Pellenz

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The community association Pellenz is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the district of Mayen -Koblenz in Rhineland- Palatinate. The municipality consists of five separate congregations. The administrative headquarters are in the town of Andernach, although not himself belongs to the municipality. It got its name because of its location in the landscape Pellenz, from 1 October 1968 to 31 December 1991 was her name " collective municipality Andernach country".

Geography

The community association Pellenz together with the Association of Municipalities Vordereifel, Mendig and Brohltal the Volcanic Eifel region, one of three sub-regions in which the volcanic Eifel region is divided.

Association members of communities

(Population at 31 December 2012)

History

The history of the VG Pellenz is also part of the recent history of the landscape Pellenz that goes beyond today's community association and places like door and Mendig ( municipality Mendig ) Ochtendung and Polch ( municipality May Field ) includes.

Until 1794, the places except Miesenheim included ( with Andernach and Kell to the electorate and the Archbishopric of Cologne ( the Electorate of Cologne ) ) to the electorate and the Archbishopric of Trier ( the Electorate of Trier ). During the French occupation (1794-1815) the places Kretz, Kruft, Andernach and Saffig in a " Mairie " ( Samtgemeinde ) were combined, together with the 1815 founded in 1800, Andernach Mairie, renamed under Prussian rule in Landbürgermeisterei Andernach. Around the middle of the 19th century were added Namedy, calibration and Miesenheim, 1969 ( Namedy ) or were incorporated in 1970 in the city of Andernach, and the wooded community Nickenich. On November 3, 1858, at the time rural and urban mayor of Andernach decided by Mayor Ferdinand Josef Weygold, to be responsible only for the rural communities. This was the city of Andernach ( Stadtbürgermeisterei Andernach, Andernach office since 1927 ) separated administratively from the rural communities and received a new own mayor, Heinrich Bynz. The then Andernach country called local Association was thus launched, and consisted of the municipalities Eich, Kretz, Kruft, Miesenheim, Namedy, Nickenich, Andernach and Saffig at the time. From the mayor's Landbürgermeisterei Andernach Andernach - country since 1927 Official Andernach country that was valid until 31 December 1991. Since 1 January 1992 the name of this Local Government Association after their old ancestral name municipality Pellenz. Nine mayors have the municipality Pellenz and its predecessor Landbürgermeisterei Andernach, and Office Andernach - country previously projected, until the Second World War, it was after Ferdinand Josef Weygold the country mayor Heinrich Franz Kruft (1870-1880), Maximilian Franz Josef Adam (1880-1920 ) with the longest tenure of 40 years and Friedrich Gerhard Hasdenteufel ( 1920-1942 ). The administration building, Breite Straße 40 in Andernach, was built after 1870 and expanded several times during the air raids of World War II under Mayor Anton Krings ( 1942-1945 ) outsourced to Nickenich and 1948 by Michael Dede Bach ( 1945-1961) back into operation taken. Successor Erich Dahm (1961-1973), during whose term of office area the name of community association Andernach country erhnielt (1 October 1968), let grow further extensions, which served as mayor apartment. Today it is a pure Verwaltungbau, the town hall of the VG Pellenz. The administrative headquarters is to be laid in the coming years according to the resolution of 2012 after Andernach. After Paul -Werner Kohn (1973-2003), the de jure was the first mayor of the Association Pellenz, since 2003 Klaus Bell directs the ninth mayor today's VG Pellenz. Currently living around the 17,000 inhabitants in an area of 55.23 km ² ( 5,523 acres ) in it.

Population Development

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

Policy

Association of municipal

The association council Pellenz consists of 32 volunteer council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the federation council:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: " em, in 1: Argent, a continuous black bar cross, covered by two obliquely crossed red key, in 2: Green with a silver shaft helical beams in 3: Azure, eight-pointed, polished, gold star and 4: silver a red continuous beams cross. "

Coat Explanation: The coat of arms above the right ( 1) is the city's coat of Andernach, and is intended to indicate the administrative seat of the municipality Pellenz in Andernach with the former designation Andernach country, the silver shaft helical beams in green represents the Cute by the green, fertile corridors Pellenz flows, symbolizes the eight-pointed golden star in blue before 1969, a total of eight belonging to the municipality local authorities ( those were: Eich, Miesenheim and Namedy ) and the red bars silver Cross recalls the former national sovereignty in Pellenz (except in Miesenheim, with the Andernach belonged to the Electorate of Cologne ) by the electorate and the archbishopric of Trier ( Kurtrier ) until in 1794.

Community House

In 2011, originated in the town of Andernach the award-winning house of community, which is an extension of the regional school Pellenz to the auditorium and cafeteria at the same time. It was designed concrete cuboid whose entrance is paneled with wood, architects and engineers from the Office 05 raab Hafke long & monreal from Frankfurt am Main.