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Tail field
Local community Windhagen
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 55 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 300 m above sea level NN
Residents : 180  (May 25 1987)
Postal code : 53578
Area code : 02645
Schweifeld (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Tail field

Location of Schweifeld in Rhineland-Palatinate
Tail field
Tail field

Schweifeld is a part of the local community Windhagen in the district of Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate .

geography

The village in the front Westerwald ( Niederwesterwald ) lies at altitudes of 275 to 305  m above sea level. NHN near the state border with North Rhine-Westphalia . In terms of nature , it is located at the transition from the Asbach plateau to the east to the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge in the west. Below Schweifeld runs the Hallerbach , which frames the place together with the Schweifelder Bach, which runs to the northeast . The Hallerbach rises west of Schweifeld below the Asberg .

history

In the presumably first documentary mentions from 1434 and 1527, the place was named Sweyfeld in a fiefdom list , in 1888 it was written Schweinfeld . The dialect name of the place is "Swejfeld" (separate pronunciation of "e" and "i"). As early as 1519, on the pilgrimage route between the Oberpleis provost and the Sankt Katharinen monastery, a monastery courtyard was called Schweifeld in the spelling commonly used today .

In 1660 an inventory of all honors in the Altenwied office , which was carried out by order of the Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern , named five houses in Schweifeld. Schweifeld belonged to the Honschaft Rederscheid (formerly also called Hohner Honnschaft ) in the parish of Windhagen and was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne Office of Altenwied until the beginning of the 19th century . In Prussian times (from 1815) Schweifeld remained a part of the Honschaft, later the municipality of Rederscheid, since 1823 in the administrative district of the Asbach mayor . In 1843 the village of Schweifeld had 117 inhabitants in 23 houses, in 1885 the number had dropped to 102 in 23 buildings.

In the middle of the village there is a cross that the village community erected in 1895. On the nearby Asberg , Celtic settlement rings were found in the 1930s , which no longer exist today due to the basalt mining.

To the west, a connection called “Römerweg” leads to Rheinbreitbach to the former Virneberg copper mine , which was already in use in Roman times . So far, no finds from Roman times have been found along the way. On this path, approx. 1.5 km from the village, there was a V1 firing position for the position area on Asberg in 1944/45 , but it was not put into operation. Remnants can still be seen today.

Until November 7, 1970, Schweifeld belonged to the previously independent municipality of Rederscheid . The district belonging to the former municipality of Rederscheid remained. Around 1975 the "weekend house area Schweifeld" was built with around 40 houses.

Population development
year Residents
1816 86
1828 116
1843 117
1885 102
1910 101

Personalities

  • Ulrich Wegener (1929–2017), former commander of Border Guard Group 9 (GSG 9), lived in Schweifeld.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
  2. ↑ Helmut Wolff: The Windhagen dialect. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 196.
  3. ^ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz, Neuwied district
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF; 1.4 MB), Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (publisher), 1888, page 44
  5. ↑ Erwin Rüddel: Building and land use planning. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 352.
  6. ^ AA Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state , Verlag KA Kümmel, Halle 1823, fourth volume, p. 291
  7. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 693
  8. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 66
  9. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.), 1885, page 44
  10. ↑ Günther Muders: Review of the development of schools in the Windhagen area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 98.

Web links

Commons : Schweifeld  - collection of images