Neunkhausen

Coat of arms

Neunkhausen

Location of Neunkhausen within Westerwaldkreis district

Coordinates: 50°42′26″N 7°54′10″E / 50.70722°N 7.90278°ECoordinates: 50°42′26″N 7°54′10″E / 50.70722°N 7.90278°E

Country

Bad Marienberg (Westerwald)

Government

• Mayor

Wolfgang Nieß

Area

• Total

7.86 km² (3.03 sq mi)

Population (2013-12-31)^[1]

• Total

1,102

• Density

140/km² (360/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

57520

02661

Website

Neunkhausen is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia. Neunkhausen belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Marienberg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

History

In 1215, Adelheit von Molsberg endowed the parish of Kirburg to found a monastery. On the spot, which is still called Zum Altenkloster (“At the Old Monastery”), a chapel brings the past to mind. It nowadays belongs to the Ortsgemeinde of Neunkhausen. For the monks living there then, the rough climate on the Neunkhäuser Plateau, as it was known, was too harsh. They moved to a spot on the river Nister where they built the Marienstatt Monastery.

In 1259, Neunkhausen had its first documentary mention. All statistics and information about Neunkhausen in the Middle Ages stem from the Marienstatt Monastery’s documents.

Politics

Community council

The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

Coat of arms

The community’s arms show not only its membership in the parish of Kirburg but also the lion of the County of Sayn. The chapel in the lower field symbolizes the old monastery as well as the St.Wendelinuskapelle. This chapel had its first documentary mention in 1447. It was found on what is today Neunkhausen’s fountain square and was endowed by the Counts of Sayn. It stood until 1822.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

South of the community runs Bundesstraße 414, leading from Driedorf-Hohenroth to Hachenburg. The nearest Autobahn interchange is Haiger/Burbach on the A 45 (Dortmund–Hanau), some 25 km away. The nearest InterCityExpress stop is the railway station at Montabaur on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line.

References

↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland mit Bevölkerung am 31. Dezember 2013". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2014.

External links

Neunkhausen (German)

Towns and municipalities in Westerwaldkreis

Ailertchen Alpenrod Alsbach Arnshöfen Astert Atzelgift Bad Marienberg Bannberscheid Bellingen Berod bei Wallmerod Berzhahn Bilkheim Boden Bölsberg Borod Brandscheid Breitenau Bretthausen Caan Daubach Deesen Dernbach Dreifelden Dreikirchen Dreisbach Ebernhahn Eitelborn Elbingen Ellenhausen Elsoff Enspel Ettinghausen Ewighausen Fehl-Ritzhausen Freilingen Freirachdorf Gackenbach Gehlert Gemünden Giesenhausen Girkenroth Girod Goddert Görgeshausen Großholbach Großseifen Guckheim Hachenburg Hahn am See Hahn bei Marienberg Halbs Hardt Hartenfels Härtlingen Hattert Heilberscheid Heiligenroth Heimborn Helferskirchen Hellenhahn-Schellenberg Hergenroth Herschbach, Selters Herschbach, Wallmerod Heuzert Hilgert Hillscheid Höchstenbach Hof Höhn Höhr-Grenzhausen Holler Homberg Horbach Hübingen Hüblingen Hundsangen Hundsdorf Irmtraut Kaden Kadenbach Kammerforst Kirburg Kölbingen Kroppach Krümmel Kuhnhöfen Kundert Langenbach bei Kirburg Langenhahn Lautzenbrücken Leuterod Liebenscheid Limbach Linden Lochum Luckenbach Mähren Marienrachdorf Maroth Marzhausen Maxsain Merkelbach Meudt Mogendorf Molsberg Montabaur Mörlen Mörsbach Moschheim Mudenbach Mündersbach Müschenbach Nauort Nentershausen Neuhäusel Neunkhausen Neunkirchen Neustadt Niederahr Niederelbert Niedererbach Niederroßbach Niedersayn Nister Nisterau Nister-Möhrendorf Nistertal Nomborn Nordhofen Norken Oberahr Oberelbert Obererbach Oberhaid Oberrod Oberroßbach Ötzingen Pottum Quirnbach Ransbach-Baumbach Rehe Rennerod Roßbach Rotenhain Rothenbach Rückeroth Ruppach-Goldhausen Salz Salzburg Schenkelberg Seck Selters Sessenbach Sessenhausen Siershahn Simmern Stahlhofen Stahlhofen am Wiesensee Staudt Stein-Neukirch Stein-Wingert Steinebach an der Wied Steinefrenz Steinen Stockhausen-Illfurth Stockum-Püschen Streithausen Unnau Untershausen Vielbach Wahlrod Waigandshain Waldmühlen Wallmerod Weidenhahn Welkenbach Welschneudorf Weltersburg Weroth Westerburg Westernohe Wied Willingen Willmenrod Winkelbach Winnen Wirges Wirscheid Wittgert Wölferlingen Zehnhausen bei Rennerod Zehnhausen bei Wallmerod

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