Langenfeld (Eifel)

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Coat of arms of the local community Langenfeld
Langenfeld (Eifel)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Langenfeld highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 6'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Vordereifel
Height : 550 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.71 km 2
Residents: 647 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 137 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56729
Area code : 02655
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 060
Association administration address: Kelberger Strasse 26
56727 Mayen
Website : www.langenfeld-vordereifel.de
Local Mayor : Christian Müller ( CDU )
Location of the local community Langenfeld in the Mayen-Koblenz district
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Parish Church of St. Quirinus

Langenfeld is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Vordereifel , which has its administrative headquarters in Mayen .

geography

The place is in the immediate vicinity of the village of Arft . Langenfeld also includes the Auf Lesch and Sankt Jost-Mühle residential areas .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document as "Langenvelt" in 1052, when the Archbishop of Trier Eberhard concluded a precarious contract with Walram I. von Arlon on property in the Eifel and on the lower Moselle. 1465 belehnte Archbishop Johann II. Count Philip of Virneburg with the village Langenfeld. In 1554 the Archbishop of Trier and Elector Johann V transferred the same fiefdom to Count Diedrich V von Schleiden as the owner of the County of Virneburg . Diedrich V tried to introduce the Reformation in 1559 , but did not succeed in Langenfeld. The parish of Langenfeld included the places Acht , Arft , Langscheid , Nieder- and Oberwelschenbach .

The parish of Langenfeld originally belonged to the county of Virneburg as a fiefdom of the Electorate of Trier . In 1575 the Trier Elector moved the parish and subordinate it to the jurisdiction of the kurtrierischen Oberamt Mayen .

After 1792, French revolutionary troops had taken the so-called Left Bank of the Rhine . After the introduction of the French administrative structures, Langenfeld belonged to the canton of Virneburg in the Rhine-Moselle department from 1798 to 1814 . Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region came under the Kingdom of Prussia . Langenfeld belonged to the mayor's office of Virneburg in the district of Adenau, established in 1816, in the Koblenz administrative district, and from 1822 to the Rhine province .

Population development

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

year Residents
1815 296
1835 376
1871 271
1905 400
1939 554
1950 570
1961 643
year Residents
1970 753
1987 782
1997 778
2005 732
2011 684
2017 647
Population development of Langenfeld from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

religion

The original parish church is today's cemetery church. The oldest parts of the tower date from around 1400. The current parish church of St. Quirinus was built between 1894 and 1898. Because of its size, it is also called "Eifel Cathedral".

The late Gothic pilgrimage chapel St. Jost is located in the district of Sankt Jost im Nitztal . Pilgrimages take place annually on the last two weekends of September and the first of October.

The Kamalashila Institute for Buddhist Studies has been located in Langenfeld since 1999 .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Langenfeld consists of twelve 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.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice CDU Flat share  1 total
2019 7th 5 12 seats
2014 Majority vote 12 seats

Local mayor

Christian Müller (CDU) became the local mayor of Langenfeld on January 1, 2017. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office for another five years with a share of the vote of 69.00%. Christian Müller's long-term predecessor was Alfred Schomisch (CDU), who had made the office available to the community of Vordereifel after his election as mayor.

coat of arms

On the basis of a resolution by the municipal council of November 3, 1975, the municipality of Langenfeld was granted approval by a document from the Koblenz district government at the beginning of 1976 to use the coat of arms described below.

Coat of arms of Langenfeld
 Blazon : “Split by blue and silver; on the right nine silver balls in two vertical rows (4: 5), on the left a red bar cross. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The basis of the coat of arms was a Langenfeld court seal from 1775, which was in a document in the holdings of the State Main Archives Koblenz (holdings 1 C No. 11454 p. 21). This court seal shows a coat of arms with the Electoral Trier cross on the seal field , covered with a half-length figure of the church patron Saint Quirinus . Based on this 200-year-old historical seal, the coat of arms of the Electors of Trier (red cross on a silver shield) was included in the application submitted by the local community to the district government for approval to use a coat of arms. In addition, the coat of arms to be approved showed nine silver balls symbolically for the church patron Saint Quirinus, since Saint Quirinus, the city patron of Neuss, is often represented as a Roman tribune with a shield with nine balls as the coat of arms of Neuss.

Mining

The entrance to the deep tunnel of the Bendisberg pit is located near the pilgrimage chapel . Copper and lead ores were mined there in the 19th century . The mine was in operation with long interruptions until 1957. The pit is in good condition and open to visitors.

See also

Web links

Commons : Langenfeld  - Collection of Images

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 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 27 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
  3. ↑ Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier , Volume 2, Trier: Bischöfliches General-Vicariate, 1887, p. 70 ( online edition )
  4. ^ A b Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 138, 378.
  5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  6. ↑ Langenfeld parish : Kamalashila Institute
  7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Vordereifel, Verbandsgemeinde, 15th line of results. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Current view: Christian Müller is Langenfeld's new mayor. January 2, 2017, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b local community Langenfeld: The coat of arms of the local community Langenfeld