Höchstenbach

Höchstenbach is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Hachenburg.

Geographical location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and victories in Wiedtal. Through the town flows the Wied.

History

On May 27, 1269 Höchstenbach was first mentioned in a document.

On 1 June 1955, in Höchstenbach one of the previously heaviest bus fatalities occurred in Germany. Here, 18 women in the evangelical community Rheinhausen died.

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

Parish council

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

Culture and sights

• Worth seeing is the built in early 13th century village church in the Romanesque style of transition. Inside the church are valuable early Gothic frescoes.
• Above the village, at the beginning of the Supreme Bacher forest stands to the right of the road, the Marceau Memorial. It was in the year 1863 by Emperor Napoleon III. donated in memory of General François Séverin Marceau. The monument inscription reads: " Weep by his soldiers, respected by friend and foe ."

See also: List of cultural monuments in Höchstenbach

Marceau Memorial

Memorial stone for bus accident in 1955

Traffic

The community is located at the intersection of highways 8 leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg, and the B 413 of Bendorf ( near Koblenz ) to Hachenburg. The nearest motorway junctions are about 20 miles away in Dierdorf or Mogendorf on the A 3 from Frankfurt to Cologne. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

Personalities

• Andreas Balzar ( called Balzar of Flammersfeld, * 1769 in Höchstenbach, † 1797 in Westerburg ) robbers, poachers and guerrillas fighting the French.