Verbandsgemeinde Adenau

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 6 ° 56'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Area :	257.75 km 2
Residents:	13,022 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	AW
Association key :	07 1 31 5001
Association structure:	37 municipalities
Association administration address :	Kirchstrasse 15 53518 Adenau
Website :	www.adenau.de
Mayor :	Guido Nisius ( CDU )
Location of the Adenau community in the Ahrweiler district

The Verbandsgemeinde Adenau is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality of the association includes the city ​​of Adenau and 36 independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the eponymous city of Adenau.

The administrative area comprises the southwestern part of the Ahrweiler district and extends over parts of the Ahr and Hocheifel. Together with the municipalities of Kelberg , Ulmen and the district of Nohn, it forms the Vulkanische Hocheifel, one of a total of three sub-regions into which the Vulkaneifel is divided. 58% of the area is covered by forest, 30% is used for agriculture and 11% is settlement and traffic areas.

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
Adenau , city	18.56	2,943
Antweiler	4.46	489
Aremberg	9.62	218
Barweiler	8.52	381
Bauler	2.34	62
Dankerath	3.26	75
Dorsel	7.20	201
Dump field	11.86	582
Eichenbach	5.02	76
Fuchshofen	2.84	94
Harscheid	3.13	134
Herschbroich	7.27	271
Hofeld	5.15	274
Honerath	2.01	160
Bumblebee	15.84	480
Insul	5.01	459
Kaltenborn	21.82	346
Kottenborn	3.78	172
Leimbach	15.65	461
Meuspath	3.06	144
Müllenbach	8.02	469
Müsch	3.81	215
Nürburg	3.63	170
Ohlenhard	5.01	148
Pomster	5.81	157
Quiddelbach	4.43	256
Reifferscheid	14.24	485
Rodder	6.38	239
fault	5.93	667
Senscheid	4.27	90
Sierscheid	2.34	92
Trierscheid	4.11	69
Wershofen	14.36	901
Wiesemscheid	5.60	242
Wimbach	6.84	448
Winnerath	3.33	190
Throws	3.25	162
Verbandsgemeinde Adenau	257.74	13,022

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the area of ​​today's Verbandsgemeinde Adenau; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 8,563 1835 9,766 1871 8,547 1905 9,381 1939 11,800 1950 12.173

year Residents 1961 12,367 1970 13.208 1987 12,973 1997 14,511 2005 14.206 2019 13,022

politics

Association municipal council

Association council after the local elections in 2019

    

A total of 28 seats

• SPD : 5
• FWG : 5
• FDP : 3
• CDU : 15

The Verbandsgemeinderat Adenau consists of 28 voluntary council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	ÖDP	FWG	total
2019	5	15th	3	-	5	28 seats
2014	4th	18th	1	-	5	28 seats
2009	4th	15th	3	2	4th	28 seats
2004	4th	20th	2	2	0	28 seats

• FWG = Free Voters of the Verbandsgemeinde Adenau e. V.

mayor

Guido Nisius (CDU) has been the mayor of the Adenau community since February 6, 2014. In the direct election on September 22, 2013, he was elected for an eight-year term with a share of 86.03% of the votes. Nisius is the successor to Hermann-Josef Romes (CDU), who did not run again after 16 years in office.

Web links

• Verbandsgemeinde Adenau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
4. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Association council election 2019 Adenau. Retrieved August 11, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Sascha Bach: Nisius sets the tone in the Adenauer Land. WochenSpiegel, February 6, 2014, accessed December 18, 2019 .