Stones (Westerwald)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 7 ° 48'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Selters (Westerwald)
Height :	416 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.2 km 2
Residents:	241 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56244
Area code :	02666
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 075
Association administration address:	Am Saynbach 5–7 56242 Selters (Westerwald)
Website :	www.steinen-westerwald.de
Local Mayor :	Mario Reifenberg
Location of the local community of Steinen in the Westerwaldkreis

Church building

Former school

Steinen (dialect: Stääne ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Selters (Westerwald) .

geography

Steinen is 5 km from Herschbach and 7 km from Selters (Westerwald) on the Westerwald lake district . The Kautenmühle and Schönerlen residential areas also belong to the community. In the competition Our village should become more beautiful - our village has a future , Steinen has received several awards.

history

The municipality of Steinen used to consist of three districts: Steinen, Straßen and Stahlhofen. Streets (Oberdorf) and Steinen (Unterdorf) have grown together structurally today. The hamlet of Stahlhofen had six houses close to the Schonlen estate. The last house in Stahlhofen was laid down in 1897 and rebuilt in streets.

The three cities were among the country wonderfully until the early 19th century to the county Wied-Neuwied and together with the parish Rückeroth to wiedischen Office Grenzhausen . To Stahlhofen belonged five mills and the farms Adelsheim, Beller, Boosischer Hof, Herschbacher Kellereihof, Niesnerischer Hof, Seeburg, Schönerlen and Dehriss.

In connection with the formation of the Napoleonic Rhine Confederation , the entire County of Wied, and with it the current municipality of Steinen, became part of the Duchy of Nassau in 1806 . Under the Nassau administration, the community was assigned to the office of Selters . After the so-called German War , the area came under the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 , and the municipality of Steinen was assigned to the Unterwesterwaldkreis in Hessen-Nassau .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 172 1835 206 1871 200 1905 165 1939 172 1950 208

year Residents 1961 212 1970 197 1987 211 1997 220 2005 252 2017 256

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Steinen consists of six council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until 2009 the members were elected by majority vote.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	Flat share in Reifenberg	WG Schneider	total
2019	2	4th	6 seats

mayor

Mario Reifenberg became the local mayor of Steinen in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 58.75 percent of the votes cast.

Reifenberg's predecessor Thomas Horn had held the office for 30 years.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided in a wave cut; at the top in gold between two black threads three red rafters surrounded by two red crosses, at the bottom in blue a golden hammer iron overlaid with three silver stones. "

traffic

• The community is located directly on the federal highway 8 , which leads from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg .
• The next motorway junction is Mogendorf on the A3 .
• The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in stones
• List of natural monuments in stones

Web links

Commons : stones  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the local parish of Steinen
• Local parish Steinen on the pages of the Verbandsgemeinde Selters (Westerwald)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Hermann-Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , 2010, page 18 (PDF; 129 kB)
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 80 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ Information on www.steinen-westerwald.de. Steinen parish, accessed on June 17, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Nassauische Annalen , Volume 10, 1870, page 304 ( Google Books )
6. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau , 1821, page 125 ( Google Books )
7. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
10. ↑ ^{a b} Constituent session. Press release. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, August 3, 2019, accessed on June 17, 2020 . 
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, direct elections