Barweiler

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '  N , 6 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Ahrweiler
Association municipality :	Adenau
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.52 km 2
Residents:	381 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53534
Area code :	02691
License plate :	AW
Community key :	07 1 31 008
Association administration address:	Kirchstrasse 15 53518 Adenau
Website :	www.barweiler.de
Local Mayor :	Josef Thelen
Location of the local community of Barweiler in the Ahrweiler district

Barweiler, in the background the Nürburg

Pilgrimage Church of St. Gertrud

Barweiler is a municipality in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Adenau community .

geography

Barweiler is located five kilometers southwest of Adenau on federal highway 258 on an area sloping from east to west. The residential development of the village covers altitudes between 455  m above sea level. NHN and 495  m above sea level NHN . The state forest borders Adenau to the east . The municipality extends to the north and west into the valley of the Wirftbach , a right tributary of the Trierbach , where it is 325  m above sea level. NHN reaches its lowest point of the ground. The Barweilermühle and Kottenbornermühle residential areas belong to Barweiler.

history

Early historical finds

The first settlement of Barweiler probably took place around 500 BC. This is indicated by twenty barrows found in 1930 . During the construction of today's B 258 in 1937, the foundations of a Gallo-Roman temple were found, which was built around the 2nd century AD. The Roman origins were also confirmed in 1954 with the discovery of a Roman well and a burial ground with stone box graves from the 1st century AD.

origin of the name

The name Barweiler probably comes from baro , which translates as "sanctuary" and "sacrificial site". The reason for this name is probably the function as a pre-Christian place of worship. Previously, the origin was traced back to the old high German village baro , which roughly means "bare, bare, desolate".

middle Ages

The place was first mentioned in 855 in a deed of gift from Emperor Lothar I as Brunuilare . Barweiler already had a chapel before 940, which together with the mother church in "Okyshem" ( Üxheim ) belonged to the Trier Abbey of St. Maximin . In a document from Archbishop Ruotbert of Trier , the place appeared in 943 as Barwilra . On May 6, 1140, Pope Innocent II took Barwilre and its church under his protection, along with other possessions of the abbey . In the Liber valoris of the Archdiocese of Cologne from the 14th century, Barweiler is listed as belonging to the Eifeldekanat, but does not designate the place as a parish. The current parish church of St. Gertrud was built in the 18th century, rebuilt in 1826/27 and expanded in the 1960s.

Wonderfully country belonged originally to Barweiler County Nürburg and came in 1290 to the Electorate of Cologne . This affiliation lasted until the end of the 18th century. As part of the electoral office of Nürburg , Barweiler was the seat of a bailiwick . The villages of Barweiler, Bauler , Hoffeld , Müsch , Pomster , Reifferscheid , Rodder , Wiesemscheid and Werft belonged to the bailiwick of Barweiler .

After 1794

As a result of the First Coalition War , the Left Bank of the Rhine , including Barweiler, came under French rule in 1794 . Under French administration, Barweiler became the seat of a Mairie in 1798 , Barweiler belonged to the canton of Adenau and the arrondissement of Bonn in the Rhine-Mosel department . The villages of Bauler , Pompster and Wissemscheid also belonged to Mairie Barweiler .

Due to the resolutions passed at the Congress of Vienna , the Rhineland was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815. The municipality of Barweiler was administered from 1816 on by the mayor's office of Aremberg in the then newly created district of Adenau in the administrative district of Koblenz , from 1822 on Barweiler belonged to the Rhine province . On September 30, 1932, the Adenau district was dissolved, and Barweiler became part of the Ahrweiler district .

Barweiler has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1945 and has belonged to the Adenau community since 1968 .

Today the place is shaped by tourism , the local community is the location of several guest houses and holiday homes.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 357 1835 400 1871 388 1905 337 1939 368 1950 403

year Residents 1961 347 1970 405 1987 419 1997 490 2005 471 2017 382

politics

Municipal council

The council in Barweiler 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.

mayor

In the direct election on May 26, 2019, Josef Thelen was confirmed in his office as local mayor of Barweiler for another five years with a voting share of 96.19%.

Culture and sights

• Pilgrimage Church of St. Gertrud

See also : List of cultural monuments in Barweiler

Web links

Commons : Barweiler  - Collection of Images

• Barweiler parish
• Literature about Barweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 5 f . (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} History of Barweiler ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the homepage of the local community
4. ↑ Heinrich Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume 2, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1865, p. 24 ( online edition )
5. ↑ ^{a b} Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier , Volume 2, Trier: Bischöfliches General-Vicariate, 1887, p. 125 ( online edition )
6. ^ Woldemar Harleß : Theodor Joseph Lacomblet's Archive for the History of the Lower Rhine , Volume 6, Heberle, 1868, p. 239, ( online edition )
7. ↑ Handbook for the residents of the Rhine-Mosel Department , Coblenz: Prefecture-Buchdr., 1809, p. 150 ( online edition )
8. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
9. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer for Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Adenau, Verbandsgemeinde, fourth line of results. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .