Köwerich

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '  N , 6 ° 52'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Schweich on the Roman Wine Route
Height :	145 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.31 km 2
Residents:	375 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	162 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54340
Area code :	06507
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 067
Association administration address:	Brückenstrasse 26 54338 Schweich
Website :	www.koewerich.com
Local Mayor :	Elmar Schlöder
Location of the local community Köwerich in the district of Trier-Saarburg

View over Köwerich

Köwerich an der Mosel is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Schweich on the Roman Wine Route .

history

Köwerich is one of the localities in the Trier region whose documented history goes back to the early Middle Ages. Köwerich can refer to two documents from the years 704 and 710, the authenticity of which there is no doubt and whose Latin forms of name in villa Cabriaco and in monte Cabracense are clearly identified as Köwerich.

The original documents themselves are not preserved, but in a 13th century manuscript made in the Echternach scriptorium - in short form, but with the most important information on the material content. Both documents from the years 704 and 710 pertaining to Köwerich are closely related to the Echternach monastery, which was founded a few years earlier, and its founders, patrons and benefactors. The manuscript contains 240 copies of documents or excerpts from the 7th to 13th centuries and is known as the Golden Book of Echternach Abbey because of its valuable content - as Liber aureus Epternacencis . The Golden Book is now - after an adventurous odyssey triggered by the turmoil of the French Revolution - stored in the manuscript department of the research and university library in Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha , Thuringia .

Köwerich also plays a certain role in Beethoven's family history : Ludwig van Beethoven's mother was named Maria-Magdalena Keverich because one of her ancestors came from the town. The house of Beethoven's ancestors is located at No. 2 St. Kunibert Square.

politics

Municipal council

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

Local mayor

• Kunibert Regnery
• Paul Jostock
• until 2014: Robert Linden
• from 2014: Elmar Schlöder

Culture and sights

• At the confluence of the districts of Klüsserath , Köwerich and Trittenheim on the left (northern) side of the Moselle, there is an approximately three meter high, roof-shaped sandstone block about half a meter thick, which has oval-shaped depressions in the lower part. A Celtic menhir is suspected in this stone . Further Celtic finds on the outskirts support this thesis.

• St. Kunibert Church: Two stone altars from the time of the Thirty Years War (1620 and 1624).

See also: List of cultural monuments in Köwerich

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  Village church Sankt Kunibert

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  "Beethoven House"

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  Village church: baptismal font with apse window

Honorary citizen

Born in Köwerich, Dr. Paul Jostock , an advocate of Catholic social teaching, was made an honorary citizen in 1963 . Jostock's theses, which are also important for current questions of social policy and social reform, formed the basis for two interdisciplinary and international symposia in Köwerich in 2004 and 2006. With a view to the 40th anniversary of his death, the 5th Köwerich academics were Days in 2005 dedicated to the topic of "Social Justice".

Vineyards

• Köwerich hero
• Köwericher Laurentiuslay

Web links

Commons : Köwerich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the local community Köwerich
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Köwerich in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on the subject of Köwerich at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections