Reiferscheid

Reiferscheid is a municipality in the district of Old Churches ( Westerwald) in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Flammersfeld.

• 6.1 Education
• 6.2 traffic

Geography

Reiferscheid located on the edge of the Rhein-Westerwald Nature Park, at just 300 m above sea level. NN. An extension of the Rhenish Westerwald Nature Park is decided, which is then also include the local area.

Still belongs to the local church Reiferscheid the district Krämgen.

History

Reiferscheid belonged until 1806 to the County of Sayn- ​​Hachenburg and Parish Flammersfeld. The county of Sayn- ​​Hachenburg 1799 was fallen on the Erbweg to the princes of Nassau- Weilburg. 1806 came the two princes of Nassau in the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine, so that the region of 1806 belonged to the Duchy of Nassau. Because of the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) agreements the territory of the former saynischen counties of the Kingdom of Prussia was ceded.

Under the Prussian administration Reiferscheid the mayoralty Flammersfeld was assigned to the newly built district of Old churches that belonged from 1822 to the Rhine province.

Population Development

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

Parish council

The local council in Reiferscheid 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.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

→ List of cultural monuments in Reiferscheid

Music

1983, formed a choir, which under the name Mixed Choir Reiferscheid shapes the cultural life of the village today.

Economy and infrastructure

Reiferscheid was originally coined purely agricultural, today the area is maintained around the place of larger companies / plant communities from surrounding villages, hobby livestock found in the town itself only place.

In earlier times there were in Reiferscheid a (sometimes two) mom-and-pop store, a blacksmith, a wheelwright (Wagner) and Schuster, later a grinding shop. These farms were gradually closed. A small village pub has been family run since 1954, the tap was turned up and the pub closed on 30 June 2010.

The closest base center is Flammersfeld in about a kilometer away.

In the 1950s, communal fridge and freezer, washing house was in Reiferscheid built and operated as a prospective stem ( freezer community). There, the members were two large washing machines, a refrigerator and freezer compartments separately abschliesbare available at this time in rural areas a very advanced device that offered unprecedented luxury. Washing machines, refrigerators in each household were prohibitive, there were there families who denied solely on their small fields and pastures with two to three cows and three to four pigs and a little poultry their livelihood.

In the center of the village is "The Place ", a large open space which has always been in possession of a " prospective shank " was and has been used as a garden - cropland and pasture. Today, this "place " by the community and volunteers to the playground, football and is "place for everything fun," been transformed.

The standing at the foot of the square " freezing house" was in the late 1970s, after the freezing plant was taken out of service, expanded by the then village youth, supported by grants from the municipality and the hunting association, as a small youth club.

A free surface was fixed later with gravel and serves as a solid place for sociable summer party, and other activities, like the first time in 2008 held Ripe Scheider Christmas market.

Since 2006 gewerkelt in this freezing house again by private initiative further, a pent roof mounted, freeze- house largely gutted and fitted with new sanitary facilities.

Education

The Mature Scheider go since ancient times in Flammersfeld to school, today only primary school, only the tribulations of World War II meant that occasionally substitute teaching was held in private houses. In secondary schools in Old Churches, Horhausen and Neustadt ( Wied) are visited.

Traffic

Reiferscheid is affected by the federal highway 256.