Hermeskeil

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 6 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Hermeskeil
Height :	542 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.85 km 2
Residents:	6638 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	215 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54411
Area code :	06503
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 045
City structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Langer Markt 17 54411 Hermeskeil
Website :	www.hermeskeil.de
City Mayor:	Lena Weber ( SPD )
Location of the city of Hermeskeil in the Trier-Saarburg district

Hermeskeil

Pedestrian zone and Roman Catholic church

Hermeskeil is a town in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is the administrative seat of the association of the same name , to which it also belongs. According to state planning, Hermeskeil is designated as a medium-sized center.

geography

The city is located in the Black Forest high forest in the southwest of the Hunsrück . The district extends at a height of 500 to 600 meters in a hollow in the high forest, which forms the geographical center of the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park . A neighboring city is the Saarland Wadern .

Hermeskeil refers to the table sheet No. 6307 (formerly No. 3495) of the topographic map on a scale of 1: 25,000.

Districts

Districts are Abtei , Höfchen and Lascheiderhof as well as Blasiusmühle, industrial and commercial park Grafenwald, commercial area Adrian, Katzenmühle, Lascheider Neuhaus, Laurentiushof, Markushof, Nickelsmühle, Römerhof, Rückersbergerhof, Vor Buchenwald, Wendelshof, commercial area Raiffeisenstrasse and industrial and commercial area Dörrenbach.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are Reinsfeld , Rascheid , Geisfeld , Malborn , Damflos , Züsch , Nonnweiler and Gusenburg .

climate

The annual precipitation is 1079 mm. The rainfall is high. They are in the upper quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 88% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.6 times more rainfall than in April. The rainfall varies greatly. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 69% of the measuring stations .

history

Archaeological finds in the Hermeskeil area point to pre-Christian settlements, such as Celtic burial grounds, Celtic paths and Roman roads on which manors were located.

In 2012, archaeologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz near Hermeskeil were able to identify the oldest Roman military camp in Germany to date. The military camp, excavated between 2010 and 2012, is said to have been made at the end of the Gallic War between 53 and 51 BC. By the troops of Julius Caesar . The almost 26 hectare facility with a fortification wall offered space for 5,000 to 10,000 soldiers.

See also : Roman camp Hermeskeil

A first written mention of the place could be in the will of Adalgisel Grimo from 634 , in which a place is called Callido , although it remains uncertain whether it refers to Kell , Niederkell or Hermeskeil. The first unequivocal mention of Hermeskeil comes from the year 1220, when the name is passed down as Hermannis Kellede .

The name Callido or Kellede is derived from the Celtic word caleto ( call , kall ) and means "stone" or "rock". Protokeltisch * magnio ( man or men ) means “hard”, “stone” and “rock” and protokeltisch * (h) ir means “long”. The name Hermannis ( Hermann ) is the Latinized form of the German name Hermann (by ahd. Heritable , "army" and ahd. Man , "man"), but is derived from Celtic Hir-man or Men-hir ago and means "long stone". The long stones in the region around Hermeskeil are the large Wacken, i.e. the quartzite rocks. The Celts or Gauls said Hir-man , but the term menhir migrated from Breton to German via the French language.

According to the fire book of the Grimburg office from 1563, the Trier elector was the main landowner and court lord. Administratively, Hermeskeil belonged to the Reinsfeld High Court . In 1625 there were 35 households (hearths) in Hermeskeil. In the Thirty Years War there was pillage and pillage, so that in 1651 there were only four houses left. From the 18th century onwards, Hermeskeil developed again and in 1787 with 471 people was the largest town in the Grimburg district.

In the French era , Hermeskeil was the chef-lieu of the canton of the same name and belonged to the Birkenfeld arrondissement in the Saar department . After a brief Austrian-Bavarian administration (1814) and Prussian occupation (1815), Hermeskeil was incorporated into the Trier district formed in 1816 and the seat of the Hermeskeil mayor . By 1830, nine general and livestock markets and one weekly market were held. In 1931 the districts of Abbey and Höfchen were incorporated.

Since the arrival in Hermeskeil in the 19th century, in addition to the Catholic parish, there was a small Protestant community with a church built between 1852 and 1853 and a Jewish community. The synagogue was desecrated during the November pogroms in 1938 and destroyed in 1945.

A reproduction of the Stalingrad Madonna (statue made of sandstone) was set up in Hermeskeil on a meadow next to the parish church of St. Martin by Pastor Mohr, a Stalingrad participant .

On July 4, 1970 Hermeskeil was raised to the city .

