Sankt Johann (near Mayen)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality :	Vordereifel
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.31 km 2
Residents:	938 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	218 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56727
Area code :	02651
License plate :	MYK, MY
Community key :	07 1 37 097
Association administration address:	Kelberger Strasse 26 ; 56727 Mayen
Website :	www.st-johann-vordereifel.de
Local Mayor :	Rainer Wollenweber ( CDU )
Location of the local community Sankt Johann in the district of Mayen-Koblenz

Sankt Johann is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Vordereifel , which has its administrative headquarters in Mayen .

geography

Sankt Johann is located in the conservation area "Rhein-Ahr-Eifel". The Nette flows through the community to the west of the village . The residential areas Bürresheim, Hammesmühle (Löbsmühle) and Silbersand Grube also belong to Sankt Johann .

history

Sankt Johann is first mentioned in a document from 1348, but under the name "Oberbürresheim", which is derived from the nearby Bürresheim Castle or the lordship of the same name to which Sankt Johann belonged until the end of the 18th century. In the middle of the 15th century a church was built in the place, which was dedicated to John the Baptist and which finally gave the place its new name: 1473 the place name "Sankt Johann" appears for the first time in a document. From the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century, the Sankt Johann church was also the burial place for the manorial von Breidbach-Bürresheim family . The tombs and slabs of the following people have been preserved:

Anna von Breidbach, b. Chamberlain of Worms (d. 1562)
Hans Jakob von Breidbach (1552–1588)
Gertrud von Breidbach, b. Bell's Son (1552-1614)
Johann Wilhelm von Breidbach (1581–1610)
Wolff Heinrich von Breidbach (1583–1635)
Anna Magdalena von Breidbach, b. von Metzenhausen (died 1673)
Wilhelm von Breidbach (died 1694)
Georg Reinhardt von Breidbach (1635–1710)
Maria Margarete von Breidbach, b. von der Leyen (d. 1691)

In the first half of the 17th century in particular, Sankt Johann was affected by the witch hunt, which was carried out with astonishing intensity in the small lordship of Bürresheim, not least by a woman, namely the aforementioned Gertrud Schall von Bell.

In 1784 the old church was demolished due to its disrepair and a new one was built in 1784/1785. This received an extension in 1923/1924.

With the dissolution of the Old Kingdom , the Bürresheim rule also disappeared from the map. After the Congress of Vienna, Sankt Johann became part of the Prussian Mayen district . The Hochsimmer , located in the municipality, was the highest elevation in the district until the Hohe Acht took its place after the dissolution and partial integration of the Adenau district in 1932 . In keeping with the historical significance of Bürresheim Castle, Sankt Johann gave the mayor's office of the same name its name. Its administrative seat was Bell until 1898 , then Niedermendig . In 1970 the administrative unit - now called "Verbandsgemeinde Niedermendig" - was dissolved. Sankt Johann became part of the new Mayen-Land community (today the Vordereifel community ) in the Mayen-Koblenz district, and the Nitz district was renamed Mayen .

Statistics on population development

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

Population development in Sankt Johann (near Mayen) from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

year	Residents
1815	232
1835	324
1871	411
1905	591
1939	525
1950	560

year	Residents
1961	584
1970	756
1987	756
2005	957
2011	930
2017	957

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Sankt Johann consists of twelve council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation 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	WGR	total
2019	-	7th	5	12 seats
2014	-	8th	4th	12 seats
2009	3	7th	2	12 seats
2004	3	7th	2	12 seats

mayor

Rainer Wollenweber (CDU) became the local mayor of Sankt Johann on August 20, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 68.36% of the vote. Wollenweber's predecessor was Michael Stephani (CDU), who had not run again after 15 years in office.

coat of arms

According to the award document of the District President Koblenz , the coat of arms shows a red basilisk on a silver shield. It corresponds to the coat of arms of the von Breidbach family, who lived in Bürresheim Castle for several centuries .

religion

St. Johann is a predominantly Catholic place, although there is now an evangelical minority of around 10% of the population (especially due to immigration).

Attractions

Bürresheim Castle
Catholic Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
See also the list of cultural monuments in Sankt Johann (near Mayen)

literature

Franz-Josef Federhenn, Bernd Hamacher: 750 years of gentlemen von Breitbach. 1246-1996. Rheinbreitbach 1996.
Rita Voltmer: Chasing "bad people". Witch hunts in the region around the Laacher See (16th – 17th centuries). In: Plaidter Blätter 1. 2003, pp. 11–24.
Herbert Woll: Sankt Johann. The village between Hochsimmer and Bürresheim Castle. History and stories from the past six centuries. St. Johann 2016.
Herbert Woll: The Church of St. Johann. In: History of the local congregations in the Mayen Land Association. Part 1. Mayen n.d., pp. 291-314.
Herbert Woll: Actors and Backgrounds of a Dark Epoch. Bürresheim history - errors and misjudgments. In: Heimatbuch 2009 Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz. Mayen 2008, pp. 78-81.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Johann - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 27 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Vordereifel, Verbandsgemeinde, 23rd line of results. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
^ Rhein-Zeitung: New local chief in St. Johann: Rainer Wollenweber introduced into office. August 21, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 27 (PDF; 2.2 MB).

[regionaldaten-3] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

[4] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections

[5] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Vordereifel, Verbandsgemeinde, 23rd line of results. Accessed February 16, 2020 .

[6] Rhein-Zeitung: New local chief in St. Johann: Rainer Wollenweber introduced into office. August 21, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .