Vulkaneifel district

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Coat of arms of the Vulkaneifel district Map of Germany, position of the Vulkaneifel district highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 6 ° 45'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
Administrative headquarters : Down
Area : 911.02 km 2
Residents: 60,646 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 67 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : DAU
Circle key : 07 2 33
NUTS : DEB24
Circle structure: 109 parishes
Address of the
district administration: 		Mainzer Strasse 25
54550 Daun
Website : www.vulkaneifel.de
District Administrator : Heinz-Peter Thiel ( independent )
Location of the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate
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The Vulkaneifel district ( Daun district until December 31, 2006 ) is a regional authority in the north-west of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in the Eifel and is the smallest district in Rhineland-Palatinate in terms of population and the fourth smallest in the Federal Republic of Germany . The seat of the district administration and at the same time the most populous city is Daun .

geography

location

The Vulkaneifel district is located in the western part of the region of the same name with altitudes between 150 and 700 m. Due to the earlier volcanism , numerous mineral springs (sour wells) were created. The Kyll flows through the district in a north-south direction. The district is also crossed by the Deutsche Wildstrasse , the Deutsche Vulkanstrasse and the Eifelsteig .

Neighboring areas

The district of Vulkaneifel borders clockwise to the north, beginning with the district of Euskirchen (in North Rhine-Westphalia ) and the districts of Ahrweiler , Mayen-Koblenz , Cochem-Zell , Bernkastel-Wittlich and Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm . In the municipality of Ormont, the district area reaches up to about 250 meters to Belgium , but has no common border with this because of a corner of North Rhine-Westphalia.

history

Before 1800, the district of Daun was predominantly part of the Electorate of Trier . In 1815 it came under Prussian administration and in 1816 the district of Daun was established in the Trier administrative district. In the municipal reform he was on November 7, 1970 around

enlarged. On January 1, 2007, the name was changed to the Vulkaneifel district .

The district has been part of the Trier Region Initiative (IRT) since 1994 .

Population development

year Residents source
1816 17,960
1847 23,750
1871 26,692
1885 27,424
1900 28,803
1910 32,881
1925 34,034
1939 35,802
1950 37,747
1960 39,100
1970 57,000
1980 55,700
1990 58,900
2000 64,400
2010 61,267

politics

District council

Distribution of seats in the
district council of the Vulkaneifel district 2019
        
A total of 38 seats

The district assembly of the Vulkaneifel district consists of 38 district assembly members elected in a personalized proportional representation and the district administrator as chairman. After the last district election on May 26, 2019 , the following distribution of seats results:

year SPD CDU AfD FDP Green left FWG BUV UWG total
2019 7th 16 1 3 5 1 4th - 1 38 seats
2014 9 17th - 2 2 1 5 2 - 38 seats
2009 8th 14th - 4th 1 1 5 5 - 38 seats
2004 7th 21st - 2 2 - 6th - - 38 seats
1999 11 21st - 2 0 - 4th - - 38 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Community Landkreis Vulkaneifel e. V.
  • BUV = BürgerUnion Vulkaneifel e. V.
  • UWG = Independent Voting Association Kylltal e. V.

District administrators

Heinz-Peter Thiel won the direct election on December 2, 2012 with a share of 61.3% of the vote against Frank Bender (CDU) and took office on April 1, 2013.

Landtag and Bundestag

renaming

On January 1, 2007, the former Daun district was renamed the Vulkaneifel district on the initiative of the then district administrator Heinz Onnertz . A few years earlier there had been efforts to change the name. At the time, the initiative came from the CDU parliamentary group in the Daun district. At that time, however, also at the insistence of the population, this was rejected and also not supported by the other parties in the district assembly.

badges and flags

  • Hoist flag

  • Banner flag

The district of Vulkaneifel has a coat of arms as well as a hoist and a banner flag .

Coat of arms of the Vulkaneifel district
 Blazon : “In a silver shield in front of a split golden shield, covered with a golden heart shield, inside a red grid made up of three right and three left slanting bars, a red cross in front in silver, behind in gold an upright, red armored lion, covered with a five-eyed red Tournament collar. "

The coat of arms was awarded on February 25, 1951.

Reasons for the coat of arms: The red cross stands for the Electorate of Trier, the lion for the Counts of Blankenheim-Gerolstein . The heart shield was the family coat of arms of the lords and later counts of Daun.

Economy and Transport

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Vulkaneifel district was ranked 265 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.

traffic

The Vulkaneifel district is traversed in a north-south direction by the Eifel line Cologne - Trier , which was opened in 1870/71 by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . At it is the Gerolstein junction , which the Prussian State Railways took as the starting point for the branch lines to Prüm and Daun-Mayen, which went into operation in 1883 and 1895. From 1909/10 there was a cross connection from the last-mentioned railway in Daun to the Moselle main line in Wengerohr (today Wittlich Hbf).

