Neroth

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '  N , 6 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Gerolstein
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.24 km 2
Residents:	862 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	119 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54570
Area code :	06591
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 050
Association administration address:	Kyllweg 1 54568 Gerolstein
Website :	www.neroth.de
Local Mayor :	Egon Schommers
Location of the local community of Neroth in the Vulkaneifel district

The village, exactly in the center of the picture, dominated by the Nerother Kopf , on a summer afternoon from the west;
the ruins of Freudenkoppe remain hidden under beeches .

Almost the same perspective in deep winter.

Neroth, location from the west

Neroth is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Gerolstein community .

Geographical location

Neroth lies at the foot of the Nerother Kopf ( 651.7  m ) between Daun and Gerolstein in the Vulkaneifel Nature Park . It is connected to these places by local roads. In addition, Neroth has a share in the landscape protection areas "Between Ueß and Kyll " (eastern part of the municipality) and "Gerolstein und Umgebung" (western part of the municipality).

history

Neroth belongs, also because of its name, to the medieval clearing period , which ended around 1200. It was first mentioned in 1388 as Niederroth. The associated settlement areas Oberroth and Hundswinkel were probably given up in the late medieval desert period that followed . Neroth was once very important, it had a high court at which the Lords of Daun and von Ulmen pronounced justice. And the Nerother castle was a complex of the Counts of Luxembourg, later the Electors of Trier .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 347 1835 527 1871 586 1905 610 1939 758 1950 766

year Residents 1961 716 1970 874 1987 912 2005 925 2011 862 2017 830

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Neroth 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

	Blazon : "Between a shield head, divided by a tin cut of gold and red, and a green five-mountain, inside a silver mousetrap, in gold a red scale"
	Foundation of the coat of arms: Reminiscence of the Neroth high court.

Public life

There has been a volunteer fire brigade in Neroth since 1910 , which - as is often the case in rural areas in Germany - plays an important part in public life by involving the population. It was not until much later that the various sports clubs that existed in Neroth were founded.

Culture and sights

Attractions

On the nearby Nerother Kopf mountain is the Freudenkoppe , a castle ruin with a nearby millstone cave . This is where the Nerother Wandervogel was founded on New Year's Eve 1919/20 .

See also: List of cultural monuments in Neroth

Mousetraps

In the 19th century, the Eifel was a landscape of great poverty, also caused by the real estate division , which visibly reduced the agricultural income base. Agriculture was extremely sparse. Commercial and craft earnings opportunities were low. Neroth was no exception among the villages of the Eifel . Part of the indigenous village population therefore operated ancillary trades such as peddling with carved spoons or wickerwork. Another, small part were Yenish peddlers and mending craftsmen who had moved in and became permanent. The prerequisites for entry into the manual production and sale of a much sought-after item, the mouse and rat trap, were given, which a teacher from Neroth designed around the middle of the century for the people of his village as a way out of the need for existence .

Many of the poorer inhabitants - Yenish and not Jenische - operated in sequence one peddling with wire products, including mousetraps. As a result, the living conditions of many families improved significantly. The wire goods were mainly made by women working at home . The men sold the traps as traveling traders. In the process, the "musfallskrämer" made it far beyond the borders of today's Federal Republic to Poland and the Czech Republic. The peddlers used to communicate among themselves a secret language, Jenisch . Increasing industrialization made business increasingly difficult from the beginning of the 20th century until it came to a complete standstill in 1970. The wire goods produced could compete with industrial finished products at any time or were even of higher quality. The hallmark was the "tied wire". This means that the wires were wrapped with a finer wire at the crossing points. Today the Mousetrap Museum is located in Neroth and documents the work and simple life of the mousetrap makers. There is also a book and a documentary on this subject.

tourism

A medium-sized hotel has been located in Neroth since the 1960s . Due to the contacts of the Nerother Music Association, Dutch tourists are regular guests there.

Since 2009, several kilometers of the 10th stage of the new Eifelsteig from Gerolstein to Daun have led through the village, and these form almost exactly the middle of the stage. As a result, a local restaurant with a few guest rooms was also expanded into a hotel.

Curiosity: A Luxembourger as a teacher in Neroth in the war years 1942

The former director of the Luxembourg National Archives Paul Spang taught for a short time in 1942 as a substitute teacher at the elementary school in Neroth. Spang had passed the Abitur in July 1941 in his hometown Echternach in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which was then occupied by Nazi Germany. However, access to university studies was denied to him, as this required a clear commitment to Germanness and a voluntary report for "voluntary" labor service, two requirements that Spang did not meet. He was not denied a visit to the elementary school teacher training institute in Ettelbrück , however, and so he decided to become an elementary school teacher, a course that would eventually lead him to Neroth, but which could not prevent him from being drafted into the Reich Labor Service in October 1942 and then as a forced recruit came to the Eastern Front in the German Wehrmacht . After the Second World War , Spang was able to begin his university studies, became a professor at the Echternach grammar school and later director of the National Archives.

He has positive memories associated with Neroth, where he was quartered with the Felix Klaus family: “In Neroth, on historical Luxembourg territory, there was only one swastika flag, and it was on the school attic. Everyone was friendly with me here and I was even allowed to go for a walk with Pastor Schelian, although he was not allowed to leave the local area at the behest of the Gestapo. "

literature

• Willi Steffens: The Nerother head . In: Heimatjahrbuch 1974. Weiss-Verlag, Daun 1974, pp. 40–41. on-line
• Siegfried Stahnke: Nerother Castle - Forgotten Castle? In: Heimatjahrbuch 1983. Weiss-Verlag, Daun 1983, pp. 47–53. on-line
• Siegfried Stahnke: Mousetraps from Neroth . In: Heimatjahrbuch 1985. Weiss-Verlag, Daun 1985, pp. 145–147. on-line
• Werner Grasediek: The fire wheel rolls from the Steffelberg . In: Heimatjahrbuch 2003. Weiss-Verlag, Daun 2003, pp. 113–115. on-line
• Hildegard Ginzler: The "Musfallskrämer" from the Eifel: Development of the wire goods trade in Neroth as an example of self-help in a low mountain range . Society for Folklore Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-926052-00-7 .
• Hildegard Ginzler: The mousetrap makers . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1111-7 ISBN 3-7927-1111-0
• Peter Honnen : Secret languages ​​in the Rhineland . A documentation of the Rotwelsch dialects in Bell , Breyell , Kofferen , Neroth, Speicher and Stotzheim . In: Rhenish dialects . 2nd Edition. tape 10 . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7927-1728-X , VI. Neroth, S. 156–174 (With a CD).
• Wolfram Windolph: Nerother Jenisch: Written sources and glossary . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04044-0 .

Web links

Commons : Neroth  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Neroth
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Neroth in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Mousetrap maker in the Eifel, Neroth 1980. Film by the Rhineland Regional Council.

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: Regional data.
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
4. ^ Mousetrap Museum ( Memento from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Neroth Mousetrap Museum. Eifel Tourismus GmbH, accessed on May 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Museums in the Eifel are repositioning themselves. Culture Department of the Ministry for Science, Further Education and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate, April 9, 2009, accessed on May 8, 2019 .  , Article of the state government of April 8, 2009.
7. ^ ^{A b} Paul Spang: The excluded years: May 10, 1940 - May 17, 1945. From the diary of a forcibly recruited Luxembourger. Éditions Saint-Paul, Luxembourg 2012, ISBN 978-2-87963-842-3 , pp. 29-38 (published posthumously).