Asbach (Westerwald)

Asbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Asbach, who also belongs.

• 2.1 Electorate of Cologne Time
• 2.2 Wied - Runkelsche and Nassauische time
• 2.3 Prussian time
• 2.4 field changes

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Municipality Mayor

• 4.1 parish
• 4.2 Cultural Monuments
• 4.3 Museums
• 4.4 Sport

• 5.1 Economics
• 5.2 traffic
• 5.3 Public bodies

Geography

Geographical location

Asbach is located in the Lower Westerwald nature park between the Rhine -Westerwald and Bergisch land.

Community structure

December 31, 2009

Climate

The annual rainfall is 952 mm. Rainfall is high. They are located in the upper quarter of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 82% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in July. In July, falling 1.6 times more precipitation than in February. Rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. At 27% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

The place Asbach originated in the time of the Frankish conquest between 600 and 900. This is indicated by the place-name, still in dialect " Asbich ", and the so-called "Franken Wall" back. The place name, old spelling " Unteraspach " is not derived from a watercourse, but designates a place of settlement, which was created from the outset in the form of a small hamlet and not from a country house.

Asbach was first mentioned after 1180. In the book miracle of Siegburg and in a donation Urkundes Archbishop of Cologne Philip of Heinberg. Philip gave in 1183 the Cologne Abbey of St. Pantaleon the " Rottzehnt to Elsaff in the parish Asbach ". The Rottzehnt was levied on newly deforested areas.

Electorate of Cologne time

Middle of the 13th century came the parish Asbach together with other in the possession of the archbishopric of Cologne. The childless and widowed Countess Matilda of Sayn gave the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden estates of her maternal heritage. The parish Asbach was assigned to the Electoral Cologne office Altenwied later, this also included the parishes Neustadt and wind Hagen. The parish was divided into four Asbach Honnschaften and Kirchdorf Asbach. The Kirchdorf only included the county within the Walls.

In the 16th century Asbach seat of the District Court of the Office Altenwied.

After the Thirty Years' War, the Cologne Elector Maximilian Henry of Bavaria built in 1660 an inventory of the villages and farms in the Official perform Altenwied. Here Asbach were enumerated for the parish:

• " Kirchdorf to Unteraspach ":

• " Elsaffter Honschaft ":

• " Grießbacher Honschaft ":

• " Limpacher Honschaft ":

• " Schoenberger Honschaft ":

• "Among glory Ehrenstein ":

Wied - Runkelsche and Nassauische time

1803 and the right bank part of the Electorate of Cologne was dissolved. In Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 25 February 1803 Article 21 Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich Alexander of Wied - Runkel was awarded for his, as a result of the French Revolutionary Wars, the resulting loss of the county Kriechingen and others, the former Electorate of Cologne Office Altenwied. In connection with the 1806 on the initiative of Napoleon I. formed the Confederation of the Rhine between Neuwied - runkel as the wied - neuwiedischen, areas came to the Duchy of Nassau. The now Nassau Office Altenwied and thus the parish Asbach belonged to the newly established government district Ehrenbreitstein.

Prussian time

Due to the decisions on the Congress of Vienna in 1815 fell essential parts of the Rhineland to the Kingdom of Prussia. At the same time received from the Duchy of Prussia Nassau in exchange for other areas of the northern parts of the country Nassau, which included the Office Altenwied and the parish Asbach. Asbach became part of the Prussian province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine and the Rhine Province in 1822. 1816 Prussia ordered the administrative structures with respect to the new provincial administration. The provinces were divided into administrative districts and counties, in turn, the mayors, which were each assigned a number of communities. The Kirchdorf Asbach became the administrative seat of the mayor, among which from 1823 to the Honnschaften or later, the communities Elsaff, Griesebach, Krautscheid, Limbach, Rederscheid, Schöneberg and wind Hagen. The place and the mayor Asbach been assigned to the county in the district of Neuwied Koblenz. Because the old offices in 1803 were Altenwied and New Castle the Prince of Wied - Runkel, this area and dami also Asbach was assumed together with the actual wiedischen areas related to municipal administration of the princely wiedischen government. Concomitant Prussian administration was limited to territorial, military and tax matters. Only after Prince Hermann of Wied in 1848 ceded its rights to the Prussian king, the Prussian administration was also responsible for municipal affairs.

