Jünkerath

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '  N , 6 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Gerolstein
Height :	430 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.09 km 2
Residents:	1767 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	175 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54584
Area code :	06597
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 035
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Kyllweg 1 54568 Gerolstein
Website :	www.juenkerath.de
Local Mayor :	Norbert Bishop
Location of the local community Jünkerath in the Vulkaneifel district

Jünkerath is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Jünkerath is a state-approved resort and designated as a basic center according to state planning . In Jünkerath there is a citizens' office of the Gerolstein community .

geography

Jünkerath with the district Glaadt is located in the Kylltal in the Eifel . Geologically, Jünkerath belongs to the Kalkeifel.

Other parts of the community are the Dominikus-Savio-Haus, the Hubertushof Fuchskaul and the Rabenberger Höfe.

history

The name is derived from Icorigium , a station on the Roman road Trier-Cologne , which is already recorded on the Tabula Peutingeriana from the 4th century.

Today's municipality belonged to the imperial rule of Jünkerath, which had been in the possession of the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim since the 15th century .

In 1687, Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid-Blankenheim founded an ironworks in Jünkerath, from which the Jünkerath trade union later developed.

As a result of the Peace of Lunéville , Jünkerath, like the entire Left Bank of the Rhine, fell to France in 1801 and came to Prussia in 1815 as a result of the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna . Count Sternberg-Manderscheid as sovereign received in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 for the loss of Blankenheim, Jünkerath, Gerolstein and Dollendorf as compensation a. a. the goods of the former Weissenau and Schussenried monasteries in Upper Swabia were awarded.

On October 9, 1918, a military train and a passenger train collided near Jünkerath . 16 people died and 28 others were injured.

Rural community of Jünkerath

The community of Jünkerath was newly formed on February 27, 1930 on a legal basis. In the "Law on the formation of the rural community Jünkerath (Daun district)" was stipulated:

"The rural community of Glaadt of the Daun district is merged with parts of the rural communities Feusdorf and Gönnersdorf of the Daun district and with parts of the Schüller rural community of the Prüm district to form a rural community of Jünkerath in the Daun district in accordance with the boundary description attached to this law ."

politics

Municipal council

The council in Jünkerath consists of 16 council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman. In the elections before 2014, personalized proportional representation took place.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	total
2019	by majority vote		12 seats
2014	by majority vote		12 seats
2009	6th	10	16 seats
2004	5	11	16 seats

coat of arms

The blazon of the Jünkerath coat of arms reads: "In the blue field a silver, gold-crowned lion, surrounded by five golden lilies and covered with a five-lipped red tournament collar."

The Jünkerath coat of arms goes back to the coat of arms of the lords of Junkeroide as a local noble family and the original affiliation to the Schleiden rule. The red tournament collar is borrowed from the coat of arms of the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim who owned the direct imperial rule of Jünkerath from the 15th century. The coat of arms of the municipality of Jünkerath was approved on March 28, 1935.

religion

• Catholic parish church of St. Anthony of Padua
• Protestant church

traffic

Listed station building

The Jünkerath station is on the Eifel route ( Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein - Trier ), on the local passenger transport

• the RE 12 "Eifel-Mosel-Express" Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein – Trier
• the RE 22 "Eifel-Express" Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein with a connection to Trier (RB 22) and
• the RB 24 “Eifel-Bahn” Cologne – Euskirchen– Kall , run to Gerolstein during rush hour.

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT) and the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg and beyond the tariff area the NRW tariff apply to all local public transport .

In Jünkerath, the disused and now dismantled Vennquerbahn branched off via Losheim / Belgian border to Malmedy .

The railway line of the former Vennquerbahn was expanded into a hiking and cycling route by spring 2015 ( RAVeL network line 45a Waimes-Jünkerath ), with a connection both in Weywertz to the Vennbahn route and in Jünkerath to the German cycle path network.

The place is on the old Roman road Trier-Neuss .

Museums

Iron Museum and Railway Museum

• The iron museum in Jünkerath documents the history of the Eifel iron industry since the 15th century. Among other things, molds, decorative ovens, stove plates and much more are exhibited.
• In the Jünkerath Railway Museum , a number of interesting exhibits from over 140 years of Jünkerath railway history are shown, for example a collection of railway service caps that is unique in the Eifel region.

Daughters and sons of the church

• Salentin Ernst Eugen Cohausen (1703–1779), German physician and personal physician from the Electorate of Trier
• Karl Daniel (1905–1977), entrepreneur
• Reiner Keller (1921–1995), geographer and hydrologist at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
• Therese Schlundt (1922–2014), midwife
• Joachim-Felix Leonhard (* 1946), librarian and former State Secretary

See also

• Icorigium - Jünkerath in Roman times
• List of cultural monuments in Jünkerath
• List of natural monuments in Jünkerath

literature

• Josef Jakob, Wolfgang Kreckler: Jünkerath-Glaadt . Photo book of a community. Ed .: Local community Jünkerath. Paulinus, Trier 1995.
• Hubert Pitzen: Jünkerath and its history . An overview. In: The Eifel . 1994, p. 261-265 .
• Wolfgang Kreckler: Railway history of the place Jünkerath . A documentation of 125 years of eventful history. Rise, heyday and decline of a formative institution in the Eifel town of Jünkerath. Jünkerath 1995.

Web links

Commons : Jünkerath  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Jünkerath
• Representation of the local community Jünkerath on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Jünkerath in the database of cultural goods 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 - 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. 114 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ^ Martin Weltner: Railway disasters. Serious train accidents and their causes. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7654-7096-7 , p. 14.
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Description of the coat of arms on the website of the local community Jünkerath ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ DB AG timetable for the 2016 Eifel line. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, "vareo" network, December 13, 2015, archived from the original on April 24, 2016 ; Retrieved April 24, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Cycle easily over 28 bridges , Kölnische Rundschau, accessed on June 6, 2011
9. ↑ "Unlimited" tourism in the Eifel. Kölnische Rundschau of May 3, 2015, accessed on May 25, 2015.