Klausen (Eifel)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Wittlich-Land
Height :	245 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.22 km 2
Residents:	1396 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	151 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54524
Area code :	06578
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 069
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 ; 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.klausen.de
Local Mayor :	Alois Meyer
Location of the local community of Klausen in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district

Klausen with a view of the Eifel

Pilgrimage church in Klausen

Klausen is a municipality in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land . Klausen is the location of a well-known Marian pilgrimage church and a state-approved resort .

geography

location

Klausen is located in the Moselle Eifel . The closest medium-sized centers are Bernkastel-Kues and Wittlich .

The two districts of Krames and Pohlbach as well as the residential areas Pohlbacher Mühle, Forsthaus, Hof Weidenhaag and Neu-Minheim (formerly the municipality of Minheim ) belong to Klausen .

The Grönbach and Kramesbach flow towards the Salm .

climate

The annual precipitation is 749 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 51% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the highest rainfall in August. In August there is 1.4 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation varies only minimally and is extremely evenly distributed over the year.

history

In 1442, Klausen was first mentioned when the admirer of Mary Eberhard set up a wooden figure on a site that was still undeveloped (the site of today's church in Eberhardsklausen) depicting Mary with Jesus in her arms ( pietà ). The figure was soon transferred to a so-called Marienhäuschen . Two years later the first chapel was built on the site of the Marienhäuschen. On March 25, 1449, the late Gothic St. Mary's Church, rebuilt from 1446 by the Antwerp master builder Cluys, was consecrated by the Archbishop of Trier , Jakob I von Sierck . Around 1480 the carved high altar that is still there today came into the church. It is one of the earliest surviving examples of Antwerp reredos . A monastery built by the Augustinian choirs of the Windesheim congregation (known as Eberhardsklausen monastery) was consecrated in 1461. The church soon became the destination of a pilgrimage, which is still very popular today. The Eberhard's barrel is located on the church tower .

In the course of the War of the Polish Succession, on October 20, 1735, in the battle near Klausen near Klausen, imperial troops under the command of Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff defeated a French army led by Marshal François de Franquetot de Coigny .

In 1802 the Augustinian Canons' monastery was dissolved. The monastery church became the parish church , which also looked after the numerous pilgrims with pastoral care. In 1927 the parish in Klausen was elevated to a deanery . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Today's municipality of Klausen was re-established on June 7, 1969 from the previously independent and simultaneously dissolved municipalities of Krames (then 408 inhabitants) and Pohlbach (611 inhabitants). Eberhardsklausen with the monastery area was not an independent municipality, but belonged partly to Krames and partly to Pohlbach. Until the congregations of Pohlbach and Krames were merged, there was only the parish of Klausen.

In 1988 Klausen received the first state award in the competition “for exemplary ecological performance” and was the district winner in the competition Our village should be more beautiful .

Statistics on population development

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

year	Residents
1815	501
1835	654
1871	825
1905	766
1939	928
1950	994

year	Residents
1961	958
1970	1,041
1987	1,024
2005	1,343
2011	1.314
2017	1,385

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Klausen consists of 16 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	BL	WGR	total
2019	-	11	5	16 seats
2014	-	10	6th	16 seats
2009	-	11	5	16 seats
2004	1	7th	8th	16 seats

BL = Citizens List Klausen e. V.

mayor

Local mayor is Alois Meyer, who received 80.2% of the votes in the election on June 7, 2009. Meyer was confirmed in office in July 2014.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, a blue lily that has blossomed into a finial with double green ovary."

Culture and sights

The pilgrimage church of the Visitation of Mary, the Dominican convent Mater Dolorosa, the subsidiary church of St. Margaretha in Pohlbach or the Catholic church of St. Thomas in Krames are all worth seeing. In the old town centers there are still some single houses .

Attractions
Pilgrimage Church of Klausen
Branch church in Krames
Branch church in Pohlbach
Monastery in Klausen, in
front of the Marienbrunnen
Farmhouse in Pohlbach

Economy and Infrastructure

Klausen has a network of around 60 km of hiking trails.

traffic

Klausen is connected to the A1 motorway through the Salmtal junction 1 km away . The state roads L47 (from Trier to Machern ) and L50 (from Piesport to Binsfeld ) run directly through the village and connect to the neighboring communities: Salmtal in the north, Piesport in the south, Esch and Sehlem in the west and Osann-Monzel in the east .

Public transport

Klausen is located in Wabe 338 of the Trier Region Transport Association (VRT) and has a total of 5 bus stops.

The bus line 304 of the Rhein-Mosel Verkehrsgesellschaft (RMV) connects Klausen via Altrich several times a day (on Saturdays only once a day; not on Sundays) with the district town of Wittlich , where you can change in all directions at the central bus station.

The nearest regional train stations are Salmtal and Sehlem (Kr Wittlich) on the Moselle route , both about 5 km from Klausen. The Central Station Wittlich , about 15 km from Klausen, the next train station. It can be reached by bus with a single change at the Wittlich bus station.

Personalities

Heinrich Voltmann (1830–1909) organ builder, lived in Klausen from 1850 to 1909 and ran an organ building workshop there
Anton Turk (1868–1940), German-Austrian organ builder

literature

Peter Dohms: Eberhardsklausen - monastery, church, pilgrimage, from the beginning to the present. Paulinus, Trier 1985, ISBN 3-7902-0316-5 .
Peter Dohms: The former Eberhardsklausen monastery with the pilgrimage church in Klausen near Wittlich (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Cologne [Hrsg.]: Rheinische Kunststätten . Heft 340). Neuss 1989, ISBN 3-88094-622-1 .
Peter Dohms: Klausener pilgrims book . Trier 2001.
Martin Persch , Michael Embach, Peter Dohms (eds.): 500 years of the Pilgrimage Church of Klausen (= sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history . Volume 104 ). Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-929135-38-8 .
Marco Brösch: The Eberhardsklausen monastery library and its holdings. From the beginning to the 16th century . Trier 2015 (985 pp., Full text online [PDF; 20.3 MB ] Dissertation University of Trier 2011).

Web links

Commons : Klausen - Collection of images

Local parish Klausen

Individual evidence

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

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 91 (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. 182 (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.
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
↑ Election of the honorary local and city mayors ( memento from April 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Bernd Brauksiepe: Klausen - Augustinian Canons Foundation . In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-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. 91 (PDF; 3 MB).