Unkelbach

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Unkelbach
City of Remagen
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 95 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1178  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 53424
Area code : 02642
Unkelbach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Unkelbach

Location of Unkelbach in Rhineland-Palatinate
Map of the Rhineland by Tranchot and Müffling 1803–1820, detail on sheet 112
Map of the Rhineland by Tranchot and Müffling 1803–1820, detail on sheet 112

Unkelbach is a district of the city of Remagen in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . On December 31, 2018, the population of the district was 1178.

The town center is characterized by numerous restored half-timbered houses as well as narrow, winding streets where the Unkelbach flows past.

Unkelbach, by the brook

geography

Unkelbach is located 20 kilometers south of Bonn and 50 kilometers north of Koblenz in a valley, from where the Unkelbach flows for another kilometer through a side valley of the same name into the Rhine . In the valley, the place expands in an east-west direction for about 1.5 kilometers; in the north-south direction the extension is about half a kilometer. The center of the old town center is about 90 meters above sea level. In the north and south as well as in the west of the district there are elevations from 214 meters to 236 meters above sea level. In terms of traffic, Unkelbach is part of the Rheinschiene and can be reached with the left Rheintalbahn (Oberwinter station) and the B9.

history

Unkelbach was first mentioned in a document as Unchaberhi in 853 , but the area was also settled in early history and Roman times. The village chapel was built by monks around 1200. Since 1383 Unkelbach had its own aldermen's seal. In 1660 the plague cross was erected in the church. In addition to numerous other monasteries, Deutz Abbey had properties in Unkelbach. From 1550 to the end of the 18th century Unkelbach belonged to the Jülich Sinzig office . In Unkelbach, there was evidence of a high lordship held as early as 1560 ( high court ).

From 1815 the place in the Unkelbachtal belonged to Prussia . In 1817 Unkelbach had 72 houses and 307 inhabitants. The first civic efforts came to fruition: In 1852 Unkelbach received its own fire fighting syringe and in 1857 a night watchman was hired. Between 1898 and 1903 the stately reconstruction of the parish church of St. Remigius was carried out.

As part of the municipal reorganization in Rhineland-Palatinate, the previously independent municipality of Unkelbach was dissolved on June 7, 1969 and assigned to the newly formed city of Remagen. The community square at the village community center was inaugurated in 2002, and one year later the village community celebrated the 1,150th anniversary of the first documentary mention.

The small village has a parish church dedicated to Saint Remigius . The neo-Gothic building was built from 1899 according to plans by the Bonn architect Johann Adam Rüppel and consecrated in 1903. The new building replaced a previous church from the 13th century that had become too small. The most important part of the visible furnishings was taken from this: a representation of the enthroned Mother of God from the end of the 13th century, the Unkelbach Madonna . One of the three bells is believed to date from around 1300. This bell is one of the oldest in the Trier diocese. In 1955 two more bells were cast in Saarburg. The peal sounds with the opening notes of the Te Deum . In 1967 the roof structure and the bell tower were renovated.

politics

District

Unkelbach is one of six districts in the city of Remagen. The district is represented by a local advisory board and a local mayor .

Local advisory board

The local council consists of seven members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice SPD CDU Green FBL WGR total
2019 - 2 1 4th 0 7 seats
2014 1 1 1 3 1 7 seats
2009 - 3 1 2 1 7 seats
  • FBL = Free Citizens List Remagen e. V.
  • WGR = voter group Remagen e. V.

Mayor

Egmond Eich (FBL) became Mayor of Unkelbach on July 10, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with 84.05% of the votes.

Eich's predecessors since 2009 were Klaus Olef (FBL) and previously Stefan Kirwald (CDU).

Club life in Unkelbach

Although Unkelbach is a relatively small place in the Ahrweiler district, it offers a large number of clubs.

The sporting figurehead is the BSC Unkelbach, founded in 1931 . The first team currently plays in the district league C and plays their games on the sports field on Rheinstrasse in Unkelbach. The BSC's clubhouse is also located there. In addition to football, the club also offers table tennis, gymnastics and aikido.

In 1987 the traditional association Unkelbach eV was founded. The association is committed to anchoring customs and traditions in the work of the community. This includes traditions at the annual fair, the Martinszug or the May celebration. Today's coat of arms goes back to an initiative of the association. A bound chronicle about the history of Unkelbach was also published by the association.

The Red-White Funken Unkelbach , which were founded in 1975, are particularly active in carnival . Today the association offers a show dance formation, a group for guard dance, a senior group and various formations for children of different ages. The association appears at carnival events in the entire district.

Dung head

The Unkelbach quarry in 2002 as the backdrop for a bicycle catalog

In 1822 the first mining contract for a quarry in northern Unkelbach, the Dungkopf, was concluded . From 1881 a horse-drawn railway was built from the quarry to the Rhine. In 1907 the end of viticulture came, the main employer of the place from the beginning of the 1950s to the 1960s was the basalt quarry Dungkopf , whereby many workers at that time were still farming on the side. Of the almost 400 employed Unkelbach, around 30 percent were employed in the quarry. The village structure was also shaped by the local, smaller craft businesses around this time. Some arable land was leased or lay fallow. In 1970 there were only 14 workers left in the quarry. In 1997 the mining of the basalt was stopped. The quarry has been idle since the demolition of all technical systems.

literature

Web links

Commons : Unkelbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b without secondary residences ; Residential statistics of the city of Remagen
  2. ^ Udo Bürger in: Traditionsverein Unkelbach eV (Hrsg.): Unkelbach. History of the place from the beginning to the present. Remagen-Unkelbach 1999, p. 50.
  3. ↑ Traditionsverein Unkelbach eV (Ed.): Unkelbach. History of the place from the beginning to the present. Remagen-Unkelbach 1999, p. 20 ff.
  4. ↑ Udo Bürger: Middle Ages , in: Traditionsverein Unkelbach eV (Ed.): Unkelbach. History of the place from the beginning to the present. Remagen-Unkelbach 1999, p. 54 ff.
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , Volume 3, Johann Peter Bachem, 1852, p. 549 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ Traditionsverein Unkelbach eV (Ed.): Unkelbach. History of the place from the beginning to the present. Remagen-Unkelbach 1999, p. 92.
  7. ↑ Rheinischer Antiquarius, III. Abt., Vol. 9, p. 378.
  8. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 193 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  9. ↑ Hermann Comes: The parish church Unkelbach shines in new splendor , in: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Ahrweiler 1982, p. 44 ( Online ( Memento from July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
  10. ↑ ort-unkelbach.de
  11. ^ Main statute of the city of Remagen. § 2 and 3. Remagen City Administration, June 24, 2019, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  12. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Unkelbach. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  13. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Unkelbach. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  14. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Unkelbach. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Klaus Olef: Invitation to the Unkelbach local council on July 10, 2014. City of Remagen, June 23, 2014, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Egmond Eich as the new mayor. In: Blick Aktuell. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, July 14, 2014, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  17. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Remagen, non-association municipality, last line of results. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Klaus Olef: Minutes of the meeting of the Unkelbach local council of the city of Remagen on August 12, 2009. City of Remagen, August 14, 2009, accessed on July 26, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Hermann Josef Fuchs: 40 years ago Unkelbach said goodbye to the "Basaltbähnchen" , in: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Ahrweiler 1980, p. 100 ( Online ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ))