Staudt

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Wirges
Height :	265 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.65 km 2
Residents:	1242 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	469 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56424
Area code :	02602
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 073
LOCODE :	DE ZRT
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 10 ; 56422 Wirges
Website :	www.wirges.de
Local Mayor :	Sven Normann
Location of the local community Staudt in the Westerwaldkreis

Staudt is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wirges .

Geographical location

The place is located in the southern Westerwald , on the edge of the Montabaur depression (part of the geographical "Lower Westerwald") and belongs to the so-called Kannenbäckerland . With its southern part, Staudt spreads out on the 286-meter-high slope of the Am Hahnchen mountain , while the place with its wider area extends to the east and west in one plane at a height of 265 meters. In the north, the rest of the residential and new development area is on the foothills of the 277-meter-high Kramberg. The Aubach and the Krümmelbach flow through Staudt (also referred to as Unterbach and Seelbach in some maps ). The Fussenacker is located on the Dernbach boundary .

history

The old school in Staudt

Staudt has existed since the late Middle Ages. It has always belonged to the Wirges parish, which was originally a daughter parish of the Humbach-Montabaur parish , but became independent over time. The right of patronage and the tithe (a rent) of the parish Wirges in turn belonged to the St. Florinsstift von Koblenz. The first documentary mention of Stude results from a document from the Florinstift from 1367. More precisely, it was about the leasing of grain, oats and chickens within the Montabaur ban, which Staudt was also a member of. Under the spell of Montabaur, the Archbishop of Trier exercised sole power over the residents; the villages were obliged to do compulsory labor. H. the inhabitants were not free, counted as “goods” and passed into the possession of the new master when they were sold or exchanged. The ban was divided into individual administrative districts, together with six other places Staudt - at least from 1488 - formed the so-called "big colliery" until a new division took place in 1653. From there on there was a mine with Leuterod , Hosten , Ötzingen and Staudt.

This was shortly after the end of the Thirty Years' War , which was not without consequences for Staudt, as the number of families had dropped from 18 in 1605 to nine in 1684. It can be assumed that there were even fewer inhabitants at the end of the war, since a population register of 1678 lists only seven families. Armies passing by brought horror and poverty under the spell of Montabaur, many people fled, almost two thirds died. Presumably at the end of the 17th century, the Montabaur ban was split up, and a Wirges ban was created (the exact date is not known), to which Staudt also belonged. The official administrator Hofrat Linz reported the following in 1786:

"The inhabitants of Bannes Wirges are noticeably distinguished, are hard-working, brave (ie enterprising) and yet docile, love foreigners, are thrifty at home and lavish in the inn to brag, can be called more clean than unclean."

From the end of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1806 until the German War in 1866, the place (then fighting on Austria's side) belonged to the newly founded Duchy of Nassau . Nassau was annexed, Staudt was henceforth Prussian and initially part of the North German Confederation , later of the German Empire . The place and its inhabitants went through two world wars. 18 buildings were completely destroyed in a bombing raid on March 18, 1944. But not only these houses have long been rebuilt; it succeeded in initiating the change from an agricultural to one characterized by industry and services.

religion

The vast majority of the population is Roman Catholic. There is a branch church of the parish St. Bonifatius (Wirges), which belongs to the diocese of Limburg . The approximately 140 Protestant Christians are looked after by the Evangelical Martin Luther Church Community in Wirges, which is part of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Staudt 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

Sven Normann became the local mayor of Staudt on August 22, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 71.67% of the vote.

Normann's predecessor was mayor Waltraud Birk.

Economy and Infrastructure

Sound degradation

As in the wider area, clay mining is also carried out in Staudt. The largest company that processes clay and is located in Staudt is osmosis. This manufactures ceramic products.

traffic

Private transport

The cities of Wirges and Montabaur are approx. Two kilometers away by car. The federal highway 255 and the A3 are about three kilometers away by car.

Rail transport

The Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line and the Unterwesterwaldbahn is around four kilometers away. Until 1981 Staudt was connected to the Westerwaldquerbahn (Montabaur - Wallmerod - Westerburg - Rennerod - Hernborn) through the Bannberscheid / Staudt station .

Regional and long-distance bus services

Staudt is served at irregular intervals by regional buses of the Rhein-Mosel Verkehrsgesellschaft . From the nearby Montabaur train station, buses run to all major towns in the Westerwaldkreis and to Koblenz. There is also a connection to long-distance buses.

Surname Staudt

The family name Staudt is also very common. This has its origins in the fact that, when the surname was created (as we know it today), it was common to assign people to their hometown. Job titles or nicknames were also often used. The surname Staudt is undoubtedly a so-called "designation of origin", i. This means that the ancestors of those who today bear the surname Staudt actually come from Staudt. Numerous emigrants of German origin have had the name since the 18th and 19th centuries. Century also spread abroad.

In 1367 Staudt appeared as Stude , in 1388 it was called Stut , in 1448 Stude . In 1557 a Trier councilor Michael Staudt of Limburg is mentioned. At the beginning of the 18th century, today's spelling Staudt was established.

Pond

Staudt includes the Schräderweiher ponds south of the village (also known locally as " Frieseweiher "), Weber ponds (both in the Äppelheck area), Morschenweiher, which is only a pond in longer dry seasons , and the Muhl located to the south-west . In the immediate vicinity - but partly in the districts of Montabaur and Dernbach - are the Ochsenheide , the Brinkenweiher and the Fussenweiher .