Keppeshausen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '  N , 6 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	230 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.31 km 2
Residents:	12 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	5 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54673
Area code :	06524
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 066
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Eduard Klasen
Location of the local community Keppeshausen in the Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm

Keppeshausen on the Our

Keppeshausen is a municipality on the border river Our between Luxembourg and Germany in the Eifel in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Südeifel and has 12 inhabitants and an area of ​​2.31 km². This makes the place with its twelve houses one of the smallest communities in Germany in terms of population .

geography

Keppeshausen is located on the German-Luxembourg border river Our . A bridge over the Our leads to the neighboring Luxembourg town of Stolzemburg (municipality of Pütscheid). The Our is dammed under the bridge by a weir .

Part of the village of Waldhof, which otherwise belongs to the municipality of Waldhof-Falkenstein, also belongs to Keppeshausen .

history

A Keppeshusen was mentioned as early as 1463 . In 1615 there were two stock estates in Keppeshausen .

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Luxembourgish county of Vianden and the Karlshausen dairy .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . Under French administration , the area belonged to the canton of Vianden in the Diekirch arrondissement , which was part of the forests department . Keppeshausen was managed by Mairie Stolzemburg .

Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Keppeshausen came to the Roth mayor's office in the Bitburg district , which was assigned to the Trier administrative district .

After the First World War , the area belonged to the French part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland . After the Second World War , Keppeshausen became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone .

Today Keppeshausen belongs to the parish Rodershausen , but was part of the Luxembourg parish of Stolzemburg since 1585.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 18th 1835 29 1871 34 1905 26th 1939 30th 1950 22nd 1961 23

year Residents 1970 15th 1987 17th 1997 21st 2005 22nd 2011 15th 2017 14th

Municipal council

The council in Keppeshausen 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.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Our dam
• Vianden with its famous castle complex and one of the largest pumped storage power plants in Europe is nearby .

Natural park

• Information point of the German-Luxembourg nature park in the old customs house
• Hiking trails in the German-Luxembourg nature park.

Regular events

• Fair : 1st weekend after September 8th
• Hill climb : In the 1970s, a hill climb for automobiles took place several times on Kreisstraße 47 to Bauler . ( Windhausener Bergpreis)

Web links

Commons : Keppeshausen  - Collection of Images

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Keppeshausen 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. ↑ Clomes: attempt at a statistical-geographic description of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Schmit-Bruck, 1840, p. 8 ( Google Books ).
4. ↑ District administration of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm: Administrative affiliation of the individual communities ( online PDF )
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .