Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz

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Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz
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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 24'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Area : 55.28 km 2
Residents: 16,451 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 298 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : MYK, MY
Association key : 07 1 37 5001
Association structure: 5 municipalities
Association administration address
:
Rathausstrasse 2-4
56637 Plaidt
Website : www.pellenz.de
Mayor : Klaus Bell ( CDU )
Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz in the district of Mayen-Koblenz
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The Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Verbandsgemeinde consists of five independent local congregations . The administrative seat has been in the local community of Plaidt since May 2, 2017 . It got its name because of its location in the Pellenz countryside , from October 1, 1968 to December 31, 1991, its name was "Verbandsgemeinde Andernach-Land" and Andernach had been the administrative center until 2017.

geography

The Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz, together with the Verbandsgemeinden Vordereifel , Mendig and Brohltal, form the Vulkanische Osteifel, one of three sub-regions into which the Vulkaneifel is divided.

Association members communities

Local parish Area (km²) Residents
Kretz 4.18 702
Kruft 18.18 4.117
Nod 16.56 3,620
Plaidt 9.39 5,859
Saffig 6.97 2.153
Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz 55.27 16,451

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The history of VG Pellenz is also part of the more recent history of the Pellenz landscape, which goes beyond what is today the municipality and includes places such as Thür and Niedermendig ( Mendig municipality ), Ochtendung and Polch ( Maifeld municipality ).

Until 1794, the places except Miesenheim (with Andernach and Kell to the Electorate and Archbishopric of Cologne ( Kurköln )) belonged to the Electorate and Archbishopric Trier ( Kurtrier ). During the French occupation (1794-1815) the places Kretz, Kruft, Plaidt and Saffig were combined in a "Mairie" (integrated community), united in 1815 with Mairie Andernach , founded in 1800, and renamed the Landbürgermeistererei Andernach under Prussian rule. Around the middle of the 19th century, Namedy, Eich and Miesenheim, which were incorporated into the town of Andernach in 1969 (Namedy) and 1970, as well as the densely wooded municipality of Nickenich were added. On November 3, 1858, the mayor Ferdinand-Josef Weygold, at that time the mayor of Andernach, decided to be responsible only for the rural communities. The city of Andernach ( City Mayor's Office Andernach , since 1927 Amt Andernach ) was administratively separated from the rural communities and received a new, separate mayor, Heinrich Bynz. The local authority association, then called Andernach-Land, was brought into being and at that time consisted of the communities of Eich , Kretz , Kruft , Miesenheim , Namedy , Nickenich , Plaidt and Saffig . From the Landbürgermeisterei Andernach was mayor Andernach country , since 1927 Office Andernach country , which until 31 December 1991 was valid. Since January 1, 1992, this local authority association has been called Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz after its ancestral name . Nine mayors have presided over the Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz and its legal predecessor Landbürgermeisterei Andernach and Amt Andernach-Land , until the Second World War , after Ferdinand-Josef Weygold, it was the land mayors Heinrich Franz Kruft (1870–1880), Maximilian Franz Josef Adam (1880–1920) with the longest tenure of 40 years and Friedrich Gerhard Hasdenteufel (1920–1942). The administration building, Breite Straße 40 in Andernach, was built after 1870 and expanded several times, relocated to Nickenich during the air raids of World War II under Mayor Anton Krings (1942–1945) and reopened in 1948 by Michael Dedenbach (1945–1961) . Successor Erich Dahm (1961–1973), during whose term of office the official area was named Verbandsgemeinde Andernach Land (October 1, 1968), had further extensions added to serve as the mayor's apartment. Today it is a purely administrative building, the town hall of VG Pellenz. In accordance with the 2012 resolution, the administrative headquarters are to be relocated to Plaidt in the next few years. After Paul-Werner Kohns (1973–2003), who was de iure the first association mayor of Pellenz, Klaus Bell has been the ninth mayor of today's VG Pellenz since 2003. Around 17,000 inhabitants currently live in it on an area of ​​55.23 km² (5,523 hectares ).

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 2,900
1835 4,387
1871 5,271
1905 7,290
1939 9,530
1950 11,242
year Residents
1961 13,806
1970 15,036
1987 14,947
1997 15,810
2005 16,343
2019 16,451

politics

Association municipal council

Association municipal council
   
A total of 32 seats

The Verbandsgemeinderat Pellenz consists of 32 honorary council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FDP total
2019 12 17th 3 32 seats
2014 14th 17th 1 32 seats
2009 13 17th 2 32 seats
2004 14th 17th 1 32 seats

mayor

Klaus Bell (CDU) has been mayor of the Pellenz community since 2003. In the direct election on June 10, 2018, he was confirmed in his office for a further eight years with a share of the vote of 74.5%.

coat of arms

In 2017 the association got a new coat of arms .

Coat of arms of the Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz
Blazon : " Square , in 1: a red cross in silver, in 2: a red crowned lion, in 3: in blue a silver pole, in 4: black volcano with rocks."
Coats of arms:
  • Above left (in 1): The red cross stands for the former sovereignty of Kurtrier since 1545.
  • Above right (in 2): The crowned lion stands for the name " Pellenz ", which is derived from Palatium, Pfalzgrafschaft. The first Count Palatine near the Rhine, Heinrich II. Von Laach , the founder of the Maria Laach Monastery , had his castle on Lake Laach in the Kruft district .
  • Bottom left (in 3): The silver stake symbolizes the tithing of Prince von der Leyen in all local parishes (except Kruft).
  • Bottom right (in 4): The volcano represents the importance of volcanism and the stone industry as a livelihood from Roman times to today. The five boulders symbolize the five local communities of Pellenz. The hexagonal shape of the rock reflects the naturally occurring shape of the so-called columnar basalt .

Community house

In 2011 the award-winning House of the Community was built in the community of Plaidt , which is also an extension of the regional Pellenz school to include an auditorium and canteen. The concrete cuboid, the entrance area of ​​which is clad in wood, was designed by an architectural firm from Frankfurt am Main.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. Maria Zaar-Görgens: The emergence of a Rhenish municipal association - From the Prussian mayor's office Andernach to the Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz In: 150 years Verbandsgemeinde Pellenz , p. 126–146. Andernach, 2008; ISBN 978-3-941385-01-6
  3. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, association council elections
  5. ^ Rhein-Zeitung: The Pellenzer have decided: Klaus Bell (CDU) remains VG mayor. June 10, 2018, accessed December 17, 2019 .