Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
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Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ N , 6 ° 25 ′ E |
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Basic data | |
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate |
Administrative headquarters : | Bitburg |
Area : | 1,626.22 km 2 |
Residents: | 99,058 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
Population density : | 61 inhabitants per km 2 |
License plate : | BIT, PRÜ |
Circle key : | 07 2 32 |
NUTS : | DEB23 |
Circle structure: | 234 municipalities |
Address of the district administration: |
Trierer Strasse 1 54634 Bitburg |
Website : | |
District Administrator : | Joachim Streit ( independent ) |
Location of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate | |
The Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm (until December 31, 2006 district Bitburg-Prüm ) is a district in the far west of Rhineland-Palatinate and borders the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . Measured in terms of its area, the district is the largest and at the same time the most sparsely populated in Rhineland-Palatinate as well as the richest in municipalities in Germany. The seat of the district administration and at the same time the most populous city is Bitburg .
geography
location
The Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm comprises the southern part of the Eifel low mountain range with the Schneifel and its highest mountain, the Black Man ( 698 m ). In the west is the Islek , in the east the Kalk and Waldeifel and in the south the Bitburger Gutland (Bekef) with the Ferschweiler plateau . Smaller rivers such as Kyll , Nims and Prüm run through the district. Our and Sauer (a tributary of the Moselle ) form the border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg .
Neighboring areas
The Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm borders clockwise to the north, beginning with the Euskirchen district (in North Rhine-Westphalia , border length only approx. 1.5 km) as well as the Vulkaneifel , Bernkastel-Wittlich and Trier-Saarburg districts . In the west it borders on the Luxembourgish cantons of Echternach , Diekirch , Vianden and Clervaux and in the north-west on the Belgian province of Liège .
history
The current district of Bitburg-Prüm was split up into many territories at the end of the 18th century. In 1798, under French administration, the arrondissement of Prüm was founded as part of the Saardé department . In 1815 it came under Prussian administration and in 1816 the two districts of Bitburg and Prüm were established in the Trier administrative district . After the First World War, the area was temporarily occupied by the French again. In the district are located mainly in today Schneifel important remains of the former West Wall . Since 1946 the area has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
The district of Bitburg-Prüm was formed as part of the district reform in Rhineland-Palatinate on November 7, 1970 from the following components:
- The entire district of Bitburg
- The entire district Prüm up to the local communities Birresborn , Densborn , Duppach , Hallschlag , Kerschenbach , Kopp , Mürlenbach , Oos , Ormont , Reuth , Scheid , Schoenfeld , Schüller , Stadtkyll and Steffeln that the County Down came
- The local communities Spangdahlem , Gransdorf , Oberkail , Seinsfeld and Steinborn from the Bernkastel-Wittlich district
- The local communities Eisenach , Gilzem and Orenhofen from the Trier-Saarburg district
The district of Bitburg-Prüm was renamed the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm on January 1st, 2007 , from which, among other things, tourist advantages were hoped.
Today's Eifelkreis has been part of the Trier Region Initiative (IRT) since 1994 , in which regional public institutions, administrations, universities, companies, banks and committed individuals aim to ensure the future of the region as an economically attractive, culturally significant and ecologically intact area with a high Securing the value of life and leisure time, working together as partners.
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1970 | 93,400 | |
1980 | 89,300 | |
1990 | 91,400 | |
2000 | 96,500 | |
2010 | 94.008 | |
2016 | 98.021 |
politics
District council
The district council of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm consists of 42 elected members and the district administrator as chairman. The district election on May 26, 2019 led to the following election result:
Parties and constituencies |
% 2019 |
Seats 2019 |
% 2014 |
Seats 2014 |
% 2009 |
Seats 2009 |
% 2004 |
Seats 2004 |
% 1999 |
Seats 1999 |
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CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 36.9 | 15th | 45.0 | 19th | 40.7 | 17th | 52.6 | 22nd | 54.0 | 22nd |
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 21.8 | 9 | 25.4 | 11 | 19.2 | 8th | 21.6 | 9 | 28.7 | 12 |
FWG | Free group of voters in the Bitburg-Prüm district association | 14.3 | 6th | 12.9 | 5 | 22.9 | 10 | 14.1 | 6th | 9.2 | 4th |
GREEN | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 13.8 | 6th | 9.3 | 4th | 6.1 | 3 | 5.2 | 2 | 3.9 | 2 |
FDP | Free Democratic Party | 6.6 | 3 | 4.5 | 2 | 8.1 | 3 | 6.5 | 3 | 4.2 | 2 |
AfD | Alternative for Germany | 4.0 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
THE LEFT. | THE LEFT. | 2.6 | 1 | 2.8 | 1 | 3.0 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
total | 100.0 | 42 | 100.0 | 42 | 100.0 | 42 | 100.0 | 42 | 100.0 | 42 | |
Voter turnout in% | 64.2 | 60.7 | 63.6 | 66.8 | 71.7 |
District administrators
District administrators of the Bitburg-Prüm district
1970–1979: | Karl Vogt |
1979–1988: | Fritz Gasper |
1989-2006: | Roger Graef |
District administrators of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
2007-2009: | Roger Graef |
since December 16, 2009: | Joachim Streit |
In the direct election on September 24, 2017, Joachim Streit was confirmed in his office for a further eight years with 88.4% of the vote.
District partnerships
The Eifelkreis has had a district partnership with the southern Thuringian district of Sonneberg since 1990 . As part of this, he helped his circle of partners to set up the district administration after reunification .
Another district partnership was officially signed on October 2, 2001 with the Polish powiat Kędzierzyńsko-Kozielski (German: Kedzierzyn-Kozle district ) after it had been established in the two years before. The district partnership is supported by another communal partnership between the Bitburg-Land association and Strzeleczki (German: Klein-Strehlitz ).
badges and flags
The Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm has a coat of arms as well as a hoist and banner flag .
Blazon : “Quartered: 1 red bar cross in silver; 2 golden tower with a blue gate in red, each with a silver star over a silver nailed cross; 3 silver Salvator lamb in red; 4 divided nine times by silver and blue. "
The coat of arms was approved on August 27, 1973. |
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Reasons for the coat of arms: The red cross stands for the Electorate of Trier. The tower comes from the seal of the provost and the city of Bitburg. The lamb with the flag is the coat of arms of the Priory Abbey . The silver-blue stripes symbolize the Duchy of Luxembourg , to which the southern part of the district belonged. |
An overview of the coats of arms of the cities and municipalities of the district can be found in the list of coats of arms in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm .
Economy and Transport
In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm was ranked 237 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany and is therefore one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.
Street
The federal motorway 60 Wittlich-Lüttich (Belgium) runs through the district . In addition, several federal , country and district roads run through the district, including the B 51 , B 257 , B 265 and B 410 .
rail
The Eifel route from Cologne to Trier runs through the district. This railway line had several branches , which have now been largely closed and some of them have already been dismantled. Minden was a stop on the Erdorf – Irrel – Igel ( Nims-Sauertalbahn ) railway line , which was shut down and dismantled in 1988. The Erdorf-Bitburg section was used to supply the Bitburger brewery with raw materials until the end of 2005. However, this was shifted to the road for cost reasons.
air
In the district area there are several sports airfields as well as the former NATO airfield Bitburg , which is currently approved for civil aviation use in visual flight up to 14 tons. The runway measures 3056 meters (for comparison: Frankfurt am Main: 4000 m, Nuremberg 2700 m) and is therefore suitable for large aircraft. Expansion and approval procedures for instrument flight are currently underway.
cities and communes
The Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm comprises 234 communities, making it the district with the largest number of communities in Germany. Bitburg is the largest municipality with 15,047 inhabitants, while most of the other municipalities have fewer than 1000 inhabitants.
(Information in brackets: population figures on December 31, 2019)
Association-free municipalities / cities :
- Bitburg , City * (15,047)
Association municipalities with their association members:
(Seat of the association *)
- See also
- Former parishes
The following municipalities have lost their independence since the district was founded in 1970:
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For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate
License Plate
On November 7, 1970, the district was assigned the BIT , which has been valid since July 1, 1956 for the Bitburg district. It is still issued today. Since November 14, 2012, the distinguishing mark PRÜ (Prüm) has also been available.
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Bernd Altmann, Hans Caspary: Bitburg-Prüm district. City of Bitburg, Verbandsgemeinden Bitburg-Land and Irrel (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1997, ISBN 3-88462-132-7 .
- Sven Nieder, Christian Humberg : Sky above the Eifelkreis: Above the clouds in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm . Eifelbildverlag, Daun 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814113-1-7 .
- Hans-Hermann Reck, Andrea Rumpf (arrangement): Bitburg-Prüm district. Verbandsgemeinden Arzfeld, Neuerburg and Prüm (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.3 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2000, ISBN 3-88462-170-X .
Web links
Further content in the sister projects of Wikipedia:
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- Official website of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
- Statistical data for the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm from the State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Literature on the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ 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. 160 (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.
- ↑ State government decides to change the name of the Eifel districts to "Landkreis Vulkaneifel" and "Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm" ( Memento of February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), state government press releases, July 4, 2006
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002
- ↑ https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen//kk/verbindungen/2320000000.html
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm. Final result of the 2019 district assembly. Accessed August 11, 2019 .
- ^ Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm: District Administrator Joachim Streit confirmed with almost 90 percent in office. Press release. September 24, 2015, accessed December 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Zukunftsatlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).