Remagen (district)

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Remagen
City of Remagen
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 43 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 50 ″  E
Height : 60 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 7612  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code : 53424
Area code : 02642
Remagen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Remagen

Location of Remagen in Rhineland-Palatinate
Aerial view of the Apollinari Church
Aerial view of the Apollinari Church

Remagen is the most populous local district and the core area of ​​the city of the same name Remagen in the Ahrweiler district of Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

Remagen is located on the northern Middle Rhine opposite the municipality of Erpel on the right bank of the Rhine on the northern edge of the Golden Mile , a fertile valley that extends as far as Bad Breisig . To the northwest, the city center narrows with the Rhine valley; to the southwest rises the 185  m above sea level. NHN high Victoriaberg , on the slopes of which as well as in the side valleys the coherent buildings rise up to almost 170  m above sea level. NHN extends.

The residential areas Auf Plattborn , Büschmarhof , Schloss Calmuth , Forsthaus Erlenbusch , Frohnhof , Haus Ernich , Herresberg , Hotel Waldburg , Hubertushof , Kapellenhof , Lützelbachhof , Oberstental , Schloss Marienfels , Unkelbrückermühle and Waldschlösschen belong to the district of Remagen .

history

For the history of the city of Remagen, see section "History" in the article Remagen .

In the course of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal and administrative reform, the city of Remagen (then 7,876 inhabitants) and the previously independent municipalities of Oberwinter (3,327 inhabitants), Oedingen (368), Rolandswerth (923) and Unkelbach (853 ) and from these the present-day city of Remagen was rebuilt.

The four previously independent municipalities, the previous district of Kripp and the core town of Remagen itself were each designated as local districts.

politics

District

Remagen is one of six local districts of the city and includes the area of ​​the district of Remagen without Kripp. The district is politically represented by a local advisory board and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of 13 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 FBL WGR total
2019 2 3 0 4th 3 1 13 seats
2014 3 6th 0 3 1 0 13 seats
2009 2 4th 1 2 2 2 13 seats
  • FBL = Free Citizens List Remagen e. V.
  • WGR = voter group Remagen e. V.

Mayor

Wilfried Humpert (FBL) became mayor of Remagen on August 21, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 57.07% of the vote.

Humpert's predecessor Walter Köbbing (CDU) had held the office for ten years.

Culture and sights

See section “Culture and Sights” in the Remagen article .

Economy and Infrastructure

See section “Economy and Infrastructure” in the Remagen article .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ without secondary residences ; Source: Residential statistics of the city of Remagen
  2. ↑ Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning (ed.); Ewald Glässer (arrangement): The natural spatial units on sheet 122/123 . Self-published, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1978, ISBN 3-87994-328-1 , p. 18. (= Geographical Land Survey 1: 200,000. Natural division of Germany )
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 4 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 193 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  5. ↑ a b Main Statute of the City of Remagen. § 2 and 3. Remagen City Administration, June 24, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Remagen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Remagen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Remagen. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Minutes of the meeting of the Remagen local council of the city of Remagen on August 21, 2019. (PDF) City of Remagen, August 30, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  10. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Remagen, non-association municipality, second line of results. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .