Alsdorf (Eifel)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 6 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	226 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.37 km 2
Residents:	462 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54668
Area code :	06568
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 002
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Manfred Heinen
Location of the local community Alsdorf in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

St. Peter (Alsdorf), west side

Alsdorf-Oberecken, J. Bertels 1597

Alsdorf is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel .

geography

Alsdorf lies on the edge of the South Eifel nature reserve . The community also includes the Niederweis train station and Oberecken residential areas .

history

Scattered finds from the Neolithic age suggest an early, undirected settlement of the area. Artifacts, including a well-preserved amphora, indicate a Roman settlement within the boundaries of today's town. In the middle of the 8th century (739/775) an inheritance in a place called "Alctresdorf" ( in loco cognominato Alctresdorf ) is bequeathed to Echternach Abbey .

As early as 1330, Alsdorf was mentioned in the Taxa generalis as the parish of the Archdiocese of Trier and was subsequently managed by various fiefs .

Until the end of the 18th century, Alsdorf belonged to the provost of Echternach in the Duchy of Luxembourg . In 1794, French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the region then belonged. Under French administration, the place belonged from 1795 to 1814 to the Arrondissement Bitburg in the department of forests . Around 1800 Alsdorf became the seat of a Mairie .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . The resulting from the French Mairie was the Prussian administration 1816 mayoralty Alsdorf the Bitburg in Trier assigned that from 1822 to the Rhine province belonged. In 1914 Alsdorf came to the mayor's office Wolsfeld, (from 1927 Wolsfeld office ), 1970 to the community of Irrel and 2014 to the community of Southern Eifel .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 180 1835 278 1871 306 1905 301 1939 392 1950 362 1961 355

year Residents 1970 378 1987 358 1997 383 2005 393 2011 438 2017 452

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a blue shield head, inside a four-arched bridge in silver, split by a curly red tip, covered with a silver linden leaf, on the right a red high cross, on the left a red finial."

Justification of the coat of arms: A cross in the form of the Fraubillenkreuz is shown in the right half of the coat of arms. In the left area of ​​the coat of arms the depiction of one of the two acroteries , each standing upright on the tip of the west and east gable, was placed on the parish church. The parish church rises on the highest point of the place. Their decorative ornamentation is widely visible in the Nimstal. The finial in Gothic tracery form with leaf or flower ornamentation, which is arranged in a cross shape around the vertical central axis, is based on natural motifs. A four-arched bridge spans the Nims in the head of the coat of arms , which is only indicated by a blue base color. The leaf of the winter linden tree shown in the coat of arms is supposed to stand for the relatively high proportion of this type of wood in the Alsdorf forest and for the partially protected linden tree avenues in the local area.

Buildings

• A quarry stone church from 1472 had a previous building that was already mentioned in the aforementioned Taxa generalis. The successor building was demolished in 1926, the preserved choir is now used as a cemetery chapel.
• Since 1904, the neo-Romanesque parish church of St. Peter on Hauptstrasse in the center of the village has served as a place of worship for the communities of Alsdorf, Niederweis and Kaschenbach.
• Hofgut Oberecken, a stately home from 1733

See also: List of cultural monuments in Alsdorf

Green spaces and recreation

• Alsdorf hiking route
• Alsdorf - Irrel - Devil's Gorge - Prümer Castle hiking trail

See also: List of natural monuments in Alsdorf

Regular events

• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

Economy and Infrastructure

Alsdorf is predominantly agricultural and has large farms.

traffic

railroad

The location of Alsdorf was affected by the standard-gauge, single-track railway line Erdorf-Irrel-Igel ( Nims-Sauertalbahn ) until 1988 . Alsdorf never had its own train station, but was served via the Niederweis train station located between the villages of Alsdorf and Niederweis . Passenger traffic on the northern section of the line, in the area of ​​which Alsdorf was also located, was discontinued in 1968, and freight traffic was discontinued exactly 20 years later, in 1988. The tracks were demolished in the following years.

The Niederweis train station, located on the Alsdorf district, had been sold to a private buyer a few years earlier. A stopping point requested by the local community of Alsdorf at the then Deutsche Bundesbahn at the beginning of the 1950s was not realized.

Streets

The B 257 / E 29 (formerly E 42) runs above Alsdorf and forms the direct connection between Echternach (Lux.) And Bitburg . The connection to Alsdorf was changed at the end of 2008 as part of the construction project "bypassing the Wolsfeld location". A three-lane expansion of federal highway 257 with modified connections to the local community of Alsdorf is under construction by 2020 .

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (arr.): The art monuments of the Bitburg district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / I ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 21–22 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

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

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Alsdorf (Eifel) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Local community Alsdorf at region-trier.de

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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 98 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Taxa generalis subsidiorum cleri Trevirensis. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 1, 2019 . 
5. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, individual results. Retrieved August 1, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. (PDF) Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
7. ↑ South Eifel Nature Park, hiking trail 71 Alsdorf. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Alsdorf - Irrel - Teufelschlucht - Prümer Castle hiking trail. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Christian Moeris: Bottlenecks on the B 257 in the southern Eifel are widened. In: Trierischer Volksfreund. February 25, 2016, accessed June 16, 2016 .