Ediger-Eller

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Ediger-Eller
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '  N , 7 ° 9'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Cochem cell
Association municipality : Cochem
Height : 99 m above sea level NHN
Area : 19.15 km 2
Residents: 942 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56814
Area code : 02675
License plate : COC, ZEL
Community key : 07 1 35 024
LOCODE : DE EE8
Community structure: 2 districts
Association administration address: Ravenéstrasse 61
56812 Cochem
Website : www.ediger-eller.de
Local Mayor : Bernhard Himmen
Location of the local community Ediger-Eller in the district of Cochem-Zell
Kalenborn (bei Kaisersesch) Eppenberg (Eifel) Laubach (Eifel) Leienkaul Müllenbach (bei Mayen) Hauroth Urmersbach Masburg Düngenheim Kaisersesch Landkern Illerich Eulgem Hambuch Gamlen Zettingen Kaifenheim Brachtendorf Ulmen (Eifel) Alflen Auderath Filz (Eifel) Wollmerath Schmitt Büchel (Eifel) Wagenhausen (Eifel) Gillenbeuren Gevenich Weiler (bei Ulmen) Lutzerath Bad Bertrich Urschmitt Kliding Beuren (Eifel) Moselkern Müden (Mosel) Treis-Karden Lütz Lieg Roes Möntenich Forst (Eifel) Dünfus Brohl Binningen (Eifel) Wirfus Brieden Kail Pommern (Mosel) Briedel Altlay Peterswald-Löffelscheid Haserich Sosberg Forst (Hunsrück) Altstrimmig Reidenhausen Mittelstrimmig Blankenrath Panzweiler Walhausen Schauren (bei Blankenrath) Tellig Hesweiler Liesenich Moritzheim Grenderich Zell (Mosel) Neef Bullay Sankt Aldegund Alf (Mosel) Pünderich Greimersburg Klotten Faid Dohr Bremm Bruttig-Fankel Senheim Nehren (Mosel) Ediger-Eller Mesenich Valwig Ernst (Mosel) Beilstein (Mosel) Ellenz-Poltersdorf Briedern Cochem Landkreis Vulkaneifel Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreismap
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Ediger district
Winter in Ediger
Moselle valley

Ediger-Eller is a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate in the Cochem-Zell district . It belongs to the Cochem community . The place is called Edscha-Ella in Moselle Franconian . Ediger-Eller is designated as a basic center in accordance with state planning .

geography

Ediger-Eller is located on the Lower Moselle . The district of Eller is located at the foot of Europe's steepest vineyard, Calmont, at the mouth of the Ellerbach stream of the same name , which almost completely surrounds the Calmont together with the Moselle.

At the end of the 1960s, RWE planned the large Bremm pumped storage plant . Its three-kilometer-long Untersee would have been created in the Ellerbachtal near the south portal to the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel , which is located in its lower reaches over a kilometer from the mouth of the Moselle. Below the Calmont, the river water for the operation of the power plant was to be taken and the power plant water was also to be drained off, for which a 400-meter-long lead structure was planned on the banks of the Eller Moselle.

history

According to a document, the history of the two places goes back to at least 636. Found pottery shards from a Roman manufactory near Trier suggest an existence as early as the 2nd to 3rd century AD.

Even older traces of settlement - remains of the stone wall of a fortress from Celtic times - can be found on the Hochkessel mountain on the opposite side of the Moselle . On the side of the Moselle facing the Hunsrück there is a Roman-Gallic burial ground near the Neefer Peters Chapel . The sparse remains of a garrison outpost of a Roman legion can be found on the Calmont ridge .

The district of Eller was already in the 5th century at the time of the Merovingian seat of a monastery which was consecrated to Saint Fridolin . At the late Romanesque tower there is a baroque nave with good fittings, u. a. a silent organ. In the opposite St. Arnulf's Chapel hangs the mural Mocking Christ from the 15th century, based on a drawing by Martin Schongauer . The courtyard houses of Pyrmont and Kurtrier from the 16th century, today ancestral home of the Barons von Landenberg-Trimborn, underline the former importance of Eller.

