Sessenhausen (Asbach)

Sessenhausen Local community Asbach Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 34 ″ N , 7 ° 27 ′ 17 ″ E
Height :	260 m above sea level NN
Residents :	138 (Dec 31, 2009)
Incorporation :	March 16, 1974
Postal code :	53567
Area code :	02683
Location of Sessenhausen in Rhineland-Palatinate

Sessenhausen is a district of the local community Asbach in the Neuwied district in northern Rhineland-Palatinate . The place, originally characterized by agriculture, has developed into a place of residence in the sense of a residential community .

geography

The village is located in the Niederwesterwald northeast of the main town Asbach on a hill above and east of the Krumbach . Sessenhausen is connected to the main town of Asbach via county road 65 and to the districts of Limbach and Schöneberg via county road 64 .

history

Sessenhausen belonged to the electorate of Cologne and to the Altenwied office and was part of the " Honnschaft Limbach". According to an inventory ordered by the Cologne Elector Maximilian Heinrich in 1660, Sessenhausen had eight courtyards, in 1787 72 residents were counted here, who lived in 17 houses.

After the Rhineland became part of Prussia in 1815 , Sessenhausen belonged to the Limbach municipality in the then newly formed Neuwied district and was administered by the Asbach mayor . According to a census from 1885, Sessenhausen had 111 inhabitants who lived in 27 houses. In 1931 Sessenhausen received its own class II post office in the district of the Asbach post office, which was supplied by the rural post office of the Linz post office from 1966 .

Until 1974 Sessenhausen was part of the then independent municipality Limbach . On March 16, 1974, the local community Asbach was newly formed from it and the communities of Asbach and Schöneberg, which were dissolved at the same time, as well as part of the community of Elsaff . In 1987 Sessenhausen had 115 inhabitants.

Attractions

Are under monument protection:

A small half-timbered - Quereinhaus from the 18th century with a truss mounting from the 19th century (Sessenhausen 13)
A wayside cross, marked 1878
See also : List of cultural monuments in Asbach (Westerwald)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 61
^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 42
^ Theo Winterscheid: From the history of the post in the Windhagener area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, pp. 113/114.
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments, Neuwied district , status: January 3, 2013, page 5 (PDF; 1.51 MB)

[Schaefer-1] Josef Schäfer: History of the Asbacher Land , 1980, page 61

[2] Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , 1885, page 42

[Postgeschichte-3] Theo Winterscheid: From the history of the post in the Windhagener area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, pp. 113/114.

[4] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Official Municipal Directory 2006 ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), page 169 (PDF; 2.1 MB)

[5] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality

[6] Informational directory of cultural monuments, Neuwied district , status: January 3, 2013, page 5 (PDF; 1.51 MB)