Gönnersdorf

Patron village is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bad Breisig.

Geography

Patron village is situated at the neighboring Waldorf on the regional road 87 about five kilometers from the Rhine and about three kilometers. Through the town flows the Vinxtbach and about one kilometer south rises the Herchenberg, an extinct volcano, which has almost completely disappeared today due to the slag removal. For patrons village include the residential places Frauenbergerhof, Martin's and Eichenhof.

History

The first written reference, time still as Gunteresdorp, can be found in Brotherhood Book of Michael's Chapel in Munstermaifeld from the year 1147. The Abbess of Essen used the patrons located near village Frauenbergerhof as their summer residence.

Parish council

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

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Attractions

The Church of St. Stephen was built in the late 13th century and renovated in 1733 due to disrepair. By 1830, cultivation of a sacristy. Special features in the interior of the church are a baptismal font made ​​of basalt, a stone pulpit in the late Gothic style, a high altar made ​​of wood, the created of white marble side altar of 1630, and wooden figures of the two church 's patron saints Stephen and St. Catherine of Alexandria. St. Stephen 's parish church of the Rhenish noble family von Metternich.

Sports

The local football club " FC Rhenaniastraße Gönnersdorf 1911 eV " celebrated in 2011 its 100th anniversary. The first team plays in the season 2011/ 2012 in the district league middle, the second division of the Football Association of the Rhineland.

Traffic

Patron village is the easiest to reach by car. Either from Bad Breisig on the L 87, which branches off from the main road 9, or from the direction of Niederzissen by the Federal Highway 61 (exit Niederzissen) on the L 82 and L 87 Waldorf by patrons after village. Optionally you can drive 806 of the VRM with the bus line, but holds only on weekdays and till 18:00 clock in the village patron.