Norken

Norken ( dialect: Noorge ) is a municipality in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bad Marienberg (Westerwald ).

  • 4.1 Cultural Monuments
  • 4.2 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Education

Geography

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and victories. The municipality is situated between the Great and Little Nister Nister.

History

Norken 1262 was mentioned for the first time in a document.

The district Bretthausen was incorporated in 1813 at the time of the Nassau government.

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

Parish council

The local council in Norken 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. In the previous election period from 2004 to 2009 the council consisted of 16 members.

Coat of arms

Divided by Göpel section of gold, red and black; forward a growing, vertically standing, red knife with bent blade tip; behind a growing, blue reinforced, golden lion; below sechsspeichiges, silver wheel

The red knife, used until the Second World War Heep, provides the connection to Haubergwirtschaft of the place. The wheel symbolizes the car traffic on the trade route Cologne -Leipzig, for which the Norkener had to do preload services because of the strong pitch here in earlier times. Norken belonged in former times to the county of Sayn- ​​Hachenburg. The saynische lion refers to this affiliation.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

→ see the list of cultural monuments in Norken

A representative from Norken homestead was dismantled in the early 1980s and built as the entrance building again in the scenery Museum Westerwald.

Regular events

Events of the clubs and the community will be held in the village hall.

  • At Easter the Schibbelclub organized the traditional Eierschibbeln on Schibbelrain.
  • Mid-August is celebrated fair.

The 750 - year celebration, 2012, we already prepared today.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

In the immediate vicinity of the site the B 414, which runs from Hohenroth to Altenkirchen runs. The nearest motorway junctions are about 26 miles away in Siegen or Wilnsdorf on the A45 Dortmund- Hanau. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main.

Education

The elementary school and the kindergarten Norken Norken / Moerlen are under the auspices of the local church. Since the end of 2009, both belong to the educational institutions network of UNESCO. On 8 March 2010, the Friends of the educational institution Norken - Moerlen was founded eV.

Personalities

  • Manfred floor ( * 1932), with the Federal Cross of Merit and the golden badge of honor NABU excellent Naturschutzbund Germany Member, lives since 1995 in Norken.
Nister (river) Duchy of Nassau Municipal council Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hachenburg Community centre Montabaur station Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Fehl-Ritzhausen Hahn bei Marienberg Hardt, Westerwaldkreis Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate Kirburg Neunkhausen Nisterau Nistertal Stockhausen-Illfurth Unnau Integrated Authority File
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