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Coat of arms of the local community of Winnen
Win
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Winnen highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '  N , 8 ° 1'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Westerburg
Height : 428 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.26 km 2
Residents: 485 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 149 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56459
Area code : 02663
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 314
Association administration address: Neumarkt 1
56457 Westerburg
Website : www.winnenww.de
Local Mayor : Ralf Wengenroth
Location of the local community Winnen in the Westerwaldkreis
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Winnen is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . Since 1972 it has belonged to the then newly formed community of Westerburg .

geography

Winnen is four kilometers east of Westerburg in the Westerwald . The northern district of the municipality encloses the southern part of the 80 hectare Wiesensee .

Immediately before the southern location, where the Westerwaldsteig has been running since autumn 2007 , the terrain slopes down towards the Elbbachtal.

history

The first written mention of the place dates from the year 879, when Count Gebhard in Lahngau donated land to the Severus monastery in Gemünden .

A Heinburger is recorded for the first time in 1490 and a mayor in 1624 . In 1699 an Euler (= potter) oven was operated. A fair in the village is mentioned for the first time in 1728, and a school in 1811.

Winnen belonged to Westerburg until the beginning of the 19th century and came to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1806 during the formation of the Rhine Confederation under Napoleon . In 1813 Winnen came temporarily to the House of Orange-Nassau and as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the Duchy of Nassau . Under the Nassau administration, the municipality of Winnen belonged to the lordship of Leiningen-Westerburg in the Rennerod office . In 1858 there were 76 families and 319 residents in Winnen. In 1866 the Duchy of Nassau and with it Winnen became part of the Kingdom of Prussia .

Population development

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

year Residents
1490 6 house seats
1520 19 people subject to the sacrament
1621 10 houses
1656 7 households
1728 9 houses
1760 119
1815 225
1835 284
1871 338
year Residents
1905 289
1939 292
1950 312
1961 296
1970 306
1987 395
1997 442
2005 465
2019 485

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Ralf Wengenroth became the local mayor of Winnen on July 3, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 94.55% of the vote.

Wengenroth's predecessor as local mayor was Jürgen Simon until 2019.

coat of arms

The blazon reads: "Round shield divided by Göpelschnitt , in front in blue a red armored and tongued lion , behind in gold a green linden branch with nine leaves, below in red a silver scales ."

The linden branch symbolizes the "chair linden court" Winnen, which was responsible for nine tithes until the 17th century . This is what the nine linden leaves stand for . Furthermore, the jurisdiction is documented by the scales . The tongued lion shows that it belonged to the Nassau house , hence the golden and blue field colors, the house colors of Nassau. The red field color is reminiscent of the Westerburg counts , to whose rule the municipality of Winnen belonged for a long time, but also the blue field color.

Culture and sights

See the list of cultural monuments in Winnen

music

  • The men's choir Konkordia Winnen appears at many village and church events. In 2008 the choir celebrated its 100th anniversary.

Sports

  • The holiday and leisure area "Wiesensee" offers opportunities for sporting activities (swimming, sailing, surfing, fishing, 18-hole golf course with hotel complex).
  • The TTC Winnen 70 e. V. is composed of seven active table tennis teams, three women's and two children's gymnastics groups, one men's gymnastics group and a recreational soccer team. It has about 300 members.

Public facilities

  • Village community center, barbecue hut, Backes

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

literature

Web links

Commons : Winning  - 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. ↑ Josef Hörle: The old Westerwald dates in "Archive for Middle Rhine Church History, Year 1953" p. 359 ( www.dilibri.de )
  3. ^ Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research , Volume 10, 1870, p. 321 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ State and address manual of the Duchy of Nassau for the year 1859 , p. 118 ( www.dilibri.de )
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  7. ^ Jürgen Simon: Constituent meeting of the local community council. Meeting. In: Wäller Wochenspiegel - Anzeiger for the Verbandsgemeinde Westerburg, edition 25/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Constituent meeting in Winnen. Report. In: Wäller Wochenspiegel - Anzeiger for the Verbandsgemeinde Westerburg, edition 28/2019. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  9. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Westerburg, Verbandsgemeinde, last line of results. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .