Mützenich (near Prüm)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 15 '  N , 6 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Prüm
Height :	500 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.43 km 2
Residents:	115 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54608
Area code :	06555
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 271
Association administration address:	Tiergartenstrasse 54 54595 Prüm
Website :	www.pruem.de
Local Mayor :	Dieter Hansen
Location of the local community Mützenich in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

View of the village of Mützenich

Mützenich is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Prüm .

Districts

• Schweiler
• Your bridge

history

The place Mützenich had twelve houses in 1777, seven of which belonged to the prudish mayor Bleialf and five to the Trier office of Schönberg . To the south of Mützenich lies the small settlement of Schweiler, which had six houses in 1777 and has hardly increased since then.

Mützenich belonged to the municipality of Winterscheid for a long time and only gained independence as an independent municipality in 1954.

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of Mützenich, the values ​​from 1939 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1939 199 1950 207 1961 181 1970 159 1987 151 1990 141

year Residents 1995 136 2000 127 2005 125 2010 113 2015 113 2018 115

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Mützenich consists of six council members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Christian Credner from Lambertsberg.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Chapel of St. Joseph from the 17th century

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  St. Josef (west side)

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  inner space

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  Wooden ceiling (1704)

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  Mark the Evangelist

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  High altar, detail

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  St. Odilia

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  left chapel room

• Numerous crossroads are distributed across the municipality

See also: List of cultural monuments in Mützenich

Green spaces and recreation

• Three-stem beech "Im Koppelsfenn"
• In the region in and around Mützenich there are varied hiking trails available
• Holiday farms and holiday apartments

See also: List of natural monuments in Mützenich

Regular events

• Castle burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

Personalities

As a war reporter, Ernest Miller Hemingway (American writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) observed the battle in the Huertgen Forest . He was in Schweiler on September 18, 1944.

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (edit.): The art monuments of the Prüm district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / II ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 40–41 (222 p., With 9 plates and 185 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

Commons : Mützenich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local portrait with a film on Hierzuland , SWR television
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Mützenich in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

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 - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ↑ Hiking routes in and around Mützenich. Retrieved January 8, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Hiking around Mützenich. Retrieved January 8, 2020 . 
6. ↑ "Hüttenbrennen"; an Eifel tradition. Retrieved December 29, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Straw man's day in the Eifel. Retrieved May 16, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Ernest Hemingway in the Eifel. Retrieved December 17, 2019 .