Mutscheid

Mutscheid City of Bad Münstereifel Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 49 ″ N , 6 ° 50 ′ 35 ″ E
Height :	410 m above sea level NHN
Area :	27.03 km² (with all districts)
Residents :	101 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	4 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53902
Area code :	02257
Location of Mutscheid in Bad Münstereifel
	Parish Church of St. Helena, tower and old church from the south.

Mutscheid is a district of Bad Münstereifel in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Eifel village is about 10 km south-east of the main town and can be reached from Landesstraße 165 . Mutscheid was the main town of the parish of the same name until it was incorporated in 1969 and is still the parish of the Catholic parish of St. Helena . The entire former municipality of Mutscheid is part of the Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park .

The Mutscheid

The former parish and today's parish of Mutscheid include 14 villages and a few smaller living spaces . Together they form a community of villages known as Die Mutscheid . In detail, Mutscheid includes:

Approximate extent of the Mutscheid and location of the 14 villages

Village	Residents ⁽¹⁾	Height (m)
Berresheim	89	396
Ellesheim	101	367
Esch ⁽²⁾	244	469
Hilterscheid	136	434
Honerath	54	419
Hummerzheim	132	455
Mutscheid	101	421
Nitterscheid	192	472
Odesheim	181	438
Ohlerath	172	405
Reckerscheid ⁽³⁾	127	491
Sasserath	223	451
He shall	117	497
Willerscheid	146	439

⁽¹⁾ As of December 31, 2019

⁽²⁾with the districts of Escher Heide and Wasserscheide

⁽³⁾ with the Gödderz settlement

In addition, the following places belong to Mutscheid:

The entire Mutscheid has a little more than 2000 inhabitants. (As of December 31, 2019)

geography

location

The Mutscheid is located in the northern part of the Eifel, in the Ahr Mountains , about ten kilometers southeast of the core town of Bad Münstereifel. It extends over an irregular area about five kilometers in diameter on both sides of the L165. In the north-west, the Mutscheid extends as far as the watershed between Erft and Ahr . The next neighboring town in this direction is Mahlberg . In the north, the Mutscheid comes close to Effelsberg . The eastern border forms the border with Rhineland-Palatinate . On the other side of the border are the places Plittersdorf and Obliers in the local community of Lind . To the southeast, then closes Rupperath with Hünkhoven on. In the south and southwest, Rhineland-Palatinate forms the border again, with the local community Schuld an der Ahr, and the villages of Pitscheid and Blindest in the local community Hümmel as neighboring towns. In the west, on the L 165 in the direction of Bad Münstereifel, the next town is Schönau . The nearest larger towns are Euskirchen , 20 km in the north Rheinbach , 20 km in the northeast and Adenau , 30 km in the south.

Natural classification

The Mutscheid lies in the Eifel and is therefore part of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . In detail, according to the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany, it belongs to the northern Ahrbergland natural area (unit 272.1) in the main natural area unit Ahreifel (272). The superordinate main unit group with the number 27 is the Eastern Eifel .

landscape

The appearance of the landscape is typical of the Eifel, with rolling hills and small valleys. It falls from a height of over 510 m above sea level. NHN on the slopes of the Michelsberg in the northwest from below 300 m in the southeast. The highest point at 517 m is the Lausnück in Soller. In the vegetation, contiguous stands of trees alternate with open meadowland. Agriculture is seldom found.

Waters

Several smaller streams run through the Mutscheid. Worth mentioning is the Buchholzbach , which is created by the confluence of the Lamersbach, Escher Bach and Brobach just before Hardtbrücke. It continues the valley of the Lamersbach, which rises on the Escher Heide, which forms a central dividing line through the entire Mutscheid. In this valley, the L 165 runs from the watershed to Schuld. Shortly before guilt, the Buchholzbach meets the Armuthsbach , which then flows into the Ahr in Schuld. The western and southern borders of the Mutscheid are formed by the Blind Bach, later the Brömmersbach , which also flows into the Armuthsbach. At the northern border of the Mutscheid the Liersbach flows , which finally also flows into the Ahr at Liers . Ultimately, all waters of the Mutscheid flow over the Liersbach, Buchholzbach or Brömmersbach to the Ahr and thus over the Rhine to the North Sea .

history

The first documented mention of a settlement in the Mutscheid area comes from the year 854 and refers to Gut Hospelt. This is, after the city itself, the oldest documented residential area in the urban area of Bad Münstereifel. The place Mutscheid itself was first mentioned in 893 in the Prümer Urbar together with Gut Hospelt as property of the Prüm Abbey. In 1993 Mutscheid celebrated its 1100th anniversary. In the course of the Donation of Are-Hochstaden , the area fell to Kurköln in 1246 , where it formed a Dingstuhl (judicial district) in the Electoral Cologne office of Hardt together with Rupperath until 1794 . After the French annexation of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine , from 1794 Mutscheid belonged to the Mairie (mayor's office) of Münstereifel in the canton of Rheinbach. This was part of the Arrondissement de Bonn in the Département de Rhin-et-Moselle . In the Congress of Vienna , the areas on the left bank of the Rhine fell to Prussia . The Mutscheid was now a part of the Rhine province and formed its own municipality again. This changed on July 1, 1969, when Mutscheid was incorporated into Bad Münstereifel through the law on the reorganization of the Euskirchen district as part of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia .

History of the schools in Mutscheid

Old school building in Mutscheid

Originally the only elementary school in the community was housed in a broken stone building that is still in Mutscheid today. Another school was built in Reckerscheid around 1830. However, this fell victim to the great fire in Reckerscheid in 1865. The community bought a machine building from the Glückstal mine in Willerscheid and set up a second school there. A third school followed first in Gut Hospelt, and from 1884 in Hummerzheim. In 1902 the Willerscheid school moved to a new building. The school in Hummerzheim was expanded in 1961. In 1965 the fourth school "Am Hagelkreuz" was opened in Nitterscheid. But now not all classes were taught in all school locations and from December 1, 1966, a central ninth school year was set up in Willerscheid for the whole of Mutscheid. In 1968 all elementary schools were closed. The nitterscheid school became a new elementary school while a secondary school was established in Mutscheid . This secondary school could no longer be maintained at the beginning of the 21st century due to the declining number of pupils. Shortly after it was closed, the primary school in Nitterscheid moved to its old building in Mutscheid.

Mining

Documented is mining than in the pledge of the area by the Cologne Elector and Archbishop mentioned in the Mutscheid for the first time, Hermann von Wied to Dietrich von Orsbeck and his wife Irmgard von Diepenbroich 1539 an emerging mine is expressly excluded. A Heid Stoll is then mentioned in documents from around 1600 . The naming, which goes back to the term Heidenstollen , suggests that this tunnel came from a much earlier time. However, there is no evidence of mining in Mutscheid for either Roman times or the Middle Ages . In the following centuries there were mining activities at various points in Mutscheid.

While above-ground structures from the last working period still exist and older remains can still be guessed, the underground pits of the mines are no longer accessible today.

Glücksthal mine

It was a lead mine near Willerscheid. The name Glücksthal only emerged at the beginning of the 19th century, when a certain Johann Christian Schmitz acquired a mining concession for large parts of the Mutscheid and neighboring areas under this name. The Glücksthal mine shows the earliest mining activities in the Mutscheid. The Heid Stoll mentioned above is located here, so that the mine mentioned in 1539 must also mean this here. The activities continued with interruptions and under changing conditions until about 1625. In the 18th century the mine was operated from about 1739 to 1761. In 1803 Johann Christian Schmitz acquired the Glücksthal concession and operated the mine until his death in 1840. The concession was taken over in 1843 by the Metallurgische Gesellschaft zu Stolberg / Rhld , which operated the mine until 1849 and then closed it. In 1864 the concession was sold to the pensioner Franz Erasmus from Aachen, who carried out activities on a small scale until 1869. In 1897 the mine came into the possession of the Libussa union , which started operations again that same year. The system was greatly expanded, but production was stopped again in 1903. Maintenance and test work was carried out until 1911 at the latest before operations were finally closed. From the Kappertshardt mine , a link to Glücksthal was driven in 1939 and ore was mined in this area as well.

Klappertshardt mine

The Klappertshardt mine (sometimes referred to as the Klappertshardt operating point of the Glücksthal mine ) was a mine near Hummerzheim. Here, too, primarily lead, but also zinc, was extracted. The name goes back to the field name Auf Klöppershardt . The first written mention of this mine can be found in a diary entry from 1622. Until at least 1751 mining activities took place under changing conditions. No activity is documented during the time of Johann Christian Schmitz (1804–1840). In the further course of the 19th century there were shorter activities, most recently in 1903 with some experimental work. In 1920, Stolberger Zink AG acquired the Glücksthal concession field and reopened the Klappertshardt mine in the early 1930s . Extensive activities developed until October 31, 1941, Klappertshardt, the last mine that Mutscheid was finally closed.

religion

Catholic parish of Mutscheid

The parish church of St. Helena from the east

As early as the 9th century, the court association of the Hospelt estate included a “presbyter”, comparable to a current pastor, and thus probably also a place of worship. Around 1173 there was already a church in Mutscheid, which in the statutes of the Ahrdekanat belonged to its sending churches . In terms of church, the Mutscheid belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne even then, before the Hochstadenschen donation in 1246, as part of the dean's office , which has not changed to this day. The layout of the parish is unlikely to have changed in the centuries to come, until the modern age began to merge parishes due to a lack of priests. As a result, the parish of Mutscheid also lost its centuries of independence. On January 1st, 2008 the pastoral care area Bad Münstereifel was formed from seven parishes, the third largest of which is Mutscheid with 1284 Catholics (as of 2018).

Parish Church of St. Helena

The parish church in Mutscheid is consecrated to St. Helena . It consists of three connected structures that were built at different times. The Romanesque tower of the church mentioned in 1173 still stands today . The old Gothic church, which was consecrated between 1435 and 1457, adjoins it to the east . At the beginning of the 20th century, the building was extended to the north by a three-aisled basilica with a transept , giving it its present form.

Parish home and cemetery

Rectory in Mutscheid

Directly to the east of the church is the rectory , a half-timbered building from 1734, in which a pastor still lives today (2019) . Attached is a community center . Further to the east, at the edge of the forest, the cemetery with a morgue joins the village .

Chapels in the Mutscheid

In addition to the parish church, there are chapels in some places in Mutscheid , where services are celebrated from time to time. The following chapels are known in detail in the Mutscheid:

the former St. Georg chapel in Esch
the chapel Fourteen Helpers in Honerath
the St. Joseph Chapel in Gut Hospelt
the chapel of St. Maria Königin in Hummerzheim
the former St. Florian chapel in Nitterscheid
the St. Lüfthildis chapel in Odesheim
the St. Quirinus Chapel in Ohlerath
the chapel of St. Apollonia in Reckerscheid
the chapel of St. John in Soller

Affiliation in the Protestant Church

The Protestant residents of Mutscheid changed affiliation between Flamersheim and Adenau several times during the 20th century . After they were removed from Adenau in 1902, the 176 Protestant residents of Mutscheid and from neighboring Rupperath came back to Flamersheim in 1976.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Mutscheid is mainly opened up for car traffic by the L 165. It runs from Bad Münstereifel in the north-west to the south-east in the direction of Schuld through the area. At the watershed, the L 113 branches off from it in the direction of Rheinbach and Bonn . In Esch there is a petrol station directly on the L 165. In the case of local public transport , the Mutscheid belongs to the Cologne Regional Transport Area (RVK) and is served by bus routes 819 and 822. The TaxiBusPlus is also available. The next train station is in Bad Münstereifel, from where there is a direct connection to Bonn in addition to the traffic to Euskirchen. The Mutscheid belongs to the tariff area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS).

Commercial structure

The commercial structure of Mutscheid shows mainly small, mostly artisanal businesses with few employees. There are two larger commercial enterprises: On the one hand there is a branch of the mechanical engineering company Auto Heinen GmbH in Esch. On the other hand, the software service provider DataNet GmbH in Hardtbrücke. Many Mutscheid workers commute to work in the larger towns in the area.

Everyday goods

There is no longer a shop for everyday goods in Mutscheid. The petrol station in Esch has an affiliated beverage market and offers travel supplies. The mobile markets of the HEIKO company go to Mutscheid. Local bakeries and butchers also use mobile sales outlets. The nearest shops for daily needs are in Schönau and Schuld. As a basic center, Bad Münstereifel offers an expanded range of options .

Hotel and restaurant services

The Gasthaus Prinz is located in Mutscheid in the immediate vicinity of the church . It offers a bar and a hall for festive events or larger meetings. A beverage distribution is connected. The Landgasthof zur Wasserscheide in the eponymous district of Esch has been family-owned for over 100 years and today offers a guest house, a restaurant with a taproom, a hall and a bowling alley.

education

In Mutscheid there is a location of the Bad Münstereifel elementary school network . A total of around 150 children are currently being taught in seven classes there and at the second location in Houverath (as of January 2019). The school also offers open all-day operations . There is also a day-care center run by the German Red Cross in Mutscheid.

Medical supplies

Mutscheid has neither a doctor's practice nor a pharmacy . Medical care is provided by several doctors and pharmacies in Bad Münstereifel. The closest hospitals are the Mechernich Hospital and the Marienhospital Euskirchen .

Leisure and culture

Association

The togetherness of the Mutscheid village community is evident from the many associations, such as the SV 47 Mutscheid sports club, the St. Cäcilia Mutscheid wind orchestra, the Mutscheider choir, the St. Cäcilia Mutscheid church choir and the Mutscheid fire brigade volunteer fire service . Apart from village clubs and bachelor clubs, practically all clubs in the area are clubs for the whole of Mutscheid.

dialect

The Mutscheid area lies in the transition area between the Ripuarian dialect group in the north and the Moselle-Franconian dialect in the south (they also include the Rheinischer Fächer ). For this reason, there are still strong dialectal differences from village to village around Mutscheid . However, the dialect is largely uniform within the Mutscheid. While one lies south of the Dorp-Dorf-Linie (also Bad Honnefer Linie), and accordingly also says village , there are generally greater dialects in common with Ripuarian than with Moselle-Franconian. The dialectal tendency is more towards Cologne than towards Trier .

banner

The Mutscheid flag was designed by Wolfgang Bergheim on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary. It is divided into red and yellow, the colors of Bad Münstereifel. It shows ( heraldic ) mallets and irons as symbols of mining in the upper right . A plow is depicted at the bottom right as a symbol of agriculture . On the left, about two thirds are covered with a green oval with branches and tendrils within the edge. Together this should symbolize the land with the forests. The oval is covered with the coat of arms of the Electorate of Cologne , a black cross on silver, in turn with the coat of arms of Count von Wied, a peacock on a red and gold diagonal striped background. Instead of a helmet with ornaments, Helena with the cross sits on the Cologne coat of arms. Helena is the patron saint of Mutscheid and the Cologne coat of arms indicates that it has belonged to the archbishopric for many years. Hermann V. von Wied , as Archbishop of Cologne, had once given the aldermen of Mutscheid their seal , which served as a template for the part of the flag in the green oval.

literature

The Mutscheid Association (ed.): Mutscheid 893–1993. Our home town. Westkreuz-Verlag Berlin / Bonn, Bad Münstereifel 1993, ISBN 3-922131-92-1 .
Harald Bongart: Interest and rent of the "feudal people in the Mutscheid". A contribution to the history of ownership of the Marienstift zu Prüm. In: The Prümer Landbote. Journal of the Prümer Land history association. No. 39 = 4/93, ISSN 0939-2408 , pp. 15-18.
Volker Reppke, Friedrich Knauer, Andreas Schmickler: Mining in the Mutscheid (Eifel) - the Glücksthal mine . Self-published: Friedrich Knauer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-060461-4 .