The place Asbach, still consisted only of the Kirchdorf and a few houses to wiedisch - Prussian time, was initially the Honnschaft or later assigned to the municipality Elsaff. It was not until 1858 (until then part of the community Elsaff ) and Parscheid (formerly town of Limbach ) formed as a separate municipality from the Kirchdorf Asbach and Walgenbach.

Field changes

Today's local church was Asbach ( 1,106 inhabitants), Limbach ( 1105 E. ), Schöneberg ( 1662 E. ) and a part of Elsaff ( 1022 E. ) formed on March 16, 1974 from the previously independent municipalities Asbach new. Already 7 November 1970, the two hamlets Dasbach and rear valve from the community Rott were incorporated in the district of old churches in the town of Schöneberg.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Asbach consists of 22 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Mayor municipality

Municipality or mayor since 1946:

Culture and sights

Parish Church

• St. Lawrence 1237 First mention of the parish church of St. Lawrence and their pastor Sibodo.
• 1455 Foundation of the spouses Adam Ütgenbach ( Oetgenbach ) and Mary in the parish church of Alfter to Asbach. Source: Archives Schloss Herten Herten

Cultural monuments

Museums

The only museum in Asbach is the Railway Museum on the Bröltal web. It was opened in 2000 and provides a variety of vehicles (including Lok 53), exhibits and documents on the web Bröltal / Rhein- Sieg-Eisenbahn (RSE ) in the former engine shed from. The municipality acquired the locomotive shed in the meantime and brought here under their yard. The congregation met in search of a further use of the engine shed at Wolfgang Clössner who sought a suitable garaging for its RSE steam locomotive 53.

Use the volunteer club members and the building yard of the municipality Asbach a 100 meter long section of track was built, together with the railway crossing on the former Asbacher station area for maneuvering and presenting the vehicles again, which is to be extended in 2012. Meanwhile, the reception building was acquired by the municipality, since it is being renovated. In the lower floor then various exhibitions of the museum are to be accommodated, the upper floor is to be used as a private dwelling.

The museum opens on every 2nd Sunday of the month, admission is free.

Sports

The largest sports club in Asbach Asbach is the TuS 1882 eV He's in the sports of volleyball, football, badminton and grassroots divided. More Sports Clubs in Asbach: TC Asbach (tennis ); TTF Asbacher country (table tennis); SF Asbacher country ( chess) and Budoclub Bushido eV ( self-defense and martial arts ).

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

In Asbach there are several small shops. However, the main business center is located in the industrial area. In this industrial area, there are several discount stores and the " benefit -Center" an independent, none of the major retail chains angehöriges, shopping mall.

Traffic

North of the village runs the main road 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg. The nearest motorway junction is Bad Honnef / Linz on the Autobahn 3

Nearest ICE train station is Siegburg / Bonn, at the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

With the extension of the Bröltal railway (narrow gauge railway ) Hennef - Buchholz to Asbach Asbach on August 15, 1892 received a railway station, which was equipped as a route endpoint with engine shed, station building and goods shed. As, however, the passenger shifted in the 50s on the road, even the movement of persons from Hennef was discontinued after Asbach on 1 August 1956 on December 1, 1956 followed the freight and then the route decommissioning. The engine shed was initially used after the cessation of rail as a bus depot by the RSE, the train station in the meantime as a private residence, now he is, however, owned by the municipality and is being renovated. Since the setting of the passenger traffic only local buses, inter alia,, on Asbacher marketplace there is a small bus station to Bad Honnef and Eitorf. In Bad Honnef and Eitorf are today the nearest railway stations, from where connections to Cologne, Koblenz exist (from Bad Honnef ) and Siegen (from Eitorf ). Since 2000 the engine shed and station premises to be used as a railway museum (see Museums ).

Public institutions

In the village is the " Camillus Hospital ," a special clinic for multiple sclerosis sufferers with regular beds in the neurological area, a modern sleep lab and an internal department. Support of the hospital is the Catholic women's orders " Daughters of Saint Camillus ".