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	Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′  N , 6 ° 27 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Prüm
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.92 km 2
Residents:	341 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54597
Primaries :	06553, 06554
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 222
Association administration address:	Tiergartenstrasse 54 54595 Prüm
Website :	www.feuerscheid.de
Local Mayor :	Harald Kinnen
Location of the local community of Feuerscheid in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

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

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geography

Feuerscheid is located on the Lascheider plateau in the West Eifel . Feuerscheid also includes the hamlets and residential areas Denterhof, Gesotz, Hardt Chapel, Obere Hardt, Queckborn, Richtenweg, Schwarzbach, Streifenberg and Untere Hardt.

history

The name ending -scheid indicates a place originating in the late clearing phase in 12/13. Century. Feuerscheid was first mentioned in a document in 1363 as Vijrscheid . The place belonged to the court ban of Seffern in the Kurtrierischen Amt Prüm until the end of the 18th century . After 1794, under French rule, the place was assigned to the Mairie Burbach in the Saardepartement . After 1815, under Prussian administration, Feuerscheid belonged to the Prüm district and to the mayor's office of Burbach . The place Feuerscheid was completely destroyed by fire three times.

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 146 1835 258 1871 365 1905 351 1939 375 1950 345 1961 331

year Residents 1970 350 1987 326 1997 363 2005 356 2011 332 2017 334 2019 341

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided by red and blue by an oblique left silver bar covered with rising red flames. A golden rooster above. "

Economy and Infrastructure

Feuerscheid-Plütscheid solar park

There is a sports field in Feuerscheid. Children attend the kindergarten in Lasel, pupils attend the Graf-Hartard-Schule in Schönecken or secondary schools in Prüm.

Nine mobile suppliers deliver everyday goods such as baked goods, meat and medicines to the citizens. This also suits the very active seniors who meet once a month for a whole day or get together and take on practical work in the community.

Since 1997 the local community has published its own 12 to 16-page village newspaper every six months.

The gastronomic needs are adequately covered by a restaurant in the town center. The opening times are currently limited to Friday-Sunday.

The local community has five local businesses in the craft and service sector with eight jobs. There is an intermunicipal industrial park as a joint project with the municipality of Plütscheid. This has meanwhile been acquired by a company and is therefore becoming increasingly attractive as an expandable job potential for the residents and at the same time offering prospective living and living space.

The establishment of an “inter-communal industrial area Plütscheid / Feuerscheid” was planned, which lies on both sides of the associations of Arzfeld and Prüm ( ⊙ ). In 2015, a ten megawatt solar park was built in the Plütscheid-Feuerscheid industrial park in Rhineland-Palatinate. The solar park is the first joint project between WIRSOL and the non-profit Bürgerservice GmbH Trier.

Culture and sights

Heiligenhäuschen Hardt

• Heiligenhäuschen Hardt, chapel from 1957 with a baroque cross
• Crucifixion shrine made of sandstone from 1738 ( ⊙ )
• Annual fair or parish fair is celebrated on the weekend after August 18th.
• Burning castles on the first Sunday of Lent (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• Hiking routes and cycle paths (Nims cycle path) in and around Feuerscheid

See also: List of cultural monuments in Feuerscheid

Web links

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

• Local community Feuerscheid on the website of the Association of Prüm
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Feuerscheid in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Brief portrait of Feuerscheid ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on Hierzuland , SWR television
• Feuerscheid-Am Sonnenhang. SWR, January 3, 2018. 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 102 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ District administration of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm: Administrative affiliation of the individual communities ( online PDF )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved April 29, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
6. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms description (local community Feuerscheid) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved July 11, 2017.
7. ↑ Zukunftscheck OG Feuerscheid. (PDF) Retrieved July 11, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Plütscheid-Feuerscheid solar park. Retrieved July 11, 2017 . 
9. ↑ 10 megawatt solar park Plütscheid-Feuerscheid. Retrieved July 11, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Weinsheim to Irreler Mühle. Retrieved July 11, 2017 .