Neuwied (district)
The district of Neuwied is a district in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate. It is bordered to the west by the district of Ahrweiler, in the north by the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein- Sieg-Kreis and the district of Old Churches ( Westerwald), to the east by the Westerwald district and on the south by the district of Mayen -Koblenz.
Geography
The district of Neuwied extends along the Rhine in the east. The Rhine is about 40 km on the southwest border. The district has predominantly share of the Westerwald ( Rhein-Westerwald Nature Park ). Largest river beside the River Rhine is the Wied, which crosses the district area from north to south.
History
The area of present-day district of Neuwied was before 1803 mainly part of the electorates of Trier and Cologne as well as the county Wied. 1806 was the entire present-day district area to the Duchy of Nassau. After the Congress of Vienna, the area came in 1815 with the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1816 the district of Neuwied within the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine was formed ( from 1822 Rhine Province ) and part of the Region of Koblenz.
Under the Prussian administration of the county was divided into mayors. 1817 included the district of Neuwied, the mayors Altenwied, Anhausen, Asbach, Dierdorf, Heddesdorf, New Castle, New Town, Neuwied, Niederwambach and powder stream. The circle also formed in 1816 in Linz in 1822 and dissolved the mayors people village, Linz and Unkel incorporated into the circle Neuwied. At the same time the mayor Passengers from the circle Koblenz was assigned to the district of Neuwied. The mayor Altenwied 1823 dissolved and divided communities on the mayors Asbach and Neustadt. The mayors were renamed in 1927 in offices and existed until 1968. Them from the federation communities arose.
The term " district Neuwied " was amended in 1935 " Rhein- Wied - circle" and in 1938 " the district of Neuwied ." In 1946 the district of Neuwied was part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded, colloquially even today, the term " district Neuwied " commonly in use. Throughout its history, the territorial status of the district was hardly changed.
Coat of arms
The Coat of Arms description is: " Argent, a golden tip is swept, in a rechtshin border blue peacock with tail drooping; Up front a continuous black, the back one continuous red cross ".
The coat of arms three figures refer to the three until 1803 or 1806 in the district existing territorial rule: the peacock is the county Wied, the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne and the Red Cross for the Electorate of Trier.
The peacock is a rare symbol in heraldry. The coat of arms was designed in 1925 by the Neuwieder painter and graphic artist Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff and approved by the competent Prussian Ministry of State on July 14, 1927. It is therefore one of the oldest county coat of arms of Germany. The Prussian counties were - like the country mayors ( 1927 Institutes) and rural communities - to the period after the First World War not as a " coat of arms capable of ". Only in the Weimar Republic govern different enactments of the Prussian Minister of the Interior 1927-1932 the basics of the coat of arms being of the counties.
Policy
Council
The council of the district of Neuwied consists of 50 elected volunteer council members and the district administration as chairman. The district council elections on 7 June 2009 led to the following distribution of seats:
Due to the peculiarities of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system at the local elections (personalized proportional representation ), the percentage shown in the graph are voting shares as a " weighted results " reported, which may reflect the voting behavior only arithmetically.
District
- District since 1993 Rainer Kaul (SPD ), in the last election held on 7 June 2009, he received 62.17 % of votes cast.
- The aldermen are Achim Hallerbach (CDU ), Udo Franz ( FWG ) and Hans -Werner Neitzert (FDP).
Landtag and the Bundestag
- The district of Neuwied is divided into the Landtag constituencies Linz am Rhein / Rengsdorf ( Constituency 3) and Neuwied ( Constituency 4). The directly elected at the 2011 state election in the constituency Members of Parliament were 3 cubits Demuth (CDU) and in constituency 4 Fredi Winter ( SPD). About the country list ( list position 17 ) received from the district of Neuwied Elisabeth Bröskamp ( GREEN ) a seat in the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag.
- Together with the district of old churches in the district of Neuwied is part of the parliamentary constituency of Neuwied. In the 2009 federal election Erwin Rüddel was directly elected. Outsmart courts were elected from the constituency Sabine Bätzing - Lichtenthäler (SPD ) and Elke Hoff ( FDP).
Municipal partnership
The district of Neuwied maintains with the county Namyslów in the Opole Voivodeship since 2000, a local partnership.
Traffic
On the right bank of the Rhine runs along since 1869, the Cologne- Neuwied Koblenz Vallendar the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. The direct line - Neuwied Koblenz was commissioned by the Prussian state railways in 1918 into operation. The following year, the Rhine crossing at Remagen was completed. In the Westerwald led up branch lines since 1884 by Engers on Siershahn Dierdorf after Old churches and since 1912 by Linz Neustadt (Wied ) to Flammersfeld. The northern tip of the circle around Asbach and Buchholz received in 1892 by the Brölthaler Eisenbahn AG, a narrow gauge connection to Hennef. In addition, there was pure freight railways in Neuwied and Bad Hönningen.
The passenger was set at distances of 59 km in length. There remained only the right bank main line with a branch (45 km). The transport in the county town of Neuwied and its suburbs served from 1901, a 20 km long electric tramway system, the operation of the circuit on its own. It was 1949/1950, later converted to Obusverkehr on bus lines.
Through the circle area, the Federal Highway leads 3 (Frankfurt- Cologne). In addition, several federal highways, country roads and district roads run through the county territory, including the B 42 ( Koblenz- Bonn), the B 256 and B 413
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Association of Free municipalities / cities:
- Neuwied, Large district town ( 64 102 )
Association of communities with their member municipalities:
( The seat of the municipality *)
- 2 municipality Bad Hönningen
- 3 Association Dierdorf
- 4 municipality of Linz am Rhein
- 5 municipality Puderbach
- 6 municipality Rengsdorf
- 7 municipality Unkel
- 8 municipality Waldbreitbach