Menningen (on the Prüm)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	170 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.42 km 2
Residents:	173 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54310
Area code :	06525
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 078
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Hinkes
Location of the local community Menningen (an der Prüm) in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

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

geography

The place is on the Prüm in the German-Luxembourgish Nature Park .

history

Menningen is first mentioned in a document for the Echternach Abbey from the period between 771 and 814, namely as "Mennegen".

Until the end of the 18th century Menningen belonged to the provost of Echternach in the Duchy of Luxembourg ( Quartier Echternach ). In 1794, French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the region then belonged. Under the French administration, the place belonged from 1795 to the arrondissement Bitburg in the department forests and was administered by the Mairie Edingen in the canton Echternach. Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Menningen was assigned to the Ralingen mayor in the district of Trier in 1816.

On June 7, 1969 Menningen was separated from the Trier district, which was later dissolved, and incorporated into the Bitburg district.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 105 1835 166 1871 191 1905 178 1939 614 1950 174 1961 157

year Residents 1970 155 1987 165 1997 154 2005 195 2011 178 2017 178

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Silver, divided by a blue corrugated cap, this in the head of the shield covered with a red three-arched bridge, on the right a red heraldic lily covered with a silver cross, on the left a day-lit tower with a gable roof, in the base of the shield a nimbed grave cross covered with a silver one Oath hand. "

Culture and sights

Filial church of St. Agatha

The townscape of Menningen is shaped by the Menninger Viaduct, a railway bridge of the former Nims-Sauertalbahn from Erdorf via Irrel to Igel. The quarry stone structure was put into operation in 1915 and destroyed in the Second World War. In the following years, a somewhat simplified bridge was built that is still standing today. Today there is no more train going over the viaduct; the line was closed in 1988 and then dismantled. There is predominantly a cycle path on the route.

The church of St. Agatha from the 12th / 13th centuries Century rises in the middle of the village in the middle of the churchyard supported by a mighty wall. The original Romanesque building forms were largely lost during renovations in 1688 and 1842.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Menningen

Web links

Commons : Menningen (Prüm)  - Collection of images

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Menningen 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. ↑ Georg Baersch : Description of the government district of Trier. Volume 2. Lintz, Trier 1846, p. 123 ( Google Books ).
3. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 150 (PDF; 2.8 MB; see footnote 1).
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .