Charlottenberg, Germany

Charlotte Berg is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. Charlotte Berg is the smallest local church and youngest town in the municipality Diez.

Geography

The road mountain village of Charlotte is located in the west of Esterau Holzappel in northern Rhineland -Palatinate on a hill about 340 meters above sea level. Sea level at the edge of the Park Nassau.

History

The village is in comparison with the other places in the municipality Diez relatively young. Charlotte Berg goes by name back to the foundation by the Princess Elisabeth Charlotte of Schaumburg- Nassau (1640-1707), daughter of Peter Melander, in 1699. Eighty Waldenses were settled at the site, the southern French Alps from Fenestrelle in the (now Italy) were expelled in 1698 and in the Esterau found a new home. Until 1766 Charlotte Berg was a separate parish in which the service was conducted in French. The congregation was then the protestant church connected in Dörnberg.

From 1806 the town was part of the duchy of Nassau, which was annexed in 1866 by Prussia. Since 1946 it has been part of the federal state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

Language of instruction was until the dissolution of the school in Charlotte Berg in 1767 in French. It was not until 1870 and from 1874 took place in a new school building back school in Charlotte mountain instead.

Since the mid-18th century, lead and silver were mined in the area of Charlotte Berg.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the village in 1899, the founder Elisabeth Charlotte was built in honor of a monument the inscription " True to the Faith! Dedicated to the memory of the noble founder of Charlotte Berg - The grateful Waldensian " bears. The death in 1706 on the monument is wrong: The Countess died in March 1707 (see Hessian State Archives Wiesbaden, Dept. 171, No. Z 2970 ).

Religion

Charlotte Berg is the Roman Catholic parish of St. Boniface assigned in Holzappel and heard her to the pastoral space Diez, which in turn the district Limburg is incorporated in the diocese of Limburg.

On the Protestant side of the place of the parish Dörnberg the dean's office of the provost Diez South Nassau in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau ( EKHN ) is a member.

Parish council

The local council in Charlotte mountain is composed 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.

Culture and sights

Structures

Clubs

In Charlotte mountain there are three clubs, the volunteer fire department, founded in 1897, Charlotte Berg and the sports club 1921 Charlotte Mountain, and the club culture and a meeting place for women eV, which carries the woman Landhaus Charlotte Berg.