Halsdorf

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Halsdorf (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 6 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	300 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.21 km 2
Residents:	106 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	33 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54646
Primaries :	06522, 06527
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 045
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Berthold Heck
Location of the local community of Halsdorf in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

Metzenkreuz with Halsdorf in the background

Village center with fire station, bus stop and fountain

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

geography

The place is in the south west Eifel on the plateau between Enz and Prüm . The district town of Bitburg is about 10 km east of the municipality, the state border with Luxembourg about 10 km west. The municipal area covers an area of ​​3.21 km², 91% of which is an extremely high proportion used for agriculture, while only 1% is forest. Several wind farms that have been created in recent years are distributed over the ridges of the district .

The Burengracht, Moorhof and Schrödersgraben residential areas also belong to Halsdorf .

history

Like most of the localities in the area, Halsdorf was created during the time of the conquest in the 8th century. The ending of the place name “-dorf” suggests this. The village first appears in a document in 1501 as "Haltzdorf". During the French occupation at the beginning of the 19th century, the place that had previously belonged to the Viandener Meierei Mettendorf became Mairie Baustert . The latter was incorporated into the mayor's office of the same name in 1816 , whose headquarters were relocated to Oberweis in 1871. At that time the municipality of Halsdorf had 106 inhabitants.

While the village consisted of four households in 1615, in 1700 it already comprised six houses. From 64 inhabitants in 1803, the population increased to 133 by 1962 and finally, after several fluctuations, reached the current level of 106 inhabitants (2019).

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 51 1835 78 1871 106 1905 102 1939 114 1950 110 1961 130

year Residents 1970 129 1987 92 1997 79 2005 97 2011 102 2017 110

politics

Municipal council

The council in Halsdorf 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.

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Under a red shield head divided by two silver lilies in blue, a ploughshare on a silver background; another lily in silver in a red shield base. "
	Justification for the coat of arms: The red coat of arms with a silver bar stands for the original affiliation to the County of Vianden . As an attribute of the patron saint of the church, St. Francis Xaverius, the lily is included three times in the coat of arms, while the ancient blue ploughshare indicates the importance of agriculture.

Attractions

Several old farms have been preserved in good condition within the town center . Some of the crossroads in the municipality are also worth seeing . The townscape is also characterized by the Catholic branch church of St. Ignatius and Franz Xaver from 1726, next to which there is a war memorial . The village square is lined with a fountain and is located directly at the through-town of the Olsdorf – Bettingen – Enzen district road.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Halsdorf

Web links

• Local community Halsdorf on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the local community of Halsdorf in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Location portrait of the SWR ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 107 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections