Rascal (mosel)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Traben-Trarbach
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.44 km 2
Residents:	838 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	31 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54538
Area code :	06532
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 005
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Am Markt 3 56841 Traben-Trarbach
Website :	www.gemeinde-bengel.de
Local Mayor :	Bruno Kihm ( SPD )
Location of the local community Bengel (Mosel) in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Springiersbach Abbey

Bengel is a municipality in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Traben-Trarbach community .

geography

The local community is located at the foot of the Eifel on the Alf near the Moselle valley , has about 900 inhabitants and is located in the Mittelmosel - Kondelwald holiday area . 77 percent of the district area is forested. The districts of Springiersbach and Neithof belong to Bengel.

history

In today's district of Springiersbach, the Springiersbach monastery was founded at the beginning of the 12th century . The name of the place Bengel was first mentioned in 1144 with the name Baingniul in a document, when King Konrad III. took the Springiersbach monastery under his protection and confirmed its rights and possessions. In the confirmation certificate of Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) from 1193, the place was named Bengel Bagnuel .

Bengel belonged to the Kröver Empire until the end of the 18th century .

With the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the place became French in 1794 and belonged to the Saar Department from 1798 to 1814 . In 1802 the church and monastery in Springiersbach were secularized. In order to save the church in Springiersbach, which was newly built in 1769, from demolition, Bishop Charles Mannay of Trier raised it to the parish church of Bengel.

As a result of the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhineland and with it the town of Bengel was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, the Trier administrative district was formed in the Lower Rhine province and in 1816 the Wittlich district. Bengel became the seat of a mayor's office , which also administered the communities of Hontheim , Kinderbeuern and Reil .

Since 1946 the community has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Bengel consists of twelve council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Culture and sights

The Springiersbach Monastery , founded in 1102 as an Augustinian monastery , has been a Carmelite convent with a Rococo church since 1922 in the Springiersbach district . Ceiling paintings and carvings can be viewed there. The monastery fell victim to a fire in 1940. Today it has been restored and restored.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Bengel

Economy and Infrastructure

• The federal highway 49 leads through Bengel . Federal motorway 1 runs to the west .
• The place has a train station on the Moselle route .

Personalities

• Franz Peter Adams (1800–1868), lawyer
• Heinrich Feiten (1835–1892), auxiliary bishop in Trier

Web links

Commons : urchin  - collection of images

• Brat
• Springiersbach
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Bengel in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 92 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Coblenz: Verlag Hölscher, 1860, document 532, p. 590 ff. ( Dilibri.de )
5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 908 ( Google Books )
6. ↑ Otto Beck: Description of the district of Trier , Volume 1, 1868, p. 153 ( Google Books )
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .