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	Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 12 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Cochem
Height :	110 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.07 km 2
Residents:	1245 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	77 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56818
Area code :	02671
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 049
Association administration address:	Ravenéstrasse 61 56812 Cochem
Website :	www.klotten.de
Local Mayor :	Holger Becker
Location of the local community Klotten in the district of Cochem-Zell

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Klotten (official spelling until December 6, 1935: Clotten ) is a municipality in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Cochem community .

geography

The wine village of Klotten is located on the Moselle and is surrounded by steep slate slopes. Vineyards are Coraidelstein Castle, Brauneberg and Rosenberg.

Klotten, aerial photo (2015)

history

The place is mentioned in a document as early as 698. The Polish queen Richeza , daughter of Count Palatine Ezzo and granddaughter of Emperor Otto II , probably stayed in Klotten with her three children from 1040 to 1049. In Klotten she had a chapel (Nikolauskirche) and a residential tower built, which was connected to a bridge to the chapel. After her death on March 21, 1063, she bequeathed all of her property to the Benedictine abbey of Brauweiler near Cologne. Your sarcophagus is now in Cologne Cathedral, to the left behind the high altar, the Shrine of the Three Kings.

The rule of Kurtrier ended with the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794/96 by French revolutionary troops . Until 1814, Klotten belonged to the Mairie Pommern in the canton of Cochem . In 1815 the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of Klotten, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 824 1835 1175 1871 1533 1905 1895 1939 1888

year Residents 1950 1929 1961 1838 1970 1879 1987 1581 2005 1421 2015 1233 2016 1221

ferry

Klottener ferry

In the 19th century a yaw ferry was set up for passenger traffic across the Moselle, which in 1906, equipped with a larger ship, could also cross wagons and cattle. After the river was regulated in 1967, the current was no longer sufficient for operation, which is why the municipality bought a ferry with a diesel engine.

Municipal council

The local council in Klotten consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	-	7th	9	16 seats
2014	-	7th	9	16 seats
2009	1	6th	9	16 seats
2004	2	5	9	16 seats

* FWG = Free Voting Group Klotten e. V.

Attractions

Coraidelstein Castle is located on a hilltop above Klotten . Nearby on the Moselle heights is the Klotten wildlife and leisure park . The side chapel on the Moselhöhenweg and the Dortebachtal nature reserve are well worth seeing .

Since 2002 there has been a relic of the Polish queen Richeza in the late Gothic parish church of St. Maximinus .

See also : List of cultural monuments in Klotten

Events

In 1970 under the direction of the ONS as "Eifel-Bergpreis Kaisersesch" later than NAVC -Veranstaltung was a hill climb on the K 25 to Wirfus discharged.

education

There was a primary school in Klotten, which 7 students attended in the 2016/2017 school year. On July 31, 2017, the school was closed due to the low number of students.

Personalities

• Richeza , (around 995-1063), Queen of Poland, lived from 1040 to 1049 in the village
• Huso (Ministeriale) (* end of the 10th century; † mid-11th century), Ministeriale and builder of the Chapel of St. Nicholas in Klotten
• Emecho I. von Clotten (* around 1190 in Klotten; † October 30, 1263 in Brauweiler), Benedictine monk and abbot of the Brauweiler Abbey
• Heinrich von Clotten (1302–1367), bailiff, nobleman and burgrave of Cochem and Klotten
• Johann von Clotten (knight) (* before 1325–1401), knight, archbishop bailiff and burgrave in Cochem
• Johann von Clotten (canon) (* around 1351–1383), canon and canon in Trier
• Anna Maria Kees (1622– after 1685), abbess of the Rosenthal monastery (Eifel)
• Ananias Clotten (* around 1630–1699), Capuchin, novice master and writer
• Jakob Kees (1635- around 1690), Cathedral Chapter in Wetzlar
• Heinrich Jodokus Wolff (1648–1714), Benedictine and prior of the Brauweiler Abbey
• Johann Nikolaus Maas (* around 1664; † around 1721), electoral bailiff and high court lay judge in Klotten
• Johann Josef Schunck (1849–1893), slate trader and wine wholesaler born in Klotten
• Philipp Loosen (1880–1962), Trier: Director of the employment office and mayor
• Alois Thomas (1896–1993), priest, theologian and diocese curator in the Diocese of Trier
• Else Harney (1919–1984), lived and worked as a ceramist and artisan at Coraidelstein Castle
• Wendelin Stahl (1922–2000), lived and worked as a ceramist and artisan at Coraidelstein Castle
• Alfons Friderichs (* 1938) banker, deacon and local researcher (Federal Cross of Merit and Rheintaler of the Rhineland Regional Association)

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  Coraidelstein Castle

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  Parish Church of St. Maximin

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  Side chapel

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  Plaque with the coats of arms of Klotten and the partner municipality Berlaimont

literature

• Alfons Friderichs: In the footsteps of the Polish king Richeza in Klotten. In: Encounter with Poland , Düsseldorf 1968, 9/12.
• Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles: Klotten and Coraidelstein Castle . In: Rheinische Kunststätten , No. 8, 1969, modified edition, No. 120, 1980.
• Alfons Friderichs: Klotten and its history. In: Series of publications from the local chronicles of the Trier Land , vol. 29, Briedel 1997.
• Alfons Friderichs: Register of coat of arms of the Cochem-Zell district , Darmstadt 2001, local community Klotten 50/1.
• Alfons Friderichs: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district , Trier 2004, “von Clotten” 71/76.
• Alfons Friderichs: Document book of the Cochem-Zell district , Trier 2008, Klotten 237/73.
• Alfons Friderichs: Ritter u. Noble families in the Cochem-Zell district , Plaidt 2016.
• Alfons Friderichs: Legends, legends and stories in the Cochem-Zell district , Weißenturm 2017.

Web links

Commons : Klotten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Klotten on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Cochem
• Website of the Klotten Tourism and Culture Association
• Literature about Klotten in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939; Page 267
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ klotten.de
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Hill climb starts with wildfire. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 8, 2015 ; accessed on July 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ VG Koblenz: Klotten primary school remains closed for the time being. Retrieved September 4, 2017 .