Rott, Rhineland-Palatinate
Rott is a municipality in the district of Old Churches in the Westerwald (Westerwald ) in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is calculated according to the area the largest municipality in the administrative area of the municipality Flammersfeld. Rott is a nationally recognized tourist.
Community structure
To the local community Rott also includes the hamlet of Kaffroth and residential places Old silver meadow, Belkertshof, courtyard views and remote station Peterslahr.
History
Rott belonged to the parish Flammersfeld in the county of Sayn and was first mentioned in the records of the parish court in 1478. After the division of the county of Sayn Rott belonged until 1799 to the County of Sayn- Hachenburg. Until 1806 it was under the reign of Nassau -Weilburg and until 1815 was he belonged to the Duchy of Nassau. At that time the place was called Roth. 1815, the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia, administratively belonged to the mayor's Rott Flammersfeld in 1816 the newly formed district of old churches.
Until 1856, the Rotter children went Flammersfeld to class. From 1894 to 1965, decreed Rott then their own village school. The reason for its construction was the overcrowding of the school in oak, where in the meantime the children were taught by Rott. The construction of the school without props and teaching aids then cost 11,000 marks. In the school year 1895/96 the number of children 44, including 27 boys and 17 girls was. All the children were housed until the closure of the school in a classroom, regardless of the vintage.
In the school chronicle is to be read in the history of the village, among other things, that the Municipal Council in 1923 decided to build a lighting system for the site. 1928 Rott was connected to the existing postal bus Neuwied - Horhausen that has been extended to Flammersfeld. 1984, over 100 years old quarry stone oven was saved from demolition, dismantled, restored and rebuilt in a specially built Backes again, which has since been used by the community.
On 7 November 1970, the districts Dasbach and rear valve from the municipality and the district Rott old churches were divided and assigned to the municipality Asbach (Westerwald ) in the district of Neuwied.
The development of the population of Rott based on the present-day municipality; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Parish council
The local council in Rott 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.
Cultural monuments
→ list of cultural monuments in Rott (Westerwald )