Brockscheid

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 6 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Down
Height :	450 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.05 km 2
Residents:	195 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	95 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54552
Area code :	06573
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 011
Association administration address:	Leopoldstrasse 29 54550 Daun
Website :	www.brockscheid.de
Local Mayor :	Frank Michels
Location of the local community Brockscheid in the Vulkaneifel district

Brockscheid is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . She belongs to the community of Daun .

Brockscheid, aerial photo (2015)

geography

The place is in the Vulkaneifel .

history

In 1563 Brockscheid had seven fireplaces under the name Prockscheid and six in 1684 . Wonderfully country belonged to the village by the end of the 18th century to the Electorate of Trier and shelter as part of the centering Udler the management of the Office and High Court Daun.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 66 1835 102 1871 106 1905 149 1939 181

year Residents 1950 195 1961 177 1970 204 1987 231 2005 222

Municipal council

The municipal council in Brockscheid consists of six council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Bell foundries

In Brockscheid there are two of only a few bell foundries in Germany.

• The bell foundry tradition of the Mark family can be traced back to 1620. The Eifeler bell foundry , located in Brockscheid since 1840 and in the sixth generation, is run by the only female bell founder in Europe, Cornelia Mark-Maas (as of February 2011).
• Bell and artificial casting Hermann Schmitt is the second foundry.

Archaeological monuments

Halfway towards Liesertal you can see the foundations of the so-called Geisenburg. The castle, built in 1340, was originally named Freudenstein .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Brockscheid

Web links

Commons : Brockscheid  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Brockscheid
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Brockscheid 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. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 112, 149.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ Christian Clemens: Hardly any work left for bell founders. In: The Rhine Palatinate. December 28, 2013, archived from the original on December 29, 2013 ; Retrieved August 5, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Andreas Wenderoth: The last of their kind. There are only a few bell founders, stick makers or office machine mechanics left. The professions fall out of time. And every time a piece of culture also disappears. Article in the weekend supplement (magazine) of the Berliner Zeitung from 12./13. February 2011.
7. ^ Entry on Freudenstein in the private database "Alle Burgen".