Hamlet (Boppard)

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hamlet
City of Boppard
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 224 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 749  (December 31, 2013)
Incorporation : December 31, 1975
Postal code : 56154
Area code : 06742
Weiler (Rhineland-Palatinate)
hamlet

Location of Weiler in Rhineland-Palatinate
Hamlet with a view of the Rhine

Weiler is one of ten districts in the city of Boppard on the Rhine . It is 235  m above sea level. NHN directly above the Bad Salzig district of Boppard . The climatic health resort Fleckertshöhe with 530  m above sea level belongs to the hamlet . NHN , which is the highest point in the city of Boppard. Until it was incorporated into the new municipality of Boppard on December 31, 1975, Weiler was an independent municipality.

geography

Weiler is located directly on the left bank of the Rhine on Rheingoldstrasse. Opposite Weiler, on the right bank of the Rhine, is the municipality of Kestert , which you can see directly from the hamlet of Ziehlay vantage point. The federal highway 9 runs along the Rhine below Weiler and the federal highway 42 on the opposite side of the Rhine, on the right bank of the Rhine . The Rheinburgenwanderweg runs right through the hamlet, past the St. Peter Church .

The district of Weiler also includes the Fleckertshöhe, Haus Rheinberg, Haus Trift, Salzbornhöhe and Weilerbach residential areas .

history

There are many places called hamlets . It used to be called “Wilre”, as old documents suggest.

Weiler was first mentioned in a document in 911. King Konrad I had given the Ursulakloster in Cologne from the Bopparder Königsgut the Martinskapelle with yard and barn, from Salzig Wald and meadows and from "Wilre" meadows.

In 991 hamlet belonged to the villages of the large parish of Boppard, which emperor Otto III. with all the chapels of the Boppard rulership and the associated tithe country was transferred to St. Martin's monastery in Worms .

In 1149 King Conrad III. the place "Wilre" with the farms "Beie" (Rheinbay), "Quintinache" (Quentin), "Prade" (Prath) and "Overkestert" (Oberkestert) under his protection.

For the next few centuries, Weiler was part of the Boppard Empire . When Boppard lost its imperial immediacy in 1327 and was pledged by King Henry VII to his brother, Archbishop Baldwin of Trier , Weiler also came to the electorate. It was not until the end of the 15th century that there was one last unsuccessful revolt against the rule of the Electorate of Trier .

politics

The local council in Weiler consists of seven honorary council members, who were last elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the also honorary mayor as chairman. The local elections in 2019 brought four seats for the SPD and three for the CDU .

Mayor is Andreas Mayer (SPD). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 61.7% of the vote and is the successor to Helmut Schröder (CDU), who did not run again.

Public facilities

There is a municipal day-care center in the local district.

Attractions

Ziehlay view of Kestert

Ziehlay with "Praying Nun"

Viewpoint with a wooden figure erected there in 2006 (by Sigurd Bratzel ) as a praying nun . The Rheinburgenweg leads past there.

Until the middle of the 20th century, a grown rock with a view of the Rhine gave the impression of a praying nun. The following legend is related to this formation: During the Thirty Years War the nuns fled from the now defunct hamlet monastery from the approaching Swedish troops of Gustav Adolf . They didn't make it in time and were massacred; only sister Angelika managed to escape through a secret door, and she saved herself on the Ziehlay. There she prayed to the Holy Mother of God that she would protect her from her persecutors and let her quickly turn to stone. The Swedish soldiers who had followed her no longer found her, thought she had crashed, and descended to the Rhine. There they looked in horror into the face of the petrified Angelica with folded hands, crossed themselves and repented of their deeds.

Until it was blown up by a bomb during the Second World War, it served as a location for souvenir photos on many occasions. It was also a popular rock for climbing.

From here you have a direct view of Kestert and the “Hindenburghöhe” viewpoint on the opposite side of the Rhine, which is also the resting point of the continuous “ Rheinsteig ” hiking trail .

St. Peter Church

Entrance side of St Peter's Church

The St. Peter Church is a church built in the first half of the 13th century in Romanesque style, the main nave of which was later extended in Gothic form. The church was decorated with important sculptures. The statue of Peter dates from the 13th or 14th century, the early Gothic cross from the 15th century and the statue of Our Lady of Sorrows from the beginning of the 16th century. Most valuable was a seated Madonna in Romanesque style, which was sold to the Trier Diocesan Museum in 1908 . In 1903 the belfry was renewed. In 1952 and 1953 the church received a sacristy and was lengthened by six meters. In 1968 the sanctuary was adapted to the new liturgical guidelines with a celebration altar.

Viewpoint Dünchen with Mother of God House

Viewpoint Dünchen

From here you have a good view of Bad Salzig and Kamp-Bornhofen on the right bank of the Rhine with its Sterrenberg and Liebenstein castles , also known locally as "The Enemy Brothers". In Kamp-Bornhofen is the Franciscan monastery with its Marian pilgrimage church, which is visited by many thousands of pilgrims every year.

Image gallery of Weiler

  • "Praying Nun" 2006

  • St. Peter's Church cemetery side

  • Kamp-Bornhofen

Regular events

  • Heavy Thursday (= Weiberfastnacht ): Carnival event at the Möhnen . Every year on the Thursday before Carnival weekend
  • Hamlet fair ( parish fair ) annually on the first weekend of August
  • Fleckertshöher fair on the last weekend in July every year
  • Football tournament , an event held every year by the sports club Weiler
  • Nativity scene exhibition in the multi-purpose building in the run-up to Christmas
  • The "Living Advent Calendar" from the beginning to the end of the Advent season
  • Senior day every third week of the month

societies

  • Weiler Möhnen , carnival women's community, consisting for 45 years, every year on the Thursday before Carnival Sunday their "heavy Thursday" as the highlight of the Carnival celebration
  • Sport-Club Weiler, football club, consisting of over 60 years, with senior and old men team
  • Boppard volunteer fire brigade, Weiler fire brigade
  • Musikfreunde Boppard-Weiler, music association with over 30 years of existence
  • Church choir St. Peter
  • TV-AKTIV, women's gymnastics club
  • Hotzele, theater group
  • Weiler youth club
  • Hundefreizeit-Fleckertshöhe, association for dog lovers
  • Neighborhood Weiler-Fleckertshöhe, an association of citizens from Weiler and Fleckertshöhe whose aim is to promote the good old manners and customs and to support the cultural life and general welfare of the village community

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 160 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 35 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
  3. ^ City of Boppard: Result of the Weiler local council 2019. Accessed on October 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ City of Boppard: Mayor election 2019 Weiler. Retrieved October 3, 2019 .

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