Ditscheid

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the district of the same name in the municipality of Asbach in the Neuwied district, see Ditscheid (Asbach)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality :	Vordereifel
Height :	430 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.48 km 2
Residents:	263 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56729
Area code :	02656
License plate :	MYK, MY
Community key :	07 1 37 019
Association administration address:	Kelberger Strasse 26 56727 Mayen
Website :	www.ditscheid-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Frank Rieder
Location of the local community Ditscheid in the district of Mayen-Koblenz

View of Ditscheid

Chapel of St. Apollonia

Ditscheid is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Vordereifel , which has its administrative headquarters in Mayen .

geography

The community is located 17 km southwest of Mayen an der Elz . On the right-hand side, the Kalenborn Bach flows into the Elz. Ditscheid to include the residential places Ditscheider mill and house Gebhards.

history

The first mentions of a place called Dickensceit or Dicheset can be found in the list of goods of the Karden monastery from 1100 or in the confirmation of these goods by Pope Urban III. from the year 1186. It is not entirely clear whether this is Ditscheid, as many authors assume. In the literature there is also the interpretation as Dickenschied in the Hunsrück . However, the proximity to Karden and the other places mentioned in these documents speak for Ditscheid.

In 1893, the teacher Steffens wrote the following in the chronicle: “The village of Ditscheid is located about 13 km southwest of Mayen on the left side of the Elz about 1.5 km from the same. Its population was 138 at the last census in 1890. Ditscheid currently has 28 citizens (this probably means houses or families). The residents are engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry. There is only one craftsman here, namely a blacksmith. Ditscheid forms a school association from 1837 to 1888 with Anschau. "

The chapel of St. Apollonia in the center of the village dates from 1850.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Ditscheid 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.

mayor

Frank Rieder became the local mayor of Ditscheid in 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 94.55% of the vote. Frank Rieder's predecessor was Gerd Knechtges.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Under the blue head of the shield, inside with silver pliers, in gold 7 (4: 3) red diamonds lined up in 2 bars."
	Justification for the coat of arms: The silver pliers are the attribute of Saint Apollonia , the local patroness of Ditscheid. The lower part of the shield of the coat of arms contains the coat of arms of the Counts of Virneburg , to whose rule the place belonged.

See also

• List of the list of cultural monuments in Ditscheid

Web links

Commons : Ditscheid  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Ditscheid
• Local community Ditscheid on the website of the association community Vordereifel
• Brief portrait of Ditscheid on SWR television
• Literature about Ditscheid in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 26 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape  1 : From the oldest times up to the year 1169. Koblenz 1860, p. 455 ff . ( Full text in Google Book Search).
4. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape 2 : From the year 1169 to 1212. Koblenz 1865, p. 118 f. No. 79 ( full text in the Google book search).
5. ^ Ferdinand Pauly : The St. Kastor Abbey in Karden on the Moselle . In: Germania Sacra . New episode 19, Archdiocese of Trier 3. De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1986, p.  266 ( preview in Google Book Search).
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Vordereifel, Verbandsgemeinde, seventh line of results. Retrieved February 11, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Bulletin Vordereifel: Constituent meeting in Ditscheid. Linus Wittich Medien GmbH, issue 34/2019, accessed on February 11, 2020 .