Bullay

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Zell (Moselle)
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.97 km 2
Residents:	1571 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	396 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56859
Area code :	06542
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 019
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Graf-Beisel-Str. 4 ; 56859 Bullay
Website :	www.bullay.de
Local Mayor :	Matthias Müller
Location of the local community Bullay in the district of Cochem-Zell

coat of arms

Bullay is a municipality in the Cochem-Zell district in the center of Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Zell (Mosel) and is located across from Alf on the Moselle .

geography

The local community Bullay is located in the middle of the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate.

history

It is certain that there was a Roman settlement in the area of the municipality. The first written mention as Buley infra Cell comes from the year 1150. From 1470 to 1550 there were mining operations in Bullay. Bullay was ruled by four barons: Zand von Merl, Boos von Waldeck, von Metzenhausen and von Kellenbach (later von Landenberg). From 1794 Bullay was under French rule and from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton of Zell in the Rhine-Moselle department . In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . The Linke Moselle Valley Railway was built in 1879 . Since 1946 it has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

In 1993 there was the largest flood in the region to date, known as the “Christmas flood” or “century flood”.

Statistics on population development

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

year	Residents
1815	209
1835	310
1871	315
1905	654
1939	1,090

year	Residents
1950	1,212
1961	1.306
1970	1,296
1987	1,382
2005	1,518

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Bullay consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	3	5	8th	16 seats
2014	3	6th	7th	16 seats
2009	2	6th	8th	16 seats
2004	2	7th	7th	16 seats

FWG = Free Voters Group Bullay eV

Culture and sights

Buildings

Alf-Bullay double-decker bridge over the Moselle with the Moselle railway above the road
The environmental station, which has received an architecture award from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Bullay has also had a small mosque on the banks of the Moselle near the Alf-Bullay double-decker bridge since 2014

religion

As the only community in the predominantly Catholic district of Cochem-Zell , Bullay has had its own Sunni mosque since March 14, 2014. Since then, all 5 prayers of the day have been offered here for citizens of Sunni faith . The mosque belongs to the DiTiB association. Most of the members of the community have Turkish or German roots.

Picture gallery

View of Bullay and the Alf - Bullay double-decker bridge around 1880
Alf-Bullay double-decker bridge
The Moselle at Bullay
"Environmental Station" Bullay (DB)
Aerial view of Bullay from 1945

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Road traffic

Bullay is connected to the left bank of the Moselle via a double-decker bridge and thus to federal highways 49 (towards Koblenz) and 53 (towards Trier).

Rail transport

The train runs from the train station into the Prinzenkopf tunnel . The Bullay (DB) station is located on the Linke Moselle Valley Railway, Trier Hbf - Koblenz Hbf, which was completed in 1879. From 1905 until part of the route was closed in 1961, the Bullay Süd station was the northern terminus of the Moselle Railway Trier Nord - Bullay Süd, which was dismantled from 1961 and replaced by buses.