Melsbach
| Melsbach | ||
|---|---|---|
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  Melsbach | ||
Location of Melsbach within Neuwied district  | ||
| Coordinates: 50°29′27″N 07°28′42″E / 50.49083°N 7.47833°ECoordinates: 50°29′27″N 07°28′42″E / 50.49083°N 7.47833°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Neuwied | |
| Municipal assoc. | Rengsdorf | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Joachim Herzog (SPD) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 2.80 km2 (1.08 sq mi) | |
| Population (2012-12-31)[1] | ||
| • Total | 2,003 | |
| • Density | 720/km2 (1,900/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56581 | |
| Dialling codes | 02634 | |
| Vehicle registration | NR | |
| Website | www.gemeinde-melsbach.de | |
winding tower of Melsbach
Kreuzkirche (church-of-the-cross)
Melsbach is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Regional parts of Melsbach's surrounding belongs to the well-known air-spa of Rengsdorf.
Until the late 1960s in Melsbach a significant clay-mining was held. Today only a winding tower marks the place where the mines´ entrance has been.
Melsbach was a firm contract partner of the regionally famous pumice-mining corporation Kann-Werke until the late 1980s, when the pumice-fields ran out of containings.
A tourist attraction and popular panorama-motive are the ruins of the Kreuzkirche (church of the cross), situated at the southern entrance of the village.
Village history
- 500 BC: a bronze bucket from this time is found in the local area
- 1267: first documentary mentioning of the village: Graf Gottfried von Eppstein, the Younger, sells his estate
- 1278: Melsbach becomes the parish of Rengsdorf
- 1357: Melsbach becomes an important customer's facility
- 1399: first description of the church-of-the-cross as a place of pilgrimage
- 1692/1720: Melsbach receives its own school
- 1747: Melsbach enparts to the parish of Altwied
- 1789: lignite- and clayfields are found
- 1786–1880: Digging of alaun in the first alaun-mine of Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1850: At the Laubach creek blue schist is dug
- 1863: first kermis in Melsbach, first calling of the regional wine "Melsbacher Goldberg"
- 1865: year of the foundation of the Burschenverein Melsbach
- 1907: Foundation of the Auxiliary Fire Brigade
Sources
- Albert Hardt, Im Wiedischen Land, Rengsdorf 1989 – Geschichte der Orte in der Verbandsgemeinde Rengsdorf; therein: Melsbach und seine Geschichte, page 377 ff.
References
- ↑ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2012". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2013.
