Zinhain
Zinhain
City of Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 39 ″ N , 7 ° 55 ′ 38 ″ E
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Height : | 478 m above sea level NHN | |
Incorporation : | 7th June 1969 | |
Postal code : | 56470 | |
Area code : | 02661 | |
Location of Zinhain in Rhineland-Palatinate |
Zinhain (dialect: Zijn ("zein")) is a district of the town of Bad Marienberg in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The village is located about two kilometers west of the city center of Bad Marienberg on a hillside above the valley of the south-flowing Nister at an average altitude of about 480 m above sea level. NHN and rises to the north up to about 550 m above sea level. NHN on the "Zinhainer Höhe".
history
In 1939 the formerly independent community of Zinhain had 306 inhabitants. On June 7, 1969, the place was incorporated into Bad Marienberg with 423 residents at that time.
Infrastructure
traffic
Street
The next motorways (at a considerable distance) are the A 45 in the east and the A 3 in the west. The federal highway 414 runs a few kilometers north of Zinhain and the B 255 in the south. There are bus connections to the city center and the surrounding areas.
rail
The Erbach – Fehl-Ritzhausen railway with the former “Bad Marienberg Station” was shut down many years ago and has since been dismantled. Today, the regional stops Unnau -Korb and Nistertal -Bad Marienberg are located on the western Oberwesterwaldbahn . The nearest long-distance train stations with ICE connections are in Siegburg and Montabaur .
Air traffic
The nearest airport is Siegerland Airport ; International airports are the Frankfurt airport and the Cologne / Bonn airport .
Facilities
The district has a village community center with a kindergarten .
economy
The originally dominant agriculture and forestry are practically irrelevant today. The mining of basalt rock was also stopped in 1975. Economic life today is shaped by numerous, especially small and medium-sized companies that are mainly active in the service and tourism sector.
tourism
There are various catering and accommodation businesses in Zinhain.
The "Marienbad" (Marienbad), a leisure and spa resort with an adjoining mobile home parking space , the basalt park and the Bad Marienberg wildlife park with an attached falconry are located on the border with the city center . The Westerwald-Steig (stage 8 from Bad Marienberg to Hachenburg ) runs in the immediate vicinity of these tourist attractions .
As a cultural monument , the former school house is built in 1899 in the list of monuments registered.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hucke, Hermann Josef: Place names in the Westerwaldkreis in their dialect pronunciation as well as Ortsneckereien ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2010, p. 2 (PDF; 132 kB)
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. oberwesterwald.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 158 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Westerwaldkreis. Mainz 2019, p. 5 (PDF; 4.8 MB).