Berscheid

This article describes the church in Germany. For the Luxembourg soccer player, see Jessica Berscheid .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 6 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	490 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.49 km 2
Residents:	66 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	9 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54673
Area code :	06524
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 012
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Albert Schier
Location of the local community Berscheid in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

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

geography

Berscheid is located in the South Eifel nature park . Berscheid also includes the Gaymühle, Höhhof, Kandlerhof and Schiershof residential areas .

Neighboring communities are Koxhausen and Geichlingen .

history

The place is already mentioned in the 12th century as Bersheit . The name evolved over Berlynseit 1252 to Berlesheit 1311 and 1570 will Bereßscheid , 1654 to Berschedt than the first time from a chapel at the site is mentioned.

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the County of Vianden in the Duchy of Luxembourg .

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . From 1795 to 1814 the place belonged to the canton Neuerburg in the department of forests .

In 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . 1816 thus came the community Berscheid to Bitburg in Trier in the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine , which in 1822 Rheinprovinz opened. Berscheid was administered by the mayor's office in Koxhausen . After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French , the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 53 1835 142 1871 158 1905 134 1939 132 1950 98 1961 78

year Residents 1970 79 1987 67 1997 61 2005 66 2011 64 2017 61

Municipal council

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

Culture and sights

Dyer's cross

Buildings

• Today's St. Bernhard Church was built in 1773 and was a parish church from 1808 to 1836. It was structurally endangered in 1984/85 under the direction of the Naturpark Südeifel e. V. completely renovated inside and out.
• 19th century courtyard.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Berscheid

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair is celebrated on the second weekend in May.

traffic

Berscheid is part of the Trier Region Transport Association . However, there are only a few buses in town on weekdays (line 422 of the Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft ), which are mainly geared towards school traffic to Neuerburg . The nearest train station is Diekirch in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , about 20 kilometers south.

The community is accessed through the 6 district road. The next federal road is the B 50 , which runs about five kilometers southeast of Berscheid.

literature

• Literature about Berscheid in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• 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. 132 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 ills. In the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

Commons : Berscheid  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short portrait of Berscheid ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Hierzuland , SWR television
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Berscheid in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

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. ↑ Statistical-topographical description of the government district of Trier , Hetzrodt, 1818, p. 41 ( Google Books )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 2, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .