Selters (Westerwald)

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Coat of arms of the city of Selters (Westerwald)
Selters (Westerwald)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Selters (Westerwald) highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Selters (Westerwald)
Height : 244 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.72 km 2
Residents: 2814 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 323 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56242
Area code : 02626
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 067
Association administration address: Am Saynbach 5–7
56242 Selters (Westerwald)
Website : www.stadt-selters.de
City Mayor : Rolf Jung
Location of the town of Selters (Westerwald) in the Westerwaldkreis
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Selters (Westerwald), aerial photo (2016)
View from the watch over Selters

Selters (Westerwald) (dialect: Seldersch ) is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . Selters is the administrative seat of the association of the same name to which it belongs. According to state planning, the city is designated as the basic center.

geography

Geographical location

The city is located in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Siegen .

Selters also includes the Farbmühle, Haus Geilen, Hof Hasselberg, Kohlenmühle, Landsberger Hof and Wendelinushof residential areas .

climate

The annual precipitation is 900 mm. The rainfall is high. They are in the upper quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 77% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation hardly varies and is evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 24% of the measuring stations .

history

Selters is one of the earliest settlements in the Westerwald and was founded between 930 and 949. However, it can be assumed that the place existed as a small settlement before 930, as a Saltrestraza (road to Selters) is mentioned in documents. Finds of flint stones and spearheads on the watch suggest settlement as early as the Neolithic. The first historically attested lords of the Maxsain ban , to which Selters also belonged from 1277 to 1318, were the Counts of Sponheim in the 12th century. In 1190 Selters and the neighboring towns of Nordhofen and Vielbach were transferred to Bolanden as a fief. In 1336, Selters, Maxsain and Nordhofen were pledged to Johann von Montabaur for 450 marks. In 1340 the Archbishop of Trier , who redeemed the pledges, transferred the towns to the older Saynian line. In 1589 the gentlemen of Wied appeared , who in 1791 were raised from counts to princes. Now Selters led the addition Wied (Selters-Wied / Wied-Selters) and belonged to the Grenzhausen office . From 1720 Selters had his own administrator who, together with the lay judges, exercised lower jurisdiction for the parishes of Selters, Nordhofen, Rückeroth and Dreifelden. Due to the Rhine Confederation Act , Selters came to the newly formed Duchy of Nassau in 1806 with the Wiedische Landen . The authorities used the designation as Ducal Nassau and Princely Wiedische . Her seal showed the Wiedischen peacock under the Nassau lion. Selters became the seat of the Grenzhausen office. This included the Wiedische Amt Grenzhausen, Herschbach, Grenzau and from the Amt Montabaur the parish of Helferskirchen. In the 1860s the office building was enlarged and the state upper school , who later received the title of magistrate , and the mountain clerk moved in. Selters received his district court with it. At the same time the new prison was built. In 1866, Prussia annexed Nassau , whereupon the Grenzhausen office, together with the Montabaur and Wallmerod offices , formed the Unterwesterwaldkreis.

In the course of the restructuring of the judiciary, a district court was established in Grenzhausen in 1879 . Selters had to hand over a judge and half of his judicial district there. In 1966 the district court in Selters was completely dissolved and relocated to Montabaur.

In 1850 the Jewish community bought a building on Waldstrasse that had previously been used as a synagogue. During the November pogroms of 1938 on November 9, 1938, the Selters synagogue was burned down. In October 1939 Selters was declared " Jew-free ". In addition to the Jewish cemetery on the guard, several memorial plaques, for example on the former synagogue, remind of the history of the Jews in Selters.

Infrastructure

In 1894 the first nurses' station was set up by the Protestant Diakonieverein . On the initiative of Pastor Ilgen at the time, the Selters Aid Association was founded in 1901 with the aim of building a hospital. The hospital opened in 1903. It was considerably enlarged and modernized in 1928/29 and replaced by a new building in 1965–1969, which has also been expanded since then.

In 1700 the parish hall was built. The first Selters school was also there. A second teaching post was added in 1822 and a third in 1879.

The financial situation of the community of Selters was consistently good. In the years 1881 to 1918, council tax was only levied in two years. In many cases, firewood was even given to the residents free of charge. Street lighting was installed as early as 1877. At the beginning of the 20th century, electric lighting was introduced, for which the hammer mill east of the village provided electricity. The aqueduct was built in 1891. At the beginning of the new century, Selters was channeled. Selters was the first municipality in the Unterwesterwaldkreis to build a central sewage treatment plant.

The first public transport for people was the post. Until October 1848 there was only the post office Freilingen for the administrative district of Selters with 50 places and a population of 18,000 inhabitants. Regular land cultivation did not take place. The Selters office, the recipe in Herschbach and the Prince of Wied maintained special messengers at their own expense. On October 1, 1848, the postal expedition was set up in Selters and all the places of the Selters office (with the exception of Freilingen) were assigned as order districts. On September 1, 1876, the daily messenger mail between Selters and Herschbach began. In 1934, after several moves within the village, a new post office was opened in Hochstrasse, which was considerably expanded and expanded in the 1960s. At the end of 1997, the counter service was discontinued, after which the building was only used by the post office for a few years.

Selters became a train station on the Siershahn-Altenkirchen line . On December 31, 1883 at 3 p.m. the first locomotive pulled into Selters. In 1901 the Selters-Hachenburg small railway was opened. In 1951 the Herschbach-Hachenburg section and in 1960 the small railway line were finally shut down.

On May 6, 1888, the Westerwald-Verein (then: Westerwald-Club) was founded in Selters .

