Grafschaft, Rhineland

County is an association free municipality in the district of Ahrweiler in the north of Rhineland -Palatinate, close to the border with North Rhine -Westphalia. The municipality was created from the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal reform from the bulk of the former municipality rings in 1974. Seat of the municipality is the village of rings. In the regional language it is often called " the county ". County is recognized as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 community partnership

• 4.1 Economics
• 4.2 Road Access

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located north of the county town of Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler, about 15 km southwest of the city of Bonn. The 57.55 km ² large municipality located on the edge of the Voreifel the east of the Eifel, the transition to the Middle Rhine Valley. The western part of the area gets into Ahrgebirge to, is predominantly forested and is crossed by numerous rivers such as the Swist. To the east of the plateau, the Grafschafter Lößhügelland or closes even further northeast to the upper Winterer terraces and hills. To the south and southwest territory extends to the edge of the Ahr valley, the. Than V-shaped valley up to a height of 345 m above sea NN ranges.

Community structure

The municipality is divided in eleven local districts, including 16 villages and numerous individual farms belong. The local districts meet the 1974 resolution municipalities the municipality rings.

Neighboring communities

County borders on the communes ( clockwise from the north): Wachtberglifte (North Rhine -Westphalia), Remagen, Bad Neuenahr -Ahrweiler, Dernau, Altenahr, Kalenborn and Meckenheim (NRW).

History

Historical predecessor and namesake of the village is formed in the 13th century county Neuenahr based on Castle Neuenahr. In addition to today's districts of Bad Neuenahr area and shares in the Rhine river were also most places in the church today the county. After the extinction of the family of the Count of Neuenahr to 1352 it came to inheritance disputes and consequently to some chaotic states with robbery and murder. 1372 intervened Archbishop of Cologne, by letting conquer and destroy the castle Neuenahr. The next 200 years was the area under the rule of two lords of the Archdiocese of Cologne until 1546 it again came to the Duchy of Jülich. Under the Duchy was in the field, the Office Neuenahr, which was reduced with time more and more. The beginning of the territorial losses represented the exit Gelsdorfs in 1382 - still in the county Neuenahr. However, in 1558 Gelsdorf fell back to the office Neuenahr and 1737 finally a free imperial rule. In a barter transaction in 1659 Eckendorf, Adendorf and Villip fell away and formed two rich immediate dominions. Other dominions at the present municipal area were at the output of the 18th century village kidney, Lantershofen and Vettel Hoven. With the Office Neuenahr existed at that time five independent countries in the church today the county.

With the arrival of French troops after the French Revolution in 1794 was accompanied by an entirely new administrative structure. All of the previously existing dominions were dissolved and instead opted for a new classification in mairies whose basic features still to this day have stock. After the victory of the German troops over the French and the subsequent Congress of Vienna it came again to change the territorial conditions. The mairies were renamed mayors and the resulting under French rule mayors Heimersheim and rings were dissolved in 1818 and parts of the mayoralty Gelsdorf slammed, which was also expanded to the community Kalenborn. After 1818, the population of the mayoralty Gelsdorf was initially grown from 3,700 inhabitants sharply to 4907 in 1846, but then stagnated for several years. With the relocation of the then mayor of Gelsdorf for rings also changed the administrative seat of the mayor's office for rings. There, a new administration building was opened on 19 March 1884. The name change from Gelsdorf in rings only came into force on 2 March 1936. A coat of arms was the renamed office a year later.

