Holsthum

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 6 ° 25'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	210 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.31 km 2
Residents:	641 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	69 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54668
Area code :	06523
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 053
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	www.holsthum.de
Local Mayor :	Klaus Reschke
Location of the local community Holsthum in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Holsthum Castle (around 1895)

Holsthum (dialectal Holzem ) is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel . Holsthum is a state-approved resort .

geography

Holsthum is located at the confluence of the Enz in the Prüm in the South Eifel nature park . The Holsthumerberg residential area also belongs to the community .

history

prehistory

Already in the Paleolithic around 30,000 years ago, people lived in the area around Holsthum in free-range stations , which is proven by the finds of Stone Age artifacts . From the Neolithic Age there are finds of the bell beaker culture through an arm protection plate and a pierced pendant. A settlement in the Bronze Age could be proven by the finds of bronze arm rings and fragments of a decorative ribbon made of gold sheet. Finds from excavated cremation graves date from the Urnfield Period .

There was a Roman settlement in the local area, as evidenced by Roman settlement sites and Roman cremation burial sites. This includes the Roman Villa Holsthum , which was uncovered in the 1990s .

Middle Ages and Modern Times

Holsthum is first mentioned in the sources in 869 as a wooden home . The Franconian Leofrid gave Echternach Abbey the herrenmansus Bedense in villa nucupante Holzheim (country estate in Holzheim). Around 1100 the settlement Holzheim appeared in the Echternach procession directory as Holzem . This form of the place name is still in use in the Holsthumer Platt and in many other Moselle-Franconian dialects. A visitation protocol from 1570 mentions a chapel in Holzthump . From 1772, Holsthum became established as the written name .

Schankweiler and Holsthum jointly formed a courtyard with a total of 21 floor goods and belonged at the latest in 1400 the lords of Bourscheid , whose seat the north of Diekirch situated castle Bourscheid was. In the 15th century, the Nickenich ponds were owned by the Bourscheid estate . By marrying Margaretha Weiher von Nickenich, Dietrich von Metternich-Sommerberg inherited the property in 1496. His son Wolfgang Heinrich von Metternich-Sommerberg died in 1699 as the last of his line. The daughter of Wolfgang Heinrichs gave her husband Karl Kaspar Hugo von Metternich-Müllenark the rights to rule. Maria Theresia von Eltz-Rodendorf , granddaughter of the latter, married Franz Ludwig Schenk von Schmidtburg from Gemünden Castle and owned a fifth of the Bourscheid rule by inheritance. In 1765 she was able to unite all shares in one hand. The ruler Johann Dominik Laeis founded the Holsthum glassworks in 1769 and built today's Holsthum Castle on behalf of Baroness Marie Therese Schenk von Schmidtburg in 1789 .

From 1801 Holsthum belonged to the French Mairie Schankweiler ( forest department ), from 1816 to the Prussian mayor's office Schankweiler ( Rhine province ), which in 1909 became part of the Wolsfeld district . The parish to which Peffingen came in 1803 has been called Holsthum since 1941. In 1970 Holsthum came to the newly formed community of Irrel after the Wolsfeld district was dissolved .

The Church of St. Mary of the Assumption and St. Rochus , built in 1810, was badly damaged in the Second World War and rebuilt in 1966 in different ways. The old part has since served as a transept to the new building. The parish of Holsthum also includes the Schankweiler Klause , which was rebuilt in 1762 instead of a previous building on the Schankweiler Höhe.

The Holsthum military cemetery is the resting place for 243 soldiers from all over Germany who died in the Second World War , including Lieutenant General Kurt Möhring . It is one of the visiting points on the Promenade du Souvenir hiking trail (Westwall hiking trail ), which provides information on historical events of the 1944/45 Ardennes offensive across borders .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 322 1835 541 1871 478 1905 472 1939 478 1950 522 1961 542

year Residents 1970 498 1987 519 1997 562 2005 557 2011 620 2017 648

politics

Municipal council

The council in Holsthum consists of twelve 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 : "Silver, divided by a blue shaft , a red heraldic lily topped with a silver cross, heraldic on the right a red portico consisting of a triangular roof and six columns, heraldic on the left a red, falling hop umbel ."

Reasons for the coat of arms: At the top of the coat of arms is a heraldic lily, topped with a silver cross. This and the silver background of the coat of arms should refer to almost 900 years of membership of the municipality in Luxembourg . Heraldically shown on the right is a portico, a reference to the uncovering of a Roman villa . On the left is a hop cone with a tendril , a symbol for the cultivation of the local specialty culture. The blue shaft in the coat of arms represents the Prüm , which divides the place. The vertical shaft symbolizes the Enzbach , which flows into the Prüm in Holsthum.

Culture and sights

Roman Villa Holsthum (2012)

Menhir "Langenstein"

• Roman villa Holsthum
• Holsthum Castle
• Chapel of St. Rochus
• Hut burning on the first Sunday of Lent (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• Menhir , the so-called Langenstein . A cult stone from Celtic times
• Former glassworks
• War cemetery
• Marian column from 1920
• Hiking trails Holsthum
• Westwall hiking trail Promenade du Souvenir

See also: List of cultural monuments in Holsthum

See also: List of natural monuments in Holsthum

Born in Holsthum

• Wilhelm Gebers (* 1944), prehistorian

literature

• François Decker: The series of rulers over castle and rule Bourscheid . In: Les cahiers de Bourscheid . No. 4 , 1987, pp. 7-11 .
• François Decker, Jean-Claude Müller: Regesten of the archive of the gentlemen of Bourscheid. 1224-1558 . Koblenz 1989, ISBN 3-922018-64-5 .
• Josef Dreesen: The glassworks in Holsthum near Bitburg . Neuss 1990, ISBN 978-3-88094-665-1 .
• Josef Dreesen: The Principality of Lichtenberg (1816–1834) in Vormärz. A temporary solution . Neuerburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025346-1 .
• Manuel Kehrli ea: Holsthum - A village in the southern Eifel . ed. from the local community Holsthum. Neuerburg 2017.
• Ernest Dominik Laeis: The stock and Vogteiguts owners of the Eifel and the surrounding areas against their communities in terms of disputed forests. Historical-legal presentation of strange legal cases, together with their decisions and evidence . tape 2 . Trier 1831 ( online [accessed March 23, 2017]).
• Werner Laeis: Chronicle of the Laeis family . Typescript. Cologne 1982.
• Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Bitburg district . Düsseldorf 1927, ISBN 978-3-88915-006-6 .

Web links

Commons : Holsthum  - collection of images

• Official website
• Virtual archive of the local community of Holsthum
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Holsthum in the database of cultural assets 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. 99 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ School chronicle 1950 - 1980 (last entry). (PDF) In: History of the local community Holsthum - Virtual Archive. Retrieved May 27, 2019 . 
4. ^ Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes of the Diocese of Trier . Episcopal General Vicariate, 1887, p. 160.
5. ^ Regesten Bourscheid, Vol. 8, p. 269.
6. ↑ Entry on Sankt Maria and Rochus (municipality of Holsthum Oberdorf) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on May 27, 2019.
7. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. (PDF) Retrieved January 23, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Menhir at Holsthum. Retrieved March 22, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Entry on the former glassworks (Holsthum) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved April 14, 2017.
13. ↑ Hiking trails in and around Holsthum. Retrieved January 23, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Promenade du Souvenir. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .