Lorscheid

The title of this article is ambiguous. A district of the municipality of Sankt Katharinen (Neuwied district) also bears the name Lorscheid.

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 6 ° 51'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Ruwer
Height :	439 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.09 km 2
Residents:	524 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	103 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54317
Area code :	06500
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 080
Association administration address:	Untere Kirchstrasse 1 54320 Waldrach
Website :	www.lorscheid.eu
Mayoress :	Jutta Gard-Becker
Location of the local community Lorscheid in the district of Trier-Saarburg

View from the west

Church in the center of the village

Lorscheid ( Moselle Franconian : Löhschd [ løːʃd ]) is a municipality in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Ruwer , which has its administrative headquarters in Waldrach . The high forest community has won several awards in the competition Our village has a future .

Geographical location

Lorscheid is about 420  m above sea level. NHN on a southern slope on the edge of the Osburger Hochwald not far from the Moselle . The Lorscheider Bach flows on the southern boundary of the district and takes up the Welgerbach below the Burgkopf , which flows on the northern boundary , and is then called the Feller Bach . The place includes the Scholersmühle and the former Lorscheidermühle on the Lorscheider Bach.

history

Remnants of rubble from Roman settlements are located to the south-east and north of Lorscheid, Celtic barrows to the south-west and east of the place.

In 1211 the place was mentioned for the first time in the property register of the Trier Abbey of St. Maximin . Until the end of the 18th century it belonged to the parish of Fell and to the Maximin office . In the visitation report of the Archbishopric Trier from 1569 a chapel was mentioned for the first time, which was dedicated to St. Gertrud was consecrated. St. Gertrud is also the patron saint of today's late Romanesque parish church from 1804.

Lorscheid consists of the former districts of Wellscheid (in the southeast) and Lorscheid (village center by the church). There used to be another settlement on Matt , but it fell victim to the plague. On a map of the Archdiocese of Trier from 1645, the place is listed as Meyert .

At the end of the 18th century Lorscheid came to the Mairie and later mayor of Farschweiler , in 1934 to the Waldrach office in Ruwer and in 1968 to the Ruwer community .

To mark the 800th anniversary of the congregation, a separate festival was held at Pentecost 2011.

Population development

According to the Trier fire book of 1563 , there were 11 fireplaces (households) in Lorscheid, 8 in Wellscheid and 6 in Meirath , a total of 25 fireplaces.

In 1684 there were 12 fireplaces in Lorscheid and Wellscheid, by which time Meirath had become a desert .

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

year Residents 1815 187 1835 285 1871 382 1905 398 1939 452 1950 444

year Residents 1961 410 1970 445 1987 453 1997 543 2005 601 2019 524

Graphic of the population development

politics

Local mayor

• until 2009: Karl-Heinz Knobloch
• 2009 to 2014: Ludwig Welter
• since 2014: Jutta Gard-Becker

coat of arms

	Blazon : "The shield is divided by gold over blue, above a growing, black, red armed double-headed eagle, below three silver lilies."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms consists of the double-headed eagle, which symbolizes the former affiliation to the Trier Abbey of Sankt Maximin , and lilies, which are attributes of St. Gertrude von Nivelles .

Culture

Local associations are the VfB Lorscheid 05, the mixed choir, the home and tourist association, the volunteer fire brigade , the reservist comradeship and the Lorscheid youth group.

In the village is the private cultural center Theater Petipa , where concerts, theater, readings, ballet performances and art exhibitions take place. In addition, lessons in dance, singing and ballet are given.

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities are the kindergarten, the youth home, the village hall, the grill hut, the sports field and the pond treatment plant on the Lorscheider Bach. In Lorscheid there is a retirement home , several small and medium-sized businesses, holiday homes south and west of the village and the Spechtmühle youth welfare facility .

tourism

Signposted hiking trails lead through vast forests and quiet valleys. The restaurant Zum Wirtsgarten is located in the village . In June 2013 the Roman Celtic Path was opened near Farschweiler and Lorscheid.

Transport links

Lorscheid is on Landesstrasse 149 . To the road network of the city is connected via the connection points Mehring or Reinfeld of Highway 1 and the departure Osburg-Neuhaus the national road 151 (former. Federal Road 52 ). After Trier and Hermeskeil there are connections with public transport .

media

Local media are the Trierische Volksfreund , the Mosel-Ruwertaler Wochenspiegel and the official gazette of the Verbandsgemeinde Ruwer .

Personalities

• Walter Jakoby (* 1958), automation technician

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Lorscheid
• List of natural monuments in Lorscheid

literature

• Literature about Lorscheid in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Lorscheid  - Collection of Images

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Meyer's local and traffic dictionary (Lorscheid)
3. ↑ Official website for the 800th anniversary of the Lorscheid community
4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province. The map from 1789 (2nd volume), Bonn 1898, p. 147.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data