Zell (Moselle)

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Coat of arms of the city of Zell (Mosel)
Zell (Moselle)
Map of Germany, position of the city of Zell (Mosel) highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 11 ′  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Cochem cell
Association municipality : Zell (Moselle)
Height : 100 m above sea level NHN
Area : 44.98 km 2
Residents: 4073 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 91 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56856
Area code : 06542
License plate : COC, ZEL
Community key : 07 1 35 092
City structure: 5 districts
Association administration address: Corray 1
56856 Zell (Moselle)
Website : www.zell-mosel.com
City Mayor : Hans-Peter Döpgen
Location of the city of Zell (Mosel) in the Cochem-Zell district
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View of Zell on the Moselle from the elevated Barl district
The city of Zell on the Moselle. Aquatint by Karl Bodmer 1841
Powder Tower and Square Tower

Zell (Mosel) is a town in the Zeller Hamm ( Moselschleife ) and is located in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Zell , to which it also belongs. Zell is a state-approved resort and according to state planning as a middle center.

geography

Geographical location

Zell (Mosel) is an hour's drive from Koblenz and Trier , almost exactly in the middle between these two cities. The neighboring town in the direction of Koblenz is Cochem , the neighboring towns in the direction of Trier are Traben-Trarbach and Bernkastel-Kues . To Frankfurt-Hahn airport on the Hunsrück and to the health resort Bad Bertrich in the Voreifel: each ½ hour by car. The districts lying on the river, the old town, Kaimt and Merl are at a height of about 100  m above sea level. NHN on a striking bend in the Moselle.

City structure

To the right of the Moselle, Zell (Moselle) includes the old town and the Merl district, as well as the smallest district of Althaus on the Hunsrückhöhe, which is directly adjacent to Tellig . West of the Moselle lies the Kaimt district in the valley and the Barl district with an altitude difference of 100 m.

history

Zell is a Roman foundation after 70 AD. The Kaimt district is first mentioned in a document in 732/33. In 1222 Zell received city rights. From 1332 Zell was an electoral city ​​and until 1794 the electoral seat of the office of Zell . When the Left Bank of the Rhine was occupied by French revolutionary troops in 1794 , the town became French, and in 1815 the city was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Fires in 1848 and 1857 destroyed a large part of the old town. Since 1946 the city has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . In 1950 Kaimt was incorporated. Until 1969, Zell was the district town of the Zell (Mosel) district of the same name . As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform, this became the district of Cochem-Zell with its administrative headquarters in Cochem . With the district seat, Zell also lost numerous other government offices and other institutions. At the same time Merl was incorporated. The city also managed to compensate for this by settling numerous commercial enterprises, particularly in the high-altitude district of Barl.

On June 7, 1969, the previously independent municipality of Merl was incorporated.

religion

Most of the population is Roman Catholic. The Evangelicals, who form the second largest denomination, belong to the parish of Zell- Bad Bertrich - Blankenrath , which is parishally connected to the parish of Würrich . The communities belong to the parish of Simmern-Trarbach .

politics

City council

The city ​​council in Zell (Mosel) consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice SPD CDU FWG total
2019 5 8th 7th 20 seats
2014 4th 11 5 20 seats
2009 4th 11 5 20 seats
2004 4th 11 5 20 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group City of Zell e. V.

mayor

From 2009 to 2019 Hans Schwarz (CDU) was mayor of the city of Zell (Mosel). In the local elections in 2019, Hans-Peter Döpgen was elected as the new city mayor with 66.9%.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Zell
Crest Reason: The red cross in the arms of the city cell refers to the historical relations of the city to Trier Archbishop and Kurtrierer electors.

It also appears in the upper part of the coat of arms of the Verbandsgemeinde Zell, the lower part of which shows three silver, gold-crowned lions on a red background from the coat of arms of the von Zandt in Merl. The keys in the Zell coat of arms point to St. Peter, he is the parish and church patron of the city of Zell, also on the Petersberg (today Marienburg) there used to be a church dedicated to St. Church dedicated to Peter.

According to its church patronage, the Merl district had a saint Michael in its coat of arms, this coat of arms has been repealed after Merl was incorporated into the city of Zell.

Town twinning

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economy

Viticulture

Sculpture of the "Black Cat"

Zell is significantly influenced by viticulture and with 331 hectares of planted vineyards after Piesport (413 hectares), the largest wine-growing community on the Moselle . Traditionally, Riesling is mainly grown. The Zeller Schwarze Katz is known nationwide . Viticulture also forms the basis for tourism , which is also an important branch of the economy. Zell is u. a. Headquarters of the Zimmermann-Graeff & Müller winery .

Industry

Zeller Plastik Deutschland GmbH is based in Zell. ZP is an injection moulder for plastic closures and packaging elements which, as part of GCS Holding, is a subsidiary of the British RPC group. Zeller Engineering GmbH, which is also part of the GCS Holding, produces injection molding tools in cooperation with ZP.

Trade, craft

Numerous large-scale retail companies have settled in the high-altitude district of Barl. In addition, numerous medium-sized wholesalers and retailers as well as craft businesses are located.

There is also a large, regionally significant shopping center, which includes a pharmacy and various other shops. The mall also has a hardware store and a gas station.

Public facilities

Offices

Association administration, Simmern-Zell tax office.

Educational institutions

Boos-von-Waldeck primary school, IGS Zell (comprehensive school with upper secondary school).

traffic

Connection to the Deutsche Bahn network is possible via the train station in the neighboring village of Bullay, about 7 km away . This station is located on the Moselle route . Federal road traffic junction west-east federal road 53 and north-south federal road 421 . Shipping docks for river cruise ships. Important international connections via Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, which is half an hour's drive away.

Leisure, tourism

Leisure and sports facilities

Adventure pool, sports stadium, wheelhouse, tennis court, camping site, RV sites, Collis via ferrata.

hikes

The observation tower on the Prinzenkopf offers a panoramic view of the districts of Zell and of Pünderich , Bullay and the Marienburg . The place is the stage destination of the Moselsteig .

Culture and sights

theatre

Theater group "Kätz"

museum

Local history museum in the town hall with numerous exhibits from the city's history, viticulture and the traditional handicrafts of the city.

Buildings

Churches

Depiction of Peter at the Church of St. Peter

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter in Zell has a reliquary from Limoges (Central France) between 1180 and 1190 with a container for a bone relic of St. Peter. The figure of Our Lady in the left side altar dates from the 15th century. The baptismal font on the right in the choir bears the year 1576. St. Peter has a high altar and a crucifixion group. Another feature is a mighty-looking canopy, similar to the Liebfrauenkirche in Trier.

The new parish church “St. Jakobus ”built around 1968, the old church tower was preserved. It was the palatine chapel of the former electoral archiepiscopal court in Kaimt. Inside is a stone foundation deed - the oldest ecclesiastical testimony of the city of Zell around 1220, with the oldest depiction of a winemaker. Side altar u. Sacrament house with a Christ torso from the 13th to 14th centuries, from the transition period from Romanesque to Gothic, probably from the Riemenschneider school.

In the Merl district is the parish church of St. Michael, until 1805 the monastery church of the affiliated Franciscan convent. The church on the thoroughfare near the banks of the Moselle has an Antwerp reredos on the high altar , around 1520. The sacristy is built as a single-support room with an almost square floor plan. Remains of medieval wall paintings have been preserved in the parish hall and the roof structure of the old dormitory in the monastery wing, which is not open to the public, is one of the few surviving medieval roof structures in Germany. The old Romanesque parish church of St. Michael (hall church) was demolished in 1823 after the monastery church was taken over; the old Romanesque tower was preserved in today's Merler cemetery.

