Idenheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 6 ° 34'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	320 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.73 km 2
Residents:	441 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	57 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54636
Primaries :	06506, 06561
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 060
Address of the municipal administration:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	www.idenheim.de
Mayoress :	Ingrid Penning ( SPD )
Location of the local community of Idenheim in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

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

Idenheim, St. Nicholas

geography

Idenheim is nine kilometers south of Bitburg and 22 kilometers north of Trier. The total area is 770 hectares, 161 hectares of which are pure forest.

Community structure

Idenheim also includes the Meilbrück, Amgrün Born, Tannenhof and Wiedenhof residential areas .

history

Barrows found in the municipality indicate that there was an early settlement in the area, which is assigned to the younger Hunsrück-Eifel culture . A villa rustica , which was located in today's center of the village, testifies to a settlement in Roman times .

Idenheim was first mentioned in an exchange document from the Prüm Abbey from 844 under the name "Idanheim". Around 1600 Idenheim (Edenheim) came to the Archbishopric of Trier , where it remained until the end of the 18th century.

At the time of the French administration , Idenheim was the seat of a mairie in the canton of Pfalzel and belonged to the Département de la Sarre .

In 1815 that was left bank of the Rhine to Prussia incorporated, Idenheim was in 1816 the seat of a mayor in the then newly formed Bitburg in Trier . The villages of Idenheim with the Wellkyll mill, Idesheim , Sülm with the Pfalzkyll court and the Loskyll, Dahlem and Röhl mill belonged to the Idenheim mayor . Idenheim had a total of 347 inhabitants in 1829 with 50 fireplaces. From 1956 to 1961, cruise missiles of the type TM-61 Matador were stored near the place in bunkered silos for the US armed forces.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 256 1835 349 1871 342 1905 395 1939 377 1950 391 1961 397

year Residents 1970 417 1987 400 1997 450 2005 453 2011 438 2017 455

politics

Municipal council

The council in Idenheim consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the volunteer local mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

	Justification for the coat of arms: The silver shield with the Electorate of Trier red cross stands for membership of the Electorate of Trier , the bishop's staff as a reminder of Bishop Nikolaus Bares , while the three golden spheres represent the church patron, St. Nicholas and the two intertwined rings represent the manor of the Himmerod monastery .

Sports

Idenheim forms the sports club DIST with the neighboring communities of Dahlem , Sülm and Trimport .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Idenheim

Web links

Commons : Idenheim  - Collection of Images

• Local community Idenheim on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Idenheim 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. ↑ ^{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. ↑ Local community Idenheim on the pages of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburg-Land
5. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , 1852, p. 501 ( Google Books )
6. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830, page 900
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Homepage of the DJK Eintracht DIST