Wölmersen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
Association municipality :	Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld
Height :	285 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.63 km 2
Residents:	371 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	141 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57635
Area code :	02681
License plate :	AK
Community key :	07 1 32 118
Association administration address:	Rathausstrasse 13 57610 Altenkirchen
Website :	www.vg-altenkirchen.de
Local Mayor :	Thomas Lindner
Location of the local community Wölmersen in the district of Altenkirchen (Westerwald)

View from the B8 over Wölmersen

Wölmersen is a municipality in the Altenkirchen (Westerwald) district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld .

Geographical location

Wölmersen is located in the Westerwald , near the federal highway 8 , about seven kilometers from Altenkirchen . Neighboring communities are Oberirsen in the northwest, Kettenhausen in the southeast and Birnbach in the southwest.

history

The settlement is founded in the 8th / 9th Century. The oldest written mention of Wölmersen comes from the year 1413; Wilmershuißen is documented as an early version of the place name . The original form of settlement can be compared with the garrison villages as they were created in the 9th century.

For the year 1620, 15 smokes (that is, houses, farms or households) are mentioned in Wölmersen, which is likely to have corresponded to around 75 inhabitants.

Population development

The development of the population of Wölmersen, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 74 1835 128 1871 166 1905 168 1939 203 1950 223

year Residents 1961 232 1970 258 1987 324 1997 423 2005 445 2019 371

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Wölmersen consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Thomas Lindner became the local mayor of Wölmersen in 2019. Since there was no candidate in the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected by the local council. Thomas Lindner's predecessor was Ernst's student.

coat of arms

Wölmersen has had its own coat of arms since 2004 . The coat of arms shows the Sayn leoparded lion for belonging to the former county of Sayn . The stripes point to the old Heerstraße and Kohlstraße and the Ilex branch gives an indication of the forest, which is richly overgrown with the protected holly .

Economy and Infrastructure

There are several small businesses with a total of approx. 40 jobs on site, most of them from the Missions- und Bildungswerk Neues Leben e. V. are provided.

Furthermore, a full-time agricultural business and several part-time farmers are located in Wölmersen. The agriculturally used area has decreased in recent years. In the center of the village there is a community center and at the edge of the forest the local community maintains a sports and leisure facility.

On the outskirts there is a large leisure and seminar center of the Missions and Bildungswerk Neues Leben eV and the campus of the Rhineland Theological Seminar with its areas of media, leisure time, evangelism and diakonia.

Clubs and celebrations

• The football club Wölmersen organizes a sports week every year.
• The Working Group for Local History and Customs Care eV collects information on local history and culture.
• Customs include putting up a maypole , the oak festival (a street or summer festival organized by the village youth), the summer festival of the New Life Center, as well as the Martinszug and Martinsfeuer .

See also

→ List of cultural monuments in Wölmersen

Web links

Commons : Wölmersen  - Collection of images

• Local community Wölmersen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal Council Election 2019 Wölmersen. Accessed December 30, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld, Verbandsgemeinde, 67th result line. Accessed December 30, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Local community Wölmersen: Wölmersen. Accessed December 30, 2019 .