Berscheid
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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ' N , 6 ° 14' E |
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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 |
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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:
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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
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
- 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
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Statistical-topographical description of the government district of Trier , Hetzrodt, 1818, p. 41 ( Google Books )
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .