Alpenrod

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

  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 company

Geographical location

The municipality is located southeast of Hachenburg in the Westerwald on the left bank of the Great Nister and Enspeler Bach.

By lying to the southwest of the district Alpenrod graves mountain ( 513 m above sea level. NN ) is located within the boundaries of the municipality is the highest elevation in the municipality Hachenburg. On the graves mountain lookout tower with a public viewing platform is at 30 meters.

Quarters are Alpenrod Hirtscheid and Dehlingen. The municipality also includes the residential places Alpenrod house, courtyard calibration prairie, courtyard world premiere, Gut Neuhof Talmuhle.

History

In a document from 1320, the village was first mentioned as Albrechtsrode. Here was also a castle to protect the routes on the " Nöchel ". It had previously been a chapel with a small settlement (at least 1131 ).

The tower of the present church dates from this period. Estimates go up to the 900 century. To Alpenrod belong the localities Dehlingen (first settlers named Dillinger, 1618) and Hirtscheid ( 1100 Scheid brain ). There was a Talmuhle from 1551. Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid -Sayn tried (1657, 1678-1680 ) the traffic of the Cologne - Frankfurt Straße ( today's B 8) Hachenburg conduct. Therefore he built from a post road, the above Alpenrod ( at Gut Neuhof over) led, and as the old post road is known today. The Cologne - Leipzig road and the Cologne - Frankfurt street were the main long way since the times of the Merovingian kings. As the valley was mired in ancient times and difficult to access, all roads led over the heights as the old post road. It can be assumed that this road has been used already to Celtic times.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Alpenrod 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 location.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " In gold, a blue oblique beams, topped with three silver balls, top three stylized green trees, untern a red bell ."

The three balls in the oblique beams the same time point to the three belonging to the municipality villages Alpenrod Dehlingen and Hirtscheid and the medieval local noble family of Schönhals to Albrechtenrode that led three bullets in his coat of arms. The bell symbolizes the church and the parish Alpenrod, the trees of the forest wealth. The colors of gold and red (bell) are an indication of past membership in the county of Sayn.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • The community is located between the B 255 and the Koblenz Hachenburg links, and the B 414 which runs from Montabaur to Herborn.
  • The A 3 to the junction Montabaur ( AS 40 ) is 25 km away.
  • The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

Business

  • Pottery for salt-glazed stoneware
  • Grave and Natursteinbetrieb
  • Tourism service
  • Oven Store
  • Aluminum processing: Anodizing of aluminum
  • Naturopaths
  • Joinery
  • Machinery and Plant
  • Plumbing Solar Heating
  • Planning Office
Hachenburg (Verbandsgemeinde) Nister (river) Municipal council Montabaur station Aluminium Astert Atzelgift Borod Dreifelden Gehlert Giesenhausen Hattert Heimborn Heuzert Kroppach Kundert Limbach, Westerwaldkreis Linden, Westerwaldkreis Lochum Luckenbach Marzhausen Merkelbach Mudenbach Stein-Wingert Streithausen Wahlrod Welkenbach Wied, Rhineland-Palatinate Winkelbach
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