Kurtscheid

Kurtscheid is a municipality in the district of Neuwied in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rengsdorf, which has its headquarters in the town of Rengsdorf.

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms

• 4.1 traffic

• 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

The place is situated in Rhein-Westerwald Nature Park north of Ehlscheid. The district of Kurtscheid reaches a height of 401 meters, thus Kurtscheid is the highest town in the district of Neuwied.

History

The first mention was made in 1314 as Curtsheit.

During the Reformation Kurtscheid was right on the border of the territories of the Count of Wied and the Elector of Cologne. 1556 The Count of Wied joined to the Protestant faith. While so also other nearby places of his dominion as a result of the Peace of Augsburg were Protestant, the Kurt Scheider moved their eleven houses situated on wiedischen territory north of the Electorate of Cologne page. From then remained Kurtscheid Catholic and the adjacent Ehlscheid was the next centuries a denominational boundary.

Population Development

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

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 16 councilors, as well as the honorary chairman and mayor.

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " Split of red and silver with a bent- green top; forward four oblique red bar; behind a continuous black bar cross; sometimes concealed down over golden Three mountain, from this, a six -pointed silver gear ".

The oblique bar from the arms of Wied and the cross of the Electorate of Cologne remember the centuries- long, lasting until 1803 division of the town into a Kurtscheid wiedischen and in an Electoral Cologne district. The three mountain symbolizes the location Kurt Scheids, the highest municipality in the district of Neuwied, and also points to the base word " distinguishable " of the name, as a watershed between several tributaries of Wied. The golden color symbolizes agriculture, the green of the major forests of the community. The silver gear is for the earlier silver and iron ore mines, but also for today's industry in the community.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

• East of the church runs the B 256 which runs from Neuwied to old churches.
• The nearest motorway junction is Neuwied on the A 3
• Nearest ICE train station is Montabaur at the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Werner Wittlich, (* 1946), MP, Member of Parliament ( Rhineland -Palatinate )