Unkel (Verbandsgemeinde)

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The community association Unkel is an administrative unit in the form of a local authority in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland -Palatinate. In her four communities are united to perform their administrative business. The head office is located in the eponymous city Unkel.

The municipality was established on October 1, 1968 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative and territorial reform of the territorially congruent and existing since 1816 mayoralty Unkel (since 1927 " Official Unkel ").

The municipality is located east of the Rhine, directly on the border with North Rhine -Westphalia. It extends from the shores of the Middle Rhine in the west to the foothills of the Westerwald in the East and has share of the Rhein-Westerwald Nature Park. In the north it is bounded by the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Bad Honnef, in the east and south by the Association of Municipalities Asbach and Linz am Rhein and in the west to the association free city Remagen. The municipality is traversed in a north-south direction from the federal highway 42 and the Right Rhine line, which run largely parallel to each other in the Rhine Valley.

Association members of communities

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Policy

Association of municipal

The association council consists of 28 elected volunteer members and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the elected council Association:

Coat of arms

The blazon is: "Under a silver shield head, in a green oblique wave beams, split of red and gold. Front two slanting golden keys with averted beards, bewinkelt of four silver hexagons; behind a red wine grape with two green leaves. "

The wave bar indicates the location on the Rhine. In the coat of arms of Rheinbreitbach a wave beam is also shown. The St. Peter's key and the hexagon stones are the arms of the city Unkel removed. In the coat of arms of the Peter Drake keys are also shown. The red symbolizes the grape vineyards in the municipality area, in particular the Unkeler red wine. In the coat of arms of Bruchhausen a bunch of grapes is also shown. Legally valid September 21, 1949.

Population Development

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