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Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Schweich on the Roman Wine Route
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.9 km 2
Residents:	2745 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	704 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54344
Area code :	06502
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 060
LOCODE :	DE NNP
Association administration address:	Brückenstrasse 26 ; 54338 Schweich
Website :	www.kenn.de
Local Mayor :	Rainer Müller ( CDU )
Location of the local community Kenn in the district of Trier-Saarburg

Look at Kenn

View of the Moselle shopping center in Kenn

Kenn is a municipality on the Moselle in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Schweich on the Roman Wine Route .

Kenn is considered the gateway to the Roman Wine Route . Kenn has a junction with the 602 federal motorway , an industrial and commercial area and a large shopping center.

history

The name Kenn comes from the Latin and was earlier written cannis (Latin canna = reed, Latin cannis = reed bank). The place was first mentioned in a document in 893. The spelling Kenn was used from around 1700.

There are several finds from the Iron Age and there were several Roman finds in Kenn. A statue of a Roman spring nymph is in a well-preserved condition in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier and a copy in Kenn am Römerplatz.

On today's Kenner-Ley lies the old Poststrasse, which is part of a Roman road that led from Trier to Bingen .

Under French territorial rule, Kenn was assigned to the Mairie Longuich in the canton of Schweich . The Maximiner Hofgut was auctioned in 1812. Between 1803 and 1808, Kenn was a succursal parish and was then considered a chapel congregation with a vicar until a parish was finally established.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	409
1835	737
1871	808
1905	713
1939	872
1950	960

year	Residents
1961	1,114
1970	1,324
1987	2,276
1997	2,503
2005	2,535
2019	2,745

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kenn consists of 20 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 municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	4th	8th	8th	20 seats
2014	4th	9	7th	20 seats
2009	4th	9	7th	20 seats
2004	5	10	5	20 seats
1999	7th	7th	6th	20 seats

^* FWG = Free Voter Group Kenn 1979 e. V.

Attractions

Immediately on the banks of the Moselle lies the Kenner Flur , an arable (alluvial) land of the Moselle interspersed with sand and gravel, where both have been mined since 1905. The Kenner Flur is a designated nature reserve with an old waterworks built in 1903.
Local history museum, a fully furnished farmhouse with over 800 exhibits about the simple life of the rural population in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Parts of a Roman Villa Urbana from the 2nd century ( Römerkeller am Römerplatz)
Hofgut of the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin
Herrenbor (old village fountain) in the main street: the oldest preserved in the district; it was built around 1500 with late Gothic features.
Parish Church of St. Margaretha
Die Kenner Ley in the west of the village, a steep bank section built with residential buildings from 1970 to 1990 around 60 meters above the Moselle valley with good views and distant views.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Kenn are a cath. Kindergarten, a primary school , a branch of the Sparkasse Trier and in Real-Markt a branch of the Volksbank Trier . There is also a pharmacy, an internist, a veterinarian and a dentist in Kenn. Numerous small and medium-sized companies as well as industrial companies are based in Kenn.

traffic

Kenn is located on the route of the former Moselle Railway . The Moselle cycle path runs through the village .

Road traffic

The following motorways lead from / to Kenn:

A 1 Saarbrücken – Wittlich – Euskirchen – Cologne
A 64 Luxembourg (there Autoroute 1 ) - Kenn
A 602 leads from Kenn to the A 1

Connection to the following federal highways:

B 52 near Trier-Ehrang
B 53 Trier – Schweich – Mehring – Bernkastel-Kues – Zell – Alf via the A 602

Transportation

The public transport in the tariff area of the traffic group region Trier is buses Moselbahn GmbH and Robert Travel operated.

Moselle bridge

In the west of the municipality is the Ehrang Moselle bridge on the federal road 52 between Trier-Ehrang and Kenn. It connects A 64 , A 602 , B 52 and B 53 with Kenn. The bridge has a foot and bike path that leads directly to Trier harbor and the center of Ehrang .