Maxsain

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Coat of arms of the local parish Maxsain
Maxsain
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Maxsain highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '  N , 7 ° 47'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Westerwaldkreis
Association municipality : Selters (Westerwald)
Height : 275 m above sea level NHN
Area : 13.51 km 2
Residents: 1060 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 78 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56244
Area code : 02626
License plate : WW
Community key : 07 1 43 046
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Am Saynbach 5–7
56242 Selters (Westerwald)
Website : www.vg-selters.de
Local Mayor : Willi holes
Location of the local community Maxsain in the Westerwaldkreis
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The center of Maxsain

Maxsain (dialect: Maxään ) is a municipality in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Selters (Westerwald) .

geography

Geographical location

The community lies between the district town of Montabaur and Hachenburg . The Saynbach and the Steinchesbach , which flows into the Saynbach in the center of the village, flow through them . The nearest town is Selters, 3 km to the southwest .

Community structure

View over the district of Zürbach

The Maxsain community consists of the places Maxsain and Zürbach (dialect: Zerwisch ). Zürbach is about 3 km to the east and has about 80 inhabitants. The Protestant church and the Backes parish hall built in 1860 in the center of the village are worth seeing .

history

Maxsain is first mentioned in a document in 1194 in the feudal book of the Lords of Bolanden . The spelling of the name changed over the centuries from Machseine to Maxeine and Makeseyne . Today's field names suggest that there were once several long-lost settlements in the area, for example on today's road to Hartenfels and in the Steinchesbach valley towards Weidenhahn . The district of Zürbach is first mentioned in 1315 as Zurlinbach .

In the Middle Ages, Maxsain was the center of the Maxsain ban, a territory that was also claimed by the Counts of Sayn and Wied , who divided the sovereign rights among themselves. It was not until 1615 that a comparison resulted in a clear division of the area between the two counties. Around 1600 the ban included the area of ​​today's districts of Freilingen , Goddert , Maxsain, Selters, Wölferlingen and parts of Steinens and Weidenhahn .

Presumably Maxsain got a school after the Thirty Years War , but this is only occupied from 1767. The school was closed due to the sharp decline in the number of pupils in the summer of 1973. On October 24, 1719 a fire broke out, which destroyed most of the village. There is a record of 115 to 120 buildings.

From 1671 to 1799 Maxsain belonged to the County of Sayn-Hachenburg , then until 1806 to the Principality of Wied and then to the Duchy of Nassau , which was annexed by Prussia in 1866 . With Prussia, it then became part of the German Empire in 1871 . After its end and the dissolution of Prussia, the village fell to the newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946 . On March 1, 1970, the previously independent community of Zürbach with 80 inhabitants was incorporated.

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 553
1835 861
1871 905
1905 842
1939 759
year Residents
1950 886
1961 905
1970 888
1987 945
2011 1,068

politics

Municipal council

Village community center and mayor's office in Backes

The council in Maxsain consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

mayor

Willi Lochs became the local mayor of Maxsain in 1994. In the by-election on September 22, 2019, he was confirmed in office for another five years with 57.5% of the votes cast. This appointment became necessary because one of the original applicants died unexpectedly one week before the regular direct election on May 26, 2019.

coat of arms

Maxsain coat of arms
 Blazon : "In red, a golden, blue-armored and tongued, looking lion holding a club with both paws."

Culture and sights

Attractions

Church and old school in the foreground
Haus Sahm, the oldest house in the village, built in 1688

In the center of Maxsain is the Protestant church on a ledge. The wide transept of the building with a tower built before 1500 was added in 1786 in the Baroque style. The existence of a previously existing chapel at the same place is documented from 1399. However, this was destroyed as early as 1589 as a result of a dispute between the Counts of Sayn and Wied that was triggered by the introduction of the reformed denomination. As a result, a provisional church building was presumably built, which eventually gave way to the current building.

At the confluence of Steinchesbach and Großem Saynbach is the half-timbered house "Sahm", built in 1687/88, a prime example of Franconian construction with unusually strong wooden beams and lots of carving.

music

In 1985 the Maxsainer Blaskapelle e. V. founded. The association with its 100 musicians in 3 orchestras (training and youth orchestra, adult orchestra) is an integral part of cultural life within the local community. In addition to appearances within Maxsain, such as at the traditional fair, the Maxsain brass band can also be heard at large shooting festivals, fair parades and concerts. The annual highlights include the two concerts in the Heidehalle Maxsain, which always take place in November.

Economy and Infrastructure

Mills, smelters and quarries

Various water mills have existed in the Maxsain district over the centuries . The first traditional description of a mill construction for the year 1552 probably refers to the former hereditary mill west of the village. Around 1870 this mill was converted into a cork factory, but the company only ran for six years. Between 1885 and 1900 there was a wood processing company. The Obere Mühle , a cutting and oil mill , was located on what is now the eastern edge of the village from around 1668 , and a grinding mill was added in 1831 . Around 1900, the cutting mill ended, and around 1950 the grinding operation as well. A little to the west of today's center of the village was the Lohmühle , first mentioned in 1816 , a tanner's mill that was operated with modifications until after the First World War .

The hammer mill is located about one and a half kilometers west of the village in the course of the Great Saynbach . Johann Martin Bachem founded an ironworks here as early as 1729. In 1857 the facilities were converted into a grinding mill, and in 1901 they were converted into an electricity plant that still produces electricity today. The existence of an oil mill in the district of Zürbach is recorded from 1829, which was later supplemented by a grinding mill.

A first ironworks in the village on Steinchesbach is documented for the year 1714, but it was already abandoned in 1717. A little upstream, an ironworks was also operated for a few years from 1723.

From 1919 onwards there were several quarries in the district for the exploitation of the volcanic rocks basalt , trachyte and andesite . Most of these deposits were quickly exhausted or not exploitable, including finds of tuff and greywacke . The andesite and basalt quarry Bittersberg near the road to Rückeroth is still in operation today . The rare mineral offretite occurs in the Maxsain am Bittersberg district.

traffic

Public facilities

In the Maxsain district there is a campsite with a pond set up as an outdoor pool.

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Schiller: The ban Maxsain in the 16th century. The effect of aristocratic competition on everyday rural life in the Westerwald in the early modern period . Münster (Westphalia) 2004, ISBN 3-00-013247-3 (also: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2003).

Web links

Commons : Maxsain  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ a b Hermann-Josef Hucke: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortneckereien ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 132 kB) 2010, p. 17
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j 800 years Maxsain: The history of our village , 1994.
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 186 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
  5. ↑ regional data . State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
  6. ↑ Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate
  7. ↑ WW-Kurier: Award for three committed western forests. Willi holes. MVV Medienverlag Westerwald-Sieg UG & Co. KG, Wissen, December 7, 2013, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Blick Aktuell: Willi Loch remains mayor in Maxsain. Krupp Verlags GmbH, Sinzig, September 30, 2019, accessed on June 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Hessisches Wappenbuch, 1959; (Armouring and tongue of the lion: blue)
  10. ↑ Maxsain in the Wanderatlas Germany