Astert

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

3.1 municipal
3.2 Coat of Arms

4.1 building
4.2 Nature Objects

Geography

Geographical location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and victories in the Kroppacher Switzerland, which is a part of the Protected Landscape Area Nistertal. Through the town flows the Great Nister. The district covers 239 hectares, of which about 50 % forest and 38 % agricultural area ( as of 2012). Neighboring towns are Limbach in the north, Atzelgift in the east, the monastery Marienstatt the southeast and Müschenbach the south of town. To the west of Astert is the Aßberg (327 m).

Community structure

Quarters are Oberndorf and lower village.

History

1282 Astert was first mentioned in a document of the monastery Marienstatt as Asterode. When clearing the village there was probably built in the 10 th century or before. In the 18th century Asterode has ground to " Astert ". Due to the many roof slate quarries were located in many Leyendecker Astert from the 16th to the 18th century. In 1579 the town had 13 houses. A former roof slate quarry ( Hardt ) existed until about 1911 and was finally abandoned after 1945.

Tensions existed in place by immigrant Catholics from the Bergische and Wildenburger country, which benefited from the monastery Marienstatt and Catholic Salentin Count Ernst von Manderscheid. Only after decades, mostly through marriage, they were full -fledged citizens. A process at the Imperial Chamber Court Wetzlar in 1732 brought them the complete freedom of religion. The continuous disputes between the religious groups expressed themselves in a spatial separation, while Catholics almost exclusively found in the lower village, settled the Reformed to the now emerging Oberndorf. 1793 had the whole place 20 houses with 125 inhabitants. After the Napoleonic Wars, the population, which continued in the Nassau time impoverished. 1926 was the first school in Astert. Economically significant were the slate quarries, which were in operation from 1730 to 1760 and from 1840 to 1860. From the beginning of the prosperity of the place testifies in 1894 resulting bridge over the Nister.

1985 Astert was elected in Rhineland -Palatinate in the competition Our village is beautiful as the most beautiful place.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Astert consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " coat of arms divided by silver diagonally left wave beams, diagonally crossed above in red, silver roofers hammer and Rodehacke, below in blue three golden ears of corn from the plate edge growing ".

The ears symbolize the importance of agriculture in the past centuries, the Rodehacke points to the old location name Asterode as clearing village now and the roofer hammer on the here in the 16th and 17th centuries, numerous resident Leyendecker and the slate quarries in the district.

The blue field refers to the former belonging to the Duchy of Nassau (1806-1866), the red box on the centuries- long membership in the county and Sayn of Sayn - Hachenburg (up to 1799). The silver wave band symbolizes the Great Nister.

Culture and sights

Building

Among the notable buildings include:

The Old School, Old Village Road 3 ( half-timbered house, 18th century. , 1826 purchased by the municipality and the school rebuilt )
Haus Thiel, Old Village Road 12, ( half-timbered house, 18th century. Using low- pass ),
House Bush, Old Village Road 15 ( half-timbered house, 19th century. )
House Ahlhäuser, to Ley 2, ( half-timbered house, 18th cent.).

Additional points of interest:

Elevations of the former brickworks, west of the town below Strait of Astert after Heuzert,
Old Bridge, Straits of Astert after Heimborn about the Great Nister, was founded in 1894 created from basalt, remnants of a former creek transition bach down.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Astert

Natural objects

Küppermüllchen, 500 m west of the town, Rock Formation 40 m above the Great Nister,
High Ley, 700 m northeast Asterts, Rock Formation, 50 m above the Great Nister, viewpoint with highly visible white cross.

See also: list of natural monuments in Astert

Traffic

South of the town, the B 414 runs leading from Old Churches by Hachenburg.
The nearest motorway junctions are about 25 miles away in wins and Wilsdorf on the A45 from Dortmund to casting.
The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the 40 km railway station Montabaur at the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

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