Hetzerath (Eifel)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 6 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Wittlich-Land
Height :	180 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.87 km 2
Residents:	2356 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	170 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54523
Area code :	06508
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 053
Association administration address:	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.gemeinde-hetzerath.de
Local Mayor :	Werner Monzel
Location of the local community Hetzerath in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Parish Church of St. Hubertus

Hetzerath is a municipality in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land .

geography

The place is on the edge of the southern Eifel in the Wittlich valley between the cities of Wittlich and Trier , five kilometers from the Moselle . Hetzerath also includes the Erlenbach district and the Bernhardshof, Haus Rau, Johanneshof, Marienhof and Zimmerhof residential areas .

history

Hetzerath was first mentioned in a document in 893 in the Prümer Urbar as Salmana (Hof der Salm). In the 9th or 10th century it was renamed Hecelroide (clearing of the Hezilo). The oldest written mention after the renaming comes from 1068.

From 1794 Hetzerath was under French rule, in 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 it has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 508 1835 810 1871 898 1905 881 1939 1.109

year Residents 1950 1,232 1961 1,567 1970 1,641 1987 1,751 2005 2.023

Church history

The origins of the parish of Hetzerath go back to the 9th century. King Pippin gave the Prüm Abbey fishing rights on the Moselle between Mehring and Schweich in 752 and 10 years later, in 762, the manors of Mehring and Schweich including accessories.

The Goarspatrozinium has been possible for the church since the middle of the 9th century. This patronage clearly indicates the relationship to the Prüm monastery. The grave of St. Goar was donated to the Prüm Abbey in the 8th century by King Pippin, and in the years that followed, a close relationship between the Prüm Abbey and this church patron can be observed.

A branch church in Hetzerath in the Taxa Generalis, which was drawn up in the first half of the 14th century, was first mentioned in a document. Hetzerath belonged to Bekond (Bakunna), Föhren (Vurna) and Schweich (Sueche) as a branch of the mother church Mernich (Mehring) on ​​the Moselle. The mother church of Mehring had to deliver 5 Malter oats and 1 Malter grain because of Hetzenrait, Bakunna and Vurna. Since Hetzerath was specially listed here alongside Bekond and Föhren, the place could have had its own church even then. The taxa also states that the municipality of Hetzerath has to pay 20 denarii in taxes. From the information given in the first Tridentine visitation, 1569, we learn that the patron saint of the church is St. Goar. The church had 2 altars and 2 chalices. Hetzerath was then listed as a branch of Föhren. The abbess von Niederprüm received the small and the big tithe. Abbot Gerhard von Prüm had given the Benedictine convent Niederprüm, which he founded, the Mehring church with the right of patronage in 1190. In 1602, the Bartholomäuskirche in Föhren was formally separated from Mehring and an independent parish with the branches of Bekond, Hetzerath, Erlenbach and Naurath was established. On the occasion of the visitation in 1641, all of the parish chapels were described as in need of repair. The Hetzerath branch already had a certain degree of independence at that time, as it had its own churchyard and the right to the granting of all sacraments. This was apparently partly lost again due to the chaos of war. The visitation of 1652 reported the following: "Hetzerath used to have all the sacraments, but because of the devastation caused by the soldiers, it now only has the baptismal font." In 1762 there was a clergyman of its own, Kaplan Schmitz. During this time the church patron changed from Goar to Quirinus. Quirinus was replaced as patron in the 19th century by Hubertus. Quirinus took second place. In 1804, Hetzerath was visited as a parish by the then Bishop Mannay for the first time. The official parish establishment took place in 1806. (Source: Chronicle Wittlich-Land, Andreas Wisniewski)

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hetzerath consists of 16 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 distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FBL	WGR	total
2019	3	3	10	-	16 seats
2014	3	3	10	-	16 seats
2009	3	3	9	1	16 seats

• FBL = Free Citizens List Hetzerath e. V.

mayor

Otmar Mischo (* 1951) was elected local mayor in 1999 and was confirmed in office in 2004 and 2009, in 2009 with 78.1% of the vote. He died on January 24, 2011. His successor is Werner Monzel, who was re-elected in 2014 with 92.1 percent.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Shield divided nine times by silver and blue, covered with a red bar cross, this in turn covered with a silver lily."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was approved on February 13, 1979 by the Trier district government . It corresponds to the coat of arms of the municipality of Hetzerath, which was dissolved in 1970 (Hetzerath office until 1968), with the exception of the blue shield border .

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a train station in the village on the Koblenz-Trier railway line . The following lines operate there:

line	designation	Train run	Clock frequency
RE 1	Southwest Express	Koblenz - Cochem - Bullay (DB) - Wittlich - Hetzerath - Trier - Saarlouis - Völklingen - Saarbrücken - Homburg - Kaiserslautern	one train Mon - Sat
RE 11	DeLux-Express	Koblenz - Cochem - Bullay (DB) - Wittlich - Hetzerath - Trier - Wasserbillig - Munsbach - Wecker - Sandweiler-Contern - Luxembourg	one train Mon - Fri
RB 81	Moselle Valley Railway	Koblenz - Cochem - Bullay (DB) - Wittlich - Hetzerath - Trier	60 min
RB 82	Elbling Express	Wittlich - Hetzerath - Trier - Konz Mitte - waves - Perl	60 min Wittlich - Trier only Mon - Fri

RE 1 and RE 11 run between Koblenz and Trier in double traction and are winged in Trier . RE 11 only starts in Trier on Saturdays.

The state road 141 runs through the place along its entire length.

The Trier region industrial park between Föhren and Hetzerath is an important business location. Around 80 companies are based here. They offer many jobs for the region, including Hetzerath.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Josef Feiten (1888–1957), educator and writer

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Hetzerath

Web links

Commons : Hetzerath  - collection of images

• Local community Hetzerath
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Hetzerath in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 57 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/wittlich/aktuell/Heute-in-der-Wittlicher-Zeitung-Hetzerath-verliert-seinen-Ortschef;art8137,2665995