Dreikirchen
municipality of Germany
Dreikirchen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
Dreikirchen is a residential municipality with some industry. Since 1994, Dreikirchen has been a stronghold in the realm of village renewal. Many improvement measures have already been undertaken; some are in the planning stages, and others have been realized. The municipality lies in the southern Verbandsgemeinde of Wallmerod, a kind of collective municipality.
Amalgamations
Dreikirchen came into being through the amalgamation of the formerly autonomous Ortsgemeinden of Pütschbach and Oberhausen. In the course of administrative reform – namely the formation of the Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate – the two former communities’ councils came up with the new placename Dreikirchen. The grounds for this choice were the fortress church in the middle of Pütschbach, first mentioned in 1292, the chapel in Oberhausen and the parish church serving both places and newly built in 1957, in other words, the “three churches” (drei Kirchen in German).
municipality council
The council is made up of 16 council members who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 7 June 2009.
Coat of arms
The municipality's arms symbolize both former communities’ quintessential traditional features as well as Oberhausen's and Pütschbach's fusion into the new municipality of Dreikirchen in April 1969.
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