Weibern (Eifel)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '  N , 7 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Brohl valley
Height :	399 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.56 km 2
Residents:	1500 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	142 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56745
Area code :	02655
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 211
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Kapellenstrasse 12 56651 Niederzissen
Website :	www.weibern.de
Local Mayor :	Karl Gundert
Location of the local community of Weibern in the Ahrweiler district

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

geography

The two places that belong to the municipality, Weibern and Wabern, are located on the eastern edge of the Hocheifel between the Nürburgring and the Laacher See . The main town of Weibern is located in the valley of the Weiberner Bach , which drains in a south-westerly direction to the Nette . The municipality can be naturally assigned to the Kempenich tuff plateau. In the west it extends over the Weiberner forest to the summit of the Hilzberg , where it is around 595  m above sea level. NHN reaches its highest ground point . The “Güterbahnhof Weibern” and “Weiberner Mühle” residential areas also belong to Weibern.

history

Weibern was mentioned for the first time in 865 in a document from the Prüm Abbey. King Ludwig II gave the chapels to Güsten and Bachem in the Jülich region to Prüm, along with their accessories. The accessories included a mansion ( mansum indominicatum ) in villa viveri in the Eifelgau . Latin viveris means pond. As early as the 9th century, women was a village and not just a farm, which apparently also had a pond, perhaps in an old pit or quarry. The Romans had already excavated tufa . It came, probably through the Prümer Vogt, to the Lords of Kempenich and then to the Niedererzstift Trier . Ecclesiastically it belonged to the Kempenich parish in the Ochtendung deanship until 1860 . The Counts of Eltz and Freiherrn von Bürresheim owned knightly goods on site in the 18th century . Weibern was raised to its own parish in 1860 . Up until the 1950s, the mining of the Weiberner tuff was the main industry. Today a museum and older tuff quarries remind of this time. The Marian column erected in 1885 is also made of tuff. It bears the misleading inscription: You are blessed among women .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 479 1835 526 1871 670 1905 1,089 1939 1,198 1950 1,343

year Residents 1961 1,253 1970 1,368 1987 1,333 2005 1,588 2017 1,515

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Weibern 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	5	8th	16 seats
2014	3	5	8th	16 seats
2009	3	4th	9	16 seats
2004	4th	5	7th	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group Weibern e. V.

mayor

Karl Gundert (CDU) became the local mayor of Weibern on August 15, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 54.50% of the vote.

Gundert's predecessor Peter Josef Schmitz (FWG) had held the office for 20 years, but did not take up office again in 2019.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided, at the top split by silver and blue, at the bottom black, in front a continuous red bar cross, at the back two silver fish in stakes , at the bottom a fallen, open, cranked, silver caliper , covered with an open, silver zipper with arch."
	Justification for the coat of arms: The red cross stands for the Electorate of Trier , to which women belonged until 1794, the silver fish create a connection with the meaning of the Latin word for women, vivarium , which means something like “zoo” or “fish ponds”. The two circles are a symbol of the local stonemasonry , which works a lot with tuff .

Parish partnership

There is a community partnership with Weibern (Upper Austria) .

Catholic Parish Church of St. Barbara

Culture and sights

Buildings

See the list of cultural monuments in Weibern

Sports

Weibern is home to the handball club TuS Weibern , whose women's team played in the 1st Bundesliga from 2003 to 2005 and was promoted to this class again in 2012.

Regular events

Every 2 years, on the first Sunday in June, the Tuff Festival takes place. It has a very high priority in the context of local celebrations. To commemorate the great tradition of the Weiberner stonemasons, the tuff stone center was built around the turn of the millennium, embedded in the “ Brohltal / Laacher See volcano park ” project . In 2002 it was officially opened as part of the 1st Tuff Festival. It has been an integral part of the German Volcano Road since 2006 .

Economy and Infrastructure

In recent years, tourism in the Eifel town of Weibern has increased more and more, and the opening of the German Volcano Road will promote this branch of the economy. A commercial area on the outskirts of Weibern, which among other things houses a supermarket with an adjoining beverage shop, guarantees the food supply in the immediate vicinity.

traffic

• North of the community runs the federal highway 412 , which leads from the federal highway 61 to Nürburg .
• The next motorway junction is Wehr on federal motorway 61 Koblenz - Bonn , about eight kilometers away.
• The next train station is Engeln station on the Brohltalbahn . The section from Engeln to Kempenich, which also reached Weibern itself, no longer exists since 1976. The station building is used as a museum.

education

There is a primary school in the village, which has been teaching since 1904.

Born in women

• Johann Jakob Dahm (* 1659 in Weibern; † July 10, 1727 in Mainz ), German organ builder .

Others

The grave of the metal sculptor Hans Karl Burgeff , who mainly worked in the Rhineland, is located in the municipal cemetery .

literature

• Adam Wrede : Eifel folklore. 3rd edition Bonn 1960.

Web links

Commons : women  - collection of images

• Homepage of the local community of Weibern
• Literature about women 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. ↑ 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).
3. ^ Heinrich Beyer document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume 1, Coblenz 1860, p. 107. ( Certificate 104 )
4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, The map of 1789 , Volume 2, Bonn 1898, p. 520
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Weibern. Retrieved August 4, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ Constituent meeting of the Weibern municipal council. In: Council and Citizen Information System. Verbandsgemeindeverwaltung Brohltal, August 15, 2009, accessed on August 4, 2020 . 
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Brohltal, Verbandsgemeinde, 16th line of results. Retrieved August 4, 2020 . 
10. ^ Karl Gundert replaces Peter Josef Schmitz as local mayor. In: localbook.de, from: Olbrück Rundschau 34/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, August 21, 2019, accessed on August 4, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Tufa Museum Steinmetzbahnhof Weibern