Nisterau

Nisterau is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bad Marienberg (Westerwald ).

  • 5.1 Cultural Monuments
  • 5.2 Nature Reserve

Geographical location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and victories.

Nisterau is ( dialect: Baach and Poul ) of the districts stream and lake of fire. Furthermore, the living space Gotthardshof belongs to the municipality.

History

Poole was first mentioned in 1300, Bach 1416 handed down the first time in writing.

Today's church was Nisterau ( 391 inhabitants) is newly formed on 7 June 1969 the dissolved municipalities Bach ( 302 inhabitants) and slough.

The development of the population based on the present territory of the municipality Nisterau, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Religion

56% of Nisterauer are Protestant and 14.7 % Roman Catholic.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Nisterau 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.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: "In two silver blue wave beams in the sign, above a golden rotbewehrter and gezungter lion between golden shingles ".

Based on the colors and the lion can the former belonging to the Duchy of Nassau recognize. Moreover, the two waves respectively symbolize the "black " and the Little Nister, streams that form the natural boundary of the parish.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

→ see the list of cultural monuments in Nisterau

Nature reserve

Between Nisterau stream and Bad Marienberg is the former quarry Bacher Lay, now a nature reserve. By Bacher Lay the Black Nister flows.

Traffic

  • In the immediate vicinity of the site the B 414, which runs from Driedorf- Hohenroth after Hachenburg runs.
  • The nearest motorway junction is Haiger / Burbach on the A45 Dortmund - Hanau, about 20 kilometers away.
  • The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.
Municipal council Nister (river) Burbach, North Rhine-Westphalia Montabaur station Fehl-Ritzhausen Hahn bei Marienberg Hardt, Westerwaldkreis Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate Kirburg Neunkhausen Nistertal Stockhausen-Illfurth Unnau
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