Emmelbaum

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '  N , 6 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	515 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.69 km 2
Residents:	69 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	26 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54673
Area code :	06564
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 031
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Manfred Schreiber
Location of the local community Emmelbaum in the Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm

Emmelbaum is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel .

geography

Emmelbaum is located on the Arzfeld plateau in the West Eifel . The municipality also includes the living spaces house Schmitz, Sachsenhauserhof and Windhof (Wallenbornerhof).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1477 as Emmelbende . Other written sources speak of 1570 Emmelbem and 1664 by Emmel leg .

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the lordship of Neuerburg in the Duchy of Luxembourg and was subordinate to the administration of the Koxhausen - Leimbach dairy .

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 the place belonged to the canton Arzfeld in the department of forests .

In 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . 1816 thus came the community Emmelbaum to Bitburg in Trier in the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine , which in 1822 Rheinprovinz opened. Emmelbaum was administered by the mayor's office in Ammeldingen .

In 1872 Emmelbaum was almost completely destroyed by fire, only one house was spared. After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French , the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 24 1835 38 1871 58 1905 89 1939 81 1950 68 1961 71

year Residents 1970 84 1987 88 1997 81 2005 75 2011 79 2017 70

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Emmelbaum 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.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Under blue over silver by pinnacle cut divided shield head, forming three silver battlements, red, in front a silver windmill, behind over silver crossed keys, beards turned downwards, cut off silver horse head."

Culture and sights

• Village chapel on Hauptstrasse 8
• The local fair takes place on the Sunday after May 15th.

Location and traffic

Emmelbaum is located between Arzfeld in the north and Zweifelscheid in the south on Kreisstraße 58 .

Web links

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

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Emmelbaum in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Short portrait with a film about Emmelbaum ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on SWR television

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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 98 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 5, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .