Eschfeld

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Arzfeld
Height :	500 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.78 km 2
Residents:	197 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54619
Area code :	06559
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 220
Association administration address:	Luxemburger Strasse 6 ; 54687 Arzfeld
Website :	www.eschfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Marx
Location of the local community Eschfeld in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Eschfeld is a local community in the Verbandsgemeinde Arzfeld in the Rhineland-Palatinate Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Germany .

geography

Eschfeld is located in the South Eifel nature park . Parts of the hamlets Banzenhof and Wässerchen belong to the community . Both localities also belong proportionally to the neighboring municipality of Reiff .

history

Eschfeld's beginnings as a Celtic settlement date back to 400 BC. BC, which is concluded by finds of bone fragments and broken vessels from 1948.

The first documentary mention comes from the year 1330, when Eschfeld belonged to the Archdiocese of Trier . Until the end of the 18th century , Eschfeld was the capital of one of the three dairies (administrative and judicial districts) that belonged to the Dasburg rule in the Luxembourg county of Vianden . The Eschfeld dairy included 13 villages.

Information on the extent of the population in Eschfeld was given in 1611, when ten "hearths" (houses) were recorded in the place. The decline in population caused by the plague that broke out in Eschfeld in 1656 was not caught up again until about 100 years later. Like large parts of the Rhineland , Eschfeld was occupied by the French in 1794 and received its own mayor's office ( Mairie ). Four citizens of Eschfeld died in the lace war against the occupation and were executed in Luxembourg . During the French administration, Eschfeld belonged to the French diocese of Metz from 1802 . Through the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Eschfeld also became part of Prussia and from 1818 belonged again to the diocese of Trier.

From 1904 Eschfeld was on the territory of the mayor's office in Leidenborn , from 1936 it belonged to the Daleiden-Leidenborn office and from 1970 to the community of Arzfeld .

In 1884 a loan association was founded, in 1887 a rural advanced training school was set up, and in 1889 a fruit growing association was founded. Eschfeld has been connected to the electricity grid since 1928. The Second World War caused great damage in Eschfeld, around 60% of the place was destroyed. On February 22, 1945, the place went under the occupation of American troops.

In 1969 a school was built in Eschfeld, which existed until the 1980s. The building was converted into a village community center in 1993.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	121
1835	222
1871	233
1905	220
1939	480
1950	243

year	Residents
1961	218
1970	241
1987	182
1997	191
2005	182
2019	197

Municipal council

The council in Esch field consists of six council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Attractions

Eschfeld's church with the associated cemetery was located in today's Unterdorf until 1867. Today's parish church of St. Luzia was built in 1869 and decorated with ceiling and wall paintings from 1906 to 1921 by Pastor Christoph März . The former elementary school was built next to the parish church in 1912.