Merl (Zell)

Merl City of Zell (Mosel) Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 11 ″ E
Height :	101 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.65 km²
Residents :	658 (Feb 13, 2012)
Population density :	52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	56856
Area code :	06542
Location of Merl in Rhineland-Palatinate
	Town view from the opposite bank of the Moselle (1988)

Merl is a district of the town of Zell (Mosel) in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Cochem-Zell .

geography

The Adlerhof, Thiesenmühle and Weinhof Sankt Stephanus residential areas belong to Merl .

history

Mentioned for the first time in a document in 782 as "Merila", Merl was an independent municipality until 1969, before it became a part of Zell as part of the administrative reform of the Rhineland-Palatinate . In 2007 the district had a total of 703 inhabitants (1885: 1297 inhabitants; 1939: 1563 inhabitants) with a total area of 12.65 square kilometers .

Buildings

The parish church of St. Michael was until 1805 the monastery church of the affiliated Franciscan convent. It has an Antwerp reredos from around 1520 on the high altar. The sacristy is built as a single-support room with an almost square floor plan. Remains of medieval wall paintings have been preserved in the parish hall and the roof structure of the old dormitory in the monastery wing, which is not open to the public, is one of the rarely preserved medieval roof structures in Germany.

The old Romanesque parish church of St. Michael (hall church) was demolished in 1823 after the monastery church was taken over; the old Romanesque tower was preserved in today's Merler cemetery.

Personalities

Jacob Aloys Friederichs (1868–1950), known as “Riograndenser Turnvater”, was born in Merl. In 1884 he emigrated to Brazil and founded the "Turner Association" of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre . He was also the editor of a magazine, the Turn-Blätter in Porto Alegre .

Individual evidence

^ The town of Zell (Mosel) - facts and figures. In: zellmosel.com. Retrieved August 26, 2012 .
↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 37 (PDF; 3 MB).
↑ Zell-Merl district. (No longer available online.) In: zellmosel.de. Archived from the original ; Retrieved November 12, 2011 .
↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Zell (Mosel). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885. In: digitalis.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved November 12, 2011 .
↑ Klaus Freckmann and Michael Leonhardt: The Cusanusstift in Bernkastel-Kues and its one-pillar church - a Central European location . In: INSITU 2018/2, pp. 211–226 (221).

[1] The town of Zell (Mosel) - facts and figures. In: zellmosel.com. Retrieved August 26, 2012 .

[2] State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 37 (PDF; 3 MB).

[3] Zell-Merl district. (No longer available online.) In: zellmosel.de. Archived from the original ; Retrieved November 12, 2011 .

[4] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Zell (Mosel). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[5] Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885. In: digitalis.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved November 12, 2011 .

[6] Klaus Freckmann and Michael Leonhardt: The Cusanusstift in Bernkastel-Kues and its one-pillar church - a Central European location . In: INSITU 2018/2, pp. 211–226 (221).