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Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Altenahr
Height :	284 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.69 km 2
Residents:	564 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	120 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53506
Area code :	02643
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 068
LOCODE :	DE RE5
Association administration address:	Rossberg 3 ; 53505 Altenahr, Germany
Website :	www.rech-weindorf.de
Local Mayor :	Dominik Gieler ( CDU )
Location of the local community Rech in the district of Ahrweiler

Bridge over the Ahr in Rech

Right around 1900

Rech is a municipality in the Ahrweiler district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Altenahr .

geography

Computing is on the south bank of the Ahr at the foot of Mount Steiner, one of the higher mountains of the Ahr Hills , about 30 kilometers south of Bonn and 50 kilometers northwest of Koblenz .

Right borders the following communities in a clockwise direction, starting in the north: Dernau , Kesseling and Mayschoss .

history

1408: First documentary mention (in the registers of the Princes of Metternich)
1482: Rech comes to rule Saffenberg
1704: Destruction of the Saffenburg
1720: Construction of the Church of St. Luzia
1723: Start of construction work on the stone Ahr bridge
1910: The stone bridge is the only bridge to survive the great flood

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	316
1835	387
1871	426
1905	452
1939	483
1950	498

year	Residents
1961	542
1970	571
1987	577
1997	592
2005	568
2019	564

politics

Municipal council

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

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	UBL	total
2019	by majority vote				12 seats
2014	3	7th	-	2	12 seats
2009	3	5	2	2	12 seats
2004	3	7th	2	-	12 seats

UBL = Independent Citizens' List Rech

mayor

Dominik Gieler (CDU) became local mayor of Rech on July 1, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 84.76% of the vote.

Gieler's predecessor Hans-Dieter Kutscher (SPD) had held the office for 20 years, but did not start again in 2019.

Culture and sights

Buildings

In Rech, the Nepomuk Bridge is the oldest surviving Ahr bridge , which was the only one to survive the great flood of 1910. The Nepomuk Bridge was completely renovated in 2008.

The old winery , the oldest half-timbered house in Rech from the 17th century.

Regular events

Three-day wine festival on the third weekend in September
Lucia market on the second weekend of Advent
Culinary vine hiking days on the last weekend in April

Economy and Infrastructure

Tourism and retail

Rech has two hotels and several private and semi-commercial accommodation providers. The tourism sector has been declining significantly since 2013, which led to the closure of several accommodation establishments and almost all retail stores.

Viticulture

Computing is part of the wine field Walporzheim in the region Ahr . There are 20 larger wine-growing businesses in the village, and the area under vines is 35 hectares . About 81% of the wine grown are red wine grape varieties (as of 2010). In 1979 there were still 54 farms operating, the vineyard area at that time was 48 hectares.

Vineyards

traffic

Graphic section Liblar - Rech of the unfinished Strategic Railway Ruhr-Moselle relief with Ahr Valley Railway bundling west of Rech

The Rech stop is located on the originally double-track Ahr Valley Railway ( Remagen - Ahrbrück ), on which the Rhein-Ahr-Bahn (RB 30) operates for local rail passenger transport .

Local rail passenger transport is carried out by DB Regio NRW , which uses DB class 643 diesel multiple units for the Rhein-Ahr-Bahn for speeds of up to 120 km / h.

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM) and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) as well as the NRW tariff apply to public transport on the Rhein-Ahr-Bahn .

The federal highway 267 runs through Rech .

Between Mayschoss and Rech (as between Dernau and Walporzheim), the Ahr Cycle Path runs as a partial railway cycle path on the route of the former northern second track of the Ahr Valley Railway, between Altenahr and Walporzheim together through two tunnels and over seven Ahr bridges.

On the western outskirts of Rech, the Liblar - Rech section of the unfinished Ruhr-Mosel-Relief Strategic Railway was to be bundled with the Ahr Valley Railway. Several tunnel portals in the vineyards and the stumps of the Adenbach Viaduct near Ahrweiler are evidence of it today . There the disused " government bunker" was built, including two tunnels of the "unfinished" (-> Silberberg , Kuxberg tunnel ).