Detzem

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Schweich on the Roman Wine Route
Height :	125 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.56 km 2
Residents:	607 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	109 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54340
Area code :	06507
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 015
LOCODE :	DE DZ9
Association administration address:	Brückenstrasse 26 ; 54338 Schweich
Website :	www.detzem.com
Local Mayor :	Albin Merten ( CDU )
Location of the local community Detzem in the district of Trier-Saarburg

The village

Detzem an der Mosel is a municipality in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Schweich on the Roman Wine Route .

To Detzem includes the living space house Arenz .

Surname

The name comes from the Latin decem ("ten"), because Detzem is ten Celtic Leugen (miles, 22 kilometers) downstream of Trier ( ad decimum lapidem = on the tenth milestone), on the Roman trunk road Trier - Neumagen - Bingen - Mainz (see also Quint ).

history

King Arnulf handed over the Franconian royal estate Detzem to the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier in 893 .

In the land register of St. Maximin Abbey around 1200, the church, the manor with 20 hooves and seven smaller farms are listed for Detzem.

Later Detzem belonged to the office of Maximin and counted according to the Trier fire book of 1563 29 fire places and in 1684 27 fire places.

Population development

Population development of Detzem from 1815 to 2018

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

1815-336
1835-438
1871-430
1905-528
1939-668
1950-658
1961-626
1965-657
1970-615
1975 - 588
1980-537
1985-509
1987-519
1990-508
1995 - 528
2000 - 543
2005 - 537
2010 - 552
2018 - 611

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Detzem consists of twelve 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 local council:

choice	CDU	Flat share	total
2019	7th	5	12 seats
2014	8th	4th	12 seats

mayor

Albin Merten has been the directly elected mayor of the local community of Detzem since the local elections in 2004. It was confirmed in 2009 and 2014.

Moselle near Detzem

Detzem on a postcard from 1976

Attractions

In the middle of the village is the so-called ten-mile stone, a stylized representation of a Roman Leugen stone . The original is in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Trier.

The center of the village is the Catholic parish church of St. Agritius , which was rebuilt in 1735/36 by Abbot Martin Bewer and consecrated in 1736. It houses a late baroque choir from the 15th century. Between 1986 and 1991 the interior of the church, which is consecrated to Saint Agritius, the fourth bishop of Trier, was renovated and restored.

In the walls of today's inn "Zum Anker" there was a noble winery at the time of the Maximiner. The coat of arms of Johannes Theodorus Meelbaum de Castelburg reminds of this time over a sandstone-framed chimney from this time.

A well house from the 18th century stands in front of the Maximiner Hof , as a reminder of former village life.

In Detzem is since the Mosel channeling the barrage with the largest drop height of 9 meters. The lock and barrage are on an island in the Moselle.

A hiking trail leads to an approximately 20.5 m high wooden observation tower in the Detzemer Forest, from which the eye can see the arch of the Moselle five times in good weather, the so-called five-lake view .