Heyroth

Heyroth Local community Üxheim Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 45 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 11 ″ E
Height :	483 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.24 km²
Residents :	100 (Dec. 31, 2008)
Population density :	45 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st February 1968
Postal code :	54579
Area code :	06595
Location of Heyroth in Rhineland-Palatinate

Chapel of St. Antonius in Heyroth

Heyroth with the hamlet of Heidehof is part of the local community Üxheim ( Vulkaneifel district ) in Rhineland-Palatinate with around 100 inhabitants.

location

The village is located in the Vulkaneifel near the border with North Rhine-Westphalia . Üxheim is about 6 kilometers northwest, Daun 11 km south and the city of Trier a good 60 km southwest. (Distance as the crow flies)

The place is set back on the spur between the valleys of the Ahr tributary Ahbach in the west, its right tributary Grünbach in the northeast and the Grünbach tributary Stillbach in the east. The center is located on grünbach- and quiet creek side slope at an altitude of about 475- 485 m above sea level. NHN . To the east of the small Stillbach valley cut, less than 300 meters away, at approximately the same height, stands the Heidehof on the opposite slope, while the highest houses on the western edge of the village are about 520 m above sea level. Reach NHN . Before falling again into the Ahbach valley, the terrain rises to a hilltop in the forest up to 549 m above sea level. NHN .

A good one and a half kilometers to the south and beyond the boundary of Oberehe-Stroheich, the Reinertsberg volcanic cone rises to 610 m above sea level. NHN , the top of which is designated as a natural monument .

history

The exact date of origin of the place is not known. The ending "-roth" is a clearing name and indicates a clearing as the origin. A document that names a chapel in a place "Roth", which is probably today's Heyroth, is dated to 1303.

Until the end of the 18th century, Heyroth belonged to the imperial rule of Kerpen , which was owned by the Dukes of Arenberg .

On February 1, 1968, the until then independent community Heyroth (with 98 inhabitants at the time) was incorporated into Üxheim.

traffic

Road traffic

The nearest motorway is the A1 with the exits no. 114 " Blankenheim " to the north and no. 118 " Gerolstein " in the south. After the completion of the gap on the A 1 in the Eifel, the motorway will run just a few hundred meters east of Heyroth and connect the village via the future junctions “ Adenau ” and “ Kelberg ”. The federal highway 410 runs a few kilometers south. There are occasional bus connections to the surrounding towns.

Rail transport

In Niederehe to the north , today also a district of Üxheim, there was a train station on the (upper) Ahr Valley Railway, which had been shut down for decades . In Jünkerath are and Gerolstein the nearest regional express rail stations and Bonn Hauptbahnhof , Hauptbahnhof Koblenz and Trier Central are train stations with IC / ICE connections.

Air traffic

The nearest airfields are the airfield Dahlem Binz and the airport Bitburg ; international airports are Cologne / Bonn Airport and Luxembourg Airport .

Economy and Infrastructure

Agriculture hardly plays a role today. There is practically no tourist infrastructure.

There is a community center, a playground, the volunteer fire brigade and other associations in the village . The Geo-path Hillesheim runs through the village as a marked hiking trail .

Architectural monuments

Are under monument protection :

the Catholic branch church St. Antonius in Vulkanweg 9, a three-axis hall building from 1745 and
a half-timbered house in Antoniusstraße 3 from 1659 with the associated farm building made of quarry stone as a complete system .

Web links

Commons : St. Antonius (Heyroth) - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b page Heyroth at www.uexheim.de
↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

^ LANIS Rhineland-Palatinate

↑ Historical data at www.heyroth-eifel.de

^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 501.

↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 199 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
↑ Heimatjahrbucharchiv Landkreis Vulkaneifel. Year 2010, p. 106.
↑ Geopark Vulkaneifel
↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Vulkaneifel district. Mainz 2020, p. 54 (PDF; 4.6 MB).

[homepage-1] Heyroth at www.uexheim.de

[DE-RP_LANDIS-Karte-2] Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

[3] LANIS Rhineland-Palatinate

[4] Historical data at www.heyroth-eifel.de

[5] Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 501.

[6] Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 199 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.

[7] Heimatjahrbucharchiv Landkreis Vulkaneifel. Year 2010, p. 106.

[8] Geopark Vulkaneifel

[9] General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Vulkaneifel district. Mainz 2020, p. 54 (PDF; 4.6 MB).