Kempenich

Kempenich is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Brohltal, which has its administrative headquarters in Niederzissen. Kempenich is the largest town in the upper Brohltal and a nationally recognized resort.

• 2.1 Territorial accessory
• 2.2 parish Kempenich
• 2.3 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 Cultural Monuments
• 4.2 Noteworthy

Geography

The municipality is located in the eastern edge of the High Eifel.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the two districts Kempenich and angels. The district angels at the same time forms a local district.

The hamlet Kempenich includes the residential places Burg Kempenich (Villa ), Heidnerhof, Hommeshof, Cross Grove, Lärchenhof, Rottlandhöfe and Stefanshof; to the hamlet of angels, the living spaces Appentalerhof and Buchhof.

Climate

The annual rainfall is 808 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 65% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in July. Fall in July 1.4 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies only slightly and are distributed extremely evenly throughout the year. At only 4% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Kempenich was first documented in 1093. Richwin Kempenich is mentioned in the foundation charter of the abbey Laach as a witness.

Its history is closely connected with the history of the castle and lordship Kempenich Kempenich.

In the years 1661 and 1753, two fires have destroyed large parts of the town.

Territorial accessory

The rule and thus also the place Kempenich was pledged since 1581 by the Elector of Trier Johann VII to the Counts of Elz, 1777 Kempenich was incorporated under Clemens Wenceslaus in the Electorate of Trier and the Kurtrierische Office Kempenich formed, however, the administrative center was in Mayen.

In connection with the First Coalition War, the region came under French administration in 1794 and from 1798 to Kempenich came to Canton in the military district of Bonn, which belonged to the Rhine and Moselle department. Kempenich was the seat of a Mairie.

After the Rhineland came under the Treaties, the Congress of Vienna to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, was the mayor's seat Kempenich Kempenich in the 1816 newly created circle Adenau in the Region of Koblenz. At the mayor's Kempenich belonged the communities angels Hausten, Kempenich, Lederbach, Leimbach, Morswiesen, Spessart, Wabern and women. When the circuit Adenau was dissolved in 1932, the mayor came Kempenich ( 1927 Official Kempenich ) to the circle Mayen ( from 1939 Mayen ) and in the context of local government reform on November 7, 1970 the district of Ahrweiler. From the Office Kempenich the municipality Kempenich 1968 was temporarily created, which was also released November 7, 1970. The local church Kempenich was assigned to the newly formed association of municipalities Brohtal.

The formerly independent municipality angels was incorporated on 10 June 1979, then 117 inhabitants according Kempenich.

Parish Kempenich

The parish Kempenich is very old and was part of the country chapter in Ochtendung Kardener archdeacon in the diocese of Treves. Beginning of the 19th century, the parish except Kempenich the villages angels, Hanne Bach ( today part of the Spessart ), the Heulingshof at Hanne Bach, Hausten with Marswiese, Hohenleimbach, Lederbach, Spessart, Wabern and women. All parishioners places Hausten and Mars meadows except possessed chapels.

Today belong to the Catholic. Parish of St. Philip and James the branch communities angels, Hanne Bach, Heulingshof, Hohenleimbach, Lederbach and Spessart. Since 1 April 2004 the parish belongs to the then newly created Office of the Dean Brohltal Remagen in the diocese of Trier.

The evangelical Christians in Kempenich belonging to the existed since the mid-19th century protestant church Adenau.

Population Development

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

Policy

Parish council

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

Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:

The local district angels has a mayor, but no town council.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: "In gold a black-haired silver Bauer with red hat, red vest, red pants and black boots, with his left hand a black carts plow leader and swinging with the right one diagonally left black whip, accompanied on the top right of a spotted red rays sun ".

The right to a coat of arms was the local church from the district of Ahrweiler, issued on 31 March 1993 after a Council decision of local council was headed.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

In Kempenich are some Asked conservation cultural monuments:

• The Catholic parish church of St. Philip and James, with late Romanesque, four-storey west tower from the early 13th century, renewed in 1716 and 1923; the late Gothic nave, originally two naves, dates from the 15th century, extending from 1904 to 1906; in the church a Romanesque baptismal font made ​​of basalt lava from the first half of the 13th century, continues to be a grave stone from the 16th century; in the cemetery a number of grave crosses from the 18th century.
• The former rectory, a tuffgegliederter Basaltquaderbau, about 1900; the Baroque vicarage portal should come from the castle ( Market Street ).
• The former ringer house, a timber-frame building, partly solid, from 1848 ( Market Street ).
• The old people's home " Marienburg ", a three-storey neo-Baroque Mansarddachbau from the 1920s ( Beunstraße ).
• The former Catholic youth home, a Tuffquaderbau 1927 ( Goldbachstraße ).
• A Basaltquaderbau from the early 19th century; in the building a half-round tower, which probably derives from the medieval fortifications ( Oberdorfstraße ).

• The castle ruins Kempenich.
• The Bernharduskapelle with a timbered ceiling, is a relief of St. Bernhardus from Tuff 1606 ( on Castle Hill ).
• Several shrines and roadside crosses, partly from the 16th and 17th centuries.
• The Chapel of the Cross with a Way of the Cross from the 20th century.

• The Chapel of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, a hall building of 1767th
• One way chapel tufa blocks of 1857.

• Several ways crosses, partly from the 16th and 17th centuries.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Kempenich

Worth mentioning

• The angels railway station is the terminus Brohltalbahn since 1974.
• On angels station is the Geogarten angels.