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Coat of arms of the local community Hallschlag
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Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '  N , 6 ° 26'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Vulkaneifel
Association municipality : Gerolstein
Height : 480 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.74 km 2
Residents: 456 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 36 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 54611
Area code : 06557
License plate : DAU
Community key : 07 2 33 214
Association administration address: Kyllweg 1
54568 Gerolstein
Website : www.hallschlag.de
Local Mayor : Dirk Weicker
Location of the local community Hallschlag in the Vulkaneifel district
Scheid Hallschlag Ormont Kerschenbach Reuth Stadtkyll Jünkerath Schüller Gönnersdorf Esch Feusdorf Lissendorf Birgel Steffeln Wiesbaum Berndorf Hillesheim (Eifel) Oberbettingen Basberg Kerpen (Eifel) Üxheim Nohn Oberehe-Stroheich Walsdorf Dohm-Lammersdorf Duppach Kalenborn-Scheuern Rockeskyll Pelm Berlingen Hohenfels-Essingen Gerolstein Neroth Birresborn Kopp (Vulkaneifel) Mürlenbach Densborn Salm Dreis-Brück Betteldorf Daun Dockweiler Hinterweiler Kirchweiler Kradenbach Nerdlen Sarmersbach Gefell Hörscheid Darscheid Utzerath Schönbach Steiningen Steineberg Demerath Winkel (Eifel) Immerath Strotzbüsch Mückeln Strohn Gillenfeld Ellscheid Saxler Udler Mehren Schalkenmehren Üdersdorf Brockscheid Bleckhausen Oberstadtfeld Wallenborn Niederstadtfeld Weidenbach Schutz Meisburg Deudesfeld Borler Bongard Boxberg Neichen Beinhausen Katzwinkel Hörschhausen Berenbach Kötterichen Höchstberg Kaperich Lirstal Oberelz Arbach Retterath Uersfeld Mannebach Bereborn Kolverath Sassen Gunderath Horperath Ueß Mosbruch Kelberg Gelenberg Bodenbach Reimerath Welcherath Brücktal Kirsbach Drees Nitz Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz Landkreis Cochem-Zell Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm Nordrhein-Westfalen Landkreis Ahrweiler Belgienmap
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Hallschlag is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Gerolstein community .

geography

The community is between 490 and 640  m above sea level. NHN in the Rhenish Slate Mountains , in the western Hocheifel in the upper Kylltal. The place is located in a valley and is embedded in the landscape of the Central Eifel. Hallschlag is part of the Upper Kylltal recreation area . The Belgian border is three kilometers to the west . The district borders on North Rhine-Westphalia in the west, north and east .

Hallschlag also includes the Frauenkronerweg, Köppheck, Siedlung, Steinebrück and Zur Kehr residential areas .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1322. Hallschlag was then part of the Luxembourg dominion of Kronenburg. In the 15th century the place came to the Counts of Manderscheid-Schleiden . Towards the end of the 17th century, Hallschlag and the Kronenburg rule belonged to the Blankenheim line of the Counts Manderscheid-Blankenheim. Wonderfully country the place belonged to the late 18th century to the Duchy of Luxembourg , which is part of the Austrian Netherlands was. After the region was captured by French revolutionary troops (1794), Hallschlag belonged to the French Ourthe department from 1795 to 1814 and was the capital of a mairie in the canton of Kronenburg .

The place was raised to a parish at the beginning of the 19th century.

As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna, the three municipalities of Hallschlag, Ormont and Scheid came from the Ourthe department to the Kingdom of Prussia . The three communities were assigned to the Hallschlag mayor's office in the Prüm district, newly established in 1816, in the Trier administrative district .

In World War II Hallschlag was destroyed to 80%. In the course of the fighting there during the Battle of the Bulge at Hallschlag on December 25, 1944 u. a. the professor of the University of Rostock Wilhelm Troitzsch (1900-1944) and the Reichstag deputy and SA-Obergruppenführer major general z. V. Kurt Kühme (1885–1944) killed. On December 25, 1944, attacks by the Allies were flown throughout the Eifel region.

