Wassenach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '  N , 7 ° 17'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Brohl valley
Height :	288 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.16 km 2
Residents:	1215 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	197 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56653
Area code :	02636
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 209
Association administration address:	Kapellenstrasse 12 56651 Niederzissen
Website :	www.wassenach.de
Local Mayor :	Manfred Sattler ( CDU )
Location of the local community of Wassenach in the Ahrweiler district

View of Wassenach (2016, from the Lydia tower )

Wassenach Castle House, courtyard side

Parish Church of St. Remigius

Lydia tower

Wassenach is a municipality in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Brohltal community , which has its administrative headquarters in Niederzissen . Wassenach is a state-approved resort .

geography

Wassenach is located in the East Eifel north of the Laacher See on a mountain ridge that slopes steadily from south to north. The village includes altitudes between 245  m above sea level. NHN and 320  m above sea level NHN . To the west rises the Veitskopf , where the municipality area with 428  m above sea level. NHN reaches its highest ground point . In terms of nature , it can be assigned to the Laacher Kuppenland , in the west it is part of the Laacher See nature reserve . The residential area Wassenacher Mühle (Degensmühle) belongs to Wassenach .

history

Wassenach was first mentioned in 1138 when the knight Embrico bequeathed his homestead ( Mansum ) in Wassenach ( Waszennaco ) to the Laach monastery for his salvation. Pope Innocent II confirmed this donation. A "Theoduricus de Wassenacho" is documented from 1149. The family of the "Lords of Kolb" was first mentioned around the year 1320, when the first chapel of Wassenach was built. The court of those von Kolb zu Wassenach belonged to the imperial knighthood . A line of those von Kolb was nicknamed "von Wassenach" and was in the possession of this manor for several centuries.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 379 1835 448 1871 533 1905 615 1939 561 1950 676 1961 747

year Residents 1970 919 1987 959 1997 1,195 2005 1,152 2011 1,137 2017 1,220

Population development of Wassenach from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

politics

Municipal council

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

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	8th	5	16 seats
2014	4th	7th	5	16 seats
2009	4th	7th	5	16 seats
2004	3	8th	5	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Wassenach e. V.

mayor

Manfred Sattler (CDU) became local mayor of Wassenach on July 1, 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 85.10%.

Sattler's predecessor Werner Willems did not run again in 2009.

Parish partnership

Wassenach has had a partnership with the French municipality of Sommepy-Tahure in the canton of Ville-sur-Tourbe in the Grand Est region since 1993 .

coat of arms

Blazon : “In the split shield head in the right blue shield part in a silver robe with a golden hand, golden face and red cap, a saint with a halo who holds an abbot's staff in his left hand. Kneeling in front of him is a red man with a golden face and silver hair who holds a golden and silver staff in his left golden hand. In the left part of the silver shield there is a red armored, red-tongued black eagle with a red beak. "

Foundation of the coat of arms: The patron saint of the Catholic parish church in Wassenach is St. Remigius, who, as Bishop of Reims, baptized Clovis, King of the Franks, in 496. Of the wealthy nobility in Wassenach, the Kolb von Wassenach family is the better known. By combining the church emblem and the secular coat of arms, the reference to the patron saint of the community is to be taken into account and the historical past is to be recorded.

Culture and sights

• The Wassenach castle house, which dominates the center of the Wassenach village, was built in 1772 by the noble von Kolb family. This family gained influence beyond the borders of the village; it was able to maintain its privileged position for generations. Today the castle house houses a collection of old musical instruments. Concerts are also held there.
• The Catholic parish church of St. Remigius in Wassenach was built in 1851. It has a baroque high altar from 1772 and a historic organ from 1854 by the organ builder Ludwig Hünd .
• The Buddhist meditation center with monastery and temple "Wat Buddha Vipassana " of Thai Buddhisten Deutschland e. V., which was opened in May 2009 in a former restaurant in the town center. Monks from Bangkok and Chiang Mai live there and it is open to visitors at any time.
• Natural mineral spring Römerbrunnen . Gases rise in the oval spring basin. The spring water has a high iron content. ⊙
• Natural mineral spring horse fountain . Carbonated drinking water with a dissolved mineral content of 1162 mg / l. ⊙

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wassenach

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 2010, August 21: Felix Genn (* 1950), Bishop of the Diocese of Münster

Sons and daughters of the church

• Eva Mulner (around 1575–1609), victim of the witch hunt .
• Felix Genn (* 1950), bishop

Personalities who worked in Wassenach

• Josef Zilliken (1872–1942), Catholic priest who was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp .

Web links

Commons : Wassenach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the local community Wassenach
• Everything about Wassenach
• Literature about Wassenach in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 10 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ Johann Friedrich Schannat: Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , Volume 3, 1852, page 78
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ ^{a b} 1st meeting of the Wassenach municipal council. In: Council and Citizen Information System. Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Brohltal, July 1, 2009, accessed on August 4, 2020 . 
7. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Brohltal, Verbandsgemeinde, 14th line of results. Retrieved August 4, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Information on the partnership on the website of the Brohltal community
9. ^ Wassenach coat of arms declaration
10. ↑ Cf. under Opus number 1495 on the website of the Klais organ building company
11. ↑ Römerbrunnen mineral spring. (PDF) Accessed January 31, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Horse fountain mineral spring. (PDF) Accessed January 31, 2018 . 
13. ↑ kirchensite.de: This is where I belong. Bishop Felix Genn honorary citizen of his hometown Wassenach .