Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Mosel

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mayen-Koblenz
Area :	164.11 km 2
Residents:	26,791 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	163 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	MYK, MY
Association key :	07 1 37 5009
Association structure:	18 parishes
Association administration address :	Bahnhofstrasse 44 56330 Kobern-Gondorf
Website :	www.vg-rhein-mosel.de
Mayor :	Bruno Seibeld
Location of the Rhein-Mosel community in the Mayen-Koblenz district

The Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Mosel is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It emerged on July 1, 2014 from the merger of the Verbandsgemeinden Rhens and Untermosel . It includes the city of Rhens and 17 independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the local community Kobern-Gondorf with an administrative office in the city of Rhens.

With around 27,000 inhabitants, it is the second largest association municipality in the district of Mayen-Koblenz after Weißenthurm .

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
Alkene	8.05	659
Brey	6.42	1,469
Brodenbach	9.65	636
Castles	11.28	748
Thieving	17.68	2,656
Hatzenport	3.77	603
Kobern-Gondorf	28.36	3.137
Clay	10.24	1,293
Löf	5.34	1,463
Quirks	8.61	351
Niederfell	11.67	1.012
Nörtershausen	5.66	1,132
Upper skin	5.51	1,097
Rhens , city	16.30	2,946
Spay	2.70	1,904
Waldesch	3.34	2,208
Winningen	6.66	2,421
Clouds	2.86	1,056
Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Mosel	164.10	26,791

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The coats of arms of the former municipalities of Rhens (left) and Lower Mosel (right)

As part of the second Rhineland-Palatinate municipal and administrative reform of September 28, 2010, association communities with fewer than 12,000 inhabitants are to be merged in order to ensure their viability. The Verbandsgemeinde Rhens , which has fewer than 9,000 inhabitants, then began looking for a suitable merger partner within the so-called "voluntary phase", which ran until June 30, 2012, in order to anticipate a forced merger and to be able to claim a corresponding subsidy from the state . After exploratory talks and negotiations with neighboring regional authorities as well as the examination of reports by the State Ministry of the Interior, it was decided in May 2011 to start merger talks with the Lower Moselle community. On January 17, 2012, an agreement was reached on the key points of a merger.

On March 22, 2012, the municipal councils of the two municipalities voted for the merger, unanimously in Rhens and one against in Lower Moselle. The merger agreement was signed on July 2nd by the mayors of the municipalities Helmut Schreiber (Rhens) and Bruno Seibeld (Lower Moselle) in Rhens.

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to the current area of ​​the Rhein-Mosel community; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 10,862 1835 13,876 1871 14,813 1905 16,017 1939 17,912 1950 21,452

year Residents 1961 21,389 1970 24.051 1987 24,786 1997 26,695 2005 27,748 2019 26,791

politics

Association municipal council

The local council Rhein-Mosel consists of 36 honorary council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation were elected, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	FDP	FWG	FWG U	FWG R	total
2019	5	13	6th	2	10	-	-	36 seats
2014	6th	13	2	1	-	10	4th	36 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Rhein-Mosel eV
• FWG U = Free Voting Group Verbandsgemeinde Untermosel eV
• FWG R = Free Voting Group Verbandsgemeinde Rhens eV

mayor

On May 25, 2014, Bruno Seibeld, previously the mayor of the Lower Mosel community, was elected mayor with 68%.

coat of arms

Blazon : embroidered coat of arms with blue and white wavy bar . Field 1: the Trier cross , field 2: golden crown on a green background, field 3: golden grapevine with leaf on a green background, field 4: the Kurkölnian cross .

Web links

• Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Mosel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State law on the voluntary formation of the new Rhein-Mosel community of May 8, 2013
3. ↑ Key points paper on the voluntary formation of the new Rhein-Mosel community (PDF; 140 kB)
4. ↑ http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/koblenz_artikel,-Breite-Mehrheit-fuer-freiwillige-Fusion-_arid,399583.html Broad majority for voluntary fusion
5. ↑ http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/koblenz_artikel,-Fusion-Die-neue-VG-Rhein-Mosel-ist-jetzt-offiziell-besiegel-_arid,448108.html
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
7. ↑ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, association council elections
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections, direct elections of the mayors