Gransdorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′  N , 6 ° 42 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	340 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.08 km 2
Residents:	337 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54533
Area code :	06567
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 228
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	gransdorf.de
Local Mayor :	Timo Willems
Location of the local community of Gransdorf in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

The landmark of Gransdorf: The "Old Church of St. Apollonia".

Gransdorf is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land .

geography

Gransdorf lies in a valley through which the Spangerbach flows. The place is near the American military base Spangdahlem and the federal highway 60 .

The Biermühle, Erlenhof, Eulendorf and Gelsdorf residential areas also belong to Gransdorf .

The district of Bernkastel-Wittlich begins around two kilometers away (only a forest separates Hof Hau, which belongs to Landscheid and Gransdorf).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1098 under the name "Grandesdorf".

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Bitburg provost , which was part of the Duchy of Luxembourg .

After 1792, French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg and thus Gransdorf belonged at that time, and annexed it in 1795 . Under French administration , Gransdorf was assigned to the canton of Dudeldorf in 1795 , which administratively belonged to the arrondissement of Bitburg in the department of forests . Gransdorf was the seat of a Mairie .

Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna , the region came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . Under Prussian administration, Gransdorf belonged to the mayor's office of the same name in the Wittlich district, newly established in 1816, in the Trier administrative district .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 287 1835 335 1871 414 1905 395 1939 372 1950 423 1961 383

year Residents 1970 354 1987 298 1997 310 2005 314 2011 311 2017 317

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gransdorf consists of eight 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 : “In red a silver oblique left bar, covered with two intertwined red rings. Above a silver church in the outline of the former parish church. A golden crown below. "

Founding of the coat of arms: Until the parishes were reorganized, Gransdorf was the seat of a mother parish with numerous branches. The landmark of Gransdorf is still the former parish church of St. Apollonia, which is located high above the village. The patron saint of the old parish church was the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God, Mary, whose symbol the crown in the lower part of the shield was chosen. Although the nearby Cistercian Abbey of Himmerod only took part in the parish church patronage until 1212, it was tied to Gransdorf as landlady until the end of the Ancien Régime. Your symbol, two intertwined rings, is shown in red in the silver diagonal bar.

Until the parishes were reorganized , Gransdorf was the seat of a mother parish with numerous branches. The landmark of Gransdorf is still today the former parish church " St. Apollonia " located high above the town . The patron saint of the old parish church was the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God, Mary , whose symbol the crown in the lower part of the shield was chosen.

Although the nearby Cistercian Abbey of Himmerod only participated in the parish church's patronage until 1212 , it was tied to Gransdorf as landlady until the end of the Ancien Régime . Your symbol, two intertwined rings, is shown in red in the silver diagonal bar.

Culture and sights

Old Church of St. Apollonia

The "Old Church of St. Apollonia", built in the 14th century, towers over the town. It has been under the protection of St. Apollonia since the 18th century . For centuries it was the main church of a parish and was only replaced by a new church in the village between 1923 and 1925.

Over the years, the church has been restored from the outside and inside with the help of a special association founded in 1996. Members of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences (degree program: Restoration and Conservation of Art and Cultural Property ) partially restored the baroque and late baroque furnishings between 1998 and 2001 . Further work on the outer skin and inside the former parish church followed, and finally the first Holy Mass in a long time was celebrated in the church on October 20, 2001.

Lime kiln

At the old lime kiln , on the outskirts towards Gelsdorf, the second lime burning festival was celebrated in the village in 2002. For this purpose, limestone was brought in from the neighboring village of Pick Lassen . According to an old tradition, the lime was burned for three nights. Lime burning was already a widespread method in the village in order to obtain aids for house painting or against vermin.

village life

There are a few clubs in the small town. The “Ackerbauverein-Südeifel e. V. ”, which has set itself the goal of acquiring historic tractors and agricultural implements, repairing them and thus preserving them for posterity. There is also the Gransdorf volunteer fire brigade , the music association “Eifelkapelle Gransdorf”, a support association for the “Old Church of St. Apollonia” and an amateur theater group.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Gransdorf

Web links

Commons : Gransdorf  - Collection of Images

• Website of the community of Gransdorf
• Local community Gransdorf on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• Women's community St. Apollonia Gransdorf
• Historical documentary film about the rural lime distillery in Gransdorf (2 parts), produced by the Office for Rhenish Regional Studies in Bonn
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Gransdorf 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 109 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Clomes: attempt at a statistical-geographic description of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Schmit-Bruck, 1840, p. 4 ( Google Books ).
4. ^ ^{A b} Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier: according to official sources ... Volume 2, Lintz, 1846, p. 26 ( Google Books ).
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
8. ^ Association on the side of the community
9. ^ Association and Church on the website www.eifel.de