Kaschenbach

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.45 km 2
Residents:	71 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54668
Area code :	06568
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 065
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Johannes Billen
Location of the local community Kaschenbach in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Kaschenbach, the St. Michael branch church

Kaschenbach is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel .

geography

Kaschenbach is located in the so-called Weißland on the lower reaches of the Nims river , around 10 km south of Bitburg . The Lehnshof residential area also belongs to the community .

history

The first documentary mention as "Kirsenbach" comes from the year 1258, but Kaschenbach is possibly also identical with the Crispiniacum mentioned in the 9th century . As a result of the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent wars with France, there was only one resident in Kaschenbach in 1658. From this crisis the place recovered well, however, in 1750 there were again seven houses and four courtyards and in the course of the 19th century Kaschenbach exceeded the 100-inhabitant mark; however, the population has since decreased significantly, mainly due to the rural exodus.

Until the end of the 18th century, Kaschenbach belonged to the Echternach provost in the Duchy of Luxembourg . In 1794, French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the region then belonged. Under French administration, the place belonged from 1795 to 1814 to the Arrondissement Bitburg in the department of forests .

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Kaschenbach was assigned to the mayor's office in Alsdorf in the Bitburg district, newly established in 1816, in the Trier administrative district , which belonged to the Rhine province from 1822 onwards. In 1914 Kaschenbach came to the mayor's office in Wolsfeld (from 1927 Wolsfeld office ), in 1970 to the community of Irrel and in 2014 to the community of Southern Eifel .

Kaschenbach is considered to be a village in which the basic forms of the medieval land order of the stock estates have been preserved up to our time. The formerly four stock estates with approx. 100 acres of real estate, which according to old Saxon law could not be divided, but passed on to the heirs of the farm, are still owned by long-established farming families.

Immediately to the east of the village, the route of the former Bitburg-Erdorf - Igel railway line can still be seen in the area , whose operation south of Bitburg has meanwhile been discontinued.

Population development

The development of the population of Kaschenbach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 54 1835 82 1871 131 1905 114 1939 70 1950 78 1961 63

year Residents 1970 69 1987 44 1997 46 2005 55 2011 57 2017 59

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

Blazon : “In silver, flanked red on the right, topped with a golden ear, flanked green on the left, topped with a golden bird cherry leaf, a black keystone in the form of a star cross with hemispherical thickenings at the cross arm approaches, topped with a shepherd's hat over a shepherd's staff and drinking bottle in silver. "

Justification for the coat of arms: In the ceiling construction, a ribbed vault, there is a keystone with a carved coat of arms. Since this coat of arms was also supposed to make a reference to the Benedictine abbey of Echternach and shows a shepherd with a staff and a drinking vessel, the symbols of this motif were adopted in silver from the current local coat of arms. From 1797 the place was in the so-called forest department, for 20 years under French influence until it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia by the Treaty of Vienna of May 31, 1815. Kaschenbach belonged to the Kyllburg-Bitburg regional chapter and, surprisingly, to 2 parishes, namely the Alsdorf parish and the Meckel parish. For this reason, the edge strips in the new coat of arms were kept in green and red. As an allusion to the fertile Muschelkalk region, the golden ear of wheat stands for the field and a bird cherry leaf for the forest.

Culture and sights

Surrounded by the churchyard, the Catholic Church of St. Michael, built in 1846 instead of a predecessor and inclined to the main street, rises at the highest point of the village. The forms of architecture are those of a gothic classicism. The new tower was built in 1874 by the district architect Peter Josef Julius Wolff from Bitburg.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Kaschenbach

Personalities of the place

• Adolf Billen (1911–1979), politician (CDU), member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1951 to 1971.
• Michael Billen (* 1955), politician (CDU), member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament since 1996.

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (arr.): The art monuments of the Bitburg district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / I ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 21, 22 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 figs. In the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

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

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Kaschenbach in the database of cultural assets 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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 99 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Coat of arms of Kaschenbach