Rheinbrohl

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Neuwied
Association municipality :	Bad Hönningen
Height :	83 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.2 km 2
Residents:	3999 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	233 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56598
Area code :	02635
License plate :	NO
Community key :	07 1 38 063
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Marktstrasse 1 ; 53557 Bad Hönningen
Website :	www.rheinbrohl.de
Local Mayor :	Oliver Labonde ( CDU )
Location of the local community Rheinbrohl in the district of Neuwied

Gertrudenhof with chapel

Rheinbrohl (Latin called Broele trans Rhenum ) is a municipality in the Neuwied district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Bad Hönningen community . According to state planning, Rheinbrohl is designated as a basic center.

geography

Geographical location

The wine village of Rheinbrohl is located on the right bank of the Middle Rhine opposite Brohl-Lützing and immediately south of the city of Bad Hönningen . The municipality is part of the Nature Park Rhein-Westerwald and is the natural area with its outer west the southern end of the Linz-Hönninger valley widening and the east of it lying area of the Rhein-Wied back to map. There it reaches just below 373 m above sea level. NHN high Malberg its highest point on the ground . In Rheinbrohl former Roman begins Limes , of the on 15 July 2005 UNESCO in the World Heritage Site was recorded list.

Community structure

The municipality of Rheinbrohl includes the Arienheller district and the residential areas Annahof, Berghof, Christinenhöhe, Dielsberg, Hartmannshof, Bergfriede House, Forst House, Wilhelmsruh Hunting Lodge, Lampenthalerhof, Magdalenenhof and Zur alten Mühle.

history

In the late second and early third centuries AD, the area of today's Rheinbrohl was the site of a Roman fort . Here was the northern beginning of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes .

For the Roman past of the place see also

Rheinbrohl itself was first mentioned in a document on May 3, 877 in a letter from King Charles the Bald and at that time belonged to the Nivelles monastery in the Duchy of Brabant . The governors were the Counts of Sayn . In 1606, Rheinbrohl fell as a failed fiefdom to Kurtrier , in the course of secularization in 1803 to Nassau , after the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to Prussia .

Companies

The Hilgers shipyard was founded in Rheinbrohl in 1947 and had its roots in the Hilgers steel construction company founded in 1868 . In 1985 the shipyard was closed.

The Arienheller Sprudel around 1916

Arienheller Sprudel- und Kohlensäure AG was founded on October 29, 1898 under the takeover of Rheinische Kohlensäure-Union Stoll & Cie. founded. In 1964 merger with Hubertus Sprudel Erben Thellenbach GmbH to form Vereinigte Mineralbrunnen GmbH. In 1966 it was renamed Artus Mineralquellen GmbH & Co. KG. In 1996, the Artus mineral springs, including the Roisdorf fountain, were taken over by the Vereinte Mineral- und Heilquellen GmbH in Rosbach.

Second World War

Rheinbrohl achieved sad fame at the end of the Second World War . After Linz was taken by the American troops without a fight, Rheinbrohl only fell into American hands in March 1945 after a 10-day continuous bombardment. A small German unit of 27 men, led by a first lieutenant, managed to make the Americans believe that they were facing serious resistance with larger units by changing the position of a single anti-aircraft gun in the evening. It was not until a massive air raid on March 19, 1945 that the fighting ended. The sad result of this senseless resistance was 40 deaths among the civilian population, 66 completely destroyed and 177 heavily destroyed and therefore uninhabitable houses. The shelling and capture of Rheinbrohl was filmed by a cameraman from the US Army. These impressive original recordings were published by SPIEGEL TV in 2005 under the title “When the war came to Germany”.

Statistics on population development

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

year	Residents
1815	1,013
1835	1,470
1871	1,606
1905	2,583
1939	3,190

year	Residents
1950	3,524
1961	3,947
1970	3,872
1987	3,845
2005	3,995

dialect

In Rheinbrohl they speak a Moselle-Franconian dialect , which is located near the transition to Ripuarian .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Rheinbrohl consists of 20 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	total
2019	9	11	-	20 seats
2014	11	8th	1	20 seats
2009	11	8th	1	20 seats
2004	10	9	1	20 seats

FWG = Free Voter Group Rheinbrohl e. V.

mayor

In May 2014 Oliver Labonde (CDU) was elected to office with 53.6% of the vote. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of 64.63% of the votes. Oliver Labonde's predecessors were Dieter Labonde (SPD, 1999–2014) and Walter Kramer (CDU, 1984–1999).

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split by silver and blue; in front a continuous red bar cross, in the back three or two silver pilgrim shells arranged one-to-one. "

Justification of the coat of arms: The red cross indicates the former affiliation to Kurtrier . The shells are taken from the coat of arms of the Archbishops of Trier Jakob von Sierk (1439–1456) or Lothar von Metternich (1599–1623). One of the two is likely to have awarded the community seal, which already shows the shield with the cross and shells and has been known in prints since 1610.

