Hesweiler

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Zell (Moselle)
Height :	390 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.31 km 2
Residents:	122 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56865
Area code :	06545
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 041
Association administration address:	Corray 1 ; 56856 Zell (Moselle)
Website :	www.zell-mosel.de
Local Mayor :	Manfred Wilhelms
Location of the local community of Hesweiler in the Cochem-Zell district

Hesweiler is a municipality in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Zell (Mosel) .

geography

Hesweiler is located in the northern part of the Hunsrück near the B 421 and Blankenrath .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1259. The Counts of Sponheim had jurisdiction until 1788 in the “Hasericher care”. From 1794, Hesweiler was under French rule and from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton of Zell in the Rhine-Mosel department . In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . In 1848 the local chapel was built in honor of St. Joseph by the building contractor Binzen from Zell. Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . Through the 8th Administrative Simplification Act of July 18, 1970, with effect from November 7, 1970, the community came from the Senheim community to the Zell (Mosel) community .

Statistics on population development

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

year	Residents
1815	147
1835	228
1871	171
1905	187
1939	174

year	Residents
1950	181
1961	183
1970	161
1987	146
2005	150

Municipal council

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

traffic

Hesweiler is in the area of the Rhein-Mosel transport association . The bus line 722 offers daily connections to the next town, Zell (Mosel) , and to the next train station, Bullay (DB) on the Moselle route Koblenz - Trier .