Wormeldingen
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 Luxembourg
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| Coordinates : | 49 ° 37 ' N , 6 ° 24' E |
| Canton : | Grevenmacher |
| Residents : | 2921 (January 1, 2019) |
| Area : | 17.3 km² |
| Population density : | 169.3 inhabitants / km² |
| Municipality number: | 1108 |
| Website: | www.wormeldange.lu |
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| Mayor: | Max Hengel |
| Elective system : | Majority vote |
Wormeldingen ( Luxembourgish Wormer or Wuermeldeng , French Wormeldange ) is a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and belongs to the canton of Grevenmacher . It lies on the Moselle and is connected to the German town of Wincheringen on the opposite bank by a road bridge.
Community structure
The municipality of Wormeldingen consists of the following localities:
- Ahn
- Thriorn
- Ehnen
- Power
- Oberwormeldingen
- Wormeldingen
The following settlements and farms ( Lieu-dit ) also belong to the municipality:
- Deisermühle
- Cape field
- Lehbusch
The municipality is a member of the following municipal associations: BILLEK, SIAEG, SICEC, SIDERE, SIDEST, SIGI, SIGRE and SYVICOL.
history
The history of the municipality of Wormeldingen begins with the Lenningen farm . The Trier cathedral chapter was the landlord of the court . The villages of Beyren, Ehnen, Gostingen, Greiweldingen, Kanach, Lenningen and several bailiffs in Wormeldingen belonged to the Lenningen farm. Administration and jurisdiction were in the hands of a mayor and eleven lay judges. For many years, the Wellenstein family, based in Ehnen, was the mayor. The family itself had its origins in Bech-Kleinmacher. Engelbert Wellenstein is probably the builder of the so-called Wellenstein House in Ehnen. He was also the high court lay judge of the Grevenmacher district judge. His son Johann Wilhelm Wellenstein (* 1661; † January 5, 1736 in Ehnen) was mayor of the Trier cathedral chapter for the courts of Lenningen and Wawern . He was married to Margaretha de Loen. There is evidence of a lay judge of the Lenningen court from May 23, 1485, a tribute, a renewal of the wisdom, as well as a determination of the weights and measures on July 5, 1663. At that time, a Peter Greiffeldingen from Ehenen (= Ehnen) was mayor. According to Jahrgeding from 1751, the Lenningen farm included several villages with their “Gehöber”, namely: Kanach 66; Beuren (Beyren) 17; Gostingen 37; Greiweldingen 38; Lenningen 31; from today's municipality of Wormeldingen, but at that time belonging to Hof Lenningen, Ehnen 85 and Wormeldingen 6.
Ahn
Ahn (in Luxembourgish On ) is mentioned for the first time in a will in 1245; according to this, Alexander, Herr von Zolver, and his wife Hedwig bequeath 500 pounds to the Differdange monastery . This will also mentions his court, Ahn curias de ana .
The later landlords of Hof Ahn were each half the lords of Wincheringen and half of Reck-Schmidtburg. The landlords each had a Meier and three appointed lay judges in the court, who exercised the basic and bailiff's court, while the high court was subordinate to the district judge von Grevenmacher, the latter on behalf of the sovereign.
Ahn's lay judges had existed since October 17, 1626.
Ehnen
Before the Thirty Years' War there were 52 households in Ehnen, in 1656 only 20. These were the mayor (escoultet) Valentin Streng. Apart from a cooper and a miller (whose mill belonged to the Trier cathedral chapter) and a shepherd, the residents of Ehnen were mainly winegrowers.
The village of Ehnen had 72½ acres of vineyards in 1656 and came first after Grevenmacher. The latter had 125 acres. Remich had 57, Wormeldingen 34, Bech-Kleinmacher 33¼. In Ehnen, two vineyard owners had 10 acres each; 1 had 9 acres; 2 had 7 acres; 1 had 5½ acres; 1 had 5 acres; 2 each had 3 acres; 2 each had 2½ acres; 3 had 2 mornings and 2 had 1 morning.
Back then, in 1656, there was not much arable land in Ehnen. 10 von Ehnen households owned a total of 20½ acres, of which 7 acres were also considered non-tillable. The size of the parcels ranged from 1 to 5 acres.
