Eisenschmitt

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 6 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Wittlich-Land
Height :	320 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.84 km 2
Residents:	301 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54533
Area code :	06567
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 026
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.eisenschmitt.de
Local Mayor :	Rainer Steilen
Location of the local community Eisenschmitt in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Eisenschmitt hunting lodge

Eisenschmitt town center

Eisenschmitt an der Salm is a municipality in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been a member of the Wittlich-Land community since July 1, 2014 . Eisenschmitt is a state-approved resort .

Community structure

To Eisenschmitt part of salmabwärts located district Eichelhütte ; Even further below is the Himmerod Abbey belonging to Großlittgen .

history

Eisenschmitt was first mentioned in a document in 1372 as "Yssensmyt uff der Salmen". The productivity of the iron ore deposits, the extraction of charcoal in the surrounding forests to operate the furnaces and the possibility of smelting using the water power of the Salm were large enough to operate iron works in the long term. This in turn required the settlement of ironworkers and thus the establishment and expansion of a village.

From 1794 Eisenschmitt was under French rule, in 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . In 1835 Eisenschmitt had nearly 1,350 inhabitants, the largest number in its history. In the further course of the 19th century, the iron industry in the Salmtal came to an end, due to new production processes and more productive and larger plants in the industrial areas of the Lower Rhine and Ruhr, which could also work with cheaper hard coal instead of charcoal.

Eisenschmitt has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

With August Schär KG Eisenschmitt owns the last coconut weaving mill in Germany.

The name Eisenschmitt

The name "Eisenschmitt" comes from the iron processing industry that is now abandoned and has its origins in the 14th century. In Latin sources the place appears variously as "Ferrifodina" and in French as "La Schmitt". The dialectal name is still "de Schmett" today. The Eichelhütte ironworks was founded in 1701.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Eisenschmitt consists of eight 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 eight seats in the municipal council are divided between two groups of voters .

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms reads: "Split of gold by a curved red tip, in it a silver mark of the entwined letters I and S, a red zigzag bar in front, a black hammer and black pliers crossed diagonally at the back".

The mark with the intertwined letters "I" and "S" stands for Isen-Schmitt, the old Eisenschmitter hut brand from the 16th century. The colors red and silver are the Malberg colors, to whose rule Eisenschmitt belonged until the end of the 18th century. The rafter bar in the first field comes from the coat of arms of the noble lords of Manderscheid ("In gold a red zigzag bar (rafter bar)") and indicates the affiliation to the former county of Manderscheid . Hammer and pliers are in the second field. They are symbols of the iron industry that has existed for centuries, from which the place got its name.

Culture and sights

• Eisenschmitter fountain

"The Weiberdorf"

The place Eisenschmitt served the writer Clara Viebig (1860–1952) as a template for her novel Das Weiberdorf , which describes life in the small place “Eifelschmitt”. The background to the novel is a peculiarity of the village community: Due to the dwindling raw material iron ore in the vicinity of Eisenschmitt, the able-bodied men became guest workers in the Ruhr area towards the end of the 19th century . They earned a living for themselves and their families in the up-and-coming steelworks. What stayed behind were the women who had to do all the work in the house and field alone during the long absence of their husbands - hence the name of the novel Das Weiberdorf . The description of these conditions was considered scandalous by many contemporaries, as women played a role that was not common at the time.

Scenes from the novel are depicted on the village fountain in front of the church. The Clara Viebig Center in Eisenschmitt has been commemorating the writer since June 2005 . The center is located in the former residential and commercial building of the Jewish family of Simon Samuel, who in 1902 acquired the residential building including the already established general store from the Jewish merchant Emanuel Müller. The family lived in the house until the night of the pogrom in 1938 , when all the rooms were devastated and the store's inventory was destroyed. Simon Samuel was forced to sell the house; on February 14, 1939, he and his wife Malchen Schlachter moved to Berlin-Pankow to have a daughter, where he died two years later.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Eisenschmitt

Cellular connection

Eisenschmitt was one of the few municipalities in Germany that did not yet have a mobile phone connection in 2015 , as the telecommunications companies considered connecting the few potential customers to be unprofitable. As a result of numerous media reports, the expansion was tackled and shortly before the 2017 federal election, the last radio hole was closed by Telekom with an antenna.

Personalities

• Bernhard Ketzlick (1907–1951), religious priest, died in Eisenschmitt
• Anselm von Pidoll (1734-1827), religious priest, was born in Eisenschmitt

literature

• Erich Gerten: Eisenschmitt - from the medieval ironworks to the Eifel residential and recreational area. Publisher: Eisenschmitt local community in conjunction with the Förderkreis Kultur und Geschichte e. V., 2006.
• Claus Rech: Staying back in the "Weiberdorf". Women of migrant workers and their living conditions in Eisenschmitt / Eifel 1830–1900. In: Andreas Gestrich , Marita Krauss : Staying back. The neglected part of migration history . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 125-153, ISBN 978-3-515-08940-1 .

Web links

Commons : Eisenschmitt  - Collection of Images

• Eisenschmitt village website
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Eisenschmitt in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• History of the place

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 - regional data
3. ^ Freiherr von Leopold Zedlitz-Neukirch: The Prussian state in all its relationships . Volume 3. Verlag A. Hirschwald, Berlin 1837. Chapter Wittlich district - strange villages .
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ Stefan Roos: Jewish families in Eisenschmitt. In: Erich Gerten: Eisenschmitt - from the medieval ironworks to the Eifel residential and recreational area. Knopp, Wiitlich 2006, pp. 323–326, here: pp. 325 f .; Jochen Zenthöfer: House with a past . Jewish general. January 18, 2018. Retrieved June 6, 2018.
6. ↑ Birgit Reichert: Eifeldorf Eisenschmitt: This is what life is like in a dead zone. In: Spiegel Online. December 4, 2015, accessed July 17, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Visiting Eisenschmitt: Drive two kilometers for an SMS. In: Focus Online. December 7, 2015, accessed July 17, 2018 . 
8. ↑ No cell phone reception: The cellular network of the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land leaves a lot to be desired. In: Volksfreund.de. May 3, 2015, accessed July 17, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Juliane Görsch, dpa: Life as a "white spot" in the broadband atlas . In: heise online . July 13, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2018.