Winterburg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '  N , 7 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bad Kreuznach
Association municipality :	Nahe-Glan
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.57 km 2
Residents:	181 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	70 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55595
Area code :	06756
License plate :	KH
Community key :	07 1 33 116
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 11 55566 Bad Sobernheim
Website :	www.gemeinde-winterburg.de
Mayoress :	Petra Woll
Location of the local community Winterburg in the Bad Kreuznach district

Church in the narrow town center

Ellerbach near Winterburg

Winterburg is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Nahe-Glan . Winterburg is a state-approved resort .

geography

Winterburg lies deep in the narrow Ellerbachtal in the southeastern Hunsrück , west of the Gauchswald and south of the Soonwald . Adjacent communities are Ippenschied in the west , Winterbach in the north, Allenfeld in the east and Rehbach and Bockenau south of it. The closest cities are Bad Kreuznach in the east and Simmern in the northwest.

history

Winterburg was first mentioned in 1325 when Count Johann II von Sponheim gave Winterburg Castle a fief to Archbishop Baldwin of Luxembourg in Trier . The castle overlooked the northern part of the village. The former outer bailey was on the site of today's school campus. The actual main castle was at the tip of the spur and has disappeared apart from a few remains of the wall. Emperor Ludwig IV., The Bavarian , gave the village of “Wynthirberg” in 1331 city rights. During the Palatinate War of Succession , the castle was finally destroyed by French troops in 1689. In 1747 a new office building (today's school camp) was built on the foundations of the old castle. In 1784, today's Protestant church was rebuilt (before the old church was destroyed, it was used as a simultaneous church).

Winterburg belonged to the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim and was assigned to the Margraviate of Baden when the Sponheim possessions were divided in 1776 . After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops (1794), the place belonged to the canton of Sobernheim in the Rhine-Moselle department from 1798 to 1814 . Winterburg was the capital of a Mairie , to which twelve villages in nine parishes belonged. A participant in the Congress of Vienna agreements reached, the region came and with it Winterburg 1815 Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816 the county Kreuznach in Koblenz assigned, that of 1822 to the Rhine province belonged.

From 1896 to 1936 Winterburg had a connection to the railway line of the Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen , which led down the Ellerbachtal to Bad Kreuznach and transported people.

Population development

In the year 1607, 29 families lived in Winterburg, in 1699 only 18 and in 1772 a total of 53 families.

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

year Residents 1815 302 1835 295 1871 240 1905 204 1939 233

year Residents 1950 269 1961 263 1970 295 1987 249 2005 215

politics

Municipal council

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

mayor

Local mayor is Petra Woll. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, the previous incumbent Ralf Hartung did not achieve the necessary majority with a share of 38.53% of the votes. Therefore, a repeat election took place on September 1, 2019, in which Petra Woll was able to prevail with a vote of 73.8%.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver a red castle with a gate tower and a double tinned wall wreath."

Founding of the coat of arms: It was approved in 1951 and goes back to a municipal seal from the 14th century, which shows a castle with a gate tower and a double wall wreath and bears the inscription Sigillum ciovium in Winterberch . In the following centuries, new stamps were cut based on this model, which also have a castle with a gate tower and double wall wreath and now the German inscription: "Siegel und Bürger in Winterburg". The older form of the community seal served as a template for the design of the coat of arms. The colors are taken from the coat of arms of the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim , to which the Winterburg office belonged.

Culture and sights

Winterburg is primarily known for the Winterburg school camp, which the Mainz high schools and other groups like to use as a destination for school trips or seminars. The sponsoring association is the "Schullandheim-Vereinigung 1955 Mainz eV", a non-profit organization.

In the center of Winterburg you can find old half-timbered houses and buildings, some of which consist of the remains of the castle that was destroyed in 1689. In the north of the village there is a hotel, the renovated Protestant church and the cemetery, on which there is a memorial stone erected in 1869 in honor of the poet Johann Nikolaus Götz .

At clubs and public institutions there is the volunteer fire brigade , the parish hall, the gymnastics club and the Soonwald-Nahe choir.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Winterburg
• List of natural monuments in Winterburg

traffic

The federal highways 41 and 50 are easily accessible and lead on the one hand to the Rhine-Main area and Frankfurt Airport and Hahn Airport .

The station was of Winterburg 1895-1936 endpoint of the narrow-gauge railway line Bad Kreuznach Winterburg . Omnibuses and a truck replaced their traffic.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Nikolaus Götz († 1781 in Winterburg), clergyman, writer and translator
• Johann Winterburger (* around 1460 in Winterburg, † autumn 1519 in Vienna ), German printer who introduced the printing press in Vienna in 1492 and remained the sole printer in the city until 1510. He produced 106 works (including for Emperor Maximilian I ). According to him, which is winter Burgergasse in Vienna named.
• Christian Roos (1827–1882), Lord Mayor of Krefeld

Web links

Commons : Winterburg  - Collection of Images

• Local community Winterburg on the website of the Bad Sobernheim community community
• Literature about Winterburg in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

literature

• Chronicle of Gebroth and Winterburg , 1487–1731; Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage (manuscript 391)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ^ ^{A b} Wilhelm Fabricius : The dominions of the lower Nahe area: the Nahegau and its surroundings , Bonn: Behrendt, 1914, p. 131 ( dilibri.de )
4. ^ Town charter of the town of Winterberg in the Graffschaft Spanheim from the year 1331 . In: Carl Friedrich Walch (ed.): Mixed contributions to German law , Vol. VI. Christian Friedrich Gollner, Jena 1777, pp. 252–263 ( Google Books ) = Christoph Jakob Kremers: Diplomatische Beyzüge , Vol. III. Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1761, pp. 358-367 ( Google Books ).
5. ↑ History of Winterburg Castle on the website of the Winterburg school campus
6. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City council election 2019 Winterburg. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Bad Sobernheim, Verbandsgemeinde, penultimate line of results. Retrieved September 19, 2019 . 
8. ↑ State Statistical Office RLP: Direct choice Winterburg. September 2, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 . 
9. ^ Website of the Winterburg school camp
10. ^ Bibliography of the Austrian prints of the XV. and XVI. Century 1913: biography [1]
11. ↑ Vienna's book printing history 1883
12. ^ The first book printers in Vienna
13. ^ History of the printing press