D Fünfus

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Kaisersesch
Height :	315 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.25 km 2
Residents:	287 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	88 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56754
Area code :	02672
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 022
Association administration address:	Am Römerturm 2 ; 56759 Kaisersesch
Website :	www.duenfus.de
Local Mayor :	Marcus Cortnum
Location of the local community of Durfus in the district of Cochem-Zell

Durfus is a municipality in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been a member of the Kaisersesch community since July 1, 2014 .

geography

Durfus is located in a hollow south of the Brohlbach, west of the municipalities of Brohl and Forst (Eifel) . The Weiermühle and Rosenthaler Hof residential areas also belong to Dölfus.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1288. From 1686 to 1688 a chapel was built in honor of St. Bartholomew . The rule of Kurtrier expired in 1794 with the occupation by the French revolutionary army , from 1798 to 1814 Dölfus belonged to the canton of Münstermaifeld . In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna and was under the administration of the Prussian mayor's office Karden . In 1933 he came to the Karden-Treis office in the Cochem district . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Statistics on population development

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

year	Residents
1815	126
1835	210
1871	215
1905	235
1939	258

year	Residents
1950	247
1961	249
1970	268
1987	252
2005	300

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Durfus 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. Until 2014, the council had eight councilors.

coat of arms

The municipality has had the following coat of arms since 1985:

Blazon : "Shield quartered, field 1: in gold a black urn, field 2: in green a silver rose, field 3: in red a silver rafter, field 4: in gold a wide black knife at an angle to the left."

Justification of the coat of arms: The cinder urn from prehistoric times comes from the "Häckelsberg" and was found there in 1929 during excavation work. The rose refers to the courtyard of the Rosenthal Monastery , which the monastery acquired from Heinrich von Polch in 1297 . The von Pyrmont also owned a farm in the village; the rafter beam comes from their coat of arms. The knife (Schindmesser) points to the church patron, St. Bartholomäus, attested since the chapel was built in 1684.