Verbandsgemeinde Loreley

This article deals with the Loreley Association, which was formed on July 1, 2012. For its predecessor, see Verbandsgemeinde Loreley (1972–2012) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Area :	167.86 km 2
Residents:	16,518 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	98 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Association key :	07 1 41 5009
Association structure:	22 municipalities
Association administration address :	Dolkstrasse 3 56342 St. Goarshausen
Website :	www.vgloreley.de
Mayor :	Mike Weiland ( SPD )
Location of the Loreley community in the Rhein-Lahn district

The Verbandsgemeinde Loreley is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The municipality includes the cities of Sankt Goarshausen , Braubach and Kaub as well as 19 independent local communities , the administrative seat is the city of Sankt Goarshausen. There is a second administrative office in Braubach. The Verbandsgemeinde was created on July 1, 2012 from the merger of the Verbandsgemeinden Braubach and Loreley .

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
Owl	2.65	188
Bornich	12.00	941
Braubach , city	19.54	3,002
Dachsenhausen	10.18	998
Dahlheim	6.82	809
Dörscheid	8.65	394
Filsen	1.88	640
Kamp-Bornhofen	11.37	1,581
Kaub , city	12.98	834
Kestert	6.90	561
Differ	5.95	489
Lykershausen	3.35	225
Nochern	7.11	500
Osterspai	13.00	1,273
Patersberg	2.65	374
Prath	4.33	295
Reichenberg	3.23	171
Reitzenhain	5.66	316
St. Goarshausen , city	7.00	1,285
Sauerthal	3.57	145
Weisel	13.06	1,039
Weyer	6.00	458
Verbandsgemeinde Loreley	167.86	16,518

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The second municipal and administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate, which began in 2010, saw the need for change in the municipalities of Loreley and Braubach . Both municipalities clearly fell below the minimum number of residents of 12,000 required by the First State Law on Local and Administrative Reform.

In unanimous resolutions, the municipal councils Loreley and Braubach had declared their will to voluntarily form a new municipality within the so-called "voluntary phase" that ran until June 30, 2012. According to the “State Law on the Voluntary Formation of the New Braubach-Loreley Association” passed on December 20, 2011, a new community with the provisional name “Braubach-Loreley” was formed on July 1, 2012. The administrative headquarters are in Sankt Goarshausen , with a second administrative office in Braubach .

On October 25, 2012, the Verbandsgemeinderat decided to give the Verbandsgemeinde the name Loreley . In a letter dated November 8, 2012, the Minister of the Interior, for Sport and Infrastructure Rhineland-Palatinate, Roger Lewentz , set the name of the new community formed on July 1, 2012 from the Verbandsgemeinden Braubach and Loreley to "Verbandsgemeinde Loreley". This name has been in effect since December 1, 2012.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 11,026 1835 13,721 1871 15,959 1905 17,588 1939 19,114 1950 21,517

year Residents 1961 20,574 1970 20,266 1987 18,484 1997 18,934 2005 18,140 2019 16,518

politics

Association municipal council

The Loreley municipal council consists of 32 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. On June 3, 2012, due to the reorganization of the association, a different election date from the general local elections took place. The municipal council was elected for a shortened election period.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	LEFT	FWG / FBL	total
2019	13	10	2	-	7th	32 seats
2014	13	12	1	1	5	32 seats
2012	14th	11	1	0	6th	32 seats

• FWG / FBL = Free Voters Group / Free Citizens List Braubach-Loreley e. V.

mayor

Mike Weiland (SPD) became mayor of the Loreley community on July 3, 2020. In the direct election on March 15, 2020, he prevailed against the incumbent mayor Werner Groß and two other applicants with a share of 60.0% of the vote.

In the previous, first direct election of the new community on June 3, 2012, three applicants stood: Carsten Göller (SPD), Werner Groß (CDU) and Holger Puttkammer. After none of the applicants achieved a majority in this election, Werner Groß prevailed in the runoff election on June 17, 2012 with 52.5% of the votes. The mayor's term of office began on July 1, 2012 and ran for 8 years.

coat of arms

The new community has a new coat of arms. The shield is square and shows a golden, red-armored lion ( Haus Nassau ) in the blue field sprinkled with gold shingles at the top right , the black one-headed red-armored imperial eagle in gold on the left , the red Trier cross in silver on the bottom right and the Wittelsbach silver-blue cross on the left Rhombuses.

Web links

• Verbandsgemeinde Loreley

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Law of December 20, 2011 (PDF; 3.6 MB)
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2012, Verbandsgemeinderatswahlen
5. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, Verbandsgemeinderatswahlen
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Verbandsgemeinderatswahl 2019 Loreley. Retrieved August 20, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Farewell to Mayor Werner Groß. Verbandsgemeinde Loreley, July 2, 2020, accessed on July 3, 2020 . 
8. ↑ German press agency (dpa): Loreley community gets a new mayor. Focus Online, March 15, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Election of the mayors of the association communities