Hillesheim (Eifel)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 6 ° 41'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Gerolstein
Height :	440 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.63 km 2
Residents:	3235 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	157 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54576
Area code :	06593
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 029
City structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Kyllweg 1 54568 Gerolstein
Website :	www.hillesheim.de
City Mayor:	Gabriele Braun ( CDU )
Location of the town of Hillesheim in the Vulkaneifel district

Hillesheim, aerial photo (2015)

Hillesheim is a town and, according to the number of its inhabitants, the third largest municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . Hillesheim is designated as a basic center according to state planning . In Hillesheim there is a citizens' office of the Gerolstein community .

geography

The city is located in the Vulkaneifel nature park and not far from the state border with North Rhine-Westphalia, almost halfway between Cologne and Trier (70 and 60 km as the crow flies) and about 30 km from the Belgian border.

Hillesheim includes the districts ( local districts ) Bolsdorf and Niederbettingen and the residential areas Weber-Hof, Alter Bahnhof, Am Breitstein, Am Liehr, Am Rosenberg, Crumps Mühle, Domain, Eichholz and Bergfelder-Hof.

Niederbettingen, aerial photo (2016)

history

The 15th / 16th The city wall, which was expanded in the 19th century, testifies to the urban character of the community in the Middle Ages.

Hillesheim was first mentioned in a document in 943. Between 1250 and 1280, a monastery was built by Johann I von Reifferscheid, a descendant of Charlemagne, and subsequently managed by monks of the Hermit Order. As early as the time of the Reformation, in the 16th century, the monks left the monastery. After being destroyed several times, the monastery was rebuilt as an Augustinian monastery between 1721 and 1766. The closure finally took place with the invasion of French troops in 1802. Even in the Middle Ages, the feudal lordship in Hillesheim changed several times and the place finally belonged to Kurtrier from 1353, with the permission of Charles IV. During this time Hillesheim gained economic importance as a trading place. A flourishing weaving and leather production increasingly settled here, which brought economic growth and prosperity. Armed conflicts led to the city being cremated several times in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 19th century, the leather and cloth industry also declined due to the strong competitive pressure in the context of industrialization. On March 17, 1974, the municipalities of Bolsdorf (then 211 inhabitants) and Niederbettingen (225 inhabitants) were incorporated as part of the regional reform . Hillesheim received the town charter lost around 1800 on October 24, 1993 again.

Population development

The development of the population of Hillesheim based on today's urban area; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 877 1835 1,215 1871 1,419 1905 1,616 1939 1,854 1950 1,902 1961 2,032

year Residents 1970 2,348 1987 2,520 1997 3.137 2005 3,198 2011 3,109 2017 3,168 2019 3,235

Population development of Hillesheim from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

politics

City council

The city ​​council in Hillesheim consists of 20 council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary city ​​mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	WGR	GREEN	FDP	total
2019	3	7th	7th	-	2	1	20 seats
2014	2	8th	10	-	-	-	20 seats
2009	2	6th	6th	6th	-	-	20 seats
2004	2	7th	5	6th	-	-	20 seats

• FWG = Free Voting Group in the Verbandsgemeinde Hillesheim e. V.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Split by a curly blue tip, inside on a lying golden crescent a silver crowned Madonna with an orb in the right hand and the Christ Child in the left hand, both gold nimbed , in front in silver a continuous red cross, behind in gold an upright black wolf tang (Double hook), on the edge of the shield a curved, black grooved silver crenellated wall crown with an open portal. "

Justification of the coat of arms: The red bar cross indicates the former affiliation with Kurtrier . The Wolfsangel is taken from a coat of arms of a Hillesheim family, some of whose members also acted as lay judges. The Madonna was depicted in the city seal of 1306 and in the aldermen's seals of the 14th and 15th centuries. The crown of the wall above the coat of arms symbolizes Hillesheim's town charter, which was preserved in the Middle Ages.

