Dauwelshausen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′  N , 6 ° 11 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	482 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.05 km 2
Residents:	75 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	37 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54673
Area code :	06524
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 025
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Wolfram Bollig
Location of the local community of Dauwelshausen in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

Dauwelshausen is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel .

geography

Dauwelshausen is located in the South Eifel nature park . The Thielenhof residential area also belongs to the community.

history

Until the end of the 18th century Dauwelshausen belonged to the County of Vianden in the Duchy of Luxembourg . Two stock estates are recorded in 1615 that belonged to the Karlshausen dairy . The oldest houses still in existence date back to the 17th century.

With the annexation of the Austrian Netherlands , to which Luxembourg and thus Dauwelshausen belonged, by French revolutionary troops , the place belonged to the French forest department from 1795 to 1814 .

In 1815, significant parts of the Rhineland and thus also Dauwelshausen were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna ; from 1816 onwards, the town was administered by the Koxhausen mayor . After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French again , the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Dauwelshausen belongs to the parish Rodershausen.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 38 1835 80 1871 114 1905 115 1939 545 1950 106 1961 94

year Residents 1970 95 1987 92 1997 77 2005 92 2011 78 2017 77

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

Blazon : “Silver, split by obliquely left red bars, each covered with two golden oak leaves and acorns (1: 1: 1: 1), black signpost with two longitudinal panels at the front, blue ball at the back, covered with a golden arched strip, accompanied by four symmetrical ones , isosceles black triangles. "

Reasons for the coat of arms: The base color of the coat of arms is silver and an oblique left bar in red. These two colors refer to the county of Vianden (Lux.) And the tithing and compulsory labor over centuries. In the sloping bar from the left, oak leaves and acorns are embedded in gold in two rows. A blue (world) sphere with the 50th degree of latitude entered in gold and four black triangles, pointing in the cardinal directions, dominates the lower left field at the top right there is a cast iron signpost with two rectangular signs pointing to localities in the vicinity demonstrate.

Culture and sights

• Crosses, old cast iron signposts
• Hiking on the 50th parallel that runs through Dauwelshausen

Green spaces and recreation

• playground
• Hiking on marked trails

Events

• Annual fair or parish fair is celebrated on the last weekend in May.
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Castle fire on the Loh , on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

Web links

Commons : Dauwelshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• To search for cultural goods of the local community Dauwelshausen in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Short portrait of Dauwelshausen ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 98 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 2, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 2, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. (PDF) Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .