Weißenthurm

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Coat of arms of the city of Weißenthurm
Weißenthurm
Map of Germany, position of the city Weißenthurm highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Weißenthurm
Height : 65 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.99 km 2
Residents: 9157 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 2295 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56575
Area code : 02637
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 228
Association administration address: Kärlicher Strasse 4
56575 Weißenthurm
Website : www.weissenthurm.de
City Mayor : Gerd Heim ( CDU )
Location of the town of Weißenthurm in the Mayen-Koblenz district
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The White Tower in Weißenthurm

Weißenthurm ( dialect abbreviated Thur ) is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the association of the same name and is its administrative seat. Weißenthurm is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

Geographical location

The city is located on the left bank of the Middle Rhine between Andernach and Koblenz , opposite Neuwied .

history

Named the city after the White Tower , a late medieval living and customs tower, probably at the beginning of the 15th century by order of the Trier Archbishop and Elector Werner von Falkenstein (1388-1418) at the former border crossing between the electorates of Trier and Cologne at the Trade route from Koblenz to Cologne was built. In the 17th century a settlement was built in its neighborhood; 1663 the place of Archbishop of Trier and Elector received Karl Kaspar von der Leyen , the market rights granted. Today the White Tower houses the town's museum of local history and can be visited by arrangement with the town council. Other sights of the city include the Catholic parish church and the General Hoche monument , which commemorates the crossing of the Rhine by the French Sambre and Maas armies under General Lazare Hoche on April 18, 1797. The town charter was Weißenthurm on June 25 1966th

politics

City council

The city ​​council of Weißenthurm consists of 24 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice SPD CDU FDP FWG total
2019 6th 11 - 7th 24 seats
2014 6th 13 1 4th 24 seats
2009 8th 14th 2 - 24 seats
2004 6th 15th 3 - 24 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Weißenthurm e. V.

mayor

Mayor of Weißenthurm is Gerd Heim (CDU). In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed with 70.34% of the votes.

Town twinning

Weißenthurm has been in partnership with the small town of Courrières in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France since 1975 .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Weißenthurm has good transport connections with two federal highways ( B 9 , B 256 ), a train station on the left bank of the Rhine , a dock for Rhine shipping and the Raiffeisen Bridge to Neuwied .

In front of the city is the Rheininsel Weißenthurmer Werth , which can be reached via the Rhine bridge. In the north, Weißenthurm borders the confluence of the Nette with the Rhine.

Business

The place used to be mainly industrial. Due to the three main branches of business - pumice industry , breweries (Schultheis, Nette-Bräu, Bock and Efinger) and sheet metal processing (Ball Packaging and Impress, formerly Schmalbach-Lubeca ) - Weißenthurm was also referred to as "3B-Stadt".

The pumice industry has disappeared because the raw material pumice is largely mined in the region around Weißenthurm. The last two major breweries Schultheis- and Nice brewery had to yield to the pressure of the "big ones": The Schultheis Brewery was the Bitburger brewery bought and later closed, the brewery to Nice belonged to the King Brauerei in Koblenz , who gave this location and the beer since then manufactured in the parent company. Sheet metal processing is currently the largest business tax payer.

The SchwörerHaus KG operates in Weißenthurm the equipment center west / north.

Communal

Weißenthurm, aerial photo 2013
Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Weißenthurm has two schools ( elementary school , Breslauer Strasse; Realschule plus , Kirchstrasse, formerly Hauptschule ) and two churches (one Catholic in Kirchstrasse and one Protestant in Bethelstrasse) as well as a prayer house of the Mennonite Brotherhood in the street “Am Nette Gut”.

The Weißenthurm volunteer fire brigade is also based in the city . It was founded in 1898 and is sponsored by the Weißenthurm community. It does over 100 missions a year not only in the city of Weißenthurm, but in the entire municipality. A command vehicle (KdoW), two rescue group vehicles (HLF20), a rescue vehicle (RW), two multi-purpose vehicles (MZF 1, MZF 2) and the reserve fire fighting group vehicle LF 16/12 are available to the fire engine to cope with the tasks in accordance with the State Fire and Disaster Protection Act (LBKG) available to the VG. When deployed on the Rhine, the unit relies on a multi-purpose boat (MZB) with a jet drive. The fire brigade operations center (FEZ) in the fire station on Stierweg provides command support.

Also located is the environmental train VG Weißenthurm, which is responsible for disaster control for a sector in the Mayen-Koblenz district .

Sports

The city is home to the football club BSV Weißenthurm .

Personalities

Born in Weißenthurm

Associated with Weißenthurm

  • Johann Claudius von Lassaulx (1781–1848), architect of the church
  • Rudolf Bock (1924–2008), member of the state parliament and mayor of Weißenthurm
  • Werner Klein (1928–1985), member of the state parliament and mayor of Weißenthurm
  • Karl-Jakob Bubser, together with Joseph Gieser, founder of the Nette brewery

See also

literature

  • Reinhard Gilles: Weißenthurm. History of the city. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1988. ISBN 3-89264-196-X .

Web links

Commons : Weißenthurm  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ↑ Weißenthurm on the “BurgDirekt” portal of the German Castle Association .
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 188 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  6. ^ The State Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Weißenthurm, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .