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Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ' N , 6 ° 50' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Vulkaneifel | |
Association municipality : | Down | |
Height : | 410 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 48.98 km 2 | |
Residents: | 8010 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 164 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 54550 | |
Area code : | 06592 | |
License plate : | DAU | |
Community key : | 07 2 33 501 | |
LOCODE : | DE DAU | |
City structure: | 8 districts | |
Association administration address: | Leopoldstrasse 29 54550 Daun |
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City Mayor : | Friedhelm Marder | |
Location of the town of Daun in the Vulkaneifel district | ||
Daun is the seat of the district administration of the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate as well as a climatic and Kneipp spa resort . According to state planning , the city of Daun is designated as a medium-sized center.
It is located south of the Hohe Eifel on the Lieser River . The landscape is characterized by its volcanic character. 2.5 km to 3.5 km south-east of the city center of Daun are the so-called Dauner Maars , three directly adjacent maars that are only separated by their tuff walls. The city is home to the Eifel volcano museum . Daun is a state-approved spa and has mineral springs .
City structure
The district town of Daun has 8010 inhabitants (December 31, 2019 - main and secondary residence).
In addition to the core town of Daun (4264 inhabitants), the urban area also includes the formerly independent communities:
district | Residents | incorporated |
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Boverath | 564 | 7th June 1969 |
Gemünden | 215 | Apr 1, 1938 |
Neunkirchen | 547 | 7th June 1969 |
Puetzborn | 1,129 | 7th June 1969 |
Rengen | 438 | Nov 7, 1970 |
Steinborn | 410 | Nov 7, 1970 |
Forest kings | 699 | Nov 7, 1970 |
Weiersbach | 251 | June 10, 1979 |
history
The area was already in the 7th century BC. Settled for the first time. At that time the Celts had settled on the fortified basalt mountain in Daun. The Romans also used this striking hill in the Liesertal as a guard station, as can be deduced from Roman finds. The place name is likely to be derived from the Celtic-Roman word dunum for fence or for a fortified hill, i.e. a fortress.
At the end of the 10th century a castle was built here by the Free Lords of Daun. An Albert von Daun ( Adalbero de Duna ) was first mentioned in a document in 1075.
In 1163, the free Daun family died out. A servant of this sex, Richardus de Duna , took over the name of his former master and also the coat of arms with the Dauner lattice. This coat of arms was also used by his descendants, the Daun family , from which the Daun-Falkenstein branch came from in the 16th century and several important Austrian military leaders in the 18th century.
Daun was first mentioned as a city in 1337. In 1346 it was granted city rights with its own market rights , and Daun also became the location of a high court .
In 1712 the Kurtrierisches Amtshaus was built on the Burgberg by the Trier Elector and Archbishop Karl Joseph . Due to the First Coalition War , the left bank of the Rhine came to France after 1794 . Daun became the seat of the canton of Daun, formed in 1798, with its Mairien Daun, Dockweiler, Gillenfeld, Sarmersbach and Üdersdorf. As a result of the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna , the area, and with it Daun, became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . In 1817, Daun became the seat of the district administrator for the then newly established Daun district , and also the seat of a mayor's office .
On July 19, 1944, a heavy bombardment in Daun by the air fleet of the United States Army Air Forces , which wanted to hit the railroad lines from 7,000 m above sea level , but hit the city itself and destroyed it extensively, killed a total of 65 people, among them 26 children under 14 years.
Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . From 1951 Daun was allowed to call itself a city again.
On May 15, 1895, Daun was connected to the German railway network via the Eifelquerbahn ; On December 1, 1909, another line, the Maare-Mosel Railway to Wittlich , was put into operation. Today, however, local rail passenger transport (SPNV) has been suspended for more than a decade on all rail lines in contact with Daun . A section of the Eifelquerbahn has been reactivated since July 2005 and offers daily tourist traffic every two hours in summer. The route of the Maare-Mosel-Bahn was dismantled in the 2000s; The Maare-Mosel cycle path now runs along the former railway line .
The health tourism tradition of Daun as a mineral spa and climatic health resort goes back to the early 20th century. But it was not until 1974 that Daun was officially recognized as a climatic health resort . Daun has also been able to call itself a Kneipp spa since 1973. Especially in the 1980s and 1990s, Daun was a nationally known travel destination for spa guests. Declining visitor numbers in the 21st century, especially in the area of spa tourism , are to be countered by supra-regional cooperation under the title “Gesundland Vulkaneifel”.
In 1965, Daun became the headquarters of the Bundeswehr . In the Heinrich Hertz Barracks among others are battalion electronic warfare 931 and the evaluation center Electronic Warfare stationed.
Population development
The development of the population of Daun in relation to today's urban area; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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politics
City council
The city council in Daun consists of 24 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary city mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the city council:
choice | SPD | CDU | Green | FDP | WGR | BUV | GVV | total |
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2019 | 6th | 10 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 3 | 24 seats |
2014 | 7th | 9 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 24 seats |
2009 | 7th | 8th | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 24 seats |
2004 | 7th | 11 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 24 seats |
- BUV = BürgerUnion Vulkaneifel e. V.