Behind the railway bridge, the Calmont rises with a slope incline of 65 ° in a purely south-facing position as the steepest vineyard in the world up to 378 m. For many, a hike over the via ferrata on the mountain ridge is one of the most impressive experiences on the Moselle. Opposite on the former Insula Sankt Nicolai are the ruins of a monastery church belonging to the Augustinian convent Stuben , which was founded in 1137 and belonged to the Springiersbach monastery . From 1208 to 1788 it housed the famous Staurothek , an art-historically valuable container with alleged wooden particles from the cross of Jesus, which is now part of the Limburg Cathedral Treasury .

In 1794 it was occupied by French revolutionary troops and both places formed one municipality. In 1815 the two places were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna and became independent again. Since 1877, ending near Eller Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel (since its completion until 1987 with a length of 4,205 m is the longest railway tunnel in Germany), which in Cochem starts and after Emperor I. Wilhelm is named. This tunnel is part of the Moselle Railway . Not far from the tunnel portal, before the Moselle bridge, is the Ediger-Eller train station.

The two independent communities Eller (Mosel) and Ediger have been part of the then new state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 . On June 7, 1969, as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate regional reform, the community Ediger-Eller was newly formed from these.

On September 10, 2010 Ediger-Eller was chosen as the most beautiful place in Rhineland-Palatinate in the federal decision in the competition of Our village has a future and was awarded one of eight gold medals.

Population development

The development of the population of Ediger-Eller in relation to today's municipality, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 1,042
1835 1,524
1871 1,489
1905 1,772
1939 1,807
1950 1,892
year Residents
1961 1,709
1970 1,662
1987 1,261
1997 1,174
2005 1,084
2019 942

politics

Municipal council

The council in Ediger-Eller consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice CDU FWG total
2019 by majority vote 16 seats
2014 6th 10 16 seats
2009 9 7th 16 seats
2004 5 11 16 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Ediger-Eller e. V.
Church of St. Martin in Ediger

Buildings

The legendary Dohrer Mühle is now in ruins.

Half-timbered houses in Ediger

Economy and Infrastructure

The most important branches of the economy are viticulture and tourism . Riesling is mainly grown in the vineyards . An area of ​​around 22 ha is available for viticulture, which, however, requires a lot of manual work and muscle strength due to the incline (→ steep-slope viticulture ). After viticulture in the Calmont massif declined for decades for reasons of profitability, some winegrowers have been ready to replant their areas since 2005. The local individual locations include Ediger Elzhofberg , Ediger Osterlämmchen , Ellerer Calmont , Ellerer Höll and Ellerer Pfirsichgarten . The place is the stage destination of the Moselsteig .

Personalities

Panorama photo of the Ediger district

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Nikolaus Moir (* around 1450; † after 1518), Cistercian monk and prior in Linz on the Rhine
  • Matthias Morsch (* late 15th century – 1558), Cistercian and abbot in the Himmerod monastery
  • Martin Feiden (* around 1600 in Ediger; † September 27, 1675 in Trier), abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias in Trier
  • Hubert Joseph Pauly (born August 24, 1781 in Eller; † March 8, 1854 in Cochem), businessman and member of parliament
  • Eduard David (born June 11, 1863 in Ediger, † December 24, 1930 in Berlin), politician ( SPD ), MdR , MdL ( Hessen ), Reich Minister of the Interior
  • Friedrich Franzen (1893–1974), Pallottine, retreat master and local writer, since 1973 honorary citizen of Ediger
  • Heinz Balthes (* 1937 in Ediger / Mosel), stage designer
  • Manfred Probst (born December 13, 1939 in Ediger), Catholic theologian
  • Detlef Becker (born March 21, 1963 in Ediger; † October 16, 1982 in Koblenz), banker, victim of a hostage-taking

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs , Karl-Josef Gilles , Wolfgang Wolpert: Ediger-Eller on the Moselle . In: Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 212, 1978.
  • Friedrich Jos. Franzen: History of the parish Ediger / Mosel . Self-published by Olpe in 1963.

Web links

Commons : Ediger-Eller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  3. ↑ 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. 175 (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.  
  4. ^ Rhein Zeitung September 10, 2010
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections