Dreikirchen

Three churches is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Wallmerod.

• 3.1 Structures

• 4.1 community
• 4.2 traffic

History

Today's local church three churches from the previously independent municipalities and resolved Oberhausen (226 inhabitants) and Pütschbach ( 485 inhabitants) were newly formed on 7 June 1969. The new location name " Three churches " was found by a resolution of two former councilors. Our work was based in the village of Pütschbach located, in 1292, first documented fortified church, the chapel in Oberhausen and the new parish church built in 1957 and both places.

The development of the population based on the present territory of the local church three churches, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Three Churches consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " Late Gothic round shield divided into three sections by silver wavy lines. In three silver red / black stylized spiers, front in green silver oak branch with two acorns, back in blue four silver, black stylized basalt columns ".

Heraldic Reason: The coat of arms of the municipality Three churches symbolizes essential traditional features of the two previous independent local churches Oberhausen and Pütschbach and their fusion into the new local church three churches in April 1969.

The silver wavy lines represent the houses Bach is in the district of Oberhausen and the former stream in the district Pütschbach which flow together symbolically and form a new unit in view of the jointly created three churches.

Three churches belonged until 1564 to the territory of the Counts of Nassau. After that, the local area came to the Electorate of Trier and was in the 19th century the Duchy of Nassau, and then in Prussia the province of Hesse -Nassau. This is documented by one of their coat of arms colors, namely blue for the predominantly Nassau territorial belonging and red for the Kurtrierische time. Here is the new name of locality is back in the silver / white stylized towers of three churches in the local church.

The central dominant tower refers to the old fortified church from the 12th century, the left tower is the reference to the chapel in the district of Oberhausen, whereas the right tower in turn is a unifying element of the two former municipalities as a reference to the parish church.

The illustrated front in green silver oak branch with two acorns points to the centuries- long existing in the district Pütschbach Eichwald and nature related, the silver four stylized pillars rear shown in blue provide the reference to the located in the district of Oberhausen basalt deposits and the local, over generations basalt mining dar.

Culture and sights

Structures

The Pütschbacher fortified church has a tower dating from the 12th century in altgotischen style. The rest of the building dates from the 13th century. In 1970 the building was renovated. Also worth seeing is a built in 1700 half-timbered farmhouse, which is now used again as a house after renovation.

Economy and infrastructure

Community

Three churches is a residential community with commercial settlement. Since 1994, three churches focus community in the village renewal. Several improvements have already been implemented, some are in the planning phase, while others are currently being implemented.

Traffic

• The nearest motorway junction is Diez at the A 3 Cologne -Frankfurt am Main, about 5 kilometers away.
• The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.
• Bus services in the direction of Hadamar, Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn.
• There are train connections to Montabaur and Limburg adLahn with connecting trains.