Weibern

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

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Sport
• 4.3 Regular events

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Education

Geography

The two members of the community places women and Wabern lie in the eastern edge of the High Eifel between Nürburgring and the Laacher See. The main town located in the valley of the women Weiberner creek, which drains in a southwesterly direction to Nice. The municipality can be assigned to the natural area of Kempenich Tuffhochfläche. In the west it extends over the Weiberner forest to the summit of Hilzbergs where, with about 595 m above sea level. NN reaches its highest point on the ground. For women include the residential places " Güterbahnhof women " and " Weiberner mill " ..

History

Women was mentioned in the year 865 for the first time in a document of the Abbey of Prüm. King Louis II gave the Prüm chapels Güsten and Bachem in Jülich with its accessories. Among the accessories a manor ( Mansum indominicatum ) in the villa viveri counted in Eifelgau. Latin Viveris means pond. So women was already in the 9th century a village and not just a yard, which apparently also a pond, perhaps in an old mine or quarry, had. Even the Romans had operated Tuffabbau. It was probably about the Prüm Vogt, to the Lords of Kempenich and then to the Niedererzstift Trier. Ecclesiastical it belonged until 1860 to the parish Kempenich the Dean Ochtendung. The Counts of Eltz and Baron von Bürresheim possessed at the site in the 18th century over ritterschaftliche goods. Women was raised in 1860 to a separate parish. Until the 1950s, the degradation of the Weiberner Tuffs was main industry. Now a museum, as well as older tufa quarries remember that time. Built in 1885 Marian column also consists of tuff. She wears the ambiguous inscription: blessed art thou among women.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in women consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

The local church has a 1st Assistant with business, Horst Daleki, planning, construction, village renewal program since 1999.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "Divided, split up of silver and blue, below black, front a continuous red beam cross, rear pole, two silver fish, below a fallen, open, cranked, silver calipers, topped with an open, silver drawing compass with adjustable bow ".

The red cross represents the Electorate of Trier, was one of the wives to 1794, the silver fish connect with the meaning of the Latin word for women, vivarium ago, which means something like " zoo " or " fish ponds " means. The two circles are a symbol of the stone masonry in place, which works a lot with tuff.

Community partnership

With women (Upper Austria ) is a community partnership.

Culture and sights

Structures

See list of cultural monuments in women

Sports

Women home to the handball club TuS women, whose women's team from 2003 to 2005 played in the 1st Bundesliga and has ascended to this class again in 2012.

Regular events

Every 2 years, on the first Sunday in June, the tuff Festival. It occupies a very high priority in the framework of the local celebrations. Is a reminder of the great tradition of Weiberner stonemasons to the millennium embedded in the project " Volcano Park Brohltal / Laachersee " the tuff center emerged. In 2002 it was opened as part of the first tuff festival. Since 2006 it is an integral part of the German Volcano Road.

Economy and infrastructure

In recent years, tourism increased in the Eifel village women to more and more, even the opening of the German Volcano road will promote this sector. Through a commercial area on the outer edge Weiberns, which houses among other things a supermarket with adjacent drinks trade, the food supply in the immediate vicinity is guaranteed.

Traffic

• North of the village runs the federal highway 412 which leads from the federal highway 61 after Nürburg.
• The nearest motorway junction is weir at the federal motorway 61 Koblenz Bonn, about 8 miles away.
• The nearest railway station is the station of the angels Brohltalbahn.

Education

In the village primary school, is taught in which exists since 1904.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Jacob Dahm (* 1659 in women; † July 10, 1727 in Mainz ) was a German organ builder.

Others

In the public cemetery is the grave of the acting, especially in the Rhineland metal sculptor Hans Karl Burgeff.