Wied (near Hachenburg)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality :	Hachenburg
Height :	305 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.68 km 2
Residents:	486 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	104 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	57629
Area code :	02662
License plate :	WW
Community key :	07 1 43 310
Association administration address:	Gartenstrasse 11 57627 Hachenburg
Website :	www.ww-wied.de
Mayoress :	Birgit Hopfinger
Location of the local community of Wied in the Westerwaldkreis

Wied is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Hachenburg community .

geography

The community is located in the Westerwald between Limburg an der Lahn and Siegen in the Wiedtal or on the B 413 between Merkelbach and the old town (Hachenburg) in the northeast and Höchstenbach in the southwest. The village of Wied is surrounded in the east and south by the Hachenburger Stadtwald. The Wied flows through the village.

The Krambergsmühle (partly) and Mühlental (Thalmühle) residential areas also belong to Wied .

history

Wied was first mentioned in a document in 1461. The original name was Wied Wiede , which meant willow.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 204 1835 248 1871 252 1905 261 1939 305 1950 346

year Residents 1961 387 1970 416 1987 451 1997 497 2005 499 2019 486

politics

Municipal council

The council in Wied consists of twelve 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 2019, the council had eight council members.

mayor

Birgit Hopfinger became the local mayor of Wied in summer 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with 67.34% of the vote.

Hopfinger's predecessors were Manfred Graulich and previously Ebba Groenewold-Jacobs, who had resigned from office on June 30, 2015 for personal reasons.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided diagonally to the left by a silver wavy bar; in front in red a blue-armored and -tongued double-tailed golden lion, behind a lying silver crescent moon surmounted by three silver six-pointed stars (2: 1). "

traffic

• The community is located directly on the federal road 413 , which leads from Bendorf (near Koblenz ) to Hachenburg.
• The next motorway junctions are in Dierdorf and Neuwied on the A 3 ( Cologne - Frankfurt am Main ), around 20 kilometers away.
• The closest ICE stop is Montabaur train station on the Cologne – Rhein / Main high-speed line .

See also

List of cultural monuments in Wied

Web links

Commons : Wied (near Hachenburg)  - Collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community of Wied
• Local community Wied on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Hachenburg

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 74 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kg/verbindungen/1430231000.html
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Hachenburg, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved June 8, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Graulich becomes mayor of Wied. Westerwälder Zeitung, September 27, 2015, accessed on June 8, 2020 .