Boos (Eifel)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ N , 7 ° 1 ′ E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Mayen-Koblenz | |
Association municipality : | Vordereifel | |
Height : | 470 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 10.38 km 2 | |
Residents: | 608 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 59 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 56729 | |
Area code : | 02656 | |
License plate : | MYK, MY | |
Community key : | 07 1 37 014 | |
Association administration address: | Kelberger Strasse 26 56727 Mayen |
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Local Mayor : | Ulrich Fassbender | |
Location of the local community Boos in the Mayen-Koblenz district | ||
Boos is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Vordereifel , which has its administrative headquarters in Mayen .
geography
The district lies in the East Eifel, which is shaped by maars , and covers an area of 10.38 km², of which 5.02 km² is forest. In 2000, the 1.52 km² nature reserve "Booser Maar" was designated.
Boos is the westernmost municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district and is located in the Vulkaneifel , around five kilometers south-east of the Nürburgring . The Booser Eiffel Tower has stood north-west of the village since 2003 on the 557 meter high Schneeberg with a view and a. on the Booser Doppelmaar .
history
The community was first mentioned in a document in 1238 in the donation from Count Hermann von Virneburg to the Himmerod monastery . She shared the fate of the county for centuries . After the Virneburgers died out in 1545, Boos came to the von Manderscheid-Schleiden family . After their extinction in 1593, Kurtrier seized power and reversed the Reformation introduced by the Manderscheiders . After the annexation of the Eifel by France in 1794/95, French rule began for 20 years. Then Boos came to the Prussian Rhine Province . In 1817 Boos came to Mayen mayor's office . On May 15, 1880 part of the village was destroyed by fire.
After the First World War, temporarily occupied by the Americans.
politics
Municipal council
The council in Boos consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. A personalized proportional representation took place in the 2014 election .
The distribution of seats in the municipal council:
choice | GREEN | WGR | total |
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2019 | Majority vote | 12 seats | |
2014 | 1 | 11 | 12 seats |
2009 | Majority vote | 12 seats |
mayor
Ulrich Faßbender became mayor of Boos on June 30, 2014. No applicant entered the direct election on May 26, 2019. Faßbender was confirmed in office for another five years by the newly elected municipal council. Faßbender's predecessor was Friedhelm Stephani, who held the office from 1984 to 2014.
coat of arms
Blazon : "With a looped blue tip, inside two entwined silver rings, split, in front the red Kurtrier cross in silver , behind in gold a red diamond."
When selecting the symbols for the coat of arms, the municipal council relied on the historical past of the local community of Boos. The Kurtrier cross indicates the feudal relationship with the Electorate of Trier , while the diamond is borrowed from the coat of arms of the Counts of Virneburg . The intertwined rings give an indication of the historical affiliation to Himmerod Abbey . The coat of arms was approved on January 18, 1988 by the Koblenz district government .
church
Boos has been its own parish since 1799 . The parish church of St. Bartholomew was built according to plans by Johann Claudius von Lassaulx in 1837–39 and expanded in 1896. Since 1998 the parish has belonged to the new Dean Mayen - Mendig .
traffic
Boos is part of the Rhein-Mosel transport association . With the bus lines 334 and 343 of the Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft as well as the local call traffic service (ANDi) there is a connection to the Monreal and Mayen Ost train stations on the Pellenz-Eifel-Bahn Kaisersesch - Andernach on weekdays .
The B 410 runs through Boos . The next motorway junction is Laubach on the A 48 .
Personalities
- Domenica Niehoff (known as Domenica ) (1945–2009), one of the most famous former prostitutes in Germany, lived in Boos for several years before moving back to Hamburg in 2008.
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See also
Web links
- Website of the local church Boos
- Local community Boos on the website of the association community Vordereifel
- Literature about Boos in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ Middle Rh. UB III No. 634
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Vordereifel, Verbandsgemeinde, sixth result line. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
- ^ Local parish Boos: parish council. Retrieved February 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Boos local congregation: Farewell to former council members. June 17, 2019, accessed February 11, 2020 .
- ↑ St. Pauli: The neighborhood mourns Domenica Anita Niehoff. The "Queen of the Reeperbahn" is dead , report by Jens Meyer-Odewald in the Hamburger Abendblatt from February 13, 2009 (accessed on February 14, 2009).