Wissen

Knowledge is a town in the district of Old Churches ( Westerwald) in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is the administrative seat of the municipality of knowledge, which it also belongs. The town is a nationally recognized health resort and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning.

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 Town twinning

• 4.1 Attractions
• 4.2 Regular events

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Public bodies
• 5.3 educational institutions

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 associated with knowledge people

Geography

Location

The city is located about 35 km southwest of victories at the victory, centrally located between the Old city based senior district and sub- district on the northern foothills of the Westerwald on the transitions to the Bergisch land and the winner country.

Boroughs

To the city of knowledge are also the districts Alser Mountain, Altenbrendebach, Brück courtyards, thorn, end, end slough, smooth oak, Hausen, hooves, Köttingen, Neubrendebach, Neuhöfchen, Niederhombach, Nisterbrück, Oberhombach, Pirzenthal, Schönstein, Weida Header, Wendlingen and several hamlets and farms.

History

The first historical mention of the town took place in the year 913. The original settlement was established in the second settlement period in the clearing on the fringes of the Archdiocese of Cologne, and in 1048 called " Wisnerofanc ".

The Lords of Arenberg, viscount of the Electorate of Cologne, the basic rule received 1176th After they died in 1280, the archbishopric of Cologne pulled the parish knowledge left the victory as a completed a fief. The right of victory situated part of the parish remained the lords of Wildenburg whose line later took knowledge left the victory as a fief of the house Werther Hatzfeldt Wildenburg.

1803-1815 were the parts of the parish to Nassau, then the parish was united under Prussian rule and knowledge was a mayor's seat. In the 19th century, the knowledge of public transport has been greatly improved and it, too, settled large industrial firms to. On April 19, 1969 knowledge was given city rights. The incorporation of the three previously independent municipalities Elber reason Köttingerhöhe and Schönstein took place on 7 June 1969.

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

Policy

City ​​council

The council knowledge consists of 24 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

The distribution of seats in the City Council ::

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, a black St. Andrew's cross. "

The coat of arms depicts the seal in a 1539 traditional coat of arms of the court knowledge - a St. Andrew's cross - is and has been the subject of previous coat of arms. On 2 October 1968, the former municipality of knowledge of the district government Koblenz has been granted the license to run the currently valid version.

Explanation: The colors black cross on a silver background, refer to the knowledge belonging to the Electorate of Cologne at the time of the Old Empire. With the retention of the old symbols and the memory of our room almost 1000 years umgegangenen mining is to be kept alive. The St. Andrew's cross is still bedeutsamstes warning underground.

Blazon: " Argent, a left oblique blue wave beams, about a floating black St. Andrew's Cross, including three red heraldic roses with golden slugs and green sepals. "

The 1960 approved municipal coat of arms symbolizes the situation, evolution and early history of the village. The wave beam has the amalgamation of parts of the previously independent municipalities the right knowledge and knowledge towards the left of the victory in 1952. The left of the river hamlet on belonged to the Electorate of Cologne in 1803, on the cross emblem, the black and silver refer, the St. Andrew's cross shape reminds knowledge of the 1539 image seal of the court. The roses are the symbol of the Lords of Wildenburg - Hatzfeld borrowed; Knowledge to the right of victory was once part of her same rule.

Twinning

The city of knowledge has partnerships with the cities of Chagny in France, with the garden city of Letchworth in England and Krapkowice (German Krappitz ) in Poland.

Culture and sights

Attractions

• Castle Schönstein
• Heister chapel, one of the oldest half-timbered chapels in the country
• Parish Church of Exaltation of the Cross ( foundation stone was laid in 1000 ) with the cross altar of the Monastery County and Freskenausmalung Peter Hecker from the years 1928 to 1931
• See also → list of cultural monuments in knowledge

Regular events

The largest regular events are the annual shooting festival of the shooting club knowledge as well as the shooting in the district Schönstein, the fair of the Catholic youth, the spring concert of the city and fire department band knowledge as well as the Carnival program which takes place on Shrove Tuesday procession through the town.

Numerous events of various kinds find next to be held in the event hall culture factory know which was opened in 2009. Biggest Event is here the night shift ( industrial culture Westerwald & win), which takes place every year in June.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

The city of knowledge is on the railway line Aachen -Cologne- Siegen- Wetzlar - Giessen- Frankfurt ( KBS 460, Siegstrecke )

The regional train station, which has changed the appearance of the city, was inaugurated with an opening ceremony in November 2006. The cost of the project amounted to approximately 14 million euros.

There used to be with the southern line of the guy Switchback also a rail link to Morsbach, which was destroyed in the Second World War between Morsbach - Volperhausen and knowledge and degraded due to reparations and not rebuilt.

Public institutions

The St. Anthony's Hospital Knowledge is a Charitable Society of the Franciscan Sisters to Olpe mbH. The offer includes not only the psychiatric outpatient department, internal medicine, the Altenheim St. Hildegard and the Church's social station.

Educational institutions

In the city know about Francis Elementary School, Marion Dönhoff Realschule plus as well as a vocational school, the Copernicus -Gymnasium and two special schools exist.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Knackfuß Hermann (1848-1915), painter, art writer and teacher at the Academy
• Bruno Tacke (1861-1942), peat soil scientists and researchers
• August Weather (1890 - after 1945 ), politician ( NSDAP), SA leader and chief of police in Koblenz
• Waldemar Schweitzer (1926-1978), journalist and publisher
• Roderich tires Rath ( born 1935 ), journalist, former editor of the Frankfurter Rundschau
• Hans Dieter Stoever ( b. 1937 ), writer
• Ulrich Schmalz ( b. 1939 ), politician ( CDU), Member of the Landtag and the Bundestag
• Hannes Heer ( b. 1941 ), historian
• Sanktjohanser Josef (* 1950), Manager and President of the Central Association of German Retailers
• Andreas Krautscheid ( b. 1961 ), Minister for Federal Affairs, Europe and the Media of North Rhine -Westphalia
• Andreas Rödder (born 1967 ), historian and professor of Modern History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
• Matthias Rödder (* 1981), actor

Associated with knowledge people

• Hanns -Josef Ortheil (* 1951), German writer, Professor of Creative Writing, grew up partly in knowledge and now lives in Stuttgart and knowledge
• Thomas Enders ( born December 21, 1958 in Neuschlade ) Head of EADS Group, attended the Copernicus High School in knowledge.