Fürthen

Fürthen is a municipality in the district of Old Churches ( Westerwald) in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Hamm (Sieg).

Community structure

The municipality comprises the main town and the municipal districts Opsen, cap stone, Mümmelbach and Oppertsau. The latter is a " shared " Location: through it runs the border between Rhineland -Palatinate and North Rhine -Westphalia. The North Rhine-Westphalia to part belonging is written Opperzau belongs to the municipality Windeck in the Rhein- Sieg-Kreis.

History

By the year 1806 Fürthen belonged to the county of Sayn- ​​Hachenburg. Fürthen formed within the parish Hamm a "Send " above its own administrative district, which included the towns of cap stone, Mümmelbach, Oppertsau, Opsen and Walbach. The county of Sayn- ​​Hachenburg 1799 was fallen on the Erbweg to the princes of Nassau- Weilburg. 1806 came the two princes of Nassau in the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine, so that the region of 1806 belonged to the Duchy of Nassau. Because of the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) agreements, the region was ceded to the Kingdom of Prussia.

Under the Prussian administration Fürthen the mayor Hamm was assigned to the newly built district of Old churches that belonged from 1822 to the Rhine province.

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

Parish council

The local council in Fürthen consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The 16 seats in the municipal council are divided into two groups of voters.

Special

  • In Fürthen the only mosque, in the general area in a converted former village school.
  • A 200 m long section of the L 112 / L 267, which separates the districts Opperzau ( Windeck ) and Oppertsau ( Fürthen ), represents not only the municipal boundaries, but also the international border between North Rhine -Westphalia and Rhineland- Palatinate. In addition, the road leads for each page its own street name: Victory Road for the Oppertsauer page, Fürthener road for the Opperzauer page.
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