Hohenleimbach

Hohenleimbach is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Brohltal, which has its administrative headquarters in Niederzissen.

Geography

Hohenleimbach is the highest municipality of the municipality Brohltal and is located in the west. The Hohe Acht be the highest elevation in the Eifel is located approximately five miles south-west from the village Hohenleimbach.

To Hohenleimbach heard of about a mile northeast hamlet on Lederbach beyond the federal highway 412 and the Alexanderhof.

History

First mentioned in 1425 as a fief of Peter Thys in Leimbach, the place was so called until the 20th century and was part of the rule Kempenich, the Kempenich Ländchen. Sometimes emerged since the 18th century as well as the related nickname name Wüst- Leimbach and Wüst Leimbach (local dialect: Wüstlämisch ) to as many Gehöftwüstungen were recorded due to the barren fields and the abject poverty, whose inhabitants then emigrated mostly to America. Thus, the population declined in the 18th century well under a hundred. On the Tranchot - Müffling card from 1809 Hohenleimbach is listed as Wüxt - Leimbach.

The council sought for some time to give the village a different name. Since March 3, 1916, the place was allowed by unanimous decision taken on January 31, 1914 in accordance with an imperial decree to rename its name to " Hohenleimbach ," which is the name Wüst Leimbach slowly disappeared. Centuries ago, was slightly below the modern village at the mouth of leather Bach in the charming hamlet of Rembach, the 1337, is because of poverty and pull away its inhabitants deserted like in the 17th century for the first time in 1404 and called with four courtyards.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Hohenleimbach consists of eight 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

Coat Description: ". In Red, is a golden deciduous tree ( lime tree) over a symmetrical silbergebordeten red bar cross, a silver left flank, in a blue double shaft thread "

The golden foliage tree symbolizes the Dorflinde in the center. Memberships in the Electorate of Trier (up to 1794) is the silberumrandete red bar cross and shield colors red and silver, the blue shaft threads for the confluence of leather and Leimbach.

Attractions

In the local church there is a built in 1963 village chapel, inside which there is a high, seated roof skylights and a colored pillar altar from the 18th century. The community hall has been extended and refurbished and is available for club activities available. Among the most important landmarks in the city include the " Emperor Linde ," a tall tree in the village square, which was planted in memory of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig and is one of the symbols in the coat of arms. Also, the more trees in Hohenleimbach is well maintained and in good condition.

In a broader sense to the sights, the coal road count, today laid out as a trail trade. Guides you through the location west of Hohenleimbach Langhard, a 1227 first -mentioned large contiguous forest area that had experienced a particularly large Köhler activity during the 18th century and not completely disappeared as a result of colonization and conversion to agricultural land at that time. The coal road was a Holzkohletransportweg for horse-drawn vehicles from the charcoal kilns (from Vinxtbach ) through the Eifel to the smelting works in the Saarland, partly on an old Roman road, in the Middle Ages and in the 16-17. Century expanded.

Economy

The local church is predominantly agricultural and forestry. Many of the inhabitants are employed as workers in the nearby town of Adenau and in commercial premises in Kempenich.