Baustert

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 6 ° 23'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.48 km 2
Residents:	452 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	101 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54636
Area code :	06527
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 009
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	baustert.de
Local Mayor :	Udo Brück
Location of the local community of Baustert in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

Baustert, historical view

Baustert (2016)

Sights in Baustert

Baustert is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been part of the Bitburger Land community since July 1, 2014 .

geography

The local community is located in the Eifel on the edge of the Südeifel Nature Park . The streams Mühlbach, Watzbach and Eschbach flow through it.

In addition to the town that gives it its name, the Baustert community includes the districts of Baustertgraben and Berghausen as well as the Auf Kinnscheid and Hofenberg residential areas .

Neighboring communities are Hütterscheid , Brimingen , Feilsdorf , Mülbach and Utscheid .

history

Baustert was first mentioned in a document as Bustatt in 893 . Based on the name, it is assumed that the place originated in Carolingian times. In a tax list from 1330, the place was also mentioned under the name Boistert .

Since the late Middle Ages, the now Luxembourgish place belonged partly to the Bettingen rule and partly to the Neuerburg rule . In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . From 1795 to 1814 Baustert belonged to the canton of Neuerburg in the department of forests . Baustert became the capital of a mairie . After the region was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia (1815), Baustert became the administrative seat of the mayor's office of the same name in the Bitburg district .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 158 1835 285 1871 321 1905 377 1939 451 1950 441 1961 434

year Residents 1970 447 1987 438 1997 527 2005 531 2011 481 2017 437 2019 452

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Baustert consists of eight council members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until 2014, the municipality council had twelve council members.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Shield divided in the middle, upper half in blue with a golden crown, lower half in silver with a black star."
	Justification for the coat of arms: The colors silver and blue as well as the golden crown of counts (aristocratic crown) stand for the affiliation of the place to Luxembourg from the 12th century, while the 6-pointed star indicates the original affiliation to the Trier Abbey of St. Maximin . The local council approved the coat of arms on May 6, 1977.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Parish church of St. Maximin with a neo-Romanesque tower from 1900–1910 by the architect Josef Kleesattel
• Worth seeing votive chapel in the Berghausen district from the 18th century
• Several old farms in the village
• There are some - some very old - crossroads spread across the municipality .
• There is a partnership with the municipality of Charmé in the south of France . There are also two stones dedicated to the partnership; on the one hand in front of the former school building on the corner of Schulstrasse / Kobenborn and on the other hand next to the village square.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Baustert

Green spaces and recreation

• Monument path Baustert: circular hiking trail along crossroads and listed buildings of the local communities of Baustert and Brimingen . This hiking trail runs analogously to the W78 of the Südeifel Nature Park, but takes up the above-mentioned topic. The hiking trail is equipped with 12 information boards and begins at the village square in Baustert.
• Hiking trail 78 of the South Eifel nature park with the Baustert monuments theme trail, Brimingen
• Hiking routes z. B. Mühlbachtal, Läschbachtal or Baustertgraben
• Walkable forest crocodile from Baustert ("crocodile" ⊙ )

Regular events

• Annual Kirmes- or Kirchweihfest St. Maximin on the 2nd weekend in September
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday) on the Kreuzberg

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

There is a butcher's and a restaurant in the village. There are several holiday apartments, the Eschbachhof for handicrafts, handicraft businesses, a bus company and some farms.

A large part of the population commutes to Bitburg , Trier or Luxembourg , there is a regular bus connection to Bitburg every two hours from Monday to Friday.

Baustert has a golf course of the "hilly" course type. The 9-hole course with par 68 was opened in 1993.

education

Schools and day-care centers in the area are:

• Catholic day care center St. Maximin Baustert
• Elementary school Bettingen (approx. 6 km)
• St. Martin School in Bitburg (approx. 14 km)
• Bitburg comprehensive school (approx. 14 km)
• Theobald-Simon-Schule vocational school (approx. 14 km)
• Sankt-Josef-Gymnasium Biesdorf (approx. 16 km)
• Elementary and secondary school plus Neuerburg (approx. 13 km)
• Hildegardis primary school Mettendorf (approx. 7 km)
• St. Willibrord High School Bitburg (approx. 14 km).

traffic

The community is accessible through the district roads K 9 , K 10 and K 64 .

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  Former village school

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  Entrance portal from 1847 Hofstrasse 1

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  Road cross from 1887 on the Kreuzberg

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  Walkable forest crocodile

literature

• Wackenroder, Ernst : Rhine Province. - The art monuments of the Rhine Province. The art monuments of the Bitburg district. Vol. 12 / I. Düsseldorf 1927. 4to. X, 315 p. With 12 plates u. 227 fig. In the text. Pages 28-29, 306. ISBN 978-3-88915-006-6 .
• Adolf Valentin: The Madonna portraits of the Luxembourg Madonna in the parish church of Baustert from 1790. In: Local calendar of the Bitburg-Prüm district. 1977, p. 202.
• Parish of St. Maximin (ed.): 1000 years of Baustert church 978–1978. Baustert 1978.
• Bernd Altmann, Hans Caspary: Bitburg-Prüm district. City of Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinden Bitburg-Land and Irrel (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1997, ISBN 3-88462-132-7 .
• Historical working group of the parish (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Ous der Bouster Poar. Vol. 1, Baustert 2002.
• Historical working group of the parish (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Ous der Bouster Poar. Vol. 2, main topic: Third Reich 1933–1945. Baustert 2004.
• Historical working group of the parish (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Ous der Bouster Poar. Vol. 3, main topics: Bailiwick houses and stock houses, post-war history 1945–1960. Baustert 2007.
• Historical working group of the parish (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Ous der Bouster Poar. Vol. 4, main topics: Bouster Platt and associations of the parish. Baustert 2010.
• Michael Berens: Baustert - Parish Church of St. Maximin . In: Geschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Bitburger Land (Hrsg.): The churches and chapels of the Bitburger Land . S. 27 ( online [PDF; accessed May 24, 2017]).
• Historical working group of the parish (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch Ous der Bouster Poar. Vol. 5, main topic: More than 1000 years of the Baustert parish church. Baustert 2014.

Web links

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

• Official homepage of the local community of Baustert
• Local community Baustert on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• Site portrait of Baustert
• To search for cultural assets of the local community of Baustert in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

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. 106 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier. Vol. 1: From the oldest times up to the year 1169, PDF file on page 150. Retrieved on November 29, 2017 . 
4. ^ Taxa generalis subsidiorum cleri Trevirensis. Retrieved June 25, 2018 . 
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 13, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of the municipality of Baustert in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved July 8, 2016.
8. ^ Hiking route Baustert-Niederweidingen-Fischbach-Utscheid in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Circular route Bitburger Land Oberweis-Baustert-Oberweis. Retrieved November 28, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Schares butcher's shop. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
13. ^ Handicrafts Eschbachhof. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Theis bus trips. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Bitburg-Prüm district (ed.): Golfodrom and golf course in Baustert inaugurated (=  posts in the home calendar ). Paulinus-Druckerei GmbH, Trier 1994, p. 31 .
16. ↑ St. Maximin Baustert Catholic day care center. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Bettingen primary school. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
18. ↑ St. Martin School in Bitburg. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Bitburg comprehensive school. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Theobald-Simon-Schule vocational school. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
21. ↑ Sankt-Josef-Gymnasium Biesdorf. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Elementary and secondary school plus Neuerburg. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
23. ↑ Hildegardis Primary School Mettendorf. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
24. ↑ St. Willibrord High School Bitburg. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .