Langsur

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
Website :	www.gemeinde-langsur.de
Local Mayor :	Reinhold Thiel
Location of the local community Langsur in the district of Trier-Saarburg

View of Langsur

Langsur on a postcard from 1980

View of the wintry Mesenich with the Sauertal bridge in the background

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
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:

year	Residents
1815	716
1835	982
1871	1.010
1905	1,239
1939	1,732
1950	1,467
1961	1,506

year	Residents
1970	1,592
1987	1,523
1997	1,599
2005	1,669
2011	1,506
2017	1,506
2019	1,735

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
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

Church of St. Catherine

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

Commons : Langsur - Collection of Images

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).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, 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. 122 (PDF; 3 MB).

[3] 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 )