Wölmersen

Wölmersen is a municipality in the district of Old Churches ( Westerwald) in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Old churches.

Geographical location

Wölmersen lies in the Westerwald, near the national highway 8, about seven kilometers from the Old churches. Neighboring municipalities are Oberirsen with Northwest, Kettenhausen in the Southeast and in the Southwest Birnbach.

History

The foundation of the settlement is in the 8/9 Century thought. The earliest recorded mention Wölmersens dates from the year 1413, as an early version of the place name Wilmershuißen is occupied. The original settlement form can be compared to how they were created in the 9th century with the Won villages.

For the year 1620 are in Wölmersen 15 smokes (which are houses, farms or households ) mentioned, which should have corresponded to approximately 75 residents.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Wölmersen 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

Wölmersen leads since 2004 own coat of arms. The coat of arms shows the lion saynschen leopardierten of belonging to the ancient county of Sayn. The stripes indicate the old military road and the coal road and the Ilexzweig gives an indication of the nature reserve with the holly richly overgrown forest.

Economy and infrastructure

Locally, several small farms with a total of 40 jobs are available, most of which are from the New Missions and educational work life are provided.

Furthermore, an agricultural full-time operation as well as several part-time farmers are located in Wölmersen. The agricultural area has decreased in recent years. In the village there is a village hall and at the forest edge maintains the local church a sports and leisure facility.

On the outskirts there is a large recreation and conference center of the missionary and educational work New Life eV and the campus of the Theological Seminary Rhineland with its media, retreats, evangelism and diakonia.

Clubs and festivals

• Every year, the football club Wölmersen a sports week.
• The working group for local history and traditional customs eV gathers information about local history and culture.
• For Customs include putting up a maypole, the Oak Festival ( to be held by one of the village youth road and summer festival ), the Summer Festival of the New Life Centre and Martinszug and Martin fire.