Association municipality and city rights

Amtsstrasse

In 1972 Selters became the seat of the newly formed Selters Association. The first official seat was the former district court building on Amtsstrasse.

On October 15, 2000, the former municipality of Selters was granted city rights by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior and Sports .

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 614
1835 847
1871 972
1905 1,193
1939 1,598
1950 1,738
year Residents
1961 1,881
1970 2.016
1987 2,079
2005 2,757
2017 2,795

Religions

Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius existed from the end of the 19th century until December 31, 2011. Since then, Selters has belonged to the parish of St. Anna, Herschbach . In 1871 a Catholic chapel and in 1876 the associated rectory were built. At the turn of the century, the chapel was expanded to become a church with a bell tower in neo-Gothic style. In November 1965 this church was demolished due to its dilapidation and a new, modern church was built on the site. Below this church is the community center with conference and event rooms. A relic of Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin is kept and venerated in the church. Since August 2009, the priests Michael Pauly and Marcus Fischer have been pastors of the parish of St. Bonifatius, Selters and are also responsible for the Catholic pastoral care in Selters after January 1st, 2012 as pastors of the new parish of St. Anna. From 2003 to 2011, the congregation was part of the pastoral area of ​​Herschbach-Selters in the Limburg diocese , which was dissolved when the new parish of St. Anna was founded.

Protestant church

Market place with Protestant church

In 1556 Count Johann IV von Wied introduced Lutheran teaching and the Protestant church constitution in Selters. Since then, most of the population has been Protestant. Selters belonged to the Evangelical Church in Nordhofen, where the believers from Selters went to worship. Only baptisms, weddings and confirmations were carried out in a small chapel in Selters. The Evangelical Congregation in Selters has had its own church since 1842. The Selters primary school was also housed in the side wings of this building until 1958; the rooms are used today by the city of Selters. The city administration was housed here until 2010 and has since been located in a new building on Rheinstrasse. In 1850 the evangelical community received its first pastor. In 1963 a kindergarten and community center were opened. The chairman of the church council is Elke Pollatz. The Evangelical Congregation in Selters belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

Turkish-Islamic Community

Between 1988 and 1990 the mosque of the Turkish-Islamic community in Selters was built in Hammermühler Weg in Selters. The building was expanded from 2004 to 2006. It has a prayer room for the men and a separate area for the women. The building also houses a large kitchen for celebrations, a common room, two classrooms, an office and the Imam's apartment. The mosque is affiliated with the nationwide umbrella organization DITIB , which also sends the imams to Selters. Hüseyin Oğlakçı has been the imam of the Selters community since 2013. The focus of the work of the Selterser parish is particularly in the area of ​​the dialogue with churches , schools and kindergartens in the region.

politics

City council

The city ​​council in Selters (Westerwald) consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice SPD CDU BLS total
2019 3 6th 11 20 seats
2014 4th 7th 9 20 seats
2009 5 6th 9 20 seats
2004 4th 9 7th 20 seats

mayor

Rolf Jung became mayor of Selters in 2007. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with 79.05 percent of the votes cast.

coat of arms

Selters coat of arms
 Blazon : "With a curved golden tip, in it three green oak leaves on a branch, split by gold and blue, in front five red diagonal bars, behind a red-tongued golden lion head torn off."

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Railway bridge over Bahnhofstrasse

The city is west of the federal highway 8 , which leads from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg . The federal motorways 3 and 48 between Cologne , Frankfurt am Main and Koblenz run in the immediate vicinity .

Since the closure of passenger traffic on the Holzbachtalbahn, the next train stations are in Siershahn (6 km) on the Unterwesterwaldbahn and in Ingelbach (21 km) on the Oberwesterwaldbahn . The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station (14 km) on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line . Today, Selters is only served by freight trains by rail.

Selters is served by regular buses several times a day, Monday to Friday. There are connections in the direction of Dierdorf, Hachenburg, Montabaur, Ransbach-Baumbach as well as occasional trips to Koblenz.

Established businesses

Since the 18th century, natural stone, so-called Selters trachytes , have been mined in several quarries in the area around Selters .

education

The Oberwaldschule is an integrated comprehensive school that integrates secondary and secondary schools and sets up an upper level. It is currently attended by around 450 schoolchildren. In the 2008/2009 school year, the Oberwaldschule was converted into an all-day school .

Sport and culture

In 2002 the Oberwaldstadion was built in the Oberwald, which has a grass pitch. It is a type C stadium and one of the most modern sports facilities in the Westerwald. The home games organized by SG Selters (a syndicate of SpVgg Saynbachtal Selters and TuS Maxsain ) take place there. In the first half of 2017, the old hard court below the stadium was converted into an artificial turf pitch.

The metal label Bastardized Records was founded in Selters and is still based there.

sons and daughters of the town

See also

literature

  • Country Jews in Selters / Westerwald. In: Nassauische Annalen , Vol. 108, Wiesbaden 1997, pp. 169-183.
  • Remember for the future. 60 years after the liberation from Nazi rule in the Westerwald.
  • Gerhard Schiller: The ban Maxsain in the 16th century. The effect of aristocratic competition on everyday rural life in the Westerwald in the early modern period. Münster / Westphalia 2004, ISBN 3-00-013247-3 , 519 pp. [Zugl .: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2003]

Web links

Commons : Selters  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Hermann-Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortsneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , 2010, p. 18 (PDF; 129 kB).
  3. ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 51 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
  5. ↑ Information board of the Westerwaldverein on the watch
  6. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 187 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  8. ↑ Verena Hallermann: Citizen list celebrates 25th birthday: From the association to the strongest force in the town of Selters. Westerwälder Zeitung, March 16, 2018, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, direct elections