Patersberg

Father Berg is a municipality in the Rhein- Lahn-Kreis in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Loreley, which has its headquarters in St. Goar. Father Berg is a nationally recognized resort.

Geography

The place is located above the Rhine valley east of Sankt Goar on an elongated ridge, closely bounded by the valleys of the forest and rabbits Bach. With its views to the Loreley and to the castles Katz, mouse Rhine rock ( " Dreiburgenblick " ) the place has for two centuries world-famous motifs middle of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley.

To Patersberg includes the residential places Forstbachtal and Hasenbachtal.

History

Patersberg is located on an old traffic route from the Celtic period, which leads from the Rhine by the Hasenbachtal to the height. The Romans fortified the old way to a " road " for larger shipments. Is mentioned in a document for the first time secured Patersberg as Padinsaberg in 1250 in a charter of Count Diether V of Katzenelenbogen and his brother Eberhard I of Katzenelenbogen in which they divide the serfs in an area, which also Patersberg lay among themselves. With St. Goar, Bornich and Offenthal the place belonged to the Counts of Isenburg, of which he was contracted to the daughter of Louis I of Isenburg - introduced Cleberg, Irmgard, as a dowry in 1284 in marriage to Diether V. son of William I of Katzenelenbogen. The name changed in the course of the century on a mountain path, Padisberg up to Patersberg. After the extinction of the Katzenelnbogen Counts bad with John IV son of Count Philip I of Katzenelenbogen in 1479, inherited Henry III. the rich, Landgrave of Hesse, their possession. Two Great Fire of 1546 and the Good Friday (30 March ) in 1584 destroyed the village almost completely, the latter also burned the church - except for the walls - down whose parts come from different eras (12th -14th centuries). The now fortified by a moat with a dense hedge and valley side by a wall place was to be entered only by the two guarded gates, Wassetor and Gloppertor, and was granted during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War ( 1618-1648 ) many residents of surrounding villages safe from wandering, pillaging soldiers. A deep, heavy village wells from 1556 to 1924, granted the inhabitants of fresh water. In the years 1632-1635, however, the plague called in the crowded place hundreds of victims. Patersberg remained preserved from destruction, numerous half-timbered houses from the period after 1584 still stand today.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Patersberg consists of eight 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

Blazon: "In gold and blue shield with a silver lion split between the front paws of a blue labels, is a left inverted, silver faucet. "