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform , Hallschlag was reclassified together with 14 other communities on November 7, 1970 from the district of Prüm , which was dissolved at the same time, to the district of Daun (since 2007 district Vulkaneifel).

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 293
1835 390
1871 384
1905 369
1939 919
1950 419
1961 472
year Residents
1970 457
1987 486
1997 607
2005 557
2011 495
2017 471
2019 456

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Hallschlag 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. Until 2014, the municipality council had twelve council members.

coat of arms

Hallschlag coat of arms
Blazon : "Under a red shield head with three golden balls, in silver a blue, diagonal wave bar."
Justification for the coat of arms: The three golden balls in the head of the shield are attributes of Saint Nicholas , the church and town patron of Hallschlag. The wave beam is taken from the coat of arms of the knights Holzappel von Basenheim, who were wealthy in Hallschlag. On March 1, 1340, knight Johann Holzappel von Basenheim and his wife transferred their court to Halczlach to Archbishop Balduin von Trier for 100 Heller .

Attractions

Parish Church of St. Nicholas
  • Catholic parish church of Saint Nicholas from 1867
  • Pilgrim cross of the St. Matthias Brotherhood on the road to Ormont, about 100 m behind the former railway bridge
  • Remains and relics of the former Siegfried Line to the west of the village

See also: List of cultural monuments in Hallschlag

See also: List of natural monuments in Hallschlag

Economy and Infrastructure

Wind turbines

Since 1997 there has been a wind park with 36 wind turbines in the Hallschlag district .

traffic

The B 421 runs through the village .

The route of the former Vennquerbahn was expanded into a hiking and cycling path by spring 2015 ( RAVeL network line 45a Waimes-Jünkerath ), with a connection both in Weywertz to the Vennbahn route and in Jünkerath to the German cycle path network.

Former Espagit ammunition factory

Sign referring to the VGV Obere Kyll Hazard Defense Ordinance

The area of ​​the poison gas and ammunition factory Espagit, which is shielded from the outside, is located in the district of Hallschlag bei Kehr . Around two thousand people were employed here from 1915 to 1920, until the factory finally exploded in May 1920. The former company site still poses an immense environmental hazard today, because there are still undiscovered explosives and gas grenades as well as other poisons in the ground.

Aerial view of the ESPAGIT site near Hallschlag

At the beginning of the 1990s , the Ministry of the Interior in Mainz, responsible for ammunition clearance , decided on a concept to demunition only the surface of the highly contaminated former production area of ​​the ammunition factory with an area of ​​around 13 hectares . Subsequently, the area was secured with an earth cover and a wire mesh, which should prevent direct contact between the polluted soil and people in the long term. The contaminated seepage water is recorded in the infiltration system and then treated in a water purification system.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hallschlag  - Collection of Images

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. 116 (PDF; 3 MB).
  3. Federal Archives, "Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic ” , accessed on November 11, 2014.
  4. Werner Schubert (Ed.): Committees for Air Law, Air Protection Law, Motor Vehicle Law and Broadcasting Law. Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-57301-3 , p. XXXIV.
  5. Cf. Festschrift for the parish festival of the parish Üxheim , 1980, as well as school chronicle Ahrdorf.
  6. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 156 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  7. State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
  9. Description of the coat of arms. Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein, accessed on December 28, 2019 .
  10. Cycle easily over 28 bridges , Kölnische Rundschau, accessed on June 6, 2011
  11. "Unlimited" tourism in the Eifel. Kölnische Rundschau of May 3, 2015, accessed on May 25, 2015.
  12. Franz Albert Heinen : The death factory. Espagit - The secret grenade forge. A documentation. Helios, Aachen 2000, ISBN 3-933608-14-7 .
  13. The ammunition clearance ended in Kehr. The Espagit became a grave of millions. (No longer available online.) In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger. July 3, 2008, archived from the original ; accessed on June 11, 2016 .