Bettingen (Eifel)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '  N , 6 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	270 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.25 km 2
Residents:	1085 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	150 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54646
Area code :	06527
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 013
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Hans-Jürgen Holbach ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Bettingen in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

Bettingen is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land .

geography

The local community is located in the Eifel , about 290  m above sea level. NHN on the river Prüm . Bettingen also includes the Altbettingen, Altenhof and Im Odendell residential areas .

history

Wayside cross

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1319. Today's Bettingen was called Frenkingen in the Middle Ages. Bettingen was located upstream of the Prum in today's district of Alt-Bettingen and was abandoned by its residents during the Thirty Years War (ruins are still there today). As a result, Frenkingen became today's Bettingen.

Until the end of the 18th century, Bettingen was the capital of the rulership of the same name in the Duchy of Luxembourg . In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . From 1795 to 1814 Bettingen belonged to the canton Bitburg in the department of forests . Bettingen became the capital of a mairie . After the region was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia (1815), Bettingen became the administrative seat of the mayor's office of the same name in the Bitburg district .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 635 1835 856 1871 954 1905 795 1939 1,099 1950 1,154 1961 1,161

year Residents 1970 1,150 1987 1,041 1997 1,057 2005 1.012 2011 1,032 2017 1,058 2018 1,064

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Bettingen consists of 16 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.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	WGR	Flat share M	Flat share F	total
2019	7th	2	3	-	1	3	16 seats
2014	9	2	3	2	-	-	16 seats
2009	9	3	-	4th	-	-	16 seats
2004	10	3	-	3	-	-	16 seats

• WG M = Mosbacher voter group
• WG F = voter group Fink

coat of arms

	Justification of the coat of arms: rafter beams and cross-crosses indicate one of the oldest families in the southern Eifel region, the noble free von Bettingen or the later lords, the Counts of Manderscheid .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Parish Church of St. Maximin, single-nave building from the 18th century
• Castle ruins
• Crossroads in the town center
• Church tower ruins in Alt-Bettingen
• Kieselkläpa sculpture on Frenkinger Platz in the center of the village

See also: List of cultural monuments in Bettingen

Green spaces and recreation

• Hiking routes in and around Bettingen
• Natural monument "Service tree in Bürgel" ⊙

See also: List of natural monuments in Bettingen

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

natural reserve

• On September 8, 1988, the Scharren nature reserve at Altenhof near Bettingen was designated with the number NSG-7232-098.
• On June 23, 1989 the nature reserve Im Odendell near Bettingen was designated with the number NSG-7232-058.

See also: List of nature reserves in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

literature

• 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. 30–36, 306 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted from the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).
• Michael Berens: Catholic parish church St. Maximin . In: Geschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Bitburger Land (Hrsg.): The churches and chapels of the Bitburger Land . 1992, p. 28 ( online [PDF; accessed March 13, 2018]).
• Georg Drenda: The Bettinger local dialect - remarks on the vowel "ü". In: Contributions to the history of the Bitburger Land. 87, 22nd year, issue 2 (2012) pp. 27–33.
• Helmut Fink: Bettingen in the mirror of an eventful history. In: Home calendar of the Bitburg-Prüm district 1995. pp. 185–193.
• Inge Kreutz: The bombs fell with the Credo. Bettingen at the time of National Socialism - a reconstruction based on contemporary witness reports. ed. from the sponsoring group Bettinger Geschichte e. V., Bettingen 2013.
• Claus Rech: Gypsum and lime from Bettingen. Mining and processing in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Home calendar of the Bitburg-Prüm district 2013. pp. 100–106.

Web links

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

• Local community Bettingen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• Initiative for the future check in Bettingen
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Bettingen in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Bettingen-Maximinstrasse, SWR from August 16, 2015

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. 106 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Bettingen - description of the coat of arms. Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land, accessed on August 28, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Hiking from Bettingen. Retrieved April 24, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
9. ↑ The nature reserves in Rhineland-Palatinate. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 28, 2016 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.