Mayen-Koblenz
The district of Mayen -Koblenz is a district in the northern center of the Rhineland- Palatinate. It is bordered to the west by the rural district of volcanic Eifel region and the district of Ahrweiler, in the north of the district of Neuwied, on the east by the Westerwald district, the district-free city Koblenz and the Rhine -Lahn -Kreis and the south by the Rhein- Hunsrück-Kreis and at the district Cochem- Zell. It has approximately 210,000 inhabitants the most populous county in Rhineland- Palatinate.
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Geography
The district of Mayen -Koblenz extends along the Rhine ( Middle Rhine ) and the Moselle ( Mosel sub ). He belongs mostly to the natural unit of the Central Rhine basin.
The main area of the circle lies on the left bank of the Rhine, but also some communities include northeast of Koblenz on the right bank of the Rhine to the circle area. Here are the foothills of the Westerwald. The left-bank area includes the May Field and Pellenz and the High Eifel with the High Eight on the northwestern county boundary.
Important rivers next to the Rhine and Moselle are the Nice ( Middle Rhine ), which opens at White tower in the Rhine and the Mosel which opens at the core into the Moselle Elzbach.
History
The area of present-day district of Mayen- Koblenz was before 1800 splintered into numerous dominions, of which the Elector of Trier and Cologne had the largest shares. Mayen was the seat of a kurtrierischen Office Rhens and Andernach belonged to the Electorate of Cologne. During the First French Republic and the Consulate under Napoleon, the area was part of the department of Rhin -et -Moselle, based in Koblenz. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it became part of Prussia in 1816 to the newly formed circles Mayen Koblenz- country Adenau (later high Eifelkreis ) and St.Goar within the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine ( 1822 Rhine Province ) distributed. 1932, the High Eifel district was dissolved and divided between the districts of Ahrweiler and Mayen. In 1946, the district area as part of the district of Koblenz on the state of Rhineland -Palatinate. In the district reform in 1969/70 the circle Mayen gave municipalities from the districts of Ahrweiler and down; the circle of Koblenz- country lost communities on the district- free city Koblenz and received the northern municipalities and communes of the Moselle St. Goar. The two circles were merged on November 7, 1970. Since Koblenz seat of the district administration, received the entire district from 12 June 1973, the license plate knockout. Before MY and KO was still allocated for the relevant circle. By resolution of the county council, the new mark MYK was introduced on February 12, 1979. The city of Koblenz retained the registration number KO, since it does not belong as a county-level city to the circle area. As part of the liberalization indicator again the license plate of the former county MY Mayen is since May 6, 2013, in addition to MYK, optional output throughout the district.
Policy
Council
The district council election on 7 June 2009 yielded the following result:
District administrators
Coat of arms
Blazon: "In green a silver wave beams, accompanied above by a golden leaf crown, down from a silver May- tree. " (Coat of Arms approval April 27, 1971 )
Coat Explanation: The crown refers to the king chair of Rhens, where once the Roman-German kings were elected. The wave bar symbolizes the Rhine and the Mosel, the May tree as a so-called " canting symbol " stands for the agriculture in the county.
The coat of arms symbols were also components of the former county coat of arms, district Koblenz ("In Green a studded with red and blue stones golden crown of leaves on a reduced silver wave rafters. " ) And the district of Mayen ( " Argent, a silver millstone with black grinding path in perspective, by the stone eye growing a rooted cutting fünfblättriger green May- tree. " )
Traffic
Rail
In Koblenz, then the capital of the Prussian Rhine Province, a major railway junction is created, its foundation laid the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. Your first line came in 1858 on the left bank of the Rhine from Cologne to here and was continued in the following year towards Bingen. Before 1902, the new Central Station was opened, used to the Rhine railway station further north on the right bank of the Moselle.
On the right bank of the Rhine in 1869 one could travel from Cologne to Neuwied Koblenz- Ehrenbreitstein after Niederlahnstein; Ehrenbreitstein went to 1899 a section of the Pfaffendorfer bridge to Koblenz Rhineland station. The Urmitzer railway bridge, enabled direct trains from Neuwied Koblenz, only in 1918 was passed by the Prussian state railway traffic.
It was she, the goal for the rest of network:
Since 1879 the railway from Koblenz wrong along the Moselle in Trier. Simultaneously, the crossing of the Rhine from Koblenz to Niederlahnstein and thus the direct connection to the right of the Rhine railway in Cologne -Wiesbaden and to the Lahn Railway to Limburg- casting was created.
The old district of Mayen received its first railway line Andernach - Niedermendig in 1878; it reached 1880 Mayen East and led from 1895 onwards in the direction of down - Gerolstein. Added to this was in 1904 still the cross connection Koblenz Mayen East with the diversion Polch - Munstermaifeld in 1916. On this stretch of railway between Ochtendung - Polch Mayen & Ochtendung - Polch - Munstermaifeld was set in 1989. In the same year the passenger has been set on the section of Koblenz- Bass Home Ochtendung. The section Ochtendung Mayen and the connection Polch - Munstermaifeld have now been completely dismantled.
The route opened in 1884 Engers - Siershahn roamed the district area only in the station Bendorf- Sayn, similar to the Brohltal railway with its 1901 -built narrow gauge railway. On these two routes of regular passenger rests as well as on the track Koblenz Mayen including turnoff to Munstermaifeld:
The 55 km of track; at least 134 km are still up and running.
