Kasbach-Ohlenberg

Kasbach - Ohlenberg is a municipality in the district of Neuwied in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Linz am Rhein.

• 2.1 Kasbach
• 2.2 Ohlenberg
• 2.3 Erl

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Kasbach - Ohlenberg located right sides of the Middle Rhine, around 4.5 km south of the border with North Rhine -Westphalia about halfway between Cologne and Koblenz on the B 42 The municipality Kasbach - Ohlenbergs extends from the Rhine to the southwest ( the district Kasbach ) up to the Foothills of the Westerwald ( districts Ohlenberg and Erl ) in the northeast. It reaches to about 320 m above sea level. NN its highest point on the ground. Largely on the western boundary of the municipality runs the Rhine Creek Kasbach (also Käsbach ), the flows in the district Kasbach the Ohlenberger Bach.

Community structure

To Kasbach - Ohlenberg includes the following districts:

• Kasbach
• Ohlenberg
• Erl ( Obererl and Untererl )

Neighboring communities

Adjacent communities are drake the west and north, Linz am Rhein in the north and east, and Ockenfels, again Linz am Rhein and the Remagen lying on the opposite side of the Rhine in the south.

History

On the nearby mountains Hummelberg and Asberg ringwalls were found from the period before the Christian era. It is assumed that at this time already people located here.

The current flowing through the municipality Kasbach featured in the Middle Ages to the beginning of the boundary between the lying to the south and the Engersgau Auelgau in the north. From Gaugrenze later became the still existing border between the archdioceses of Trier and Cologne. Along this border Kasbach was divided until 1935 in the Office for associated Linz community " Obercasbach " ( district area: 174 ha ) and the Office for Unkel belonging to community " Niedercasbach " ( district area: 66 ha).

The community Kasbach - Ohlenberg was from the dissolved communities Kasbach (area: 240 ha) on 1 January 1976 and Ohlenberg (area: 238 ha) formed newly. The districts Niederkasbach, Oberkasbach and Ohlenberg remained.

Kasbach

The first mention Kasbachs took place in a barter agreement Prüm Abbey, from the year 882, a little later named " Casbach " in the land register of Prüm 893 In a document of the Archbishop of Cologne Hildolf from the year 1076 the donation of a halo is in " Casbach " mentioned.

It must have existed early on a chapel in Kasbach ( Linzer page ), because it is reported that it collapsed around 1633. Together consecrated by the Trier and Cologne Catholics belonging to a new chapel was built, and St. Michael. The present church was built in 1905 and Kasbacher is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene.

On 25 May 1987 Kasbach counted 644 inhabitants.

Ohlenberg

For a donation of the Countess Matilda of Sayn shows that she bequeathed her possessions, including Ohlenberg belonged to the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden in 1250. Since then Ohlenberg was secular to 1803 to the Electorate of Cologne, Archbishop of Trier was the ecclesiastical head. The first mention Ohlenbergs took place in 1262nd

The Reformation had aspirations of Cologne Archbishop Hermann V of Wied in the 1540s also affect the Electorate of Cologne city of Linz am Rhein and the parish. In the fierce clashes, the citizens of Ohlenberg and Ockenfels and part of the City Council of Linz on the innovations of the Reformation known. After the dismissal of the electors had to return to the old faith.

In Ohlenberg a chapel was probably built in the 13th century, which was dedicated to Saint Nicholas. In the taxa generalis, a kind of inventory of the Archbishopric of Trier, a chapel was named in 1380. In 1903 the new building in the Romanesque Revival style was. From the old church a part of the choir dating from the 13th century and the tower from the 17th century are preserved. On 6 December 2009, the church received four bells in the bell foundry of the Abbey Khajuraho in tones b1, d2, f2 and g2 ( Salve -Regina - subject); the two smaller bells were cast on October 10, 2009 in Erl in the open field. Apart from modern aids to melt the bronze of the bells was cast in the traditional clay mold process.

Also located in the church of the first bell, which was cast in the workshop of the future " Bochum Association for cast-steel " in 1852. Again she was decommissioned, refurbished and got a place of honor in the church. On special occasions, they can be struck by rope. Your strike note is g2.

On 25 May 1987 Ohlenberg counted 618 inhabitants.

Erl

Erl was first mentioned in the year 1257. Gerhard von Rennenberg gave in 1270 he founded the beginning of the 13th century monastery of St. Catherine of its properties in Erl, as " eyn deliciously hoiff " means. On May 25, 1987, the municipality Untererl part 24, part of the municipality Obererl counted 46 inhabitants.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Kasbach - Ohlenberg 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:

Coat of arms

The Coat of Arms description is: The coat of arms is divided and shown above, cleaved by a pile shaft, front and rear, a black, a red cross bar; the pile shaft is flanked at the foot of two Sechsecksäulen; the lower half of the shield shows in red in front a golden grape, behind a golden ear.

Explanation: The pile shaft points to the Kasbach and its function as a border river between the Archbishopric of Cologne ( black bars cross) and archbishopric of Trier ( red beams cross) down. The Sechsecksäulen symbolize the basalt quarries in the community and point to their economic importance. The grape and the ear indicate the main sources of income in the earlier centuries. The red base indicates the closeness of the community with the city of Linz am Rhein.