  • Parish Church of St. Peter

  • Zell (Mosel), church tower

Regular events

  • Weinfest der Zeller Schwarze Katz, always on the last weekend in June. One of the first wine festivals of the year on the Moselle.
  • Tap coffee in Zell
  • Langetafel in Zell, in July
  • St. Jakobus wine fair in Zell-Kaimt, last weekend in July
  • Wine festival in Zell-Merl, second weekend in August
  • Celtic wine location in Zell-Kaimt, last weekend in August
  • Roman Road Festival, mid-August
  • Public wine tasting in the city hall - Roman wine location, third weekend in September
  • Advent markets every 1st and 2nd weekend in Advent
  • Cap meetings and Rose Monday parade from Zell-Kaimt to Zell-Mosel
  • Zeller Raiffeisenbank Advent run every year on the 3rd Advent (largest sporting event in the Cochem-Zell district)
  • Royal shooting of the Zell shooting club always on Corpus Christi
  • Guest kingshot of the Zell Schützengesellschaft every Sunday after Corpus Christi
  • Easter egg shooting by the Schützengesellschaft Zell always on Holy Saturday and Easter Monday

Dialect - Zeller Platt

Historically, Zell grew out of the three Moselle towns of Zell, Kaimt and Merl. In each place a different local dialect of the Moselle-Franconian dialect is spoken, which sometimes differs considerably in individual words.

Personalities

Born in Zell

Connected to Zell

  • Nikolaus Knopp, former mayor
  • Matthias Reineri (1595–1671), notary, town clerk and court clerk, deputy to the electoral parliament for the city of Zell (Mosel)
  • Friedrich Alexander Moritz (* 1786 in Ansbach; † 1852 Koblenz), district administrator in the old district of Zell (1818–1851) and namesake of the Moritzheim community
  • Gustav von Stein (* 1872 in Cologne; 1952 in Enkirch), district administrator in the old district of Zell (1910–1935)
  • Theo Champion (* 1887 in Düsseldorf, † 1952 in Zell), landscape painter
  • Maria Reese (1889–1958), writer, journalist and member of the Reichstag; died in Zell
  • Ferdinand Hillebrand (1890–1972), Mayor of Zell from 1923 to 1933
  • Wilhelm Maschke (1894–1958), politician and member of the state parliament (SPD)
  • Karl Albert Reisch (* 1926 in Boppard; † 1967 in Bonn), lawyer and district administrator in the old district of Zell (1966–1967)
  • Alfons Friderichs (* 1938 in Klotten), deacon, author, banker: Federal Cross of Merit, Rhineland Thaler

Honorary citizen

  • Georg Weimer (* 1909 in Fussingen (Westerwald); † 1999 in Zell), local politician and former mayor

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles: Zell on the Moselle with Kaimt and Merl (Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 1/1975). Cologne 1975.
  • Alfons Friderichs: The coat of arms of the city of Zell . In: Zeller Heimatheft, 1/1979, page 38/40.
  • Karl-Josef Gilles : History of the city of Zell-Mosel . Trier 1997.
  • Alfons Friderichs: The noble family v. Cell . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district . Trier 2004, 393/4 u. a.
  • Alfons Friderichs: knight and noble families in the district of Cochem-Zell . Plaidt 2016, ISBN 978-3-86424-272-4 .
  • Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles: Zell on the Mosel with Kaimt and Merl . Rheinische Kunststätten No. 179. ISBN 3-88094-011-8 .
  • Otto H. Schröter: The town hall of Zell / Mosel . Rhein-Mosel-Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-89801-308-1 .
  • Alfons Friderichs: Zell on the Roman road . In: HBRZ May and August 2007.

Web links

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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: My village, my city. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  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. 37 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 183 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  6. ↑ Alfons Friderichs: Book of arms of the district of Cochem-Zell. Self-published, Zell / Mosel 2001 ISBN 3-00-008064-3 .