Langsur
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Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ' N , 6 ° 30' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
County : | Trier-Saarburg | |
Association municipality : | Trier country | |
Height : | 154 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 11.91 km 2 | |
Residents: | 1735 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 146 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 54308 | |
Area code : | 06501 | |
License plate : | TR, SAB | |
Community key : | 07 2 35 073 | |
LOCODE : | DE 6NK | |
Community structure: | 4 districts | |
Association administration address: | Gartenfeldstrasse 12 54295 Trier |
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Local Mayor : | Reinhold Thiel | |
Location of the local community Langsur in the district of Trier-Saarburg | ||
Langsur ( Luxembourgish Laser ) is a municipality in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Trier-Land community .
geography
location
The municipality is located on the Sauer , the border river to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , a few hundred meters before it flows into the Moselle near Wasserbillig .
Community structure
The municipality is divided into four local districts and a number of residential places (population on December 31, 2014):
District | Associated living spaces | Residents |
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Grewenich | Grewenichermühle | 136 |
Langsur | Löwener Mühle, Wasserbilligerbrück | 873 |
Mesenich | 397 | |
Metzdorf | Kemperborn, Sonnenhof | 277 |
history
Langsur was first mentioned in a document in 978, when Archbishop Egbert von Trier donated the Langsur district to the Church of St. Maternus in Trier.
In the following centuries Langsur belonged to Lotharingia , Luxembourg , Burgundy and Prussia one after the other . The border with Luxembourg has existed since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, as a result of which the Sauer was designated as a border river.
On March 16, 1974, the previously independent municipalities of Grewenich (at that time 93 inhabitants), Mesenich (364 inhabitants) and Metzdorf (234 inhabitants) were incorporated into Langsur.
- Population development
The development of the population of Langsur in relation to the current municipality area; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:
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Municipal council
The local council in Langsur consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The distribution of seats in the local council:
choice | SPD | CDU | GREEN | FWL | total |
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2019 | 3 | 6th | - | 7th | 16 seats |
2014 | 2 | 6th | 2 | 6th | 16 seats |
2009 | 3 | 5 | - | 8th | 16 seats |
2004 | 5 | 11 | - | - | 16 seats |
- FWL = Free Voters Langsur e. V.
Culture and sights
Buildings
- St. Katharina, Wasserbilligerstrasse
Events
The Deulux run takes place annually in November. It took place for the first time in 1992. The running event includes several youth runs and a 10 km run. In 2006, with 1455 runners registered at the finish, it was the 10 km run with the highest number of participants in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Economy and Infrastructure
Business
The town's economy is determined by viticulture ( Elbling ), agriculture , craft businesses , tourism and, to a lesser extent, retail . Other sources of income can also be found in nearby Trier and across the border in Luxembourg with its banks and European institutions .
traffic
The motorway from Trier to Luxembourg ( A 64 ) is nearby. The distance to Luxembourg -Findel Airport is approx. 25 km. Langsur is connected to the railway network by the nearby towns of Wasserbillig (Luxembourg) and Igel on the Moselle-Syretal route Luxembourg - Trier . Trier city center is approx. 15 km away and can be reached by buses several times a day.
The Langsur districts of Metzdorf and Mesenich were railway stations on the Erdorf – Irrel – Igel branch line ( Nims-Sauertalbahn ). On its southern section, it was shut down and dismantled in 1968. The 827 m long Mesenich tunnel (now unused) is located near Mesenich . The station building in Mesenich fell victim to road construction, the reception building in Metzdorf has been integrated into a campsite for years. In 2008, the former railway line also became part of the Sauertal cycle path between Metzdorf and Wintersdorf .
Public facilities
- Day care center and crèche, elementary school, adult education center
- Sports hall, soccer field, tennis court
Web links
- Website of the local parish Langsur
- Langsur on the website of the Association of Trier-Land
- Link catalog on Langsur at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
- To search for cultural assets of the local community Langsur in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 122 (PDF; 3 MB).
- ↑ Residents with main residence as of June 30, 2014, population statistics of the Trier-Land municipality ( memento of February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 184 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved March 2, 2020 .
- ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
- ^ Mesenich tunnel. Lothar Brill, accessed March 2, 2020 (private website).