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Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	258 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.11 km 2
Residents:	1078 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54675
Area code :	06566
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 067
Community structure:	5 districts
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 ; 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	www.ortsgemeinde-koerperich.de
Local Mayor :	Hermann-Josef Hecker
Location of the local community in Körperich in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

Körperich, aerial photo (2017)

Körperich (Kirbirch) by Jean Bertels 1597

Kewenig (Kefenich) by Jean Bertels 1597

Körperich is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel . According to state planning, Körperich is designated as a basic center.

geography

location

The main town of Körperich is located on the Gaybach , a tributary of the Sauer . In the west, about three kilometers away, is the Luxembourg border at Roth an der Our , in the east Hüttingen .

Körperich consists of the villages of Körperich, Großenborn, Schneidemühle, Niedersgegen (3 km in the southeast), Gaymühle, Knappmühle, Obersgegen (1 km in the north), Kewenig Castle (4 km in the southeast), and Seimerich (1 km in the south).

climate

The annual precipitation is 802 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 63% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in November. In November there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in April. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only 1% of the measuring stations .

history

Finds from the Stone Age prove an early settlement. A cremation burial ground and remains of Roman buildings also testify to settlement in Roman times.

The place is mentioned for the first time in a donation from 783. There a Theugerus and a Harduvicus are named in a document as donors of goods to the Echternach Abbey and Körperich is referred to as Geine an der Geihe (Gaybach).

1330 lists the Taxa generalis Körperich as Kirpurg , then in 1570 as Kirprich . For a long time in the Middle Ages and afterwards, Körperich belonged to the Luxembourg county of Vianden .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . From 1795 to 1814 the place belonged to the canton Vianden in the forest department . Body I was the seat of a mairie .

In 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . In order for the site Körperich 1816 came to Bitburg in Trier in the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine , which in 1822 Rheinprovinz opened. Körperich became the official seat of the mayor's office of the same name .

After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French, the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

On June 7, 1969, today's community of Körperich was formed from the communities of Körperich (562 inhabitants), Niedersgegen (164), Obersgegen (296) and Seimerich (91). As early as July 1, 1967, the municipality of Kewenig was incorporated into Niedersgegen.

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of Körperich in relation to today's municipality area; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year	Residents
1815	492
1835	840
1871	879
1905	935
1939	1,797
1950	1,015
1961	1,167

year	Residents
1970	1.107
1987	1,046
1997	1,067
2005	1.110
2011	1.104
2017	1,078

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Körperich consists of 16 council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until 2009, personalized proportional representation took place. Template: future / in 3 years

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	WGR 1	WGR 2	total
2019	Majority vote			16 seats
2014	Majority vote			16 seats
2009	6th	6th	4th	16 seats
2004	8th	4th	4th	16 seats

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold, a red oblique left-hand bar with three white Maltese crosses after the figure and accompanied by two red lilies ."

Foundation of the coat of arms: The spatially closer together former municipalities Obersgegen, Körperich and Seimerich were largely determined and influenced by the Commende des Johanniterordens, which had its seat in neighboring Roth. The three Maltese crosses - symbols of the Order of St. John - have therefore been added for these communities. The communities of Kewenig and Niedersgegen to the south were oriented towards the former Echternach Abbey. According to the Luxembourg State Archives, the Echternach Abbey had a Gleven (line) cross, as evidenced by an oath hand in the seal. For these two municipalities, the two lines have therefore been included and thus all formerly independent municipalities are represented in the coat of arms. Before the Knights of St. John there was a settlement of the Temple Knight Order in Roth until 1311. This led a red oblique left bar in gold in the quartered shield. The shield base in gold is also adopted. Since the signs are on a "golden ground", there is also a talking coat of arms, as the area of the now united communities is popularly called "golden ground".

Culture and sights

Kewenig Castle

St. Hubertus in Körperich

Petry Castle with St. Dionysius

Buildings

Catholic parish church of St. Hubertus , the foundations of the church date from the Middle Ages. However, it was rebuilt in 1790, the west tower was added in 1826. In 1924 there was an expansion by building a new choir room in the south and creating a new entrance on the north side. It is worth mentioning the rococo altar in white and gold and on the door of the rotating tabernacle a relief-like depiction of the sacrifice of Isaac.
Catholic parish church of St. Dionysius in the district of Niedersgegen from 1734
Catholic branch church St. Antonius from the 14th or 15th century in the district of Obersgegen
Former oil and cutting mill around 1800
Petry Castle - a three-wing complex from the 14th or 15th century in Niedersgegen.
Bouvier Castle - an estate castle in Niedersgegen from the 19th century is now a school campus
Kewenig Castle - a manor house from the 16th century

Green spaces and recreation

Royal oak in the Obersgegen forest area
Double-stemmed oak in the Bouvier Castle Park in Niedersgegen
Linden, copper beech, plane tree, ash and chestnut in the Bouvier Castle Park in Niedersgegen

Regular events

Annual fair or parish fair
Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

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. 125–132 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).
Pfarramt Körperich: 200 years of the parish church of St. Hubertus. Festschrift 1990.
Verbandsgemeinde Neuerburg: Our valley without borders. 2006, ISBN 3-00-018095-8 .

Web links

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

To search for cultural assets of the local community of Körperich in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

^ ^A ^b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .

↑ 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).

↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 183 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .
^ Coat of arms of Körperich
↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .
↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[regionaldaten-2] A ^b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 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. 99 (PDF; 3 MB).