Landscheid

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Wittlich-Land
Height :	315 m above sea level NHN
Area :	30.2 km 2
Residents:	2152 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	71 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54526
Primaries :	06567, 06575
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 503
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 ; 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.landscheid.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Comes
Location of the local community Landscheid in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Landscheid ( phonetic spelling in Eifel dialect : Lähscheld ) in the Eifel is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land .

geography

Landscheid lies in the Eifel . 57% of the municipal area is forested and 31% is designated as agricultural area (as of 2012).

Community structure

The community is divided into three districts (residents as of December 31, 2012):

District	associated living spaces	Residents
Landscheid	Hof Hau, Hof Raskop	1,214
Niederkail	Mulbach farm	543
Castle	Altenhof, Gut Heeg	392

Neighboring communities

Landscheid borders on Großlittgen , Musweiler , Hupperath , Bergweiler , Bruch , Arenrath , Binsfeld , Spangdahlem , Gransdorf , Schwarzenborn and Eisenschmitt .

history

Thanks Chapel in Burger Strasse

The first traces of settlement date from the first century AD. The Burscheider Wall is a circular wall used by the Celts as a refuge .

Landscheid was first mentioned in 1157 as Langescheit in a document. The current district of Burg was first listed in a document in 1184 and in 1211 the village of Niederkail . The landlord was the Himmerod monastery , the landlord was the Archbishopric of Trier . Another source says that Niederkail was mentioned in 1070 as the place of residence of the nobleman Godefried von der Keyle .

From 1794 the area of today's municipality was under French rule, in 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 it has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

With effect from December 1, 1975, the previously independent municipalities Burg (Salm) with 390 inhabitants, Landscheid (1135 inhabitants) and Niederkail (627 inhabitants) were dissolved and the local municipality Landscheid was re-established.

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	1,176
1835	1,637
1871	1,584
1905	1,881
1939	1.914
1950	1.931
1961	1,982

year	Residents
1970	2,187
1987	1,982
1997	2,250
2005	2,075
2011	1,958
2017	2.115

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Landscheid 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	CDU	MOG	total
2019	1	6th	9	16 seats
2014	2	8th	6th	16 seats
2009	2	8th	6th	16 seats
2004	2	8th	6th	16 seats

MOG = Voting Group Mehrortsgemeinde Landscheid e. V.

mayor

In October 2007, Ewald Heck was elected to succeed Egon Birresborn. Heck was confirmed in office in 2014.

coat of arms

The district government Trier issued to run their own Coat of approval on 5 December 1980th

	Blazon : "Split shield, in front a blue crook in gold, behind in red a six-spoke gold wheel."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The blue crook symbolizes the church patronage of Abbess Gertrud von Nivelles . The golden wheel was taken from the coat of arms of the formerly independent community of Niederkail. The six-spoke wheel symbolizes outpatient trade and agriculture.

Culture and sights

Cultural and natural monuments

Regular events

In the district of Landscheid, a spring and Christmas market take place in the tradition of outpatient trade.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The BAB 60 leads through the municipality with the direct connection point Landscheid. The B 50 connects Landscheid with the regional centers Wittlich and Bitburg .
To the public transport Landscheid is connected with the RegioLinie 400 (Bitburg-Wittlich).

Established businesses

suki.international GmbH with approx. 50% market share in visible packaged small iron goods in Germany.
Börner GmbH Manufacturer of household products with around 70 employees.

education

In Landscheid there is a kindergarten with all-day care and a primary school . There are secondary schools in Wittlich and Bitburg.

Personalities

Jakob Marx (born September 8, 1803 in Landscheid, † February 13, 1876 in Trier) was a Roman Catholic theologian, church historian, professor and cathedral capitular in Trier.
Peter Zirbes (born January 10, 1825 in Niederkail; † November 14, 1901), was a traveling "singer" (poet) from Niederkail. There is a street in the village that was named after him. His house still exists and is a sightseeing destination for tourists.
Otto Follmann (born December 10, 1856 - † 1926), geology professor
Alfred Börner (born October 29, 1910 in Lichtenberg / Erzgeb. , † February 2, 1999 in Niederkail ), long-time managing director of the Börner Group, sponsor of local sports, winner of the Rudolf Diesel Medal , inventor of innovative innovations in the field of vegetable slicers , z. B. the V-plane
Karl Hofstätter (born December 9, 1926 in Domstadtl ; † December 4, 2017 in Niederkail), local mayor of Niederkail from 1964 to 1975, local mayor of the Landscheid community from 1976 to 1989, holder of the medal of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Web links

Commons : Landscheid - Collection of Images

To search for cultural assets of the local community Landscheid in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Link catalog on Landscheid at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

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

↑ ^a ^b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

↑ Data on the local parish

^ Entry on the Ringwall Burgscheider Mauer in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on October 20, 2015.

^ Entry on First mention of Niederkail in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on October 20, 2015.

↑ 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. 184 (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.
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
↑ http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/wittlich/kurz/Kurz-80-1-Prozent-stimmen-f-252-r-Ewald-Heck;art8138,1535465

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

[regionaldaten-2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data

[3] Data on the local parish

[4] Entry on the Ringwall Burgscheider Mauer in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on October 20, 2015.

[5] Entry on First mention of Niederkail in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on October 20, 2015.