The coat of arms has been legally valid since 1949.

Partner municipality

Symbol of the partnership with Bourcefranc

St. Suitbertus

Retirement home in Arienheller

School center

The partnership with the municipality of Bourcefranc-le-Chapus ( Département Charente-Maritime ) on the French Atlantic coast has existed since 1965.

Attractions

The neo-Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Suitbertus, which was built from 1852 to 1856 according to plans by the Cologne diocesan builder Vincenz Statz .
The root nativity scene in the St.Suitbertus Church, every year from December 24th to February 2nd
The Gertrudenkapelle with structure from the 13th century and an altar from the 17th century as well as Rheinbrohl's oldest bell from 1696.
The neo-Gothic Protestant church, built in 1888 by the Wiesbaden architect Friedrich Lang .
The historic town hall, the Gertrudenhof, which can be traced back to the 7th century.
The by sculptor Carl Burger built memorial Infantry Regiment. 29 for the First World War fallen comrades Infantry Regiment 'Horn' (third Rhenish) No. 29 on the Rheinbrohler Ley - the relief shows four apocalyptic horsemen who represent the horrors of war “hunger”, “plague”, “war” and “death”.
A replica of the first watchtower ("Römerturm 1") is at the entrance to the car ferry to Bad Breisig .
Since 2008 there has been a Limes adventure center called RömerWelt at the local exit from the B 42 to Rheinbrohl, right next to the former factory, Arienheller-Sprudel .

Transport and infrastructure

The place offers a full range of shops for daily needs, several doctors of different specialties, pharmacy, specialist shops and restaurants. Many different craft businesses and a supermarket are located in the industrial area at the end of the village towards Bad Hönningen .

traffic

Rheinbrohl is the train station on the right bank of the Rhine . Regional train 27 and regional express 8 ( Mönchengladbach - Cologne - Koblenz ) stop there . The towns between Neuwied and Linz am Rhein can be reached with the VRM buses . The German Limes Road begins in Rheinbrohl .

Bike trails

The German Limes Cycle Route runs through Rheinbrohl . This leads along the German Limes Road for 818 km from Bad Hönningen on the Rhine to Regensburg on the Danube .

Hiking trails

At the Limes adventure center Roman world in the district Arienheller the hiking trails Rheinsteig , Westerwaldsteig and the Limes hiking trail over.

schools

Maximilian Kolbe School (special needs school)
Römerwall School ( Realschule plus , all-day school)
Astrid Lindgren School (primary school)
Vocational training center of the Koblenz Chamber of Crafts

Kindergartens

Four kindergartens, one of which is a special educational kindergarten run by Lebenshilfe Neuwied-Andernach gGmbH

Nursing homes

Three nursing and old people's homes

Business

The largest company in town is DSD Stahlbau Hilgers , formerly Stahlbau Hilgers .

Rheinbrohl station

Personalities

Anna Katharina Spee (1590–1631) was a victim of witch persecution .
Günther L. Heubgen is a PhD author in the field of biology.
Herman Flesche was a German architect, painter, art historian, and writer.
Hermann Jung , journalist a. Writer, (* 1901 Rheinbrohl; † 1988 Gemünden / Main). Author of over 300 books and works on wine. From 1953 to 1957, Jung was editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine “Der deutsche Weinbau”. Winner of the German Wine Culture Award 1981.
Alfred Ott , former Bundesliga soccer referee.
Johanna Loewenherz (born March 12, 1857 in Rheinbrohl; † May 16 or 17, 1937 there) was a Jewish author, musician, women's rights activist and socialist

literature

Heinrich Volk: history of the patch Rheinbrohl . Publishing house of the Catholic Bachelors Association, Rheinbrohl 1897. ( digitized version )
Heinrich Volk: Supplements to the history of the patch Rheinbrohl . Self-published, Neuwied 1922 ( digitized version )
Dietmar Waldorf: Historical data of the place Rheinbrohl and the surrounding area (in the early days) in chronological order . Self-published, Rheinbrohl 2000.
Hansfried Schaefer: Rheinbrohl earlier - today . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2002. ISBN 3-89570-804-6 .
Hansfried Schaefer: Broele trans Rhenum - Rheinbrohl through the ages . Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the Catholic bachelor club Rheinbrohl, community Rheinbrohl 1972.

Web links

Commons : Rheinbrohl - Collection of Images

Limes watchtower 1 near Rheinbrohl (replica from 1974)
View from Rheinbrohler Ley to Rheinbrohl and Bad Hönningen (opposite the port of Brohl-Lützing, Rheineck Castle and Bad Breisig)
Rockenfelder Mühle in Rheinbrohl, Arienheller district
Ev. Rheinbrohl Church
Old houses
Limes Adventure Center Römerwelt
Vicus building Römerwelt
The Limes in the forest above Rheinbrohl
Rheinbrohl traffic circle