Heckhuscheid

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′  N , 6 ° 13 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Prüm
Height :	554 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.28 km 2
Residents:	165 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	20 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54619
Area code :	06559
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 236
Association administration address:	Tiergartenstrasse 54 54595 Prüm
Website :	www.pruem.de
Local Mayor :	Josef Arens
Location of the local community Heckhuscheid in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

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

geography

Heckhuscheid is located on a wooded plateau on the Schneifel , the western foothills of the Eifel , with its raised bogs close to the border with Belgium .

Heckhuscheid to include the residential places Dackscheid (part), Halenfeld, rear Husch Eider Street and Halvent.

history

The development of the street settlement goes back to the 12th century. The place was first mentioned in 1532 as Hoscheid . The name Heckhuscheid first came into use in the 18th century . "Heck" was inserted to distinguish two other villages with the name "Huscheid". "Heck" probably means "Hecke" or "Niederwald".

Until the end of the 18th century, Heckhuscheid belonged to the administrative and judicial district of the Leidenborn dairy in the Dasburg lordship in the Duchy of Luxembourg . In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . Heckhuscheid belonged to the canton of Arzfeld , which was administratively assigned to the Arrondissement Bitburg in the department of forests . Like the surrounding towns, Heckhuscheid became Prussian in 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, Heckhuscheid was assigned to the mayor's office in Leidenborn in the newly formed district of Prüm in the administrative district of Trier , which belonged to the Rhine province from 1822 onwards. The municipality has been part of the Prüm Association since 1970 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 144 1835 198 1871 239 1905 243 1939 277 1950 240 1961 227

year Residents 1970 208 1987 187 1987 176 2005 152 2011 151 2017 159 2019 165

Municipal council

The council in Heckhuscheid 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.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• 

  St. Catherine and Benedict
  The Chapel of St. Catherine is located on Dorfstrasse . It was first mentioned in 1532 . In 1864 it was torn down to the ground because it was in disrepair and rebuilt in 1868 in a neo-Romanesque style.
• Seven old wayside crosses are also worth seeing, especially the Katharinenkreuz .
• Not far from Heckhuscheid ran the Western Wall . At Landesstraße 9 in the direction of Üttfeld , well-preserved parts of the hump line from the National Socialist era can still be viewed .

See also : List of cultural monuments in Heckhuscheid

Regular events

• On the third Sunday after Pentecost , Heckhuscheid celebrates a fair every year .
• Every year at the end of September there is the Hannerbesch party in Heckhuscheid, which has now grown into the largest parties in the region. This is organized by the Heckhuscheid youth
• Theater in Heckhuscheid in November. The Heckhuscheider have been delighting audiences on stage for over eighty years.

Web links

Commons : Heckhuscheid  - Collection of Images

• Local community Heckhuscheid on the website of the Association of Prüm
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Heckhuscheid in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Short portrait of Heckhuscheid ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in Hierzuland , SWR television

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. 103 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier , Volume 1, Trier, Lintz, 1849, p. 86 ( Google Books )
4. ↑ District administration of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm: Administrative affiliation of the individual communities ( online PDF )
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved January 16, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.