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Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Nasta
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.95 km 2
Residents:	464 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	47 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56357
Area code :	06775
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 137
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 1 ; 56355 Nastätten
Website :	www.welterod.de
Local Mayor :	Wilfried Kehraus
Location of the local community Welterod in the Rhein-Lahn district

Welterod is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the association of Nastaetten .

geography

The place is located in the Taunus and has an area of 9.95 km² and around 500 inhabitants. Welterod and the neighboring villages of Strüth and Lipporn belong to the bailiwick. Welterod also includes the Hof Angschied and Ullmark residential areas .

history

Around 1117, the presumed progenitor of the Nassau family, Count Dudo von Laurenburg , transferred goods to Lipporn to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Salsator in Schaffhausen for the establishment of a convent in Lipporn, which was later combined with the Schönau monastery in the neighboring town of Strüth to form a double monastery. From 1541 to 1544 the Reformation was introduced in Strüth, Welterod and Lipporn. The Schönau monastery remained Catholic. During the Thirty Years War the place was looted several times.

In 1806 the place came into the possession of the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 . After the First World War , during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland , the town was located in a narrow corridor between the bridgeheads on the right bank of the Rhine between the Americans around Koblenz and the French around Mainz. Until the military occupation by France in 1923, the area existed as a so-called free state bottleneck . After the Second World War , the place was in the French occupation zone directly on the zone border with Hesse, which was occupied by the Americans, and has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	356
1835	429
1871	426
1905	424
1939	355
1950	392

year	Residents
1961	391
1970	414
1987	381
1997	484
2005	538
2017	458

politics

Municipal council

The council in Welterod consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. Until 2009 the council had twelve council members.

mayor

Wilfried Kehraus is the local mayor of Welterod. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was re-elected with 80.84% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red a blue overturned half point, inside between two golden (yellow) shingles a red-tongued and golden (yellow) crowned golden (yellow) lion head: in front a six-spoke silver (white) wheel and behind a silver (white) Disc with a red cross; above all a three-leaf made of silver (white) oak leaves. "

The coat of arms designed by the heraldist Heinz Ritt in collaboration with citizens of Welteroder was approved on January 16, 1990 by the Koblenz district government .

Reasons for the coat of arms: The colors blue and gold are the colors of Nassau , red is the color of the Electorates of Kurmainz and Kurtrier .

Welterod is mentioned for the first time in 1132, where Count Ruprecht I von Laurenburg transfers the Schönau monastery in Strüth with all property in Welterod and Lipporn to his relative Adalbert I von Nassau, the archbishop in Mainz. The three communities mentioned together formed what is still called the Vogtei today . The Counts of Laurenburg with their ancestral castle in the Werkerbachtal near Lipporn built the castle in Nassau from 1124 to 1125 and called themselves Counts of Nassau from 1158 to 1160.

It can be read that the bailiwick is located in a triangle of the administrations of Mainz (Rad), Trier (Kreuz) and Nassau (Leo). The name Welterod comes from the two words forest and clearing. Even today, almost two thirds of the community area consists of forest. The oak leaves symbolize both the three communities in the Bailiwick and the abundance of forests.

Personalities

Rudolf Tönges (1894–1968), CDU politician, member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, 1945 to 1964 honorary mayor of Welterod

Web links

Commons : Welterod - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 44 f . (PDF; 2.2 MB).
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Welterod. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Nastätten, Verbandsgemeinde, 30th line of results Retrieved November 7, 2019 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).

[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. 44 f . (PDF; 2.2 MB).

[regionaldaten-3] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

[4] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: City Council Election 2019 Welterod. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .

[5] The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Nastätten, Verbandsgemeinde, 30th line of results Retrieved November 7, 2019 .