Wallmerod

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Wallmerod
Height :	318 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.66 km 2
Residents:	1438 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	541 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56414
Area code :	06435
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 304
Association administration address:	Richtstrasse 1 56414 Wallmerod
Website :	www.wallmerod.de
Local Mayor :	Ulf Peter Ludwig ( CDU )
Location of the local community Wallmerod in the Westerwaldkreis

Wallmerod is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is the administrative seat of the association of the same name , to which the municipality belongs. Wallmerod is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

Geographical location

Wallmerod is located in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Rennerod .

Neighboring communities

Wallmerod borders the municipality of Bilkheim to the north, the municipality of Molsberg to the east, the municipality of Weroth to the south and the municipality of Berod to the west . Hundsangen is located in the southeast and can be easily reached via the B8 .

history

Wallmerode was first mentioned in a document on February 4, 1276. The word ending -rode, rod refers to the medieval clearing of forests for the production of arable and pasture land. On this day the Archbishops of Cologne and Trier, Count Gerhard von Diez, as well as Heinrich von Sponheim and Diether von Molsberg met. There Diether von Molsberg and his wife Lisa von Isenburg seal that they will no longer damage the Marienstatt Monastery in the future and that they want to keep all rights to it forever. Thus, in the presence of two archbishops and several sovereigns, a long dispute between the Marienstatt monastery and the lords of Molsberg was settled.

In the Duchy of Nassau , the official seat of Amt Meudt was moved from Montabaur to Wallmerod in 1831 and called Amt Wallmerod .

In the course of an administrative reform, Wallmerod became the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde in 1972.

The town, which today has 1,438 inhabitants, was of great importance early on due to its location. The main branch of Bundesstrasse 8 , formerly known as Hohe or Kölnische Strasse , leading right through Wallmerod , was probably an ancient connecting route from northwest to southeast (from Antwerp to Innsbruck ).

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 244 1835 478 1871 544 1905 484 1939 599 1950 669

year Residents 1961 676 1970 789 1987 911 1997 1,229 2005 1,315 2019 1,438

politics

Town hall of the Wallmerod Association

Municipal council

The municipal council in Wallmerod consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	WGR  1	WGR  2	total
2019	12	4th	-	16 seats
2014	9	2	5	16 seats
2009	-	7th	9	16 seats
2004	9	3	4th	16 seats

mayor

Ulf Ludwig (CDU) became the local mayor of Wallmerod on July 7, 2014. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in office for a further five years with a share of the vote of 76.61%.

Ludwig's predecessor Hans-Peter Krings had held the office for 15 years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: “Spaten with 'W', Spaten for the word part 'rod' of clearing, 'W' for Wallmerod. The two churches for the Evangelical and Catholic Church ”.

Culture and sights

View of the corner street

Sports and culture hall

Buildings

Listed buildings include the Nuber House in Eckengasse, the official building and prison built in 1831, the recipe with granary (tithe house) of the Ducal Domain built in 1834, and the old bakery from the second half of the 19th century.

→ see also the list of cultural monuments in Wallmerod

Sports

On December 1, 2006, the sports and culture hall was inaugurated, which is shared by the Wallmerod community with the Wallmerod community.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• Wallmerod is conveniently located on the old trade route ( Hohe Straße ), today's B 8 , between Frankfurt am Main (78 km) and Cologne (103 km) in the southern part of the Westerwald . The motorway junction Diez / Wallmerod of A 3 is 9 km away.
• Wallmerod is on the Westerwaldquerbahn, which is only used for freight traffic .
• The next passenger stations are now Dreikirchen and Steinefrenz on the Unterwesterwaldbahn ( Limburg an der Lahn - Diez Ost - Elz Süd - Montabaur - Wirges - Siershahn ), here the regional train line 29 of the Hessische Landesbahn operates , operating area Dreiländerbahn under the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle . There is a connection to the ICE long-distance traffic at Montabaur train station , which is 13 km away, and Limburg Süd train station , which is 21 km away.

education

Wallmerod has a kindergarten and a primary school.

Sons of the community

• Karl Thewalt (1825–1895), Reich judge
• Karl Hutter (1851–1913), patent holder of the plop lock ( clip lock ).
• Johannes Orth (1847-1923), pathologist

Web links

Commons : Wallmerod  - Collection of Images

• The local community Wallmerod on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Wallmerod

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ Forests and people through the ages
4. ↑ cf. Volker Lemke: History of the parish St. Aegidius Berod. A contribution to the local history of Berod, Wallmerod, Zehnhausen and Molsberg. Berod 1997. p. 16
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ ^{a b} New top management in Wallmerod. Frankfurter Neue Presse, July 17, 2014, accessed on July 8, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Wallmerod, Verbandsgemeinde, 18th line of results. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .