Echtershausen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′  N , 6 ° 25 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.49 km 2
Residents:	105 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54636
Area code :	06569
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 029
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Norbert Fleckner
Location of the community of Echtershausen in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Echtershausen, Hauptstrasse, Brunnen

Echtershausen is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been part of the Bitburger Land community since July 1, 2014 .

geography

The community is located in the South Eifel nature park, around 10 km northwest of the district town of Bitburg . The Prüm runs east of the village and flows into the Bitburg reservoir, 1 km from Echtershausen . Of the municipality area, which is quite small at 2.49 km², 40% are used for agriculture, 46% are forest.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1325 as "Ochtershausen". The ending “–hausen” comes from the clearing time in the 9th – 11th centuries. Century.

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Luxembourg rule Hamm . In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . From 1795 to 1814 Echtershausen belonged to the canton Bitburg in the department of forests . Around 1800 it was administered by the Mairie Biersdorf , from which the Prussian mayor's office Biersdorf emerged in 1815 , which was assigned to the Bitburg district in the Trier administrative district in 1816 and the Rhine province in 1822 . In 1856 the community came to the mayor's office Bickendorf (renamed to Amt Bickendorf in 1927), from which the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburg-Land was formed in 1970 with additional offices . Since July 1, 2014, the community has been part of the Bitburger Land association.

Population development

For 1473 and 1493, the Luxembourg Fireplace Directory shows three households in Enchtershusen . In 1656 the village had grown to three and in 1848 to 16 houses with 131 inhabitants. The previous high was reached in 1871 with 167 inhabitants.

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

year Residents 1815 74 1835 131 1871 167 1905 151 1939 152 1950 140 1961 143

year Residents 1970 122 1987 117 1997 121 2005 107 2011 104 2017 115

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Justification of the coat of arms: The shield colors blue and silver are an expression of the longstanding membership in the Duchy of Luxembourg. The rising tip symbolizes the cone-like elevation within the demarcation, the wavy bar stands for the Prüm. The plow wheel in the lower part of the coat of arms is an indication of the original agricultural structure of the municipality.

Attractions

In the area of ​​the town center there is a slate rock that reminds of the earlier western course of the Prüm around the town. Also worth seeing are a chapel from 1892 and the agricultural farms spread across the district .

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  St. Maria Chapel (1894)

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  Chapel interior

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  Pietà (18th century)

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  Ceiling painting

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  Four-pass window (1894)

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  portal

See also: List of cultural monuments in Echtershausen

See also: List of natural monuments in Echtershausen

economy

Due to the nearby Bitburg reservoir, among other things , Echtershausen is now a touristy municipality. A village inn and guesthouse and several holiday apartments are evidence of this . The importance of agriculture has declined sharply in recent years compared to the surrounding area; the area used for agriculture was more than halved between 1971 and 2005. Most of the employees work in Bitburg, the Trier region and Luxembourg .

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (arr.): The art monuments of the Bitburg district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / I ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 23 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 figs. In the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

Commons : Echtershausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Echtershausen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the community of Echtershausen in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of the community of Echtershausen in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on September 1, 2016.