Selters, Rhineland-Palatinate

Seltzer (Westerwald ) ( dialect: Seldersch ) is a town in the Westerwald district in Rhineland- Palatinate. Seltzer is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality, which it also belongs. In accordance with national planning, the city is recognized as a basic center.

  • 2.1 City rights
  • 2.2 Population development
  • 3.1 Catholic Church
  • 3.2 Evangelical Church
  • 3.3 Turkish Islamic community
  • 4.1 City Council
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Established businesses
  • 5.3 Formation
  • 5.4 Sport and Culture
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

The city lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Siegen.

Climate

The annual precipitation is 900 mm. Rainfall is high. They are located in the upper quarter of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 77% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is February, the most rainfall comes in December. In December, falling 1.4 times more precipitation than in February. Precipitation varies little and are evenly distributed throughout the year. At only 24% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

The place was first 1194/1198 mentioned as Saltres documented. 1888 here the Westerwald association was founded.

During the pogroms of November 1938, the synagogue of seltzer was burned down on November 9, 1938. In October 1939, seltzer was declared " free of Jews ". In addition to the Jewish cemetery on the watch still remember several memorial plaques, as at the former synagogue, to the history of Jews in seltzer.

City ​​rights

On 15 October 2000, the former town- seltzer were awarded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior and Sports city rights.

Population Development

The development of the population, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Religions

Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic parish of St. Boniface existed since the late 19th century until 31 December 2011. Seltzer Since then, belongs to the parish of St. Anne, Herschbach. 1892 was consecrated the first time a church that was built in neo-gothic style. In November 1965, this church was demolished due to disrepair and on the grounds of a new modern church was built. Below this church is the community center with meeting and function rooms. In the church a relic of St. Gabriel is preserved and revered of the Sorrowful Virgin. Since August 2009, the priest Michael Pauly and Marcus Fischer was pastor of St. Boniface, and seltzer are also after 1 January 2012 as the pastor of the new parish of St. Anna in charge of the Catholic Chaplaincy in seltzer. The municipality was part of the 2003-2011 Pastoral Area Herschbach - seltzer in the diocese of Limburg, which was dissolved with the establishment of the new parish of St. Anna.

Evangelical Church

The Protestant community in seltzer since 1842 has its own church. The side wings of this building until 1958 also the seltzer elementary school was housed; the rooms are now used by the city seltzer. By 2010, the city government here was housed, which has its headquarters in a new building since then in the Rhine road. 1850 received the evangelical community her first pastor. 1963 dedicated to a kindergarten and a community center. Chairman of the parish council is Elke Pollatz. The Protestant community in seltzer belongs to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau.

Turkish Islamic community

In the years 1988 to 1990, the Hammermühler way into seltzer the mosque of the Turkish-Islamic Community of seltzer. The building was extended from 2004 to 2006. It has a prayer room for men and a separate area for women. In building a large kitchen for parties, a community room, two classrooms, an office and the residence of the Imam are also accommodated. The mosque is the national umbrella organization DİTİB connected, which also sends the Imams after seltzer. Since 2013 Hüseyin Oğlakçı is the imam of seltzer community. Focus of the work of seltzer community particularly in the range of dialogue with churches, schools and kindergartens in the region.

Policy

City ​​council

The council seltzer (Westerwald ) consists of 20 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

Allocation of seats in the City Council:

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

  • The city is located west of State Road 8, leading from Limburg an der Lahn to Siegburg.
  • Seltzer is in close proximity to the federal highways 3 and 48 between Cologne, Frankfurt and Koblenz.
  • The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main
  • The next possibility of connection to the sub Westerwaldbahn Siershahn - Montabaur Limburg (Lahn ) is at about seven kilometers away from the nearest station Siershahn.
  • The distance to the train station Old Churches ( Westerwald ) is about 23km, to railway station Au (Sieg) on the railway line Aachen -Düren -Cologne- Siegburg/Bonn- Au (Sieg) - Betzdorf (Sieg) - Siegen ) for about 34km.
  • Seltzer is located on the railway line Wood Creek Valley Railway ( Siershahn - old churches (Westerwald ), on which, however, in 1984 the rail passenger transport ( regional rail ) has been set. However, since 2006, run back freight trains on the track, thus it is now back -end accessible and in good condition. Therefore, the association Brexbachtalbahn leads eV annual services which use historical rail buses on the wood Creek Switchback by. Zweckverband rail transport Rhineland -Palatinate North ( SPNV North ) is interested in a reactivation of the wood Creek Valley Railway for the public rail transport.

Established businesses

  • Contactor works

Education

The Upper Forest School is a secondary school plus which integrates primary and secondary school. It is currently attended by approximately 450 students. In the school year 2008/2009 the Upper Forest School has been converted into an all-day school.

Sport and Culture

In 2002 the Upper Forest Stadium on Upper Forest was built, which has a grass pitch. It is a stadium of type C and one of the most modern sporting venues of the Westerwald. The SG of the seltzer ( a lottery syndicate SpVgg Saynbachtal seltzer and TuS Maxsain ) oriented home games take place there. During the winter months, the games take place at the nearby Hard Court.

The metal label Bastardized Records was founded and is headquartered in seltzer still there.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902), 20th Governor of Illinois
  • Dominik Schwaderlapp (* 1967), auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Cologne
  • Dieter Stoodt (* 1927), professor of theology in Frankfurt
  • Roland Walter ( * 1934), German geologist and Rector of RWTH Aachen
  • Jost Nickel (1968-2009), System developer at the Philipps University in Marburg - German Linguistic Atlas
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