Hausen (Wied)

Hausen ( Wied) is a municipality in the district of Neuwied in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Waldbreitbach. Hausen is a nationally recognized health resort.

• 2.1 Population development

• 3.1 municipal

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Public institutions / medical care
• 5.3 Formation
• 5.4 Recreation and Sports
• 5.5 Regular events

Geography

Geographical location

The village lies on the Wied in the Rhine-Westerwald Nature Park southwest of Waldbreitbach. The rural community located about 30 km north of Koblenz and 50 km south of Cologne.

Geology

With 373 m above sea level. NN is the Malberg the highest elevation of the community, at the same time the municipality Rheinbrohl and the town of Bad Hönningen. It is an extinct volcano that was mined in the basalt to 1932. In the resulting crater is now home to a small lake. On the eastern flank of the mountain introduces no longer supervised basalt trail to the summit.

The Malberg is at all seasons a popular destination. In winter, skiers and sledders use it. Skiers served on the longest ski slopes for downhill skiing in the larger area of the 1964 existing ski lift Malberg. At the time of construction, the largest artificial snow slope in Europe dubbed, the plant is now shut mostly. In 2008, substantial parts of the ski lift were reduced so that operation of the facility is no longer possible. The snow guns were dismantled and sold for years previously.

In earlier times, when the basalt dome still existed, should have been to recognize with very good visibility from the highest point of the Malberges even the Cologne Cathedral according to traditional narratives.

Community structure

Districts and Places:

• Bitze
• Bremscheid
• Frorath
• Taps
• Live
• Langscheid
• Malberghof
• Margarethenhof
• Marienhof

• Muscheiderhof
• Reuschenbach
• Silkie
• Sohl
• Solscheid
• Stopperich
• Wall Bachmuhle
• White box

Neighboring communities

• Waldbreitbach
• Niederbreitbach
• Rossbach (Wied )
• Datzeroth
• Leubsdorf
• Dattenberg
• Bad Hönningen
• Rheinbrohl

History

Today Hausen was established on October 1, 1971 by renaming the existing community Bremscheid in Rhineland -Palatinate. It consists of 17 villages and hamlets, each with an independent story that included until 1803 to Kurkölns Honnschaft Bremscheid. The name derives from the nucleus may have been mentioned a 1268 donation of fields and forests in Husen by a certain Mr. de Britsche. From a settlement is not likely at this time. 1660 are documented two courtyards, 143 inhabitants in 1843.

The nucleus also stands in close connection with the founding of the Order of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross in 1862 by the shoemaker Peter Wirth ( called brother James ).

Germ cell of this religious community was the location already in the municipality forest wide Bach, but as perceived Hausen on the outskirts, built in 1694 at the Chapel of the Cross Wiedufer, which was a popular place of pilgrimage in the 18th century. It is about a Holy Cross, which stood in the 15th century in a niche of the rocky mountain, which is called Chapel Hill today. The cross was stolen in 1659 and thrown into the Wied and found again eight years later in a miraculous way. The Waldbreitbacher priest Bartholomew Frederici built the chapel in honor of the Holy Cross in front of the cliff; the cross is now preserved even in the central niche of the altar. Today, however, cuts through the Wiedtalstraße the terrain, so that the original relationship between rock niche and chapel for today's visitor is no longer recognizable.

In 1700, a hermit lived named Hubertus Quirenbach in the chapel; he expanded it to a transept and those Klausen, in which Rosa Flesch ( mother Rosa ) had lived with her epileptic sister Marianne in 1851. The founder of the Franciscans had to give Waldbreitbacher 1860 Peter Wirth and his companion Anton Weber; they then settled on the mountain chapel in Waldbreitbacher district Glockscheid down (today Klostermarienberg house).

1866 Peter Wirth and his congregation could leave the Chapel of the Cross and the newly constructed Mother House of the Order relate in the nucleus Hausen. The monastery church was consecrated in 1906. This complex shapes today the architectural design of the place.

Population Development

The development of the population of Hausen (Wied ), the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Hausen consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

Culture and sights

Economy and infrastructure

In the district Solscheid is founded in 1987, specialized in the repair and cleaning of upholstery, supraregional services company POS cushion Service GmbH.

The remaining jobs are in health care, hospitality and small service businesses.

In the Hausener Wiedaue a 24,000 -square-foot industrial park is to be reported to the settlement of a discount store right opposite the Margaret Flesch house. Against this substantial intervention but consult numerous critical voices.

Traffic

Oberhausen is located in the middle Wiedbachtal. From the A 3 are the slopes of Bad Honnef / Linz, Neustadt (Wied ) or Neuwied 15 minutes to the town center. The nearest larger cities Neuwied and Koblenz are accessible by public transport. The nearest train station is in Bad Honningen, the closest railway stations for ICE are in Koblenz, Bonn and Montabaur.

Public institutions / medical care

The village hall in the center is used for meetings of the congregation and is also private purposes. The Home athletes on the sports center was redesigned in 2006; also is there a multi-functional space.

In the forest above the village is the Westerwald clinic, a focus Department of Neurology and Neurological Psychosomatics. The clinic is operated by three carriers of the annuity.

On the outskirts, near the Wied Margaretha Flesch - house, a retirement and nursing home Waldbreitbacher Franciscan is. The house upon completion of an extension up to 80 guests as well as two short-term care beds. A focal point of the house is the created in the new space living area for residents with dementia.

Funds under management by the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross St. Joseph House, restored in 1931, is also a retirement and nursing home for approximately 300 people with mental or neurological disorders or intellectual disabilities. It is affiliated to the monastic mother's house; behind the home is a large park filled with historic trees, Lourdes Grotto and Anthony Fountain.

Hausen has no private practitioner; However, in an emergency is a medical doctor from the St. Joseph house. The closest hospitals are in Neuwied or Linz.

Education

Primary schools are located in forest Breitbach and Niederbreitbach. The Realschule plus is located in Forest Breitbach, Realschule and Gymnasium are located in Neuwied, Linz am Rhein or Neustadt ( Wied). The next colleges and universities in Koblenz and Bonn.

Recreation and Sports

In Hausen is since 1971 the Wiedtalbad, the indoor and outdoor pool, the association community forest Breitbach. It was extended in November 2006 to a sauna area with outdoor seating and restaurant after contemporary wellness needs.

Two tennis courts (hard court ) and a soccer field and a multi-function area located on the outskirts between Stockhausen and the village Reuschenbach.

In mid-August, always on a Friday night, VfL Waldbreitbach aligns the Malberg run. The mountain run covers a length of about 6 km with about 370 meters above sea level, with about 100 m must be run downhill. The start is the sewage treatment plant in the floodplain. The route leads to the part about the Westerwaldsteig and ends at the Malberg head at the ski lodge Malberg. Here, the West German Mountain Running Championships took place in 2003 and 2008.

At the convent of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross of Westerwaldsteig of Waldbreitbach to Bad Hönningen passes.

Regular events

• Every year on the Wednesday before Carnival Sunday the traditional Möhnen meeting in the parish hall will take place.
• On the third weekend in September is in Hausen, organized by the boys and girls club Hausen eV the fair instead.
• On the third Saturday, a small Christmas market, also held in December at the new village square by the club, instead.
• The third weekend in October is dedicated to the volunteer fire department. Saturday evening the traditional Firemen's Ball (currently under the motto Kölsche Owend ) is celebrated with regionally known live music and great raffle. Sunday is celebrated as the day of the fire department.

Personalities

• Musician and composer Klaus Lage spent several years living in Hausen.
• Born in Neuwied am Rhein, singer, composer and author Susanne Betancor grew among other things, in Hausen.