Seck

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Coat of arms of the local community Seck
Seck
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Seck highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 8 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Rennerod
Height : 415 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.62 km 2
Residents: 1150 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 133 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56479
Area code : 02664
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 292
LOCODE : DE SEC
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 55
56477 Rennerod
Website : www.gemeinde-seck.de
Local Mayor : Johannes Jung
Location of the local community Seck in the Westerwaldkreis
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The stretch pond near Seck

Seck is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod .

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between Siegen and Limburg an der Lahn . The municipality Seck includes the residential places Altenhof, Dappricher Hof, Hof old castle, farm lake, Haus Waldesruh, Forsthaus Weiherhof Weiherhof and camping.

history

Niederlahngaugraf Gerhard (832 to 879) was the first known lord of the manorial estate around Seck in the central Westerwald, from which he separated the western part to equip his Kettenbacher Foundation (transferred to St. Severus Stift in Gemünden in Westerwald in 879 ). Count Gerhard's grandson Rudolf I, Bishop of Würzburg (892 to 908) consecrated a church in Seck to St. Kilian . Seck is first mentioned in a document from May 27, 1059 by King Henry IV . In the following years Seck received a court. Arnold I. von Valancourt , Archbishop of Trier, announced in 1181 that the Seligenstatt Monastery in Seck was donated to the Archbishopric of Trier . In 1215 it was a subsidiary of the Maria Laach Abbey . In the middle of the 15th century monastery life died out. A priest from Seck was also available in 1215 at the latest. The large parish reached over Rennerod and Lasterbach to Oberrod . The annual fair in Seck, first mentioned in 1437, is one of the oldest in the Westerwald as a whole and was so important that a road toll was levied on market visitors in neighboring Langendernbach .

The Lords of Westerburg and Runkel ruled the parish of Seck. Often it was an object of dispute between them and their sidelines. Prince Moritz Heinrich von Nassau-Hadamar had the Secker Weiher built in 1672, and a little later the Schlösschen zu Seck, still popularly known today as the Old Castle . With the Principality of Nassau-Hadamar , Seck came to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 , and later to the Duchy of Nassau . Administratively, Seck came to the Rennerod office . In 1866, Duke Adolf von Nassau lost his land to Prussia . The administrative offices were dissolved, the Stein self-government introduced and rural districts formed. Seck came to the Oberwesterwaldkreis based in Marienberg , in 1885 to the newly formed Westerburg district , which in 1932 was merged into an Oberwesterwaldkreis based in Westerburg . In 1974 Seck returned after the regional reform but still administratively as an independent local community Seck, to the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod. The two Westerwald districts were dissolved and merged into one Westerwald district based in Montabaur .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Seck consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Johannes Jung was confirmed in his office as local mayor for another five years with 81.73% of the vote.

coat of arms

The blazon reads: "In gold a black sloping bar, inside a golden bishop's staff , accompanied in front by a green palm branch , in the back by a fallen, green dagger."

Culture and sights

Kilian's Church

St. Kilian from the southeast

The old church was consecrated to the Würzburg bishop, St. Kilian , as early as the 9th century . After the church burned down in 1878, a new Kilian's Church was built in 1880, which stands on the old foundations. The font is from the 13th century, the pulpit from the 17th century. Interestingly, the church tower does not belong to the parish, but to the political community.

Seligenstatt monastery ruins

The exact year the Seligenstatt Monastery was founded is unknown. It was first mentioned in a document in 1181. Siegfried von Runkel or his family must be regarded as the founder. In 1215, the nunnery was a subsidiary of the Maria Laach Abbey and was dedicated to the Mother of God and St. Consecrated to Nicholas . The oldest seal of the convent from 1234 shows the image of Our Lady between two lilies with the inscription + CO (N) VE (N) TVS IN SELIESTAT + and is kept in the main state archive in Wiesbaden. The secular protector Siegfried von Runkel freed the monastery in 1219 when he wanted to join a crusade to the Holy Land from all rights and services to which he was entitled as bailiff . Nevertheless, the financial situation was not the best. Because of the limited resources of the monastery, Archbishop Dietrich von Trier set the number of nuns at 30 in 1239. It was only possible to exceed this with special permission.

A number of villages in the area (e.g. Rennerod, Hüblingen, Willmenrod 1213/15) owe their first documentary mention to the interest registers of the monastery. In the 13th and 14th centuries, various donations and foundations increased the monastery property. The wide spread of goods equipment, however, harbored a germ of decay. At the end of the 15th century, the old foundation went more and more downhill. There is much to suggest that the miraculous image now venerated in Wirzenborn, a Mother of God with the child and scepter, was brought from Seligenstatt to the parish of Montabaur. The bells of the monastery came to Westerburg and Gemünden in 1591. The baptismal font was used at the parish fountain in Seck for many years until it disappeared. The monastery courtyard existed until 1785, when the buildings were demolished. As early as 1818, only the old walls and ruins of the monastery are reported. Doors and windows were no longer visible in 1874.

As a result of the initiative of a development association founded in 1990, extensive security measures have been carried out in recent years on the ruins, which have a circumference of 36 by 72 meters and external walls up to 9 meters high. Since 2008, an information hut set up in the interior of the ruin, accessible at all times, has provided detailed information about the history of the monastery.

Regular events

  • In July, the parish fair, the Secker fair with market, takes place.
  • The annual Secker Oktoberfest is popular.
  • Every summer in July or August there is a lake festival at the Weiherhof am See campsite , which is organized by the Friends' Association Church on the campsite and the operator of the site for campers and residents.

traffic

  • In the immediate vicinity of the community runs the B 54 , which leads from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegen .
  • The next motorway junction is Limburg-Nord on the A3 Cologne - Frankfurt , about 20 kilometers away.
  • Seck is connected to public transport by the Rhein-Mosel-Bus line 116 (Montabaur - Westerburg - Rennerod). This is used from Monday to Sunday.
  • The closest connection to rail traffic is Westerburg station on the RB 90, Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn (Limburg (Lahn) - Diez Ost - Westerburg - Nistertal / Bad Marienberg - Hachenburg - Altenkirchen - Au (Sieg) - Kirchen (Sieg) - Victories). This is operated every hour according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .

Web links

Commons : Seck  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  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 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 78 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rennerod, Verbandsgemeinde, 17th line of results. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .