Bettingen (Eifel)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ' N , 6 ° 24' E |
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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 |
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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
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:
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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 |
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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
- 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
- ↑ 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. 106 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Bettingen - description of the coat of arms. Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land, accessed on August 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Hiking from Bettingen. Retrieved April 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ 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.