Gutenacker

Gutenacker is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Katzenelenbogen. The village Gutenacker is built around a basalt rocks around.

Geography

Gutenacker is located in the Nassau nature park, about eight kilometers east of the city of Nassau. In the north and west, the Lahn forms the municipal boundary.

To Gutenacker includes the residential places station Lauren Castle ( Lahn Valley Railway ), train home, Häuserhof, Justus- mill, Lindenhof and Rupbach ( part).

History

The village was mentioned in the year 1197 for the first time as a katzenelnbogisches village documented. It was built by the Earl of Katzenelenbogen one of her followers, if the lords of Allendorf, as a fief. This lived in Gutenacker in a castle-like building next to the highest point. The village came with the Counts 1479 to the Landgrave of Hesse, and later the Duchy of Nassau. Nassau, and with him Gutenacker, was annexed in 1866 by Prussia. Since 1946 is Gutenacker part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded. 1972 came in the wake of the Rhineland-Palatinate " functional and territorial reform " to form the municipality Katzenelenbogen who belongs to the local church Gutenacker ever since.

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

Parish council

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

Attractions

The so-called tipping - a basalt rock in the middle of the village - was formerly a basalt quarry. There was a crusher with which the basalt was ground, he was then transported by a cable car in the Rupbach and brought from there by rail to customers.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Gutenacker