Mettendorf (Eifel)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '  N , 6 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.98 km 2
Residents:	1098 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54675
Area code :	06522
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 080
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	www.mettendorf-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Nikolaus Kwiatkowski
Location of the local community Mettendorf in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Mettendorf is a village-like municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel . According to state planning, Mettendorf is designated as a basic center. The name Mettendorf is derived and originally means "middle village".

geography

Mettendorf is about 40 km from Trier in the Enzbachtal, a side valley in the Eifel . After Trier, Bitburg is the next largest city.

The residential areas Ehlenhof and Steffeshof also belong to Mettendorf .

Neighboring places

Niedergeckler	Sinspelt , Niederraden	Brimingen , Utscheid
Lahr , Geichlingen		Burg , Niehl
Hüttingen near Lahr , Körperich	Nusbaum , Hommerdingen	Enzen , Stockem

history

Map of the German Empire, 522. Mettendorf, 1935.

The name of the place suggests a Frankish settlement. The first documentary mention comes from 832 in the Golden Book of Echternach Abbey . There Mettendorf is listed under the name Machconvillare . Other names exist with metendorph (1063), mectindorf (1345), villa metendorp (1360), mettendoirff (1451), meittendorf (1563) and Mettendorf (since 1621).

Initially, the place belonged to the Prüm Abbey before it came to the Luxembourgish county of Vianden in 1220 . Here Mettendorf was the seat of a lay judge and the main place of a dairy . Count Heinrich I von Vianden handed the place over in 1248 to the Trinitarian order who had been brought into the country , who also had a two-aisled church built in 1477 according to Vianden's model. After the annexation of the Austrian Netherlands , to which Luxembourg belonged, by French revolutionary troops , the place became French in 1795 and belonged to the forest department . In 1815 he was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French again , the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

In 1815 Mettendorf had 753 inhabitants and was still divided into lower, middle and upper village. These parts have long grown together. The church is still the center of the place today.

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Panoramic view of Mettendorf

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 753 1835 1,015 1871 1,029 1905 1,029 1939 1,204 1950 1,135 1961 1,094

year Residents 1970 1,084 1987 1,055 1997 1,090 2005 1,120 2011 1,122 2017 1,119

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Mettendorf 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 seats are shared by two groups of voters. In the 2014 election, a majority vote was used.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In the split shield in front a silver bar in red, behind in silver a blue-red divided Maltese cross."

Justification of the coat of arms: Mettendorf was sheltered in 1222 according to the property register of the Prüm Abbey. Their patronage rights were owned by the departmental steward of the Count of Vianden (Luxembourg). The Counts of Vianden had a white bar in red. The patronage passed from the Counts of Vianden to the Trinitarians of Vianden in 1248. According to the Luxembourg State Archives, the Trinitarians have a blue-red divided Maltese cross as their coat of arms.

Town twinning

• There is a partnership with the French community of Sermages.

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church St. Margaretha

Way of St. James through Mettendorf (Eifel)

Buildings

• The parish church of St. Margaretha from 1865 with a stone altarpiece in the interior (early 17th century)
• Monument to Father Maximilian Kolbe with bell from 1520 on the church forecourt.
• Catholic rectory and column from 1477 on the church square
• There are some - some very old - crossroads spread across the municipality .

See also: List of cultural monuments in Mettendorf

Green spaces and recreation

Double ash in the Fronhof

• Natural monument "Doppelesche"; made of two ash trees that have grown together to form a trunk next to Im Fronhof 6
• Hiking routes; There are 11 local hiking trails with a total length of 36 km (e.g. gorge trail)
• Way of St. James through Mettendorf to Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Mettendorf is on the way from Cologne / Bonn via Trier to Schengen .

See also: List of natural monuments in Mettendorf

Regular events

• Annual Kirmes- or Kirchweihfest St. Margaretha in the third week of October
• Ascension procession
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

education

• Mettendorf has the "Hildegardis" elementary school and a day care center

traffic

The community is accessible through the state roads L 3 , L 4 and L 8 .

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (arr.): The art monuments of the Bitburg district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / I ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 186–190 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illus. In the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).
• Klaus Hamper: Chronicle of Mettendorf . Breidenmoser, Trier 1957, DNB  451793587 .
• Jakob Schneider: Mettendorf in the South Eifel nature park. Mettendorf 1991.
• Leonard Palzkill: Walks in the German-Luxembourg border area , Neuerburg 2006, ISBN 3-00-018095-8 .
• Hans Lordz: 50th anniversary: ​​1964–2014 German-French partnership Mettendorf - Sermages / Burgundy . In: home calendar Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm . tape 64 , 2015, 2015, pp. 214-218 .
• Family book of the parish of Mettendorf, Deanery Neuerburg 1641–1900 . Part 1, DNB  958 313 253 .
• Family book of the parish of Mettendorf, Deanery Neuerburg 1641–1900 . Part 2, DNB  958313288 .
• Archaeological map of the Rhine Province . Part 1, DNB  580339203 .
• Mettendorf (Vianden) . In: Historical-statistical basic map of the German Empire . 1905, DNB  1119115728 .

Web links

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

• Homepage of the local community Mettendorf
• Mettendorf town portrait
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Mettendorf 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. ^ ^{A b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 100 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
5. ^ Mettendorf coat of arms. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Hiking in the gorge path. Retrieved April 30, 2016 . 
7. ↑ The Way of St. James / Pilgrimage. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Hildegardis Primary School Mettendorf. Retrieved May 18, 2017 . 
11. ^ Mettendorf day care center. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .