Weitersburg

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 36'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality :	Vallendar
Height :	184 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.62 km 2
Residents:	2493 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	377 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56191
Primaries :	02622, 0261
License plate :	MYK, MY
Community key :	07 1 37 229
Association administration address:	Rathausplatz 13 56179 Vallendar
Website :	www.weitersburg.de
Local Mayor :	Jochen Währ
Location of the community of Weitersburg in the district of Mayen-Koblenz

Weitersburg is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Vallendar .

Weitersburg, aerial photo (2016)

Geographical location

The community lies at the foot of the Westerwald north of Koblenz .

history

Based on soil finds, settlement took place as early as the early Iron Age (8th to 5th centuries BC). Around the year 100 AD the small fort Ferbach was built in what is now the municipality .

Weitersburg was first mentioned in a document in 1202 as "Withersberg" in connection with the foundation of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Sayn by the Counts of Sayn .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 386 1835 582 1871 668 1905 914 1939 1,082 1950 1,276 1961 1,424

year Residents 1970 1,641 1987 2,048 1997 2.174 2005 2.163 2011 2,349 2017 2,449

Population development in Weitersburg from 1815 to 2017 according to the data on the right

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Weitersburg 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	-	7th	9	16 seats
2014	3	6th	7th	16 seats
2009	4th	6th	6th	16 seats
2004	6th	10	-	16 seats

• FWG = Free Voter Group Weitersburg e. V.

mayor

Jochen Währ is the local mayor of Weitersburg. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 79.17% of the vote.

coat of arms

The Weitersburg coat of arms has a very recent history. The Ministry of the Interior awarded the community of Weitersburg its official coat of arms on June 5, 1950. The blazon of the two-part escutcheon shows in the upper half a golden lion on a red background looking to the heraldic right side, while the lower half represents a stylized red building on a golden background standing on a mountain. The lion is the heraldic animal of the county of Sayn, to which the Sayner Klosterhof zu Weitersburg belonged, which is mentioned in the first documentary mention of Weitersburg in 1202. The building stands for the former Roman homestead , which was discovered in Weitersburg in 1896.

Attractions

• St. Mary's Church and St. Mary's Grotto

Weitersburg, St. Marien, aerial photo (2016)

• Parish home in the timber construction style of the Bregenz Forest or the New Vorarlberg Building School
• Holy House
• 

  Peter Friedhofen Monument
  Peter Friedhofen Monument
• Location of the birthplace of Peter Friedhofen
• Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe monument
• See also the list of cultural monuments in Weitersburg

Personalities

• Weitersburg is the birthplace of Peter Friedhofen , the founder of the Congregation of the Brothers of Mercy of Maria Hilf .
• From 1987 to 1990, today's Trier Auxiliary Bishop Jörg Michael Peters was chaplain in Bendorf St. Medard and Weitersburg St. Marien.
• Jutta Nardenbach (1968–2018), former soccer player for the German national team (1989 and 1991 European champion).

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

Weitersburg has a multi-purpose hall, a primary school, a Catholic kindergarten and a sports and leisure facility with an artificial turf field .

traffic

• The B 42 , which leads from Koblenz to Bonn , runs southwest of the community .
• The A 48 with the connection point Bendorf / Neuwied (AS 11) is three kilometers away.
• The nearest train station is in the city of Vallendar

literature

• Karl Wagner: From Withersberg to Weitersburg. Weitersburg - the day before yesterday, yesterday, today. A documentation of the place in words and pictures. Weitersburg 1990.

Web links

Commons : Weitersburg  - Collection of images

• Official website of the local community of Weitersburg
• Literature about Weitersburg 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 - regional data
3. ↑ The Regional Returning Officer: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Vallendar, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved November 10, 2019 . 
6. ^ Contemporary architecture: simple and bright. Bregenzerwald Tourismus GmbH, archived from the original on August 18, 2011 ; accessed on March 29, 2018 : “Wood and glass are the preferred building materials of contemporary architects. The new buildings are mostly very simple and functional. " 
7. ↑ Photo of the parish home ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ Weitersburg, St. Marien parish hall. In: Paths to Wood. Central Office of the Forest Administration, accessed on March 29, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Fascinating wooden buildings. (PDF; 5.2 MB) Landesforsten Rheinland-Pfalz and others, accessed on March 29, 2018 (including Weiersburg Pfarrheim).