Western ear

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Coat of arms of the local community Westernohe
Western ear
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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 8 ° 6'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Rennerod
Height : 425 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.5 km 2
Residents: 909 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 121 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56479
Area code : 02664
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 309
LOCODE : DE W9E
Association administration address: Hauptstrasse 55
56477 Rennerod
Website : www.westernohe.de
Local Mayor : Volker Abel
Location of the local community Westernohe in the Westerwaldkreis
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Westernohe is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rennerod .

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between the cities of Siegen (34 km north), Wetzlar (28 km east) and Limburg an der Lahn (24 km south). Here is the seat of the Federal Center of the German Scouting Society Sankt Georg (DPSG) . Events and tent camps take place regularly on the adjacent campground, which is one of the largest in Germany with 28  hectares .

The Krummbach , which rises near a nature reserve between Rennerod and the Krombach dam , flows through the village .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1059 as Westernaha .

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 451
1835 537
1871 538
1905 473
1939 514
1950 512
year Residents
1961 600
1970 777
1987 752
1997 946
2005 942
2019 909

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Volker Abel became mayor of Westernohe on August 21, 2009. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 82.72%.

Abel's predecessor as mayor until 2009 was Herbert Stecker.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Westernohe
 Blazon : "In a divided shield, above in gold three green fir trees, below in blue the red armored golden Nassau lion with golden shields."

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

  • Wendelinus Chapel

  • Wendelinus Chapel inside

Wendelinus Chapel

North of Westernohe, near the Krummbach spring and approx. 1 km from the Wacholderheide nature reserve , there is a chapel dedicated to St. Wendelinus , which was built in 1887 by Johannes Gerz. It was given its current appearance in quarry stone in 1933 by the son of the builder. A sculpture of the saint, the patron saint of shepherds, sits inside the chapel, along with his classic shepherd's staff and sheep attributes. The place of worship was restored in 1987.

Nature reserve

Juniper heather near Westernohe

The juniper heather , designated as a nature reserve, is a small dry grassland area with juniper and other thorny shrubs. This cultural landscape, which was essentially created by the former sheep and traveling sheep , as it could still be preserved east of the Ochsenberg ( 580  m ) and is placed under nature protection, was widespread in the Westerwald.

Federal Center of the German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (DPSG)

The Federal Center of the German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (DPSG) with its own scout camp has been located slightly above the village since 1956 .

traffic

Events

Memorial cross at the accident site

Tug of war in 1995

On June 4, 1995, during a tug of war with 650 young boy scouts at the federal center, an accident occurred when the rope broke. Two children died, 102 sustained injuries, some of them serious. A relatively thin synthetic rope was used, and no information was available about its load limits. The organizers had not even considered the possibility of overloading the rope, especially in the case of a children's tug of war.

During the court proceedings it was found that the organizers had violated their duty of care because they had not found out about the suitability of the rope and had not taken any precautions for the event that the event was to be stopped immediately. However, since the danger to life was not foreseeable, those responsible were convicted of negligent bodily harm, not of negligent homicide.

A memorial cross near the accident site commemorates the two children who were killed.

Web links

Commons : Westernohe  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  4. ↑ a b Hermann Krämer: Annual Review 2009 (pdf, 832 KB) Local parish Westernohe, March 10, 2010, accessed on July 19, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Rennerod, Verbandsgemeinde, 21st line of the result. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ verdict in Tauziehunfall ( Memento of 7 January 2013, Internet Archive )