Melsbach
Melsbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate. The community belongs to the municipality Rengsdorf. Melsbach is a nationally recognized tourist destination.
- 4.1 Cultural Monuments
- 4.2 Natural Monuments
- 4.3 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Public bodies
Geographical location
The village lies on the edge of the Westerwald directly on a hill at the Neuwied Basin in the Rhein-Westerwald Nature Park southwest of Rengsdorf near Wied.
History
In 1956, the " Didier- Werke AG " a bronze bucket ( situlae ) was found on the grounds of the former Tonbergwerks, which is (600 to 300 BC) associated with the Hallstatt period and is now located in the museum district of Neuwied. This suggests that the area around present-day Melsbach was already inhabited during the Bronze Age. The first mention Melsbachs dated to the year 1267: Count Gottfried von Eppstein, the Younger, sold his family farm.
In 1278 Melsbach belonged to the parish Rengsdorf. 1357 Melsbach was a customs station. In the year 1399 the first mention of the Cross Church falls for pilgrimage. Between 1692 and 1720 a school was built in Melsbach. In 1747 Melsbach came to the parish Altwied. Around the year 1750 took place on Laubach in nine pits the extraction of blue roofing slate.
When the entrepreneur Heinrich Wilhelm Remy for his metallurgical and rolling mill " rattle stone " needed coal in Wiedtal at Neuwied, he left in 1780 when today's Melsbacher district cross church make holes, where you guessed black coal. However, it came between Tonlagern only useless lignite. The princely wiedische Forestry and Bergrat Engelhardt recognized but in 1786 the Tonlagern the base of alum, which led to the construction of the oldest Alaunwerks in the Rhineland in the hamlet of Cross Church. It was decommissioned in 1880 and demolished in 1882. Today is the sports ground of Melsbach On his former slag heap.
In 1863 the first Melsbacher funfair with the wine Melsbacher Goldberg took place. In 1865 founded the Burschenverein Melsbach and in 1907 the volunteer fire department Melsbach was launched.
Due to the upgrade of the Wehrmacht in the Third Reich, the steel production flourished again as of 1935. The associated increase in demand for clay for lining the furnaces made the clay deposits in Melsbach for the company " Dr. C. Otto & Comp. " ( Bendorf ) and" Didier- Werke AG " (Wiesbaden) interesting. The latter were 1938/39, a production well build up to a depth of about 86 m. After the interrupted during World War II promotion, the clay extraction of the Tonbergwerk "was recorded in 1948 and ran until the closure of a 1983. Dr. C. Otto & Comp. " Was still in operation until 1990.
The development of the population of Melsbach, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Melsbach consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Allocation of seats in the elected municipal council:
Local government reform in 1970
The community Melsbach belonged until 1970 to the municipality Niederbieber Blessing village, which was dissolved in the running with effect from November 8, 1970 local government reform in Rhineland- Palatinate. On the same date Melsbach was assigned to the municipality Rengsdorf.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms description reads: "Under green tortoiseshell, in a slanting shaft silver bars, silver on green Dreienberg a green oak ".
Explanation: The wave bar symbolizes the basic word " bach " of the place name, the three mountain the altitude of the area between Wied and Wallbachtal that his oak woods. The coat of arms is quite valid since August 31, 1966 after a design by A. chest, Kirn.
Culture and sights
Cultural monuments
- Holy Cross Church: Here preached in the 16th century Philipp Melanchthon at the request of the Archbishop of Cologne and church reformer Hermann V of Wied;
- Winding tower of the disused Tonbergwerks of Dr. C. Otto & Comp., Built in 1938 / 1939.
Natural Monuments
- Waterfall of Laubachs (see also: Waterfalls in Germany )
Regular events
On the second weekend in August is traditionally for more than 140 years, celebrated with the exception of the World War era, the funfair in Melsbach. The fair traditionally organized by the Burschenverein 1865 Melsbach. Currently, there are 25 boys and 17 Melsbach Maimädchen with a Maikönigspaar and a " Schuldes ".
Since 2006, the alignment of the fair in cooperation takes place with a club established for this purpose. The Fairground & Culture Society Melsbach eV has made it its mission to enrich the cultural life next to the funfair in place by other events. In 2011, the fair society disbanded again. Thus, the boys club is set back on his own since 2011.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
East of the municipality runs the federal highway 256 which leads from Neuwied to old churches (Westerwald ). The nearest motorway junction is Neuwied on the Autobahn 3 The nearest ICE train station is located in Montabaur on the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.
Public institutions
Since 1907, there is a volunteer fire department in the town.