- GVV = Voting Group Commercial and Tourist Association Daun e. V.
Town twinning
- Carisolo (Italy)
Culture and sights
Natural monuments
Buildings and monuments
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Daun Castle
- Kurtrierisches Amtshaus (today a hotel) from 1712
- Evangelical Church (1865/67)
- Tithe barn from 1740
- Burgmannenhäuser: Waldenhof, Hof Rademacher
- Daun Viaduct , railway bridge from 1909
- Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas , west tower and crypt Romanesque, mid-13th century, new building 1946–1969
- Station building, half-hip roof, 1895
- Former Protestant cemetery with elaborate grave monuments from the 19th century
- Former mayor's office (Burgfriedstraße 25)
- Kampbüchelskreuz around 1825 (Leopoldstrasse, on the market square)
- Former Kaiserbrunnen, 1911, war memorial after 1945 (Leopoldstrasse, at the former district office)
- Former district office, 1830/31, today Vulkan-Museum (Leopoldstrasse)
- Former rest home of the department store chain Leonhard Tietz (Kaufhof), 1910
- Former district court from 1860 (Wirichstrasse, today Sparkasse branch)
- War memorial 1870/71
- Former school building around 1910/20 (Leopoldstrasse 34, today registry office)
Museums
Regular events
- Every two years, the crime festival Tatort Eifel takes place in Daun , to which well-known crime authors from all over the German-speaking area travel. The German Short Crime Prize is also awarded during this festival.
- The St. Laurentius fair begins on the Saturday after the first Wednesday in August and lasts for five days. It is one of the largest folk festivals in the Eifel.
- VulkanBike Eifel-Marathon (a mountain bike marathon through the Eifel Mountains, also: VulkanBike trail park, VulkanBike extreme and VulkanBike crosscountry)
- Eifel Rallye Festival
- Maare-Moselle course
- spring Festival
Economy and Infrastructure
Companies
- apra-norm Elektromechanik GmbH
- Dauner Sprudel GmbH
- TechniSat Digital GmbH
armed forces
With 1,360 posts , the Bundeswehr is the largest employer in Daun. The following are currently stationed in the Heinrich Hertz barracks :
- Evaluation center for electronic warfare - AuswZentrEloKa - since April 1, 2013 ( CIR )
- Battalion Electronic Warfare 931 - EloKaBtl 931 - since April 1, 2013 ( CIR )
- Bundeswehr Service Center Mayen - Location Service Daun - BwDLZ Mayen - StoS Daun ( IUD )
- Sanitary supply center Daun - SanVersZ Daun ( ZSan )
- Protestant Military Parish Daun - EMilPfA Daun - since July 1, 2013 ( military pastoral care )
- Support staff location elder Daun - UstgPers StOÄ down - since April 1, 1981
- Telecommunications and Electronic Reconnaissance Brigade 94 (April 1, 1992 to December 31, 2013)
media
- Local editorial offices of the Trierischer Volksfreund , the Eifelzeitung and the Wochenspiegel
- Multiplex cinema Kinopalast Vulkaneifel
- The city is located in the broadcasting area of the regional television station OK54
Day care centers
- Integrative day care center Daun
- Thomas More Daycare Center
- St. Nicholas Kindergarten
- Day care center Neunkirchen-Steinborn
schools
General education schools:
- primary school
- Drei-Maare-Realschule plus
- Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Daun
- Thomas-More-Gymnasium
Vocational schools:
- Maria-Hilf Nursing School
- Technical school for geriatric care Maria-Hilf
Special schools:
- St. Laurentius Support Center
Other schools:
- music school
- Education center of the Federal Employment Agency
societies
Sports clubs:
- TuS 05 down
- SV Neunkirchen-Steinborn
- SC Red-White Rengen
- KSC Daun-Weiersbach
- Motorsport Club Daun e. V. in ADAC
- Karate Dojo Vulkaneifel e. V.
- Angelsportverein Daun 1966 e. V.
- Segelflugverein Vulkaneifel eV, Daun-Senheld airfield
- DLRG local group Daun
traffic
Daun is connected to the Federal Motorway 1 . The federal highways 421 and 257 run through the city. The down train station is located at the decommissioned Eifelquerbahn that of Gerolstein to Andernach led.
From Segelfluggelände down-Senheld of which lies on a ridge between the wine and the Maar Schalkenmehrener Maar, rides can be started.
Transportation
Today Daun can only be reached by local transport by buses and on- call buses (bus on call):
- The RegioLinie 500 connects Daun with Ulmem and Cochem , (rail connection in the direction of Koblenz) and on the other hand via the municipality of Dockweiler and Pelm with the city of Gerolstein with a rail connection in the direction of Cologne and Trier.
- The RegioLinie 510 connects Daun with Ulmen (with stops in Darscheid , Utzerath and Schönbach ). It serves as a supplement to line 500 and also runs every two hours.
- The RegioLinie 520 connects Daun with the municipality of Kelberg (with a stop in Neichen and Kradenbach and the Rengen industrial area ) Monday to Friday every hour and every two hours on weekends
- The RegioLinie 300 also runs every 2 hours between Daun, Wittlich and Bernkastel-Kues . Other bus routes complete the offer.
- In addition, the new RLP Nord public transport concept means that the new VRT on-call buses run to the smaller villages. The transfer point is the Daun ZOB stop; From December 2021, the offer will improve considerably in the directions of Gillenfeld, Ulmen, Manderscheid, Wittlich and Gerolstein and will be supplemented by additional on- call buses . - more information will follow here (from 2020)
- The RufBus lines, through which Daun is served every 2 hours:
512: Daun ↔ Boverath
Line 512 runs between Daun and Boverath (Mon - Fri every hour). In addition to the normal route, there are additional trips between Rengen and Boverath for schoolchildren.
513: Daun - Forest Kings - Daun
Line 513 runs between Daun, Waldkönigen and Daun with stops in Steinborn, Neunkirchen and Pützborn.
The municipalities of Neroth , Kirchweiler and Betteldorf are reached every 2 hours by changing in Dockweiler (fire station) (line 500 towards Gerolstein) with the RufBus line 514
The community of Dreis-Brück can also be reached every 2 hours by changing in Dockweiler (fire station) with the RufBus line 516
- See also
Transport association Trier region
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Max Grünbaum , consul, financial advisor to Leonhard Tietz and founder of Dauner Burgbrunnen GmbH
Born in Daun
- Christoph Becker (1814–1886), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- Hermann von Witzleben (1864–1938), major general
- Friedrich Hartmann (1899–1985), politician ( CDU )
- Johannes Caspers (1910–1986), politician
- Oscar W. Gabriel (* 1947), sociologist and political scientist
- Karl Johaentges (* 1948), architect, photographer and publisher
- Rudi Balling (* 1953), natural scientist
- Karl Fleschen (* 1955), track and field athlete and Olympic participant
- Rainer Laupichler (* 1957), actor
- Sebastian Dette (* 1958), former federal judge and President of the Court of Auditors in Thuringia
- Karin Kortmann (* 1959), politician
- Thomas Leif (1959–2017), journalist and political scientist
- Franziskus Wendels (* 1960), artist
- Marco Weber (* 1975), politician ( FDP )
- Sven Voss (* 1976), sports presenter
- Christoph Michels (* 1977), ancient historian
- Pascal Hens (* 1980), national handball player, handball world champion 2007
- Andreas Schäfer (* 1983), soccer player
- Martin Geisen (* 1987), actor
Associated with down
- Aegidius von Daun, Burgmann (14th century) (see Daun Castle )
- Ferdinand Rintelen (1839–1930), District Administrator from 1876 to 1881
- Fritz von Wille (1860–1941), professor and landscape painter, furnished the district building in Daun with large-format wall paintings in 1911
- Pitt Kreuzberg (1888–1966), painter close to Expressionism , painted in 1937 as a commissioned work by the NSDAP for the HJ -Heim in Daun, the work displeased the party leaders and was rejected as "degenerate", the Daun district administrator protected him and hung the picture 1940 in his office
- Edmund Geisen (* 1949), politician, member of the German Bundestag, lives in Daun
See also
literature
- Martina Knichel: Gilles von Daun (1318−1358), knight and robber. From the history of hiking. In: Yearbook for West German State History. 35. 2009, ISSN 0170-2025 , pp. 73-86.
- Ingrid Schumacher: Gilles. Egidius von Daun and his time , Daun 2002
- Michael Losse: Castles and palaces, aristocratic seats and fortifications in the volcanic reef . Imhof, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-399-1 .
Web links
- Website of the city of Daun
- To search for cultural assets of the city of Daun in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ a b Title 'Heilklimatischer Kurort' pays off . In: Trierischer Volksfreund , August 19, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
- ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 174 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
- ↑ The clock stopped at 9.45 am , documentation about the biggest bomb attack on the city of Daun on July 19, 1944, In: stadt-daun.de (PDF)
- ^ Ferdinand Kettenhofen, Franz Hahn: The district town of Daun - now a climatic health resort. In: Heimatjahrbuch 1975. Vulkaneifel district, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Starting shot for the healthy land . In: Trierischer Volksfreund , January 14, 2014. Accessed June 1, 2015.
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
- ^ The stationing of the Bundeswehr in Germany. (PDF) In: Federal Ministry of Defense . October 2011, accessed October 16, 2019 .
- ^ Bundeswehr location database. In: Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr . Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
- ^ Sanitary facilities in postcode area 5. In: sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. April 24, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Daun-Senheld Airfield. Segelfluverein Vulkaneifel e. V., accessed on January 27, 2018 .
- ^ Alois Mayer: Red houses in the Liesertal. In: Eifel newspaper. July 20, 2011, archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; accessed on January 27, 2018 .