In 1912, the following routes were added for military reasons, which branched off the main line through the Eifel:

  • Jünkerath - Stadtkyll - Hallschlag - Losheim
  • Lissendorf - Hillesheim - Dümpelfeld
  • (Gerolstein -) Pelm - Hillesheim

The network was 179 km long. Of this, only 37 km are left for regular passenger traffic after sections of 104 km were shut down in the post-war years:

  • 1945: Hillesheim - Pelm 10 km
  • 1963: Jünkerath - Stadtkyll (- Losheim) 10 km
  • 1973: (Dümpelfeld -) Hillesheim - Lissendorf 24 km
  • 1980: Gerolstein - Müllenborn (- Prüm) 8 km
  • 1981: (Wittlich - Gillenfeld - Daun) 14 km
  • 1991: Gerolstein - Daun - Utzerath - (Ulmen -) Uersfeld (- Kaisersesch) 38 km

This Eifelquerbahn was used again from 2001 to 2012 after a ten-year break by the Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn operating company on weekends as well as on weekdays during the summer holidays.

The eastern district is touched by the A 1 (Trier – Cologne) and A 48 (Trier – Koblenz ) motorways . Furthermore, several federal , state and district roads run through the district area, including the B 257 , B 410 and B 421 .

Communities

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

Association municipalities with their association members:

(Seat of the municipal administration *)

Scheid Hallschlag Ormont Kerschenbach Reuth Stadtkyll Jünkerath Schüller Gönnersdorf Esch Feusdorf Lissendorf Birgel Steffeln Wiesbaum Berndorf Hillesheim (Eifel) Oberbettingen Basberg Kerpen (Eifel) Üxheim Nohn Oberehe-Stroheich Walsdorf Dohm-Lammersdorf Duppach Kalenborn-Scheuern Rockeskyll Pelm Berlingen Hohenfels-Essingen Gerolstein Neroth Birresborn Kopp (Vulkaneifel) Mürlenbach Densborn Salm Dreis-Brück Betteldorf Daun Dockweiler Hinterweiler Kirchweiler Kradenbach Nerdlen Sarmersbach Gefell Hörscheid Darscheid Utzerath Schönbach Steiningen Steineberg Demerath Winkel (Eifel) Immerath Strotzbüsch Mückeln Strohn Gillenfeld Ellscheid Saxler Udler Mehren Schalkenmehren Üdersdorf Brockscheid Bleckhausen Oberstadtfeld Wallenborn Niederstadtfeld Weidenbach Schutz Meisburg Deudesfeld Borler Bongard Boxberg Neichen Beinhausen Katzwinkel Hörschhausen Berenbach Kötterichen Höchstberg Kaperich Lirstal Oberelz Arbach Retterath Uersfeld Mannebach Bereborn Kolverath Sassen Gunderath Horperath Ueß Mosbruch Kelberg Gelenberg Bodenbach Reimerath Welcherath Brücktal Kirsbach Drees Nitz Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz Landkreis Cochem-Zell Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm Nordrhein-Westfalen Landkreis Ahrweiler BelgienAssociation communities in DAU.svg
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  1. Betteldorf (255)
  2. Bleckhausen (292)
  3. Brockscheid (195)
  4. Darscheid (882)
  5. Daun , City * (8010)
  6. Demerath (305)
  7. Deudesfeld (394)
  8. Dockweiler (643)
  9. Dreis-Brück (815)
  10. Ellscheid (264)
  11. Fur (90)
  12. Gillenfeld (1445)
  13. Hinterweiler (198)
  14. Hörscheid (119)
  15. Immerath (227)
  16. Kirchweiler (379)
  17. Kradenbach (150)
  18. Mehren (1427)
  19. Meisburg (241)
  20. Mosquitoes (234)
  21. Nerd (243)
  22. Niederstadtfeld (431)
  23. Oberstadtfeld (556)
  24. Sarmersbach (176)
  25. Saxler (62)
  26. Schalkenmehren (587)
  27. Schoenbach (261)
  28. Protection (145)
  29. Steineberg (206)
  30. Steiningen (192)
  31. Strohn (484)
  32. Strotzbüsch (416)
  33. Udersdorf (1118)
  34. Udler (252)
  35. Utzerath (175)
  36. Wallenborn (416)
  37. Weidenbach (243)
  38. Winkel (Eifel) (142)
  1. Basberg (83)
  2. Berlingen (224)
  3. Berndorf (488)
  4. Birgel (449)
  5. Birresborn (1097)
  6. Densborn (504)
  7. Dohm-Lammersdorf (193)
  8. Duppach (287)
  9. Esch (438)
  10. Feusdorf (499)
  11. Gerolstein , City * (7757)
  12. Gönnersdorf (483)
  13. Hall impact (456)
  14. Hillesheim , Stadt (3235)
  15. Hohenfels-Essingen (301)
  16. Jünkerath (1767)
  17. Kalenborn-Schubb (371)
  18. Kerpen (Eifel) (473)
  19. Kerschenbach (199)
  20. Kopp (172)
  21. Lissendorf (1118)
  22. Mürlenbach (519)
  23. Neroth (862)
  24. Nohn (452)
  25. Oberbettingen (711)
  26. Oberehe-Stroheich (302)
  27. Ormont (346)
  28. Pelm (970)
  29. Reuth (166)
  30. Rockeskyll (226)
  31. Salm (318)
  32. Vagina (118)
  33. Schüller (298)
  34. Stadtkyll (1496)
  35. Steffeln (634)
  36. Uxheim (1336)
  37. Walsdorf (882)
  38. Wiesbaum (630)
  1. Arbach (140)
  2. Beinhausen (86)
  3. Bereborn (114)
  4. Berenbach (165)
  5. Bodenbach (206)
  6. Bongard (259)
  7. Borler (72)
  8. Boxberg (234)
  9. Brückal (64)
  10. Drees (161)
  11. Gelenberg (74)
  12. Gunderath (114)
  13. Hoechstberg (332)
  14. Horperath (122)
  15. Hörschhausen (123)
  16. Caperich (176)
  17. Katzwinkel (125)
  18. Kelberg * (2026)
  19. Kirsbach (73)
  20. Kolverath (109)
  21. Kötterichen (124)
  22. Lirstal (227)
  23. Mannebach (244)
  24. Mosbruch (157)
  25. Neichen (132)
  26. Nitz (30)
  27. Oberelz (119)
  28. Reimerath (58)
  29. Retterath (307)
  30. Sassen (93)
  31. Uersfeld (683)
  32. Ueß (41)
  33. Welcherath (126)
See also

The following municipalities in the district were incorporated:

  • Auel , to Steffeln on November 7, 1970
  • Bewingen , on May 22, 1905 in Gerolstein
  • Bolsdorf , on March 17, 1974 in Hillesheim
  • Boverath , to Daun on June 7, 1969
  • Brück , on March 16, 1974 in Dreis-Brück
  • Büscheich , on December 1, 1973 in Gerolstein
  • Dreis , on March 16, 1974 in Dreis-Brück
  • Essingen , on January 1, 1968 in Hohenfels-Essingen
  • Gees , joined Gerolstein on December 1, 1973
  • Gemünden , in Daun on April 1, 1938
  • Glaadt , 1930 to Jünkerath
  • Heyroth , on February 1, 1968 in Üxheim
  • Hinterhausen , on June 7, 1969 in Gerolstein
  • Hohenfels , on January 1st, 1968 in Hohenfels-Essingen
  • Kalenborn , on June 7, 1969 in Kalenborn-Schänen
  • Leudersdorf , on January 1, 1968 in Üxheim
  • Lissingen , on June 7, 1969 in Gerolstein
  • Loogh , on June 7, 1969 in Kerpen
  • Michelbach , on December 1, 1973 in Gerolstein
  • Mirbach , on March 17, 1974 at Wiesbaum
  • Müllenborn , on December 1, 1973 in Gerolstein
  • Neunkirchen , in Daun on June 7, 1969
  • Niederbettingen , on March 17, 1974 in Hillesheim
  • Niederehe , on January 1st, 1968 in Üxheim
  • Oberehe , on Nov. 7, 1970 at Oberehe-Stroheich
  • Oos , on December 1, 1973 to Gerolstein
  • Pützborn , on June 7, 1969 in Daun
  • Rengen , on Nov. 7, 1970 to Daun
  • Roth , on December 1, 1973 in Gerolstein
  • Scouring , on June 7, 1969 in Kalenborn-Scouring
  • Steinborn , on Nov. 7, 1970 to Daun
  • Stroheich , on Nov. 7, 1970 to Oberehe-Stroheich
  • Tettscheid , on January 1, 1971 in Üdersdorf
  • Trittscheid , on January 1, 1971 in Üdersdorf
  • Üxheim-Ahütte , on January 1st, 1968 in Üxheim
  • Waldkönigen , on Nov. 7, 1970 at Daun
  • Weiersbach , to Daun on June 10, 1979
  • Zilsdorf , on March 17, 1974 in Walsdorf

For lists of the term "area changes" see area reforms in Rhineland-Palatinate

License Plate

On July 1, 1956, the Daun district was assigned the distinctive sign DAU when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is continuously issued in the Vulkaneifel district to this day.

Others

In the north-western part of the district there are remains of the former Siegfried Line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 156 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  3. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the Königl. Prussian Rhineland. 1829, p. 20 , accessed November 11, 2017 .
  4. ^ Description of the administrative district of Trier. 1849, p. 295 , accessed November 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pruem.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
  8. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
  9. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1992
  10. ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 2002
  11. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: Landkreis Vulkaneifel. Final result of the 2019 district council election. Accessed August 10, 2019 .
  12. ^ Vulkaneifel district: District Administrator. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Members of the constituencies. State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, accessed on January 26, 2018 .
  14. ↑ constituency search . German Bundestag, accessed on January 26, 2018 (Wanted: Bitburg).
  15. ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  16. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

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