Bell (near Mendig)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality :	Mendig
Height :	370 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.26 km 2
Residents:	1321 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	129 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56745
Area code :	02652
License plate :	MYK, MY
Community key :	07 1 37 008
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 3 56743 Mendig
Website :	www.bell-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Stefan Zepp
Location of the local community Bell in the Mayen-Koblenz district

Bell is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Mendig community .

Since the 19th century, the Beller are known for their oven stones with which they qualitative Beller oven built, far beyond national boundaries towards known.

history

Name origin

Bell is mentioned for the first time as "Belle" in the deed of foundation of the Laach monastery in 1093.

The meaning of the place name Bell can no longer be reconstructed due to a lack of sources. On the one hand, the idyllic setting and thus a derivation from the French ( French: la belle = the beautiful) could be decisive, on the other hand there is also the legend of a beautiful girl ("Bella"), who is one of three inheritances alongside her two brothers, who were awarded Ober- and Nieder- mendig , who were assigned the properties by Bell. However, a derivation from English ( English bell = bell) or even Latin ( Latin bellum = war) is to be excluded .

It is more likely that the name comes from the Celtic, which would then mean “place on the heights” . This assumption seems most conclusive due to Bell's geographic location. However, the name would have to be much older than the first mention, as the Celts settled the Eifel region - and explicitly the area around Bell - in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, which later finds prove.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bell consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	WGR	total
2019	2	5	9	-	16 seats
2014	6th	10	-	-	16 seats
2009	4th	9	3	-	16 seats
2004	3	9	2	2	16 seats

mayor

Stefan Zepp (FWG) became local mayor of Bell in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with a share of the vote of 62.40%. He prevailed against his predecessor Bernd Merkler (CDU), who had held the office for 40 years.

coat of arms

The current municipal coat of arms was only made the official coat of arms of the municipality of Bell in 1983.

Blazon : "In a silver shield in the head of the shield a pushed, continuous, three-legged blue tournament collar, including 3 (2: 1) diagonally right red hammers."

Foundation of the coat of arms: Historically, the coat of arms goes back to the coat of arms of the first noble family of the Kolve family mentioned in a document for Bell, who wielded the three red hammers on a silver background. This in turn is due to the fact that they were descendants of the von Hammerstein family at Hammerstein Castle near Neuwied . A tradition from the year 1336 of the Hermann von Bell seal is the basis for today's design of the coat of arms. The vernacular also associates the three red hammers with the tools used by oven builders, which is obvious due to the village's history.

Culture and sights

Culture

Dialects Beller Platt and "Läppe Tallep"

The Beller dialect, the Beller Platt , was spoken uniformly by almost all of the village's citizens until the post-war years. Due to various factors, however, the use of the Beller platter has decreased significantly.

The dialect was pervaded by many of its own terms, most of which had to do with oven construction, but these terms largely disappeared from linguistic usage, since in the 1950s / 1960s the tuff stone ovens were replaced by modern steel ovens and thus the artisanal expressions were not more were needed.

A special feature of the dialect is the so-called "Läppe Tallep", which is a "secret language" of the village. Because the oven - Bauer often a long time in foreign baker families lived, there to build an oven, they developed this language version to be unheard entertained by the client. The principle of the "Lepper Tallep" is that, starting from the Beller Platt, individual syllables or words are pronounced backwards.

However, due to the decline in the baking industry, this form of Beller Platt is no longer spoken and only a few residents of the village are able to use it correctly.

To document both forms of language, Karl Schneider published a dictionary with an audio cassette in 1996.

Townscape

In the center of Bell there are still many old buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, some of which are unplastered, so that the masonry made of lava and tuff stone can be seen. There are also some very old half-timbered houses. Again and again, however, old buildings had to give way in favor of various renovations, which can be seen particularly in the example of the expansion of the L82 since 1977 and various extensions to the main road.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Bell

Bell Castle

The Castle Bell (also called "de Buursch") is a manor house on the southeastern outskirts consisting erected outbuildings of a castle house in the east and around a courtyard on the east, south and west and is bordered by the Bell Erbach in the north.

For the first time in 1267 a "castellum" built on Laacher Boden is mentioned in a document, which was given as a fief to the lords of Kolve zu Bell in the same year . "Burg und Hus zu Belle" were then given to Archbishop Balduin of Trier in 1336 with the consent of the Laacher family . In 1400 the estate was burned and demolished due to a dispute between the city of Mayen and the knight Rullmann von Bell. No documents have been preserved about the architecture of the original building. It is also assumed that the demolition of the building that fell victim to the feud resulted in immediate reconstruction.

The origin of the quarry stone building still preserved today is also unknown. However, it is known that the castle house was destroyed by the French in 1673 and it is assumed that the year 1726 carved into the basalt door arch refers to the reconstruction of this damage. On the wedge of the southeast door is the year 1772, which could be used as the date for the southern extension.

In the years 1878/79 the castle house was rebuilt again under the von Brewer family. Their family coat of arms is located above the wedge of the southeast door. There is evidence that since the marriage of Karl-Josef von Brewer from Niederlahnstein to the heiress Anna-Maria von Krümmel, the castle courtyard passed into the possession of the von Brewers.

The castle was the seat of Bell's administration until 1862, when it was replaced by the new administration building for the St. Johann mayor's office on Hauptstrasse.

The castle was sold in 1976 by the heirs to the Merkt family, who still own it today.

Goose neck storm

On the 575 meter high goose neck , which is 2.5 kilometers north-west of the village, there is the goose neck tower , a radio relay system with observation platform and another former observation tower from the end of the 19th century.

Fountain

On July 12, 1985, a fountain with a jumping goat made of sheet bronze on a lava stone was inaugurated behind the parish hall . The goat is the "Beller Jääß" (Beller goat). Over time, the goat became a kind of symbol for Bell, as goats, which were cheaper than cows, were often kept as pets and farm animals in the community until after the end of World War II . Over time, the citizens of Beller received the nickname "Beller Jäässer".

The Hasenbrunnen (also “Hassebuhr”) is located on Brunnenstrasse. It is the source of the Bellerbach, which flows towards Mendig . The date of the first construction with two basalt basins is unknown. In 1968 it was completely redesigned from concrete. The fountain has served many generations as a source of drinking water, a washing area or for recreation.

The Erlenbrunnen (also called "Erlebuhr", "Saurebuhr" or "Eedel" (after a nearby stone quarry)) is located between Bell and Mendig and was built in 1809. Due to the situation - at least in popular thinking - it is not clear to which municipality this well belongs.

Old school

The old school (also "de ahl Schull") is actually the youngest of three buildings that were used as a school in Bell. In 1789 a school building was erected for the first time, which according to old reports must have been on the corner of Kirchgasse and Hauptstrasse. However, this was sold again in 1797 and a new schoolhouse was built right next to the old one, which in addition to a school hall on the first floor accommodated the teacher's apartment on the ground floor.

Due to the population increase, it was decided in 1825 to build a larger school. This building, known today as the Old School , was completed by Johann Claudius von Lassaulx before 1826 and expanded in a second construction phase in 1844.

In 1983 the building was placed under monument protection by the State Monuments Office

Maria Laach Natural History Museum

The natural history museum Maria Laach is Germany's largest natural history museum with an area of ​​around 1000 m² . It is located in the Laacher See nature reserve and thus belongs to the Maria Laach Abbey .

Around 400 specimens are reproduced and exhibited in lifelike dioramas on two floors . The museum not only shows the local flora and fauna to around 30,000 visitors each year, but also provides information about ecological relationships and the protection of species and biotopes.

The building was built from 1951 to 1953 by the Laacher monks as a retreat home and was used as a training and conference center until 1980. After the house was closed in 1980, the building stood empty for four years. In 1984 taxidermist Klaus Ullenbruch senior leased from Bell the property. After two years of renovation, the museum was opened in the summer of 1986. Since then it has been continuously expanded and expanded.

The museum is a non-profit organization supported by the “Naturschutz Östliche Vordereifel gGmbH” and is run as a family business by the Ullenbruch family.

Economy and Infrastructure

Parish hall

Bell's community hall now stands on the former site of the Laacher Hof, which was demolished in the 1970s. The building was inaugurated in July 1983.

kindergarten

As part of the renovation of the old school in 1986/87, rooms for a kindergarten were built there in an extension. This was then inaugurated in September 1987.

schools

Bell has not had a school of its own since the school closed in Bell in 1974. The pupils in grades 1 to 4 now go to Mendig at the Pfarrer-Bechtel primary school. Secondary schools in whose catchment area Bell is located are:

• in Mendig :
  • Realschule Plus
• in Mayen :
  • the Megina high school
• in Andernach :
  • Kurfürst-Salentin-Gymnasium
  • Bertha von Suttner High School

industrial Estate

The “Am Rothen Berg” industrial park , which has a total area of ​​5.87 hectares on the outskirts, has a direct connection to the L 82 state road . There are also connections to the A 61 and the B 412 and the B 262 (and thus also to the A 48 ) quickly and easily accessible. The nearest airports are Cologne / Bonn and Frankfurt / Hahn , the nearest ports are in Andernach and Koblenz , the nearest container station in Koblenz.

literature

• Gabriele von Fuchs: 900 years of Bell . Bell municipal administration, Bonn / Bell 1993.
• Karl Schneider: Beller Platt and Läppe Tallep . Schmidgen printing works, Bell / Wassenach 1996.
• Peter Honnen : Secret languages ​​in the Rhineland . A documentation of the Rotwelsch dialects in Bell, Breyell , Kofferen , Neroth , Speicher and Stotzheim . In: Rhenish dialects . 2nd Edition. tape 10 . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7927-1728-X , II. Bell, p. 175–193 (with a CD).
• The field names of Bell am Laacher See, Horst Schlich, Cardamina Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86424-124-6

Web links

Commons : Bell  collection of images

• Official website of the local church of Bell
• Local community Bell on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Mendig
• Natural History Museum Maria Laach ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Brief portrait of Bell at Hierzuland , SWR television
• Literature about Bell in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Middle Rhine document book
3. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Mendig, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved February 3, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Blick Aktuell: Stefan Zepp is the new local mayor of Bell. May 27, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020 . 
6. ^ Certificate of approval from the Koblenz district government . Aug 4, 1983
7. ↑ Sound sample of the Läpper Talp (MP3; 3.0 MB) of the language department at the LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History at the Rhineland Regional Council
8. ↑ ^{a b} Hanna Mengen: Lebber Talp - The secret language of the oven manufacturers from Bell. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, accessed on December 31, 2014 .