Masburg

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 7 ° 7'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Kaisersesch
Height :	490 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.12 km 2
Residents:	1071 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	117 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56761
Area code :	02653
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 058
Association administration address:	Am Römerturm 2 56759 Kaisersesch
Website :	www.masburg.de
Local Mayor :	Patrick Schopp
Location of the local community Masburg in the district of Cochem-Zell

Masburg is a municipality in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Kaisersesch association.

geography

Masburg is in the East Eifel . The community also includes the residential areas and hamlets Birkenhof, Breitenbruch, Haus Constantia, Lindenhof, Masurenhof, Mühlenhof, Pflanzenhof, Prefecture Courtyard, Schnellsmühle and Schöne Aussicht.

The place has a total area of ​​9.12 km², of which 3.49 km² are forest.

history

Masburg was first mentioned in a document around 1050.

Until the end of the 18th century, Masburg belonged to the rulers of Kurtrier and was assigned to the Monreal office. Within the district, Masburg was the eponymous capital of a high court , which also included Bermel , Eppenberg , Hauroth , Kalenborn , Laubach and Müllenbach . The high court Masburg was a fiefdom of the Counts of Virneburg . In the Trier fire book from 1563 there are 35 fireplaces (households) in Masburg (Maßpurg).

In 1794, French revolutionary troops annexed the Left Bank of the Rhine ; from 1798 to 1814 Masburg belonged to the canton of Kaisersesch in the Koblenz arrondissement of the Rhine-Moselle department . The municipal councilor Masburg community representative in the Mairie Kaisersesch was the citizen Theobald in 1808. There was a school teacher in town.

Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, the municipality of Masburg came to the mayor's office of Kaisersesch in the district of Cochem , which belonged to the new administrative district of Koblenz and from 1822 to the Rhine province .

The municipality of Masburg has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 , since 1968 it has belonged to the Kaisersesch association and since 1969 to the Cochem-Zell district .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 440 1835 564 1871 737 1905 860 1939 927

year Residents 1950 890 1961 858 1970 995 1987 870 2005 1,087

Municipal council

The municipal council in Masburg 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 local council are divided between five groups of voters .

Attractions

• Bell tower in memory of the Miesen bell foundry family who lived here from 1773 to 1819

See also: List of cultural monuments in Masburg

Web links

Commons : Masburg  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the local community Masburg
• Local community Masburg on the website of the association community Kaisersesch
• Literature about Masburg in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography

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. 22 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, pp. 138, 155, 210.
5. ↑ Handbook for the residents of the Rhine-Mosel Department , Koblenz: Prefecture-Buchdruckerey, 1808, p. 65 ( www.dilibri.de )
6. ^ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, p. 38 ( www.dilibri.de )
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections