Weyer (Rhein-Lahn district)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Rhein-Lahn district
Association municipality :	Loreley
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6 km 2
Residents:	458 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	76 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56357
Area code :	06771
License plate :	EMS, DIZ, GOH
Community key :	07 1 41 138
Association administration address:	Dolkstrasse 3 ; 56346 St. Goarshausen
Website :	www.vgloreley.de
Mayoress :	Ilona Bröder-Wagner
Location of the local community Weyer in the Rhein-Lahn district

Weyer is a municipality in the Rhein-Lahn district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Loreley community .

geography

Weyer is located on the western edge of the so-called Blue Land in the Rhein-Lahn district .

history

Weyer's history can be traced back to the 13th century in written evidence. Around 1250 "Wilre" is mentioned in a fiefdom of the Lords of Eppstein , of whom the knight Heinrich Bitz had a quarter of the “villa in Wilro” and the bailiwick there as a fief. The place name "Wilre", also written "Wylre" (1358) and "Weiger" (1526), points to Celtic origins and belonged to an area that was called " Quadrilateral " because of the rulers involved . After the Reformation was introduced in Weyer in the 16th century, the remarkable situation arose that the Archbishop of Trier appointed the evangelical pastors of the community as patron saint of the church in Weyer. After the second Nastatter trial in 1755, Weyer was added to the Reichenberg office in the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen and remained in Hesse until 1806 . From 1806 to 1813, the region, including Weyer, was under French administration ( pays réservé ). In 1816 the place came into the possession of the Duchy of Nassau ( Amt St. Goarshausen ), which was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 as a result of the so-called German War , after which the place became part of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau in 1868 .

After the First and Second World War , Weyer belonged to the French occupation zone in 1946 to the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . Since 1972 the local community Weyer has been part of the Loreley community .

Weyer has had its own church since the middle of the 13th century, which was initially a branch of Wellmich. At the beginning of the 14th century the parish became independent, in 1563 Eschbach was added as a branch. In 1744 a new church was built, the cost of which was estimated at 600 Reichstaler. Today the church with its baroque barrel vault is a listed building. In 1808 the rectory, which is still in use today, was built. Up until the 18th century, the respective pastor taught the children of Weyer and Eschbach at the school in Weyer. In 1759 a schoolmaster was mentioned for the first time and in 1822 a new school building was moved. It was owned by the Weyer-Eschbach School Association until 1892 and served the Weyer community as a primary school until 1971.

Only a few Jews lived in Weyer in the 18th and 19th centuries. They formed a synagogue community with the towns of Nochern and Liigart . From around 1818 a common prayer room was built in the house of the community leader Moses Ackermann in Schulstrasse. The dead were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Nochern . After 1933 only three Jewish families lived in Weyer, two of them were able to emigrate to America . During the November pogroms of 1938 , the prayer room in the Ackermann house was devastated, and Siegfried Ackermann's family was brought to the former miners' settlement of Friedrichssegen-Tagschacht, a district of Lahnstein , for forced labor and from there deported to various extermination camps in the east .

politics

Municipal council

The council in Weyer consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the volunteer local mayor as chairman. Until 2014, the municipality council had twelve council members.

mayor

Local mayor of Weyer is Ilona Bröder-Wagner. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was re-elected with 66.19% of the vote.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Square of blue and gold:

in gold a silver-tongued red lion to the left ,
in blue a red-tongued golden lion,
golden hammer and mallet crossed diagonally in blue,
a red shamrock in gold. "

The coat of arms was approved on September 26, 1988.

Foundation of the coat of arms: Since the middle of the 13th century, Weyer had been in an area that was called the “Quadrilateral” because of the rulers involved. This affiliation is expressed in the coat of arms by the red lion of the Count House of the Katzenelnbogen, which has been divided since 1260, and the lions of the three lines of the Counts of Nassau, depicted in Nassau colors . In the lower half of the coat of arms, the clover leaf and hammer with mallet symbolize agriculture and the mining industry, which has now come to a standstill.

Culture and sights

Weyer is known for its ostrich farm, the hiking trails and the grandiose view over the Rheingraben into the Hunsrück .

traffic

The next train station is St. Goarshausen on the right Rhine route , about 6 km south of Weyer.

Personalities

Wilhelm Kremer (1915–1997), politician born in Weyer and chairman of the association

Web links

Commons : Weyer - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ Weyer with Nochern and Liigart at Alemannia Judaica

^ Family Ackermann, Weyer Das Bundesarchiv: Gedenkbuch. Victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 (search for "Ackermann" and "Weyer")

^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Weyer municipal council election 2019. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Loreley, Verbandsgemeinde, 21st line of results. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
↑ Book of Arms of the Loreley Community, 1994.

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

[2] Weyer with Nochern and Liigart at Alemannia Judaica

[3] Family Ackermann, Weyer Das Bundesarchiv: Gedenkbuch. Victims of the persecution of Jews under the Nazi tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 (search for "Ackermann" and "Weyer")