The Coblenzer tram Company Ltd electrified from 1899, decorated in 1887 in the provincial capital horse tram lines and extended it to all the suburbs and to Vallendar, Bendorf- Sayn, Hatton of Hausen and Lahnstein.
Road
By the district lead the federal highways 61 Koblenz and Cologne, and 48 Elm Koblenz. In addition, several federal highways and county roads run through the county territory, including the B9 Koblenz- Bonn and the B 258
To be on tourism roads deserves the Moselschiefer Street called.
Around the Laacher lake are the Stations of the volcano park, which explains the volcanism of the Eifel didactic.
On the west of the Nürburgring touches the circle area in Herre Bach.
Castles
The county has a number of castles and palaces:
- Burg Eltz, perhaps the most famous German castle
- Castle Trutzeltz at the Burg Eltz
- Castle Bürresheim
- Genovevaburg in Mayen
- Upper Kobern Kobern with the Romanesque Matthiaskapelle
- Lower Kobern Kobern
- Castle Liebieg in Gondorf
- Castle Gondorf, headquarters of the von der Leyen
- Thurant at Alken (Mosel)
- Ehrenburg in Brodenbach
- Sayn Castle and Castle Sayn in Bendorf -Sayn
- Castle Bischofstein on the Moselle at castles
- Castle Wernerseck at Ochtendung
- Lion and Phillipsburg at Monreal
- Castle ruins Virneburg
- Castle Bassenheim in Bassenheim
- Namedy Castle in Andernach
- Town of Castle Andernach in Andernach
Churches and other cultural monuments
In the parish church of Bassenheim is the nationally significant Bassenheimer tab.
The legend of Genevieve of Brabant is linked to the individual standing in free field Mrs. Kirch.
A nationally important Catholic pilgrimage site is Schoenstatt in Vallendar.
One of the oldest churches in the Eifel ever is in Polch, it's the Early Romanesque Chapel of St. George. It is located off the historic buildings in the walled cemetery of Polch with ancient chestnut avenue. The first recorded documentation of a church in Polch comes from a document from the year 1052. A predecessor of the chapel is suspected in a Roman temple, an indication of this is a fall of the west pediment with the inscription Caio Åttio caro et eius suavissimae uxori amato patruo amatae avian filii.
Outstanding sacral architectural monument of the area is the Benedictine Abbey of Khajuraho, but which is already in the district of Ahrweiler. Numerous monuments are also within the urban area of the district-free city Koblenz.
The most important archaeological site of the circle is the Goloring from Celtic times.
In Munstermaifeld is one of the most important cultural monuments of Maifeld. The mighty towers of the Gothic abbey church of the former, existing at least since the beginning of the 10th century congregation of St. Martin and St. Severus project visible from far beyond the city Munstermaifeld. In its present form, originated from the 11th century in various stages of construction, the May Field Muenster shows architecturally interesting result in the development of architectural styles throughout the centuries of the Middle Ages.
The volcano park opens up the evidence of the volcanic past in the district of Mayen -Koblenz.
Cultural monuments with their own articles:
- Parish Church of St. Clement ( Mayen ), former collegiate church
Festivals
The annual Moselfest Winningen is considered the oldest wine festival in Germany
Already since 1405 takes place in Mayen annually in October of Lukas market, a fair and folk festival in downtown instead.
The Michel market in Andernach was first mentioned in 1407. On June 8, 1407 the Archbishop of Cologne, Frederick III granted. of Saarwerden the city until further notice this market.
Nature Reserves
In the district there are (as of November 2002), 26 nature reserves. Two other natural reserves belong mainly to the district of Ahrweiler, but also partly to the district of Mayen -Koblenz.
District of Mayen -Koblenz
- Nettetal
- Namedyer Werth with the Geysir Andernach
- Dr. Heinrich Menke Park in Arft
- Egret shot island in the Moselle at loams
- Hochsimmer in the districts Ettringen and Sankt Johann
- Small Bermel, a tertiary basalt cone near Bermel
- Ettringer Bell Mountain Bell Mountain Mayen and Kottenheimer Büden
- Island grass Werth in the Rhine
- Michel mountain near Ochtendung
- Nastberg in the district of calibration of the city of Andernach
- Clay pit Hüttwohl in Bendorf
- Junipers Raßberg and Heidbüchel near Arft
- Mount Carmel near Bassenheim
- Moselle between Dieblich and low fur
- Ausoniusstein in clays
- Hut pond in Bendorf -Sayn
- Sulzbusch near Ettringen
- Thürer meadows
- Hochstein at Ettringen, Bell and upper Mendig
- Korretsberg near Kruft
- Wetlands in the Nothbachtal at Gappenach and Rüber
- Goose neck, Shors Mountain, Castle Hill and Schmitz head at Bell, vineyards and upper Mendig
- Kuhstiebel ( former quartz gravel pit ) near Kobern
- Booser Maar
- Kurbüsch near Nickenich
- Hochbermel
District of Mayen -Koblenz and the district of Ahrweiler
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Association of Free municipalities / cities:
Association members of communities, classified according to their administrative affiliation ( municipality ):
( The seat of the municipal administration *)
- 2 municipality Mendig
- 3 municipality Pellenz ( Headquarters: Andernach )
- 4 community association Rhens
- 5 municipality Untermosel
- 6 Association of Vallendar
- 7 municipality Vordereifel ( Headquarters: Mayen )
- 8 municipality Weissenthurm