Kroppach

Kroppach is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. The agriculturally structured residential community belongs to the municipality Hachenburg and is a nationally recognized tourist.

Geography

The municipality is located 319 m high between Hachenburg and old churches and is referred to as the gateway to nature and landscape protection area Kroppacher Switzerland. In the north-east of the town: Heimborn, in the east Heuzert, in the southeast Marzhausen, southwest and west Ingelbach Giesenhausen. To Kroppach and the living space house belongs flour.

History

For the first time Kroppach mentioned in documents in 1199. Kroppach has long been the seat of a decade of court and had his own court seal. 1661 a so-called parish winter school was established, was eventually taught at the 1731 throughout the year.

Kroppach belonged to the late 18th century country wonderfully to the county of Sayn- ​​Hachenburg. 1799 was the county on the Erbweg to the princes of Nassau- Weilburg. In connection with the formation of the Confederation of the Rhine was the region and thus Kroppach 1806 at the newly built Duchy of Nassau. Under the management of Nassau Kroppach was assigned to the Office Hachenburg. After the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau, the place came in 1866 to the Kingdom of Prussia and was from 1868 to the province of Hesse -Nassau and Oberwesterwald circle. Since 1946 Kroppach is part of Rhineland- Palatinate.

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

Parish council

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

Culture and sights

The Kroppacher Switzerland

Kroppach is surrounded by the 1969 designated protected landscape Nistertal, which is commonly referred to as Kroppacher Switzerland. The Kroppacher Switzerland is crossed by numerous marked hiking trails along the barrel of the Great Nister. The most famous are the Westerwaldsteig, St. Mary's trail, an ancient pilgrimage route, which connects the Cistercian monastery Marienstatt with the Franciscan monastery Marienthal and the Nature Trail End of the World in stone Wingert.

The Church

For a listed Protestant church the early 12th century is assumed as emergence period, maybe it's even older. The choir and the south aisle are from the 13th century, the north aisle is younger. The west tower was built in 1835 after the old tower had been destroyed by lightning. Only in 1950 were discovered under the in the choir hidden under the plaster frescoes from the 16th century, some of which show figural representations, have partly ornamental character. The pulpit is a work of the 17th century. The cast-iron grave slab of Bertram of Haldinckhausen ( 1576 ) is considered a major work of Siegerländer iron foundry; similar board, only with altered inscription located in the monastery Marienstatt and in remote village in the winning country. Also worth mentioning is the stone baptismal font on the Eifel basalt lava from the Romanesque period. It was formerly in front of the rectory and is now in the Landscape Museum Westerwald Hachenburg.

Additional points of interest

As a natural monument is considered the oak trees at the hunting lodge in the meadow valley between Kroppach and Marzhausen; here was Altkroppach ( deserted village ), on which also the hall named " The old Kroppach " points. At this point, was the older settlement site Kroppachs; the abandonment of the settlement may be connected with the building of the chapel and later parish church Kroppach.

The stone pillar which stands 100 meters south of the main road 414 already in the forest in the district Mudenbach is likely to have been a territorial pillar, a landmark or a distance measuring stone. He bears the year in 1595. Besides the column you can still see the tracks of the former Cologne - Leipzig unpaved road. It is protected as a cultural monument.

Traffic

South of the town, the B 414, which leads from the Old Churches by Hachenburg runs. The nearest motorway junctions are in Siegen, Herborn Wilnsdorf or on the A 45 (Dortmund - casting ). The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main. Breakpoint for Kroppach on the railway line Limburg- old churches is the Ingelbach station.