shield base a silver plow."

The coat of arms has been used since 1980.

Attractions

Otto Andreas Tower
  • Brigitta Chapel from 1910
  • The Otto-Andreas-Turm , a 6 m high wooden observation tower was built in 1973 about 1.5 km southwest of the village on a hill.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Macken

Educational institutions

  • Kindergarten (half day)

religion

There is a catholic church in Macken.

  • Catholic parish: St. Kastor, Macken
  • Dean's office: Maifeld-Untermosel
  • Visitation district: Koblenz
  • Diocese: Trier

The old rectory is no longer owned by the church.

societies

  • Bachelor Association Macken eV
  • Women's Association Macken eV
  • Sports club
  • Voluntary fire department quirks
  • Friends of the kindergarten "Regenbogen" Macken eV
  • Friends of "St. Kastor Macken eV"
  • MGV Beulich-Macken-Morshausen
  • FC Bayern Fan Club "Roter Stern Macken"
  • Parish council quirks

Web links

Commons : Quirks  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Welker: First insights into the Michelsberg culture in the Hunsrück - newly discovered Neolithic stone axes from the Vorderhunsrück. In: Adventure archeology. No. 8, 2007, pp. 24-31, ISSN  1615-7125
  3. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  4. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rhein-Mosel, Verbandsgemeinde, ninth line of results. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ CDU local association Macken (press release): 90.3 percent of the votes received. Blick Aktuell, November 28, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ CDU local association Macken (press release): New local mayor candidate. Blick Aktuell, October 2, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ Otto Andreas lookout tower , in the local community Macken online