Krautscheid

This article deals with the place Krautscheid in the Eifel. For further meanings see Krautscheid (explanation of terms ) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 6 ° 20 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Arzfeld
Height :	525 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.59 km 2
Residents:	210 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	24 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54673
Area code :	06554
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 253
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Luxemburger Strasse 6 54687 Arzfeld
Website :	www.krautscheid.com
Local Mayor :	Peter Pusch
Location of the local community Krautscheid in the Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm

View of the wayside shrine from 1781

St. Valentine's Church

Krautscheid is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Arzfeld .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located between Neuerburg and Arzfeld on a plateau visible from afar in the southern Eifel , about 15 km east of the state border with Luxembourg . The districts of Ringhuscheid, Bellscheid and Krautscheid belong to the local community of Krautscheid.

Neighboring communities

Krautscheid borders Lauperath in the north, Niederpierscheid and Oberpierscheid in the east , Berkoth and Uppershausen in the south, and Arzfeld in the north-west.

history

The first secure mention of the place under the name "Kruisscheit" comes from a purchase contract from the year 1231. In this a Walterus sacerdos de Kruisscheit (priest Walter zu Krautscheid) is named as a witness.

Until 1794, the three localities Bellscheid, Krautscheid and Ringhuscheid, which today belong to the municipality, belonged to the Luxembourgish lordship of Neuerburg . Krautscheid was the main place of a dairy farm , this administrative and judicial district also included the villages of Bellscheid, Hölzchen , Mauel , Niederpierscheid , Oberpierscheid , Ringhuscheid, the Windhausen and Wehrhausen farms and part of Arzfeld .

During the French administration (1795-1814) the three localities were administered by the Mairie Ringhuscheid, which belonged to the canton of Arzfeld in the department of forests .

Under the Prussian administration (after 1815) the place belonged first to the mayor's office Ringhuscheid in the district of Prüm , from 1854 to the mayor's office of Waxweiler .

Today's community was formed on January 1, 1973 from the dissolved communities of Krautscheid (then 97 inhabitants), Bellscheid (46) and Ringhuscheid (159).

Population
development The development of the number of inhabitants of Krautscheid in relation to today's municipality area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 208 1835 328 1871 381 1905 357 1939 368 1950 381

year Residents 1961 337 1970 335 1987 304 1997 273 2005 262 2019 210

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Krautscheid consists of six council members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

mayor

On May 26, 2019, Peter Pusch was re-elected as local mayor with 65.2 percent.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided by silver over red, above a black carrion crow ready to fly, below a silver tree stump sprouting into three linden leaves"

Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms shows a "talking coat of arms". The colors are silver and red. In the upper field there is a black soaring crow with outstretched wings, in the lower field a silver tree stump, from which new life sprouts in the form of three new stems each ending in a linden leaf. The tree stump symbolizes the clearing of the forest, whereby the three places could arise.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Listed church of St. Valentin - with St. Apollonia and St. Gertrud - from the middle of the 18th century
• High wayside shrine made of red Eifel sandstone from 1781 ⊙

See also: List of cultural monuments in Krautscheid

Green spaces and recreation

• Hiking routes in and around Krautscheid
• Way of St. James through Krautscheid to Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Krautscheid is on the way from Cologne / Bonn via Trier to Schengen with overnight accommodation.

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• Motorsport events ( stock car and autocross ) take place here several times a year . The first races were held in 1969 and attract visitors from far and wide.

Economy and Infrastructure

Building of the Krautscheid Volunteer Fire Brigade

Krautscheid is an agricultural community . Since 1971, when 48 farms were still counted, the utilized agricultural area has decreased from 603 ha to 420 ha (2010), which were cultivated by 7 farms.

64% of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 31% are forest (as of 2011).

The place is at the intersection of several state and district roads. The next motorway junction, Waxweiler / Schönecken, is 10 km to the east on federal motorway 60 .

Public facilities

The local community is the location of a volunteer fire brigade .

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (edit.): The art monuments of the Prüm district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / II ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 175 (222 p., With 9 plates and 185 ills. In the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

Commons : Krautscheid  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Internet presence of the local community Krautscheid
• Local community Krautscheid on the webpage of the association community Arzfeld
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Krautscheid 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. ^ Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes of the Diocese of Trier . Bischöfliches General-Vicariate, Trier 1887, p. 629 ( www.dilibri.de )
3. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume III, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1874, p. 352, document 447 ( www.dilibri.de )
4. ↑ Article Krautscheid on www.region-trier.de
5. ↑ 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.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
7. ↑ Coat of arms of Krautscheid
8. ↑ Hiking in Krautscheid. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Hiking from Krautscheid to Lauperath. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
10. ↑ The Way of St. James / Pilgrimage. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Jakobsweg Cologne to Schengen. Retrieved April 29, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .