Bettenfeld

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Bettenfeld (definition of terms ) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '  N , 6 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Wittlich-Land
Height :	465 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.27 km 2
Residents:	683 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54533
Area code :	06572
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 009
Association administration address:	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.bettfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Heinz Tutt
Location of the local community of Bettenfeld in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district

View of Bettenfeld from the southeast (2013)

Mosenberg Bettenfeld Volcano Adventure Park (2013)

Fritz von Wille : Landscape near Bettenfeld, 1912

Bettenfeld is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate in the southern Vulkaneifel . It has been a member of the Wittlich-Land community since July 1, 2014 .

geography

The place (460- 480  . M above  mean sea level ) is surrounded by two surveys: Southeast lies the forest area of 544 m high Holzbeul while the territory of the former on the eastern side of the bed Fields volcano rises of Mosen mountain. The Mosenberg ( 517  m above sea  level ) contains four craters. The most impressive of these is the water-filled Windsborn , a crater lake whose ring wall has been completely preserved. The Windsborn is the only mountain crater lake north of the Alps. The extraordinary appearance of the Mosenberg was already appreciated in the 19th century by travelers, artists and scientists, including the painter Fritz von Wille and the natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt .

The residential area at Hof Rodenbüsch also belongs to Bettenfeld .

history

The first written mention of Bettenfeld under the name "Bettenvelt" was in 1179. By the end of the 18th century, Bettenfeld belonged to the Meerfeld dominion 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 of Dudeldorf 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 . In 1816, the community of Bettenfeld became part of the Wittlich district in the Trier administrative district in the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine province , which was added to the Rhine province in 1822. Bettenfeld was initially the seat of a mayor's office , to which the municipality of Meerfeld also belonged. Bettenfeld was later administered by the mayor of Manderscheid .

The municipality has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "Divided from red over silver by a wavy cut, in it a fallen tip, divided from silver over blue, above two left, red pimples, below accompanied on the left by a red paw cross, on the right by a red label."

Culture and sights

Lava used to be mined near Bettenfeld, at the foot of the Mosenberg. Today the Mosenberg volcano adventure park is located there. There is a small roofed observation tower on the top of the mountain .

See also : List of cultural monuments in Bettenfeld

Economy and Infrastructure

Bundesautobahn 1 runs in the east of Bettenfeld , in the south the Bundesautobahn 60 .

Personalities

• Hans-Josef Bracht (* 1955), politician

Web links

Commons : Bettenfeld  - Collection of Images

• Page of the local community of Bettenfeld
• Brief portrait of Bettenfeld bei Hierzuland , SWR television
• To search for cultural assets of the local community of Bettenfeld 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. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 57 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
4. ↑ Heinrich Beyer : Document book for the history of the now Prussian administrative districts Coblenz and Trier ... , Volume 2, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1865, p. 203 ( dilibri.de )
5. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 24
6. ↑ Statistical-topographical description of the government district of Trier , Hetzrodt, 1818, s. 47 ( Google Books )
7. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 908 ( Google Books )
8. ^ Otto Beck: Description of the Trier Government District , Volume 1, 1868, p. 152 ( Google Books )
9. ↑ Entry on lava mining on the Mosenberg in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on January 9, 2016.
10. ↑ Mosenberg / Bettenfeld volcano adventure park: experience volcanism in the Eifel live! Maarmuseum Manderscheid, accessed on January 9, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Entry on the observation tower on the Mosenberg in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 21, 2016.