Beilstein (Heckenbach)

Beilstein Local community Heckenbach Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	448 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	53506
Area code :	02647
Location of Beilstein in Rhineland-Palatinate

Beilstein is a part of the local community Heckenbach in the district of Ahrweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

Beilstein is located in the southern Ahrbergland, part of the Eastern Eifel . The place is a so-called dead end village and can only be reached from the direction of Blasweiler via the district road 54 .

history

Beilstein belonged together with Blasweiler to the Kempenich dominion and came with this first in the 15th century and last in 1777 to the Electorate of Trier . From 1573 to 1777 the Kempenich rule was pledged to the Lords and Counts of Eltz . When the pledge was redeemed by the Elector of Trier, Count von Eltz-Kempenich denied that the towns of Beilstein, Blasweiler and Kirchesch had belonged to the pledge and claimed them as allodial imperial knighthood possessions.

Ecclesiastically, the inhabitants of Beilstein were assigned to the parish of St. Margareta (Blasweiler) , which until 1802 belonged to the Ahrdekanat in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine . From 1798 to 1814, Beilstein belonged to the French canton of Virneburg in the Rhine-Moselle department .

After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , the region and with it Beilstein came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, Beilstein was assigned to the newly established district of Ahrweiler in the Koblenz administrative district in 1816 and belonged to the municipality of Blasweiler in the mayor's office of Königsfeld . In 1817 there were 23 residents in the hamlet of Beilstein.

After the First World War , the region was in the French part of the occupied Rhineland from 1919 to 1929 . After the remilitarization of the left-bank areas (1936) was in 1937 by the Wehrmacht started in this region of Eifel the Air Force training area Ahrbrück to build. Beilstein was one of a total of 12 villages that were cleared for this purpose. The houses, which had been vacant since 1939, were destroyed in bombing exercises. The rebuilding of the infrastructure and resettlement began in the early 1950s. On January 1, 1951, three families were living in Beilstein again. In 1987 Beilstein had 30 residents.

Beilstein has been part of the municipality of Heckenbach since 1960 .

The Catholic Chapel of St. Anna in Beilstein was built in 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernhard Koll: The Lords of Kempenich in the 15th and 16th centuries , 1987 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district ( online edition )
2. ↑ Jakob Rausch: 150 years Ahrweiler district , 1966 home yearbook of the Ahrweiler district ( online edition )
3. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population ... , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817; P. 52 ( dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate )
4. ↑ Heinz Schmalz: The postal history of Ramersbach , 1968 homeland yearbook of the Ahrweiler district ( online edition )
5. ^ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality