Kruchten

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 6 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	323 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.38 km 2
Residents:	368 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54675
Primaries :	06566, 06526
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 069
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Mayoress :	Franziska Hermes
Location of the local community Kruchten in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

St. Maximin (Kruchten), west side

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

geography

The community is located in the South Eifel Nature Park . The hamlets of New Africa and Schwarzenbruch also belong to Kruchten .

history

Finds of stone axes and other objects from the Stone Age prove that Kruchten was already settled in early history. The Romans also left traces, which is evident from the finds of coins and the remains of the wall. From around AD 400, the Romans were ousted by the Franks , as evidenced by grave sites.

The Franks divided the area into Gaue . Around 850 the seat of the count is moved from Trier to Bitburg . The district was henceforth called Bed-Gowe ( Beda-Gau ). The expression "Bekow", which is still popular today, refers to the old Gau, but no longer corresponds to the same area. The first documents about Kruchten date from this time as "Cruten" from the years 751 and 763. Whether these documents mean Kruchten ( Eifel ) or Cruchten ( Luxembourg ) cannot be determined with absolute certainty. The first document definitely referring to Kruchten (Cruten uff dem Ebent) comes from the year 907, in which Count Reginar Langhals returned the "Gut Cruten" to the hospital in Echternach , from which it had been illegally withdrawn before 849.

In the following centuries Kruchten was repeatedly mentioned in documents under different names: 1161  Crufta - 1346  Cruchten - 1547  Crochten - 1570  Cruichten - 1623  Cruchten - 1933  Kruchten

The south-western Eifel region and thus also Kruchten has changed its territorial affiliation several times, but remained Luxembourgish for centuries . In 1443 the whole area came to the House of Burgundy , from 1482 to 1555 it belonged to the House of Habsburg , after which it fell to France. From 1698 to 1715 it was part of the Spanish Netherlands , from 1715 to 1795 it was part of the Duchy of Luxembourg in the county of Vianden and thus part of the Austrian Netherlands . From 1795 to 1814 it was again part of France ( Department of Forests ), then temporarily part of the Generalgouvernement Niederrhein and finally in 1815 it was part of the Kingdom of Prussia and from this in 1822 it was assigned to the Rhine Province , which it remained until 1945. In 1946, the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate came into being .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 215 1835 387 1871 385 1905 422 1939 519 1950 448 1961 414

year Residents 1970 433 1987 431 1997 407 2005 398 2011 383 2017 382

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Kruchten consists of eight council members, who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Angled left divided into white and red with a lily end cross in mixed up colors ."

Attractions

At the military cemetery in Kruchten-Schwarzenbruch, 88 soldiers from the Second World War found their final resting place. The cemetery is looked after by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .

See also: List of cultural monuments in Kruchten

Web links

Commons : Kruchten  - Collection of images

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Kruchten 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 29, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections