Koxhausen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '  N , 6 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	510 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.81 km 2
Residents:	108 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54673
Area code :	06564
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 068
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Mayoress :	Rita Enders
Location of the local community Koxhausen in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian

Old rectory

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

geography

Koxhausen is located in the South Eifel nature park . Neighboring communities are Berscheid , Hütten , Herbstmühle and Muxerath .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1372 as Cixhausen , its emergence as a clearing village is believed to be in the 12th century.

Until the end of the 18th century, the place, then still spelled "Kochshausen" or "Kockshausen", belonged to the rulership of Neuerburg in the Duchy of Luxembourg .

From 1795 to 1814 Kochshausen / Koxhausen belonged to the French forest department .

In 1815 the Rhineland and thus also Koxhausen was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna , in 1816 the place became the administrative seat of a 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 .

In addition to agriculture, charcoal burning became an important source of income in the 18th and 19th centuries .

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

year Residents 1815 74 1835 129 1871 148 1905 124 1939 171 1950 158 1961 147

year Residents 1970 124 1987 112 1997 104 2005 108 2011 115 2017 107

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

Blazon : "Shield split twice, in front a black bar in silver, behind in red a silver bar, in the middle in gold a vertically and horizontally separated black high cross with a red snake."

Foundation of the coat of arms: In the Middle Ages, Koxhausen belonged to the County of Vianden and bordered on the rulership of Neuerburg. Deviating from the original form of the coat of arms of the Lords of Neuerburg (= black sloping bar in silver), the horizontal bar was chosen for aesthetic reasons. The colors silver and black already indicate the rulership of Neuerburg. The patrons of the parish and the place are St. Kosmas and Damianus, the patron saints of medicine. The Aesculapian staff (symbol of medicine) designed as a divided cross, indicates that there are two saints and at the same time symbolizes the martyrdom that both saints have suffered.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• A chapel built in 1712 was expanded into a parish church in 1836 and expanded in 1922. It is dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and is decorated with baroque altars and rococo figures.
• Wayside shrine around 1907 in Burgstrasse
• Old rectory

See also: List of cultural monuments in Koxhausen

Green spaces and recreation

• Hiking routes in and around Koxhausen
• Children's playground at the village community center

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)
• Annual Opel rear-wheel drive meeting on the first weekend in August

Economy and Infrastructure

In 1995, 1996 and 2002 the Koxhausen-Neuerburg-Leimbach wind farm went into operation. 12 wind turbines of the type Enercon E-40 / 5.40 and one wind turbine of the type Enercon E-40 / 6.44 deliver an annual production of 6.5 megawatt hours. When the expansion went into operation in 1995, the wind farm was the largest inland wind farm in Europe.

See also: List of wind turbines in Rhineland-Palatinate

See also: List of Enercon wind turbine types

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. 132 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 ills. In the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

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

• To search for cultural goods of the local community Koxhausen in the database of cultural goods 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. ↑ Neuerburger Zeitung 1910 No. 7-13, according to Zimmer.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. (PDF) Retrieved March 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Koxhausen - Bauler - Geichlingen - Berscheider Bach. Retrieved March 14, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Gaytal-Grünhof-Herbstmühle-Koxhausen hike. Retrieved March 14, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Short hike around southern Neuerburg. Retrieved March 14, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Koxhausen-Neuerburg-Leimbach wind farm. Enercon, accessed March 14, 2018 .