Web links

Commons : Mutscheid - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c districts of Bad Münstereifel. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .
^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (Ed.): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
↑ Heinz Fischer, Richard Graafen: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 136/137 Cochem. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1974. → Online map (PDF; 5.6 MB)
↑ ^a ^b Joseph Matthias Ohlert: Almost 1000 years under the crook. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 87 .
^ Karl Hürholz: The former municipality of Mutscheid in the municipal reorganization. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.
↑ Stephanie Krägeloh: schools Mutscheid. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Reppke et al .: Mining in the Mutscheid (Eifel) - the Glücksthal mine. 2018.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Edgar Fass: Glückstal and Klappertshardt . www.wisoveg.de. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
^ The Catholic pastoral care area Bad Münstereifel. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .
↑ Toni Falkenstein and Johannes Osterspey: History of the church and chapel bells in the Mutscheid. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.
^ Karl Egon Siepmann: With Prussia came the Protestants. 175 years of Protestant parish in the Hocheifel and Ahreifel. In: Heimatjahrbuch 1997. Kreis Ahrweiler, accessed on March 16, 2019 .
^ RVK in the Euskirchen district. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
↑ Car Heinen. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
↑ DataNet. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
↑ HEIKO. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
↑ Gasthaus Prinz at eifel.info. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
↑ Landgasthof zur Wasserscheide. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
↑ KGV high altitude area. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
^ Kindergartens in Bad Münstereifel. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
↑ Wolfhard Lorenz: The Mutscheid. A community of 14 villages. 1993-2013. Memories of the 1100 year celebration. Westkreuz-Verlag Berlin / Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-944836-03-4 .
↑ Monika Grömping: Mutscheider Platt. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.
^ W. Bergheim: A flag for the Mutscheid. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.

[Ortsteile-1] districts of Bad Münstereifel. Retrieved February 27, 2020 .

[DE_HNGD-2] Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (Ed.): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).

[DE_BfL-137-3] Heinz Fischer, Richard Graafen: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 136/137 Cochem. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1974. → Online map (PDF; 5.6 MB)

[unterm_Krummstab-4] Joseph Matthias Ohlert: Almost 1000 years under the crook. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.

[5] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 87 .

[6] Karl Hürholz: The former municipality of Mutscheid in the municipal reorganization. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.

[Schulen-7] Stephanie Krägeloh: schools Mutscheid. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.

[Bergbau_in_der_Mutscheid-8] Reppke et al .: Mining in the Mutscheid (Eifel) - the Glücksthal mine. 2018.

[Bergbau_Wisoveg-9] Edgar Fass: Glückstal and Klappertshardt . www.wisoveg.de. Retrieved March 28, 2019.

[10] The Catholic pastoral care area Bad Münstereifel. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .

[Glocken-11] Toni Falkenstein and Johannes Osterspey: History of the church and chapel bells in the Mutscheid. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.

[12] Karl Egon Siepmann: With Prussia came the Protestants. 175 years of Protestant parish in the Hocheifel and Ahreifel. In: Heimatjahrbuch 1997. Kreis Ahrweiler, accessed on March 16, 2019 .

[13] RVK in the Euskirchen district. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .

[14] Car Heinen. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .

[15] DataNet. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .

[16] HEIKO. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .

[17] Gasthaus Prinz at eifel.info. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .

[18] Landgasthof zur Wasserscheide. Retrieved January 14, 2019 .

[19] KGV high altitude area. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .

[20] Kindergartens in Bad Münstereifel. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .

[21] Wolfhard Lorenz: The Mutscheid. A community of 14 villages. 1993-2013. Memories of the 1100 year celebration. Westkreuz-Verlag Berlin / Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-944836-03-4 .

[Dialekt-22] Monika Grömping: Mutscheider Platt. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.

[Fahne-23] W. Bergheim: A flag for the Mutscheid. In: Mutscheid 893-1993.