Niederöfflingen

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '  N , 6 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Wittlich-Land
Height :	379 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.17 km 2
Residents:	429 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54533
Area code :	06574
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 095
Association administration address:	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.niederoefflingen.de
Local Mayor :	Hermann Josef Clemens
Location of the Niederöfflingen community in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district

Niederöfflingen is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land .

View from Greimerather Höhe to Niederöfflingen

geography

The place is on a high plateau between the Sammetbach in the east and the Lieser in the west, in the southern Vulkaneifel . 42.0 percent of the total area of ​​the local community is forested. The closest central center is the district town of Wittlich . Niederöfflingen lies in the transition zone from the moderate maritime climate to the continental climate with usually mild winters and warm summers.

history

The history of Niederöfflingen goes back to 785, when Charlemagne donated the "villa ... Officinus" (Niederöfflingen) to the Echternach Abbey . As early as 1179, the Echternach Abbey renounced its ownership of Niederöfflingen in favor of Archbishop Arnold von Trier . The place was electoral Trier. Niederöfflingen was assigned to the Manderscheid office and was part of the Obermanderscheid Supreme Court.

During the Palatinate War (1688–1697), the soldiers of the Sun King Louis XIV laid down large parts of the Eifel regions in rubble and ashes. With the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697, the Eifel regions were freed from French rule for almost 100 years.

According to the tax lists of 1702, 20 families lived in 18 houses at the beginning of the 18th century. Compared to 1563, the effects of the wars of the 17th century had reduced the number of houses by 6.

In the Revolutionary Wars (1792–1794) the French conquered the Eifel. Following the French model, departments were created as administrative units, which in turn were divided into arrondissements and cantons. On July 30, 1802 the Mairie Niederöfflingen was created, to which the places Niederöfflingen, Gipperath, Greimerath, Hasborn, Ober- and Niederscheidweiler belonged.

In 1814 the French period in the Eifel ended. This was given to Prussia as a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

The municipal ordinances introduced by the French, however, lasted for about 30 years before they were replaced by the Prussian municipal ordinance in 1845. The registry office registers (baptism, marriage and death registers) introduced by Napoleon were also continued by the new administration.

The Niederöfflingen mayor's office , later the Niederöfflingen office, existed until 1934. In that year, the Laufeld and Niederöfflingen offices were dissolved and merged with the Manderscheid office.

With the invasion of the US soldiers in March 1945, the time of the Third Reich in Niederöfflingen came to an end.

Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

The last major administrative reform, which was initiated in 1968, led to the incorporation of the place into the Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid . The Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid was incorporated into the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land on July 1, 2014 .

Since the 1970s, a modern multi-purpose community hall has been built as an extension to the old school, three new building areas have been developed, a village square with a fountain has been created and Donatusstrasse has been redesigned and expanded as a through-town.

Affiliation of Niederöfflingen:

religion

Niederöfflingen was already designated as an independent parish according to the church tax lists in 1330. She had to pay 24 solidi . The visitation carried out on February 22, 1657 under Carl Casper von Leyen revealed the damage caused by the Thirty Years' War . As of January 31, 2012, 86.6% of Niederöfflingen's citizens belonged to the Roman Catholic faith and 3.7% to the Protestant religion. 7.8% of the citizens did not belong to any religious community, or they did not provide any information.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Niederöfflingen consists of eight 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

The coat of arms of Niederöfflingen includes a curly blue tip as a symbol for the Edeltrudis fountain on the eastern edge of the village, inside a golden bowl with a silver water fountain. An indication of the membership of the Electorate of Trier for centuries is the red, electoral cross in silver on the front. A lily on the back in silver (Echternach lily) indicates that the place belongs to the Echternach Abbey .

Culture and sights

Village culture

In 1997 Niederöfflingen took first place in the main class in the district decision for the competition " Our village should be more beautiful - our village has a future".

Buildings

Niederöfflingen village square

Edeltrudiskapelle

The church “St. Adrud ”was first mentioned in 1197. A new building of the church “St. Edeltrudis ”was built in 1822, using house stone from the destroyed Himmerod Abbey for windows and doors, as well as a portal. After the completion of the new church building, the parish procured a new high altar in 1826.

In 1956 the baroque altar was restored and “a figure of St. Edeltrudis, a carving from 1500 that was previously in the Edeltrudis Chapel ... “. Extensive renovation work began in the autumn of 1970: a new heating system was installed and a new floor was laid.

The Edeltrudiskapelle stands on the eastern outskirts of Niederöfflingen. A stone figure of St. Willibrord is assigned to the Romanesque period (950 - 1250). In addition to some Gothic figures, a walled-in cross bears the number 1608. The wooden figure of St. Edeltrudis dates from the end of the 15th century. The chapel was built around 1850 next to a well. The spring water, which is said to have healing powers, can be taken from a hand pump next to the sandstone basin.

