Wimbach

Wimbach is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Adenau.

Geography

Wimbach is located in the High Eifel, two and a half miles southwest of the city Adenau and a mile west of the Nürburgring. The place has the form of settlement of a village road that extends in a northeasterly direction on a steeply sloping terrain. The residential development includes altitudes between 350 m above sea level. Sea level and 450 m above sea level. NN. West of the town rises the namesake for the local church Wimbach, which drains to the Adenauer the stream. A large part of its territory lies in the state forest Adenau. To Wimbach part of living space in the throws. The village is crossed by any major thoroughfare, the western and eastern federal highways 257 and 258 are accessible via the county roads 18 and 19.

Neighboring municipalities are Honerath and Adenau in the north, Herschbroich in the West, Quiddelbach in the southeast and Kotte Born in the southwest.

History

Wimbach was first documented in a charter of Count Gerhard of Are on May 25, 1216., Where money and in kind for the Foundation of Count Ulrich are listed on the Adenauer church.

After being tracked at the beginning of the 19th century near Wimbach iron ore, mine was set up, which began operating in 1829. Only a few years later, the promotion was set back in 1837.

1863, the upper part of the town was devastated by fire. A first chapel is already evidence for 1650. The 1826 first mentioned school was enlarged in 1913. In 1964 the new school -based special education was established by resolution of the village schools.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Wimbach 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.

Coat of arms

The hammer and flail in black lace stand for the former lead mines of Wimbach. The red deer antlers indicate the earlier patronage of St. Hubert. On the coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Cologne, to whose territory Wimbach belonged since 1276, remembers the " Hubertus Cross" in black on a silver shield in the form of a floating bar cross.

Cultural monuments

In Wimbach are some Asked conservation cultural monuments.

• Catholic branch church of St. Hubertus, a neo-baroque hall construction, built from 1923 to 1926. In the church, a wooden statue of the Holy hunters from around in 1650.
• Pefferschöffskapelle, a hall building from the year 1810.
• Former school, a plastered building, built in 1826 by Ferdinand fog, extension of broken stone from 1908 to 1910 ( main street).
• A half-timbered Streckhof from the 19th century ( plastered ) and a plastered building from 1836 (both main street).
• Several grave and path crosses from the 17th and 18th centuries (the main street ).
• Sweden Cross: At the Nürburgring, still lying on the municipal area, the so-called cross Sweden from the year 1638th

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wimbach