Losheim (Hellenthal)

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Losheim
Community Hellenthal
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '36 "  N , 6 ° 22' 26"  E
Height : approx. 585–605 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.29 km²
Residents : 245  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 16 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53940
Area code : 06557
St. Michael Church
St. Michael Church

Losheim is a district of the municipality of Hellenthal in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Losheim has belonged to the municipality of Manderfeld in the Malmedy district since the 19th century. As part of this district, Losheim initially fell to Belgium in 1919, but returned to the German Reich in 1921 due to renegotiations and has since formed its own municipality in the Schleiden district . From 1 April 1949 to 28 August 1958, the municipality of Belgium was one (more information here ) until it returned based on the German-Belgian border treaty in 1956 to Germany and to the circle Schleiden. In the Schleiden district, the Losheim community belonged to the Hellenthal district.

On July 1, 1969, Losheim was incorporated into Hellenthal.

The Ardennes Cultur Boulevard is located on the border with Belgium . It consists of three different, year-round exhibitions: a Christmas crib exhibition ( ArsKRIPPANA ), a doll exhibition ( ArsFIGURA ) and a model railway exhibition ( ArsTECNICA ).

Cultural monuments

In the village is the Catholic parish church of St. Michael , which was built from 1923 to 1924 including the rectory based on designs by the Prussian government building councilor Arthur Kickton . Before the district of Malmedy was separated from Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles , the community belonged to the parish of the now Belgian Manderfeld and had only a small chapel. The new building offered 180 seats. The outer walls of the church are made of quarry stone from a nearby quarry, the rectory is plastered. Both buildings are covered with slate. St. Michael belongs to the diocese of Aachen .

Losheim had its own school from 1861 to 1968, the school building is a listed building.

traffic

Former station Losheim (Eifel)

The Losheim district is located about 15 kilometers southwest of the main town of Hellenthal. The B 265 runs through the village , on the southern outskirts (on Ardenner Cultur Boulevard ) the B 421 branches off to Stadtkyll . Losheim is right on the border with Belgium .

South of Losheim, the Vennquerbahn from Jünkerath, which has since been dismantled, ran across the Belgian border to Waimes ( Vennbahn ) and on to Malmedy until 2004 .

The route of the Vennquerbahn was converted into a hiking and cycling route by spring 2015 ( RAVeL network line 45a Waimes-Jünkerath ), with a connection both in Weywertz to the Vennbahn route and in Jünkerath to the German cycle path network. From Losheim the TaxiBus line 839 and the AST run to Hellenthal, there are also some school bus trips (760 lines) to Hellenthal and Schleiden; the VRS tariff applies . Until the end of July 2011, the long-distance bus line 429 (Trier - Aachen) also ran on some weekdays .

Web links

Commons : Losheim  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.hellenthal.de/rathaus-politik/portrait/einwohnerzahlen/
  2. ↑ eifelreise.de: Losheim
  3. ↑ BT-Drs. 3/315 : German-Belgian border treaty of 1956 (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  4. ↑ Daniel-Erasmus Khan: The German state borders: legal historical bases and open legal questions . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148403-7 , p. 471. ( Footnote 177 in the Google book search with reference to BGBl. II , 1958, p. 263 f.)
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .
  6. ↑ Arthur Kickton: New building of the Catholic church and rectory in Losheim in the Eifel . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Vol. 46 (1926), No. 10, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-58246 , pp. 117–118. (Ten pictures)
  7. ↑ www.eifelregio.net
  8. ↑ Cycle easily over 28 bridges , Kölnische Rundschau, accessed on June 6, 2011
  9. ↑ "Unlimited" tourism in the Eifel. Kölnische Rundschau of May 3, 2015, accessed on May 25, 2015.