Power
Baron Georgius von Zitzwitz declares on behalf of his wife, Eva von Metzenhausen, that Linster Castle was owned by vineyards on April 23, 1759 in "Machtumb". These vineyards were created at the castle's expense and were also tended by its people. They had an annual yield between 13 and 14 loads of wine, depending on the vintage.
Wormeldingen
Before the Thirty Years War, Wormeldingen had 66 households, in 1656 only 25. The heads of households in the village of Wormeldingen at that time were:
Bach Michel; Bach Theis; Dry peter; Fickerts Susanna, widow; Fickius Sonndagh; Friderichs Adam; Goestingen Matheis; Kirst Hans; Korff Ditz; Lermes Theis; Linden Welter; Miller's Michel; Paulus Jacob; Peiffer Theis; Pinel math; Pünnelle Peter; Schmidts Susanna, widow; Schmidts Theis; Steymetz Peter; Style Peter; Straw matheis; Thieles Claus, shepherd in the village; Welters Theis; Winckel Susanna, widow; Zumer.
In Wormeldingen, apart from Müller's Michel, Müller on his own mill (which was quite rare) and the village shepherd, who was poor anyway, not a single professionally active resident is mentioned. All other residents of the village, with the exception of the two poor widows, lived from agriculture or viticulture.
22 owners shared the share of 34 acres of wine country in Wormeldingen, and 18 households together owned 56 acres of land. Only 19 acres was real farmland. The 4 acres of Linden Theis and the 12 acres of Korff Dietz ("pour estre meschantes terres") were not cultivated.
The community forest, which was far from the village, consisted only of bushes.
wine growing
Wormeldingen is with 13 km of the Moselle bank stretch from Hüttermühle (Hettermillen) to Deyermühle (Deysermillen) and 360 hectares of vineyards, the municipality with the largest wine-growing area in the Grand Duchy.
A famous, if not the most famous, Luxembourg vineyard is Wormeldinger Koeppchen . From this hilltop with its small chapel you also have a wonderful view over the Moselle valley.
In addition to the large Cremant winery of the winegrowers' cooperatives in Wormeldingen, there are numerous private wineries in the community. The winemakers as a whole offer first-class quality wines that stand for the excellent reputation of Luxembourg's wines.
Ehnen is the seat of the Organization Professionelle des Viticulteurs Indépendants (OPVI), the association of private winegrowers in Luxembourg founded on July 30, 1966.
Regular events
- The Wäifest zu Ohn takes place on the first weekend in July and attracts thousands of wine lovers to the idyllic Moselle village. At this village festival, the local winemakers offer their wines for tasting and for sale. Artisans have their stands, and many music choirs also perform.
- Every year in August the wine happening takes place in Machtum . This festival takes place together with Nittel , which is on the opposite side of the Moselle (Germany). The festival begins in Machtum every year with the opening of an art exhibition. This takes place on Thursday. On Fridays, the local youth association "UJM" - Union des Jeunes Machtum organizes a festival with Luxembourgish bands and bands from the Greater Region, the Rock de Schleek . The actual wine festival then takes place on Sunday.
- The Riesling Open will be held in mid-September . At this festival, all winemakers from all over the community exhibit their wines for tasting and sale. The event extends over three days, from the coronation of the Riesling chins to shows, music entertainment in the wine cellars and the sale of local specialties. As with the Ohner Wäifest , thousands of wine lovers and gourmets come to the community.
literature
- Léift Wuermeldingen am Museldall 1969 . (Comité des Fêtes Wormeldange see l. Auspices du Syndicat d'Initiative) Imprimerie Erny Faber, Grevenmacher.
- Ehnen 1852–1952 ; (Société Chorale St.Cecile) Imprimerie Centrale Luxembourg.
- Fanfare Ehnen 75e anniversaire 1912–1987. Imprimerie Schomer-Turpel (Presentation et mise en page: Georges Reinert).
Individual evidence
- ↑ STATEC Luxembourg - Population par canton et commune 1821–2019 (French)
- ↑ Annuaire des communes: Wormeldange ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 31 kB), Syvicol
- ↑ (Source: ANL.A LVI, 1), published in The Luxembourg communities by Nic. Majerus 1955 and before that in Hardt, pp. 1–7.
