Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
The Rhein- Lahn-Kreis is a 1969 in the Rhineland-Palatinate region and administrative reform from the same resolution counties Loreley circle ( located in Sankt Goar ) and sub- Lahn district (based in Diez ) of newly formed district in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate. It is bordered to the west by the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in the district of Mayen -Koblenz and on the district- free city Koblenz, on the north by the Westerwald district, in the east and south by the Hessian counties Limburg -Weilburg and Rheingau- Taunus-Kreis and in south almost to the Mainz-Bingen district.
- 4.1 Kreistag
- 4.2 District
- 5.1 Road traffic
- 5.2 Rail Transport
Geography
The county comprises one hand, the landscape right of the Middle Rhine between the cities of Kaub and Lahnstein ( approximately river km 544-587 ) and on the other hand the foothills of the southern Westerwald, the north-western Taunus and the Western Hintertaunus where he. Approximately 530 m above sea NN reaches its greatest height (at the Roman fort Holzhausen an der Haide the horror head). The largest river is next to the Rhine, Lahn, which enters Coming of Limburg an der Lahn in the north-east of the district area, then flows through the district to the west and ends at Lahnstein and the Rhine. For the German territorial history major settlements in the district are the cities of Nassau and Katzenelenbogen.
History
The area of today's Rhein- Lahn -Kreis in the Middle Ages belonged largely to the sway of the Prüm Abbey and was fragmented before 1800 in many dominions.
Most areas were in 1806 part of the Duchy of Nassau. Excluded was initially the French managed Pays Réservé, which was essentially identical to the area of the county Katzenelenbogen. This area of Nassau was only after the Congress of Vienna.
Nassau was annexed in 1866 by Prussia and as the administrative district of Wiesbaden part of the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau. Prussia created in the Rhein -Lahn area with effect from 1 April 1886, the district Sankt Goar and the lower Lahn district based in Diez.
After the Second World War, both parties were in the French zone of occupation and were thus separated from the Hesse - Nassau administrative structures. They were slammed as part of the district of the newly formed Montabaur the state of Rhineland -Palatinate. In 1968, she was assigned to the Region of Koblenz. The district Sankt Goar in 1962 renamed Loreley circle and combined at the district reform in 1969 together with the lower Lahn circle to the new Rhein - Lahn-Kreis; County seat was in Bad Ems.
In 1974, the county, the municipality Arzbach was annexed from the former Unterwesterwald circle, however, had been already assigned to the municipality Bad Ems two years earlier.
Coat of arms
Description
Diagonally divided blue and red, topped with a golden lion. (Coat of approval January 26, 1970 )
Importance
The colors blue and gold are the colors of Nassau, red is the color of the electorates Kurmainz and the Electorate of Trier, which formerly had interests in the district today. The lion stands for the numerous coats of arms lions in this area, including Nassau, Katzenelenbogen, Diez, Electoral Palatinate.
Policy
Council
The district council election on 7 June 2009 yielded the following result:
District
Since then, the former District Günter core ( SPD) moved to the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior as Secretary of State on February 1, 2014, the position of District Administrator is vacant. A new election takes place at the local elections on 25 May 2014. The official business currently leads the First Councillor Gisela Bertram.
Traffic
Road
License plate is EMS. Since July 8, 2013, again DIZ (former sub- Lahn district based in Diez ) and GOH (formerly Loreley circle located in Sankt Goar ) will be awarded.
The district area is served by several federal highways, state roads and county roads, including the right bank B 42, B 54 in Aartal of Diez to Wiesbaden, and also the B 260 from Lahnstein to Wiesbaden, the B274 von Holzhausen a d heath to Santa Goar and the B 417 from Nassau to Diez.
Between Eppenrod and Nentershausen ( Westerwald), just west of the junction Diez of the Federal Highway 3, this leads on the way from Frankfurt to Cologne by Northeast corner of the district, even if only for a few hundred meters, and serves as the port of the Rhein- Lahn- circle to the motorway network.
Railway
The Nassau Rhine and Lahn Railway Company, from 1861 Nassau State Railway, built the first railway line in the area of Upper Lahnstein in the Lahn valley upwards with considerable difficulty 1858 to Bad Ems, Nassau 1860 until 1862 and finally to Limburg. In the same year, the Wiesbaden down the Rhine leading track reached the station Oberlahnstein and 1864 Niederlahnstein.
Here she found in 1869 following the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Neuwied - on to Cologne. The crossing of the Rhine from Niederlahnstein to Koblenz and the circumvention of Oberlahnstein added until 1879 the Prussian State Railways added.
This company also took 1870 Aartalbahn Diez -inch house in operation, which was extended in 1894 to Bad Schwalbach. In 1888, the Diez Ost station was created by a relocation of the route between Limburg and seasons, on the rode the trains in the Westerwald to Westerburg and Montabaur.
In the years 1900 to 1903, the land between the Rhine and Lahn of the Nassau Klein Bahn AG was cut into three narrow gauge railways. Had the power of 77 km of its center in Nastaetten from where the state railway lines in Braubach, St. Goar and customs house were reached.
Few years, the small railway trains operated even from Braubach to Oberlahnstein. This - at that time independent - the city was connected from 1933 to 1956 by a line of Coblenzer tram AG Koblenz Niederlahnstein, which had been in 1902 connected to the tram network.
The comprehensive network of standard gauge railways with passenger in today's district area reached in 1894 with 110 km of its expansion; this came to 1903 yet the entire narrow gauge network of Nassauische small Bahn AG of 77 km. Here, there was already at the end of the First World War (1917-1920) to the first operational settings. Until 1952/53, still a rather modest narrow-gauge passenger was offered.
In contrast, remained the Federal Railroad network until at 13 km of the " Aartalbahn " and the 3 km long connecting track at Upper Lahnstein, in full operation. In addition to Deutsche Bahn AG since December 2004 also serves the Vectus transport company - especially in the Lahn Valley ( Lahn Valley Railway ) - the passenger.
The Rhein- Lahn-Kreis is a member of the transport association Rhein-Mosel (VRM ), the public transport fare zone covers a large part of the northern Rhineland- Palatinate.
Cities and Towns
(Population at 31 December 2012)
Association of Free municipalities / cities:
- Lahnstein, Large district town [Seat: Oberlahnstein ] ( 17,590 )
Association of communities with their member municipalities:
( The seat of the municipality *)
- 2 municipality Diez
- 3 municipality Hahnstätten
- 4 community association Katzenelenbogen
- 5 Association Loreley
- 6 municipality Nassau
- 7 Association Nastätten