On February 4, 1945, the chapel in which the Wehrmacht kept their ammunition was completely destroyed by an explosion. The Edeltrudiskapelle, newly built on the same site, was inaugurated on July 25, 1950.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Niederöfflingen

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal motorway 1 runs through the north-eastern part of the district, and the state road 64 directly through the town. The Maare-Mosel cycle path between Daun and Bernkastel-Kues also runs in the north-east .

Infrastructure

In the “Schneiderstal” development area, the local community is still offering several building sites for sale. Niederöfflingen has its own community hall, the Wilhelm-Hees-Halle. Together with eight other communities it forms the "Openlingen" forest district and founded its own forestry association to employ the forest workers, to achieve synergy effects in the management of the forest areas and the use of forest workers and for a highly mechanized timber harvest with optimal added value. The kindergarten in the village, which is also attended by children from neighboring towns, has been part of a forest kindergarten since February 1999, whose special quality feature, in addition to forest pedagogy, is lifelike, holistic and nature-oriented work with the children.

tourism

The mountain bike routes "Alfbach" (Tour 8988) and "Wittlich Landesblick" (Tour 6696), as well as Tour 3 Manderscheid (Burgen-Schluchten-Maare) of the VulkanBike Trail Park run through the district. Along the Lambach you can walk to the Lieser , which you can follow on the Eifelverein's "Lieserpfad" hiking trail to Daun or Wittlich . The main hiking trail 16 (east-west paths) of the Eifelverein, the Mosel-Our-Weg, between Alf (Moselle) and Ourstausee / Bivelser Steg leads right through the village. On the Devon Route, one of the three GEO routes in the Manderscheid region, the connections between our natural, cultural and geological history can be hiked.

Photovoltaic system

The largest inter-municipal photovoltaic system in Rhineland-Palatinate is located in Niederöfflingen . The capacity is 12 megawatts. The solar park consists of two sub-systems with an area of ​​40 hectares, which are divided between the Hasborn and Niederöfflingen districts. The facility was inaugurated on April 12, 2010 in the presence of ministers Margit Conrad and Malu Dreyer . In the “Auf dem Soll” district, the solar park was expanded in 2012 to include the “Niederöfflingen III” system (6.5 hectares, 2.7 megawatts).

Wind farm

Together with the municipalities of Dierfeld, Hasborn, Ober- and Niederscheidweiler, the planning for the "Sammethöhe" wind energy park is currently underway.

Honorary citizen

Jakob Konrad SVD (born August 3, 1914 - December 4, 2006), father of the Steyler missionaries, honorary citizen of the place since 1994, honorary citizen of Lourdes since 1994

Web links

Commons : Niederöfflingen  - Collection of Images

• Official website
• Link catalog on Niederöfflingen at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

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 - area
3. ↑ Golden Book of the Echternach Abbey, Gotha, fol. 48v-50
4. ↑ ^{a b} Golden Book of the Echternach Abbey, Gotha, fol. 102v and 103
5. ^ State Archives Luxembourg to Archives Gotha and LHA Koblenz, Dept. 1C, No. 4207
6. ↑ F.Textor, Deconstruction and Destruction in the Rhine Area during the 17th Century as a Means of the French Rhine Policy, Bonn 1937, p. 61.
7. ↑ StA.Trier, Section L10, No. 10
8. ↑ M.Müller, Secularization and Real Estate, On the Social History of the Saar-Mosel Area 1794–1813, Boppard 1980, p. 25.
9. ^ LHA Koblenz, Dept. 54 C17, No. 5
10. ↑ Law Collection of the Royal Prussian States, 1845, p 523ff.
11. ^ Archives VG-Manderscheid, decision books of the offices Manderscheid, Niederöfflingen and Laufeld
12. ^ Minutes of the meeting of the Niederöfflingen community
13. ↑ Parish chronicle Niederöfflingen p. 93 ff
14. ↑ Central integration system EWOISneu of the registration authority of the Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid
15. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
16. ↑ Wackenroder, Kunstdenkmäler, p. 234.
17. ↑ D.Nohn, Niederöfflingen, p. 39.
18. ↑ LHA Koblenz, AB.716, no. 14, school chronicle Niederöfflingen
19. ^ Wackenroder, Kunstdenkmäler, p. 235.
20. ^ School chronicle Niederöfflingen, II
21. ↑ Sammethöhe wind farm: First steps have been taken. In: Volksfreund. April 26, 2012, accessed June 14, 2013 .