Lieser (municipality)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '  N , 7 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Bernkastel-Kues
Height :	117 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.42 km 2
Residents:	1239 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	229 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54470
Area code :	06531
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 075
Association administration address:	Gestade 18 54470 Bernkastel-Kues
Website :	lieser-mosel.de
Local Mayor :	Jochen Kiesgen
Location of the local community of Lieser in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Lieser is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Bernkastel-Kues .

geography

Lieser is located on the Middle Moselle and is named after the Lieser , which flows into the Moselle west of Lieser .

The village has the shape of an upside down T, as many houses were built below the vineyards near the shore. Because of the intensive viticulture, the older part of the lower village has narrow terraced houses with courtyards behind. The village is dominated by the late baroque parish church of St. Peter .

history

Roman wine press, discovered in 2005, the village in the background on the left

According to archaeological finds, the history of the settlement goes back to Roman times. Evidence of this are the remains of a Roman aqueduct on the Paulsberg above Lieser, surface finds of Roman bricks and a Roman wine press on the banks of the Moselle discovered in 2005 during road construction work . This was below the vineyards, about 500 meters east of the village, but was filled in again after an emergency excavation .

The village was first mentioned in 817 as "Lisura". According to documents from 1085 and 1165, a large part of the property in Lieser, "including the church and its tithes , vineyards and fields ..." belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Hubert , which was subordinate to the diocese of Liège . In addition, the clerical elector of Trier also owned land in Lieser around 1200. In 1575 the St. Hubert Abbey sold its property to Archbishop Jakob III of Trier . from Eltz . Other landlords included the collegiate monasteries St. Paulin and St. Simeon in Trier, as well as the Himmerod monastery . The inhabitants of the village lived mostly from viticulture and were liable to pay a third and a tithe as tenants . It was not until the secularization under Napoleon that the winemakers became owners of the vineyards.

Lieser was on the Reichsstraße from Trier to Mainz and had a Moselle ferry . Due to this favorable location, a post office was built in the unfortified village in the early 16th century on the Brussels - Augsburg - Innsbruck - Italy postal route . However, the exposed location on Reichsstraße also meant that the village was often looted in times of war. In the years 1693 and 1698, during the wars of conquest of Louis XIV , French ship bridges were built in Lieser for faster troop transport across the Moselle.

Until the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops in 1794, Lieser belonged to the Bernkastel High Court in the Electorate of Trier and also provided lay judges there . In 1798, still under the directorate , Bernkastel became the canton's capital . In 1800, under Napoleon, the " Mairie de Lieser" was created, to which besides Lieser also Kesten , Maring-Noviand , Filzen and Wintrich belonged. After Napoleon's defeat , Filzen and Wintrich were assigned to the Mülheim mayor's office in 1815 , while Wehlen and Kues (until 1905) were assigned to the Lieser mayor's office. At the Congress of Vienna , the Rhineland and the former Electorate of Trier and Lieser became Prussian . Since 1816 Lieser belonged to the Bernkastel in Trier .

Lieser experienced a heyday in the second half of the 19th century, when the industrialist family Puricelli built Lieser Castle in the west of the village after Baron Clemens von Schorlemer married in between 1884 and 1887 . By the end of the 19th century, the property was expanded into a castle. Kaiser Wilhelm II , who was friends with Schorlemer , visited Lieser in 1906, 1911 and 1913.

Lieser had been connected to the railway network since 1883 and had its own station on the Maare-Mosel-Bahn , which branched off the Moselle line from Wittlich- Wengerohr via Lieser to Bernkastel-Kues and existed until 1988.

After the construction of a Moselle bridge to Mülheim, the ferry service was finally stopped on April 9, 1968. Since 2002, after the Moselle floods in 2001, Lieser has had a flood protection dam in place of the former railway embankment .

Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . Since the administrative reform of the 1970s, the local community Lieser has belonged to the Verbandsgemeinde Bernkastel-Kues .

History of the Jews in Lieser

→ Main article : Jewish community Lieser

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Lieser consists of 16 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 16 seats in the council are divided between two groups of voters .

Local mayor

The local mayor is Jochen Kiesgen, who was elected in the 2019 local elections with 79.6% of the votes cast.

coat of arms

It was not until 1935 that Lieser received its own coat of arms. This is divided into three parts:

• Key : The two keys stand for the two Lieserer churches. On the one hand for the old Paulskirche, which is located outside the village in the vineyards, on the other hand for the Petruskirche located in the village.
• Grapevine : The grapevine stands for viticulture, which has been traceable in Lieser since Roman times .
• Post horn : The post horn in the lower third of the coat of arms stands for the old post office in Lieser, which was used in the 16th and 17th centuries as a post office on the Dutch postal route from Brussels to Augsburg, Innsbruck and Italy operated by the Thurn und Taxis .

Attractions

• The parish church of St. Peter , built in 1782
• Paulskirche with built-in hermitage on the Paulsberg (before 1500)
• Wilhelminian style castle Lieser
• Alter Posthof , ensemble from the 16th - 18th centuries
• various old town houses and winegrowers' houses
• Lieser local history and wine museum
• The old market fountain in Hochstrasse: On the occasion of the renovation of the market square and the construction of a basalt block with a watercourse, the old market fountain was forgotten. At the instigation of the Heimatverein, it was rebuilt and restored at a new location. He bears the coat of arms of the municipality.
• Paulushof: former church grounds, rectory, wine press house, slaughterhouse, residential building and wine cellar. Redesign and renovation of the buildings between 1999 and 2007.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Lieser

economy

Viticulture

With around 180 hectares of vines, Lieser is one of the largest wine towns on the Moselle.

The most famous vineyards are:

• Lieserer Schloßberg, large location Kurfürstlay
• Lieserer Niederberg-Heroes, large location Beerenlay
• Lieserer Süßenberg, large location Beerenlay
• Lieserer Rosenlay, large location Beerenlay

tourism

The tourists who visit Lieser year after year have a wide range of hotels, private rooms and pensions. The guest season extends mainly from the beginning of April to the end of October. Especially in autumn, when the grapes are picked, the tourism industry experiences its peak. Larger annual festivals are the street festival “Around the Lieserer Marktplatz” on the second weekend in September, and also on May 1st the parish festival at the Paulskirche, the Weinvision Lieser , where Lieserer winemakers present the wine of the previous year, the Peter and Paul Fair and the Backfischfest on the last weekend in September.

The Moselle cycle path coming from Trier or Koblenz and the Maare-Mosel cycle path coming from Daun meet at Lieser .

Personalities associated with Lieser

Born in Lieser

• Johannes von Lieser (around 1400–1459), diplomat, cleric, friend of Cusanus
• Matthias Glabus (around 1590–1648), from 1631 to 1647 abbot in the Himmerod monastery
• Karl Ferdinand Becker (1775–1849), linguist
• August Graf Kageneck (1922–2004), journalist and book author
• Theo Grumbach (1924–2000), painter and draftsman

Lives in Lieser

• Clemens Freiherr von Schorlemer-Lieser (1856–1922), Minister of Agriculture from 1910 to 1917 under Kaiser Wilhelm II.

• Impressions
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  Houses at the Posthof

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  Lieser Castle

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  Bridge from Lieser to Mülheim

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  Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter

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  Paulskirche in the middle of the vineyards

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  High water marks on a house wall at the market

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  Old market fountain, now in Hochstrasse

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  New market fountain on the newly renovated market square

See also

• History of the Lieser Post Office

literature

• Franz Schmitt: Chronicle Weindorf Lieser. Paulinus printing works, Trier 1988.

Web links

Commons : Lieser  - collection of images

• Web presence of the local community Lieser
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Lieser in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on the subject of Lieser at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Karl-Josef Gilles : Three new wine presses on the Middle Moselle: the Roman wine presses of Lieser, Wolf and Zeltingen-Rachtig, Bernkastel-Wittlich district. In: Archeology in Rhineland-Palatinate. 2005 (2007), pp. 84-88.
3. ^ Franz Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser 1988, p. 43.
4. ↑ Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser 1988, p. 98f.
5. ↑ Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser 1988, pp. 154–159 and 162, Weinzinsregister 1524 and 1638.
6. ↑ So far, the earliest documented evidence from 1522, letter of permission for the use of the post horses with riding plan from the estate of the diplomat Johann Maria Warschitz in the archive of the Katharinenspital Regensburg.
7. ↑ Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser 1988, p. 447f.
8. ↑ Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser 1988, p. 474.
9. ↑ Schmitt: Chronik Weindorf Lieser 1988, p. 240.
10. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
11. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, direct elections
12. ↑ Lieser-Mosel.de: Events.