Puderbach (Verbandsgemeinde)

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The community association powder stream is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland -Palatinate. The municipality consists of 16 independent local churches, the council is based in the eponymous municipality powder stream.

Association members of communities

The community association powder stream comprises 16 local congregations, consisting of 39 villages with a population of almost 15,000.

(Population at 31 December 2012)

History

The municipality was formed on January 1, 1968 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate municipal reform of the territorially congruent and existing since 1937 formerly independent offices Puderbach and Niederwambach.

Until about 1940, the area had a purely agricultural character. Due to the low floor area prevailed before the smallholding. Through the establishment of industries and changes in agriculture began by 1945, a structural change, which did not come until today all the way to completion

Policy

Association of municipal

The association council powder stream consists of 28 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 blazon is: " red rimmed; cleaved by a silver tip is swept, in a green lime with black trunk; front in silver four oblique red bar, topped with a turned-over to the left blue peacock; back in red diagonally right behind the other three silver lozenges. "

The wiedsche crest with sloping beams and peacock refers to the previous affiliation of the community association area to the upper county Wied; Powder Bach was the seat of the High Veste ( here in the sense of Landgericht ) in the northern part of the county. The three diamonds, coat of arms Walpoden of the New Castle (but black on silver), remember that this built before 1329 in the parish Puderbach the castle rich stone and then called Lords of rich stone. The Linde Linde symbolizes the court of the High Veste, testified in their Weistum of in 1553. The coat of arms is quite valid since January 12, 1959, to a design by John Jacobi, Neuwied.

Municipal partnership

The community association Puderbach maintains since 1970 a local partnership with the French canton Barenton in Normandy.