Nattenheim

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '  N , 6 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	375 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.93 km 2
Residents:	590 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	85 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54636
Area code :	06569
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 086
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Klaus poet
Location of the local community Nattenheim in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

St. Hubertus

Nattenheim is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land .

geography

Nattenheim lies on the Bickendorfer plateau belonging to the Gutland . The community also includes the Gersthof, Nattenheimer Mühle, Lösenberg and Mühlenhof residential areas .

The largest places in the area are Bickendorf , Fließem and Rittersdorf . The closest city is the district town of Bitburg .

history

In 1875 a Roman temple with a fragmentary building inscription and a limestone statuette was found west of the Trier – Cologne Roman road . Two Roman milestones from 121 and 139 AD have also been found in this area. Nattenheim was bequeathed in a deed of donation from 759 as "Nathneim" to the Echternach monastery , later the place came to the Prüm Abbey . He was part of the rule of Rittersdorf in the Duchy of Luxembourg from the division of the Franconian Empire to the French era . In the 16th century , there was a post office in Nattenheim, verifiably from 1522 until it was relocated to Bickendorf before 1596, on the Dutch postal route from Brussels via Rheinhausen , Augsburg and Innsbruck to Italy.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 234 1835 316 1871 362 1905 401 1939 450 1950 447 1961 431

year Residents 1970 431 1987 412 1997 479 2005 522 2011 541 2017 585

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Justification for the coat of arms: The two-part coat of arms shows a red glaive cross in the head of the shield , borrowed from the coat of arms of the Echternach monastery , and in the lower part the hunting horn, attribute of the local patron Hubertus .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The neo-Romanesque church of St. Hubertus was built in 1875, it is a limestone block building with sandstone masonry, presumably on the site of the previous building mentioned in 1570, from which an 18th century baptismal font probably originates.
• Numerous farms and houses from the 18th and 19th centuries are well preserved in the village.
• Nattenheimer Mühle schnapps distillery ⊙
• Many old wayside crosses are scattered across the municipality ; including the niche cross from 1681 at Hauptstraße 9. ⊙

See also : List of cultural monuments in Nattenheim

Green spaces and recreation

• Cycling and hiking routes around Nattenheim

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

Others

Nattenheim is known as a witch village throughout the West Eifel; the basis of this fame is unknown. The number of witch sagas from Nattenheim is striking.

The place is on the old Roman road Trier-Neuss .

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. 37 and 39 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).
• Michael Berens: St. Hubertus branch church in Nattenheim . In: Geschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Bitburger Land (Hrsg.): The churches and chapels of the Bitburger Land . S. 73 ( online [PDF; accessed April 25, 2018]).

Web links

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

• Local community Nattenheim on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• Village moderation Nattenheim
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Nattenheim 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 107 f . (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Dirk L. Krausse: Iron Age cultural change and Romanization in the Mosel-Eifel area . Reference catalog. Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute. Frankfurt am Main. 2006
4. ^ Ernst-Otto Simon: The postal course from Rheinhausen to Brussels over the centuries , in: Archive for German Postal History 1/1990, p. 28.
5. ↑ Archives of the Katharinenspital Regensburg, Warschitz estate, cf. also Adolf Korzendorfer, in: Archive for Postal History in Bavaria 3/1927, p. 72, as well as the verification .
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Nims cycle path from Weinsheim to Irreler Mühle. Retrieved April 25, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Bike tour Seffer Weich - Welschbillig. Retrieved April 25, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Willi Hermes (ed.): The legend whispers in old walls. Eifel legends, purrs, anecdotes, stories and tales by Hans Theis . 1991.