Kirchen
Churches ( victory ) is a city and recognized health resort in the southwestern part of the winning country in the district of Old churches in Rhineland -Palatinate, near the border with North Rhine -Westphalia. It is the administrative center of the municipality churches, which they also belong. Churches was raised on 6 November 2004 on the city and has been designated a regional center pursuant to zoning.
- 3.1 City Council
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
Geography
Geographical location
Churches located on the railway line Cologne - Siegen- casting, on the B 62 and close to the motorway A 45/Sauerlandlinie. It is served by local and regional bus lines.
Boroughs
Local districts of the city churches are Freusburg, Herkersdorf, Katzenbach, churches ( place ), Offhausen, Wehbach and Wingendorf. For churches also includes the hamlet of apples Bach.
Climate
The annual rainfall is 1115 mm. Rainfall is high. They are located in the upper quarter of the detected values in Germany. At 90 % of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is April, the most rainfall comes in December. In December, falling 1.6 times more precipitation than in April. Precipitation varies greatly. At 73% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.
History
On 7 June 1969, the municipalities Freusburg, Herkersdorf, Offhausen, Wingendorf and Katzenbach were, with the exception of the district Unterbüdenholz, which was incorporated by Brachbach, incorporated. On the same day the town Churches - Wehbach ( victory ) was renamed Churches ( victory ). The city rights were granted Churches ( victory ) on 6 November 2004.
The development of the population of Churches ( victory ) based on the current urban area; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
City council
The council Churches ( victory ) consists of 24 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.
Allocation of seats in the City Council:
Coat of arms
The present city of churches can be viewed as the legal successor of the former rule Freusburg and later saynischen Office Freusburg and derives its name from the most often mentioned name Kirch Freusburg from. Today's deanery churches still belongs to the diocese of Trier and is known as " Trierische island ".
Therefore, in the arms of the three old rule of Arms are combined: The Eberköpfe of Freusburg, the Lion of the county of Sayn and the red cross of the Archbishopric of Trier. The Kirchen (Sieg) performs the same coat of arms as the city of churches ( victory ), but surrounded by an additional golden board.
Culture and sights
The most famous natural attraction in churches is the druid stone, a basalt rock, which rises to about 450 m above sea level. The most famous building Kirchen is the tower called Otto lookout, which was opened on 28 August 2010. The Great Castle Castle is the landmark of the district of the same name and is now used as a youth hostel. By kirchener home club the local museum churches operated in the city.
Other attractions include the Wild castle archway Junker Thal near the Old Rentei, the Red Chapel and Freusburger mill, and the Villa Kraemer, the moated castle Schloss Crottorf and the Otto -Pfeiffer Museum.
At sacral buildings, the Baroque church Friesenhagen, the victor countries and the neo-Gothic cathedral St. Michael's Church are worth a visit with its historic Eggert organ.
For physical activity are a Nordic Walking Fitness Park and the Victory Bigge cycling route, in which a two-country tour can be, available.
See also: → List of cultural monuments in churches ( win)
Economy and infrastructure
In the district of Wingendorf Segelflugclub Betz village / church operates eV from the neighboring Katzwinkel Airfield Betz village churches.
Churches lies with the breakpoints Freusburg settlement and churches ( victory ) on the victory track. Previously, there were two stations on the Asdorftalbahn ( churches and Wehbach ), which since the 1980s ( of persons) or 1990s ( freight) is shut down, however, and is only available as a remnant low in Fischbach.
Personalities
- Jürgen Albert (* 1946), writer
- Jürgen Alzen (born 1962 ), automobile racing driver
- Uwe Alzen (born 1967 ), automobile racing driver
- Karl- Wilhelm Dahm ( born 1931 ), Protestant theologian and professor emeritus at the Westfälische Wilhelms -Universität Münster
- Titus Dittmann (* 1948), big business
- Verena Dreier ( born 1985 ), athlete
- Jürgen Ebach (* 1945), Protestant theologian and professor at the Ruhr- University Bochum
- Heinrich Kraemer (1842-1907), Mayor, Reichstag and Landtag
- Thomas Kraft (* 1988), football player
- Hilarion Petzold ( born 1944 ), psychologist and professor emeritus at the Free University of Amsterdam
- Ulrich splendor (* 1955), a medical officer of the Bundeswehr in the rank of general
- Joseph Rose Bauer ( born 1966 ), politician
- Barbara Rudnik (1958-2009), actress
- Heike Schäfer ( born 1964 ), pop singer
- Werner Schepp (* 1958), church musician and professor
- Hartmut Siebertz ( born 1951 ), physician and medical officer of the Armed Forces in the rank of general
- Ralph Szepanski (* 1967), newscaster and television editor
- Andreas Turkat (1961-2008), politician ( SPD)
- Bruno Wiefel (1924-2001), politician ( SPD)
- Paul Wingendorf (1914-1995), politician ( CDU)
- Ludwig Zöller ( b. 1953 ), geographer and professor at the University of Bayreuth