In the late 1960s a nation-wide municipal reform was carried out, the community had numerous reorganisations and the formation of association communities result. The Office rings in 1968 initially transferred to the municipality rings. According to the law for municipal reform, a minimum size of 7500 inhabitants was required for association communities, but the community association rings reached on 31 December 1969 only 6742 inhabitants. Therefore, the state government was planning a inclusion of the association's territory in the town of Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler January 1, 1971, with the exception of the municipality Kalenborn. This plan was largely welcomed by the communities of the municipality rings, rejected by Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler city council, among others, the argument of the different structures of Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler and the field of community association. After years of discussion and the fear of a division of the historic county region of Rhineland- Palatinate Parliament finally in 1973 passed a law which provided for the formation of a united free church of the former municipalities of the municipality rings, with the exception of Kalenborn that the municipality Altenahr should be added. With the entry into force of the Act on March 16, 1974 was the new municipality county, which comprised 6075 inhabitants at that time.

Since the formation of the church in 1974, the population has increased from about 6,000 to about 11,000 today. This was mainly the convenient location between job priorities Bonn in the north and Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler has contributed to the south. Population trends are able to work as part of the general development of the narrower region of Bonn.

The development of the population of the county based on the present-day municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in County consists of 28 volunteer council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman. On May 6, 2012, confirmed with a score of 91.6 per cent votes by primary election for a further eight years in this office Achim Juchem (CDU ) unopposed. His second Antszeit officially begins on March 1, 2013 and ends on January 31, 2021.

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Each of the eleven local districts has a mayor and a town council own.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " The coat of arms shows the divided shield above in gold is a growing black red armored lion, down in black and three gold rings. "

The main shield is the coat of arms of the Dukes of Jülich borrowed that led a black, red armored lion in gold. The Dukes of Jülich were the rulers of most of the present-day municipality of the county in the Holy Roman Empire. The sign foot stands (later municipality ) rings for the name of the Office. The coat of arms is quite valid since 28 July 1937 when it was awarded by the President of the Upper Rhine Province office rings.

Community partnership

County maintains since 1980 a partnership with the French community Fauville -en- Caux in Normandy.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

County is now one of the agriculture and the location as a residential area between job priorities in the north ( Bonn ) and south ( Bad Neuenahr -Ahrweiler ) embossed community. Due to the geographical and traffic- favorable situation also some industrial enterprises have settled in the municipality. The Business Park County Gelsdorf near the motorways A61 and A565 today covers an area of ​​45 hectares, on which 1700 jobs have been created. Near the village rings was created with funds from the Berlin / Bonn Act, the Innovation Park Rhineland. After this commercial space had initially developed only very slowly, recruitment successes have been achieved by changes in the marketing strategy increased.

In the local district Gelsdorf was from 2000 until its dissolution in 2007, the seat of the Centre for Intelligence of the Bundeswehr ( ZNBw ), which was housed there in a modern, approximately 100 million Euro building. Since 2008 Gelsdorf location of the headquarters Strategic Reconnaissance. The barracks was on 7 October 2009 the name " Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager barracks ".

The nationally known Grafschafter Krautfabrik is despite its name, not in the church county, but in neighboring Meckenheim.

Transport links

The municipal area is in northwest-southeast direction from the federal motorway 61 Cologne - crosses Ludwigshafen. The Federal Highway 573 branches off of them in the east of the district near the village of Beller of the A61, and adjusts the feeder road to the south of Bad Neuenahr -Ahrweiler dar. Further goes the federal highway 565 Bonn - Meckenheim - Altenahr near the Meckenheimer Cross ( intersection A 61 / A 565 ) over behind the departure Gelsdorf in the federal highway 257.

The nearest train stations are in Bad Neuenahr- Ahrweiler ( Ahrtalbahn ), Meckenheim (Bz Cologne) ( Voreifelbahn ) and Remagen ( Left Rhine line ). The individual districts of the county are within the transport association Rhein- Mosel ( VRM) relatively wide mesh connected by bus routes with each other and Bad Neuenahr, Ahrweiler, Meckenheim, Rhine river and Remagen, mainly as part of the student movement. In low demand hours and on weekends partially run taxi buses. On some lines, no traffic will take place on weekends. County is the Ahrweiler district, as also involved in the tariff area of the transport association Rhein-Sieg (VRS ).