Altenkirchen

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Town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Altenkirchen within Altenkirchen district

(2019–24) Matthias Gibhardt^[1] (SPD)Area

• Total11.00 km² (4.25 sq mi)Elevation

230 m (750 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total6,564 • Density600/km² (1,500/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

57601–57610

Dialling codes02681Vehicle registrationAKWebsitewww.altenkirchen.de

Altenkirchen (German: [ˈaltn̩kɪʁçn̩] ^ⓘ) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, capital of the district of Altenkirchen. It is located approximately 40 km east of Bonn and 50 km north of Koblenz. Altenkirchen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld.

Population development

Year	Inhabitants
1787	112
1800	450
1830	990
1853	1,497
1861	1,700
1900	2,044
1933	3,333
1939	3,562
1950	4,189
1962	4,618
1984	4,553
1999	6,640
2014	6,162

Geography

Lahrer Herrlichkeit, a landscape region in the collective municipality of Flammersfeld

Notable people

Dirk Adorf (born 1969), race car driver
Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (born 1975), politician (SPD)
Dittmar Hahn (born 1943), former judge of the Federal Administrative Court
Claus Koch (born 1953), jazz musician
Ernst Lindemann (1894–1941), an officer of the Imperial Navy and later the Navy commander of the battleship Bismarck
Hermann Heinrich Traut (born 1866), librarian
Marie Gülich (born 1994), WNBA player.

Other personalities

The following figures are not native Altenkirchen people, but have worked or lived in the city:

Wilhelm Boden (1890–1961), former Prime Ministers of Rheinland-Pfalz
Ludwig Julius Budge (1811–1888), physician
Bernhard Grzimek (1909–1987), zoologist, cooperated in 1938 with the District Veterinary Office in Altenkirchen to combat bovine tuberculosis^[3]
François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796), French general
Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), composer
Hans Nüsslein (1910–1991), German tennis player, professional world champion in 1933, 1936, 1937
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818–1888), social reformer
Ewald Schnug sen. (1930–2013), Master Gardener, Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit, First Alderman of Altenkirchen, Gamekeeper's ring leader, County hunting master^[4]
Ewald Schnug (* 1954), agricultural researcher, professor, Honorary-President of the International Scientific Center for Fertilizers ^[5]

References

^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Altenkirchen, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
^ Diarium the Westerwald Gymnasium with reference to Rhein-Zeitung of 5 January 1985 (+ without attribution autobiography 1974 p.134)
^ Ewald Schnug, Traueranzeige In: rhein-zeitung.de, last visited 25. Oktober 2017.
^ "Staff--International Scientific Center of Fertilizers(CIEC)".