Weitersbach

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Birch field
Association municipality :	Herrstein-Rhaunen
Height :	405 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.75 km 2
Residents:	94 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55624
Area code :	06544
License plate :	BIR
Community key :	07 1 34 092
Association administration address:	Brühlstrasse 16 55756 Herrstein
Website :	www.vg-hr.de
Local Mayor :	Marco Ripp
Location of the community of Weitersbach in the Birkenfeld district

Weitersbach is a municipality in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Herrstein-Rhaunen community .

geography

Weitersbach is located on the Idarbach on the edge of the Idarwald in the Hunsrück . 77 percent of the district area is forested (as of 2010). To the east is Rhaunen , south Stipshausen and north is Gösenroth .

Weitersbach also includes the Weitersbacherhütte and Bernds-Mühle (Weitersbacher Mühle) residential areas in the Idar Valley.

history

At the junction to Krummenau there was a Roman villa rustica . The main building with 26 rooms is considered to be one of the largest manors from Roman times in the entire Hunsrück. The remains were uncovered in 1953–1955. The place Weitersbach was first mentioned in the year 1200 as Widemarsbach .

Until the end of the 18th century, Weitersbach belonged to the high court of Rhaunen in the Wild and Rhine County . Most recently, the territory of the Rhaunen High Court was jointly owned by the Kurtrier and the Wild and Rhine Counts.

After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine as a result of the First Coalition War (1794), Weitersbach belonged to the canton of Rhaunen in the Birkenfeld arrondissement of the Saar department from 1798 to 1814 . Due to the resolutions passed at the Congress of Vienna , the canton of Rhaunen and thus Weitersbach became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, the community of Weitersbach was assigned to the mayor's office in Rhaunen in the Bernkastel district , which belonged to the Trier administrative district in the Rhine province (1822).

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 94 1835 129 1871 107 1905 121 1939 107 1950 126 1961 122

year Residents 1970 109 1987 95 1997 100 2005 80 2011 80 2017 88

Population development of Weitersbach from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

politics

Parish hall

Municipal council

The council in Weitersbach consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Marco Ripp became the local mayor of Weitersbach on August 16, 2019. Since there were no applicants in the direct election on May 26, 2019, the election of the mayor was incumbent on the council in accordance with the municipal regulations. He decided on Marco Ripp.

Marco Ripp's predecessor, Karl-Heinz Ripp, had held the office for 20 years, but did not take up office again in 2019.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In a divided shield above in gold, a red mythical animal with a wolf's head and wide open wings, covered with a black wolf hook . Below in green a silver grain of corn, accompanied by two golden ears. "

Justification of the coat of arms: The mythical animal refers to the former affiliation to the Wild and Rhine Counties and corresponds to the earlier court seal of the Rhaunen High Court. The grain barrel in the lower half was found during the excavations of the Roman villa in the municipality and is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier . The ears of wheat symbolize the agricultural structure of the community.

Economy and Infrastructure

Weitersbacher mill

There is a village community center in Weitersbach. In Idar-Oberstein there is a train station on the Bingen – Saarbrücken line . In the north are the federal highway 50 and the Frankfurt-Hahn airport . Since 1871 there has been a grain mill on the Idarbach that is powered by water. The mill was rebuilt in 1947 after being destroyed in a bombing raid during the war in 1943. The machines date from 1942. The mill has a grinding capacity of one ton per day and is therefore one of Germany's small mills. The operators only process grain from their own cultivation. The miller Daniela Müller-Lorenz is one of the few millers in Germany.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Weitersbach

Web links

Commons : Weitersbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Weitersbach on the website of the Herrstein-Rhaunen community
• Literature about Weitersbach 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 2020. S. 30 (PDF; 1 MB).
4. ↑ Josef Hoffmann: Guide through the administration of the Rhineland from then and now ... , Düsseldorf: Selbstverl., 1918, p. 12 ( online edition at dilibri )
5. ^ JE Gräff: Chronological collection of the Rhenish Prussian legal sources excluding the five statutes , Fr. Lintz, 1846, p. 22 ( online edition at Google Books )
6. ↑ Otto Beck: Description of the Trier District , Volume 1, F. Lintz, 1868, p. 145 ( Google Books )
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Herrstein-Rhaunen, Verbandsgemeinde, 48th line of results. Retrieved August 27, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Andreas Nitsch: Some mayors of VG Rhaunen are thinking of quitting. Karl-Heinz Ripp. In: Nahe newspaper. Mittelrhein-Verlag GmbH, Koblenz, February 7, 2019, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Reiner Drumm: Even as a child she wanted to be a miller . Rhein-Zeitung , November 9, 2012.
11. ↑ The miller's wife. In: SWR-Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz. November 13, 2012, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; accessed on December 29, 2017 .