From 1962 to 2006 there was a Bundeswehr barracks in Hermeskeil, which has been called the Hochwald barracks since 1967, with around 1400 soldiers. It was extensively renovated between 1993 and 1996, but it was closed at the end of 2006. Some buildings of the barracks and the neighboring former training area on the B52 between Hermeskeil and Trier are still unused today. A tourism project "Dorf Hochwald" originally planned on the barracks site could not be implemented due to the insolvency of the original investor . The Hermeskeil barracks was sold to another investor in 2011 for 1.6 million euros. A high-bay warehouse for the roofing wholesaler DEG, which belongs to the Zedach Group, was built on the site of the barracks in 2012; some businesses have rented space. The reception center for asylum seekers (AfA) Hermeskeil has been located on the site of the former barracks (Trierer Straße 200) since the end of 2015.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 679 1835 1,829 1871 1,892 1905 2,518 1939 4,219 1950 3.711

year Residents 1961 4,535 1970 5,730 1987 5,486 1997 6,100 2005 5,735 2019 6,638

Graphic of the population development

religion

Protestant church

• Protestant parish Hermeskeil-Züsch
• Catholic parish of St. Martin in the dean's office Hermeskeil-Waldrach
• Christian community Hermeskeil
• Franciscan monastery (1923-2016, since 2017 Franciscan Sisters )
• Jehovah's Witnesses , Hermeskeil Congregation

politics

City council

The city ​​council in Hermeskeil consists of 22 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

City Mayor

• from 1994 to 2009: Ilona König (CDU)
• from 2009 to 2014: Udo Moser (BfB)
• from 2014 to 2019: Mathias Queck (CDU)
• since 2019: Lena Weber (SPD)

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Split under a silver shield head with a red bar cross. In front a blue wedge in silver, in it an overturned silver sword with a golden hilt and quillons. In the back, in silver with a blue border, a red lily with a blue collar. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The red cross comes from the coat of arms of Kurtrier , the former sovereign. The sword reminds of St. Martin , the patron saint of the parish church. The wedge refers talking on the place name and the lily evokes the Abbey Tholey , the collator of the parish church was.

Town twinning

Hermeskeil has had a partnership with Saint-Fargeau in Burgundy, France , since 1975 and with Hel in Poland since 2002 .

Culture and sights

fire department experience museum Hermeskeil

Buildings

• Marienkapelle on the Erzberg

See: List of cultural monuments in Hermeskeil
See: List of stumbling blocks in Hermeskeil

Museums

• Hermeskeil flight exhibition , largest private flight exhibition in Europe (Peter Junior)
• Private Hermeskeil Steam Locomotive Museum in the former depot
• Rhineland-Palatinate Fire Brigade Museum Hermeskeil
• Hermeskeil High Forest Museum

leisure

Indoor leisure pool, outdoor pool, gymnastics and sports halls, sports fields, squash and tennis hall, tennis courts, fitness centers in Hermeskeil and Höfchen, hotels, holiday apartments, youth hostels, scout huts, music association.

Hermeskeil is located on the Hunsrück Cycle Route ( Saarburg - Bacharach ), the Ruwer-Hochwald Cycle Route (Hermeskeil - Trier-Ruwer ) and the Primstal Cycle Route (Hermeskeil - Nonnweiler ).

Two sequoias at Tivoli on Landesstrasse 151 in the direction of Nonnweiler are worth seeing .

Economy and Infrastructure

Metal processing industry

Work of Siegenia-Aubi KG (manufacturer of window fittings)

traffic

Federal motorway 1 runs west of Hermeskeil . Hermeskeil is also on federal roads 52 (in the direction of Trier-Ehrang), 327 (in the direction of Koblenz) and 407 (in the direction of Perl) as well as on other state and district roads .

With the construction of railway lines to Trier (completed in 1889), Türkismühle (completed in 1897) and Simmern (completed in 1903), Hermeskeil station was temporarily a railway junction. It is located on the single-track branch line Hunsrückbahn and on the Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg on the route of the former Hochwaldbahn .

From Hermeskeil there are hourly buses (every two hours on weekends) on the R200 line to Trier and Türkismühle .

Local facilities

Town hall of the association, including registry office, city library, vehicle registration office and tourist information, TÜV branch, Hermeskeil district court , notary's office, police inspection, employment agency , forestry office with forestry support point, timber market service of the Trier forestry directorate, information center of the nature park Saar-Hunsrück Rhineland-Palatinate e. V. and road maintenance department, branches of Sparkasse Trier and, until December 31, 2014, of Volksbank Hochwald-Saarburg , which merged with Volksbank Trier on January 1, 2015 .

Social care and security

St. Josef - Hospital , Hochwald Altenzentrum St. Clare , DRC -Sozialstation, volunteer fire department , AWO -Sozialzentrum, outpatient services and technical relief .

education

The Rektor-Bach-Hauptschule and the Erich Kästner Realschule have formed the Hermeskeil Integrated Comprehensive School since the 2010/11 school year .

Further facilities are the kindergartens Adolf Kolping, Rosa Flesch and Villa Kunterbunt, elementary school, Hermeskeil grammar school (centenary in 2013), Geschwister-Scholl-Schule - vocational school, adult education facilities, district music school.

Trivia

In addition to various local streets in the region, Hermeskeiler Strasse and Hermeskeiler Platz in Cologne are also named after the city.

Personalities

Born in Hermeskeil

• Peter Harig (1893–1981), member of parliament and local mayor of Hermeskeil
• Bernhard Wehrens (* 1934), Head of Department at the European Commission ( EU ) in Brussels
• Dittmar Lauer (* 1937), local history researcher, author and publisher, architect
• Gernot Lucas (* 1938), architect , interior designer and university professor
• Heinz Josef Algermissen (* 1943), Bishop of Fulda
• Hans-Josef Klauck (* 1946), Franciscan (OFM) , professor at the University of Chicago
• Bernd Becker (* 1954), computer scientist and university professor
• Gottfried Biewer (* 1955), educational scientist and university professor
• Hanns-Christoph Eiden (* 1956), administrative lawyer
• Heinz-Werner Kubitza (* 1961), author and publisher
• Frank P. Meyer (* 1962), writer
• Sonja Röder (* 1964), writer
• Brigitte Röder (* 1967), psychologist and neuropsychologist
• Bettina Brück (* 1967), politician (SPD)
• Marc Bauch (* 1973), Americanist and high school teacher
• Shida Bazyar (* 1988), author
• Kristina Krewer (* 1989), bowling athlete
• Tina Gadziała (* 1992), German - Polish soccer player

Connected to Hermeskeil

• Gerd Fuchs (1932–2016), writer, grew up in Hermeskeil
• Matthias Utters (1934–1986), Guardian of the Franciscan monastery in Hermeskeil
• Klaus Servene (* 1949), writer, grew up in Hermeskeil

literature

• Anton Backes, Günther Barthel, Georg Marx: Hermeskeil: City in the high forest. 1970.
• Kurt Bach, Edmund Schömer: Hermeskeil. Ascent to the central location. Horb am Neckar 1993, ISBN 3-89264-781-X .
• Dittmar Lauer: 50 years of the city of Hermeskeil. Festival book on the occasion of the city's development in 1970 . Verlag Alta Silva, Hermeskeil 2020, ISBN 978-3-3981877-7-5

See also

• List of natural monuments in Hermeskeil

Web links

Commons : Hermeskeil  - Collection of Images

Wikivoyage: Hermeskeil  - travel guide

• City and community of Hermeskeil
• City partnership with Saint Fargeau
• To search for cultural assets of the city of Hermeskeil in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on the subject of Hermeskeil at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
• Bells of the Protestant Church in Hermeskeil (oldest steel bell in Germany from 1853)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ Deutsche Fotothek : Mestischblatt No. 3495: Hermeskeil, 1908
4. ↑ landkartenarchiv.de: Mes table sheet No. 6307: Hermeskeil, 1949
5. ↑ Hermeskeil map, 2019 edition, DNB 1206003782
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 75 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
7. ↑ Roman military camp from the time of the conquest of Gaul illuminates a piece of world history ( Memento from July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ The oldest Roman military camp discovered . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of September 10, 2012
9. ^ The Grimo Testament ( Memento from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Kurt Bach, Edmund Schömer: Hermeskeil. Ascent to the central location . Horb am Neckar 1993.
11. ↑ Cf. Xavier Delamarre: Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise , éditions errance, Paris 2003. - Xavier Delamarre: Noms de Lieux Celtiques , Edition Errance, Arles 2012. - Ranko Matasovic: Proto-Celtic , Brill, Leiden / Boston 2009.
12. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 187 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
13. ↑ Chronicle of the Hochwaldkaserne
14. ↑ Hermeskeil: Soldiers have left Hochwaldkaserne , Trierischer Volksfreund , December 14, 2006
15. ↑ Process: Fraud about investing in Hermeskeil? - Eifel business people in the dock , volksfreund.de , May 7, 2019
16. ↑ 1.6 million: Hermeskeil barracks are sold
17. ^ Hochwaldkaserne: Land purchases shortly before completion , Trierischer Volksfreund, December 7, 2011
18. ^ Ex-barracks becomes an energy park , Trierischer Volksfreund, November 22, 2012
19. ^ Report of the state government on the implementation of the state's conversion program to cope with the consequences of the withdrawal of troops in 2010 and 2011, p. 15 ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
20. ↑ Entry on 2 sequoias (Hermeskeil) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on August 11, 2017.
21. ↑ IGS Hermeskeil