Culture and sights

Hillesheim (painting by Fritz von Wille )

The city is one of the few “European example cities ” and its urban redevelopment was therefore subsidized by urban development funding. There is a medieval town center with a church worth seeing , which is partly surrounded by a city wall. The urban area of ​​Hillesheim is almost circular, from the historic city center it spread in all directions and grew out of its valley location through numerous new construction areas on the surrounding slopes.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Hillesheim  and List of natural monuments in Hillesheim

Economy and Infrastructure

City center with town hall

Hillesheim is a rural basic center and has two schools, two sports halls, a tennis hall, an indoor swimming pool, a cinema, several supermarkets, gas stations and two hardware stores.

traffic

Rail transport

Oberbettingen-Hillesheim station

The station Oberbettingen-Hillesheim is located on the Eifel circuit ( Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein - Trier ) on which the rail transport

• the Eifel-Express (RE 22) Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein with a connection to Trier Hbf (RB 22) and
• the Eifel-Bahn (RB 24) Cologne – Euskirchen– Kall , in rush hour (HVZ) to Gerolstein, run.

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT) and the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg and beyond the tariff area the NRW tariff apply to all local public transport .

Until 1973, the Hillesheim (Eifel) station was directly connected to the Lower Ahr Valley Railway and the Eifel line from Cologne to Trier via the Mittlere Ahrtalbahn Dümpelfeld – Abzw Insul – Ahrdorf (Ahr) –Hillesheim (Eifel) –Lissendorf – Jünkerath . The massive war damage, some of which was caused by air raids during World War II , was largely repaired by 1946, only the arched viaduct of the Hillesheim – Gerolstein railway line, which was blown up when the Wehrmacht withdrew in 1945, was not repaired. After the shutdown of passenger traffic and freight traffic to Dümpelfeld (1973) and Lissendorf (1982), the railway tracks were dismantled a short time later. In the direction of Niederehe, a cycle path runs partly on the old embankment.

Streets

The federal highway 421 runs through Hillesheim in a west-east direction.

Established businesses

The place is the seat of the KBV publishing house .

tourism

The city of Hillesheim is a destination for tourists who come mainly from the urban areas of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands . In addition to the medieval town center, including the church from the 19th century, the local recreation area "Bolsdorfer Tälchen" has a high level of leisure and adventure value, as there is a lake, circular hiking trails and sports and leisure opportunities and bars. The Bolsdorfer Tälchen with its network of paths is the direct connection to the Kylltal cycle path , which leads 130 km from the German-Belgian border, near Losheimergraben , to the confluence of the Kyll and the Moselle in Trier-Ehrang.

Hillesheim is located on the Eifelsteig and the detective home station of the " Eifel-crime trail ," the books on the crime writers Jacques Berndorf and Ralf Kramp based. The Hillesheim Geoppath explains the geology of the Eifel and the evidence of volcanism in the Vulkaneifel at 30 stations in the vicinity of the city .

Public facilities

• education

In Hillesheim there are two kindergartens, a primary school and a secondary school plus . The adult education center is run on a voluntary basis by the "KEB Bildungswerk Hillesheim - Catholic adult education".

• Social

There is an old people's home and the St. Josefs House, in which assisted living is offered.

Personalities

• Franziska Bram (* 1860 in Hillesheim, † 1932 in Lehmen), poet and writer
• Stefan Drößler (* 1961 in Hillesheim), film historian, museum director and film restorer
• Eduard Goebel (* 1831 in Hillesheim, † 1904 in Fulda), philologist and politician
• Ralf Kramp (* 1963 in Euskirchen), author and publisher (KBV-Verlag)
• Annelie Runge (* 1943 in Hillesheim), film director, screenwriter and journalist
• Franz Josef Talbot (* 1955 in Hillesheim), monument conservator

literature

• Herbert Wagner: Hillesheim in the Eifel (= Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 4/1976). Neuss 1975.
• Hermann Meyer, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Landesgeschichte (Ed.): Hillesheim - The story of a small Eifel town. New GmbH, Trier 1990.

Web links

Commons : Hillesheim  - Collection of Images

• Internet presence of the Hillesheim community
• To search for cultural goods of the city of Hillesheim in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Short portrait with a film about Hillesheim ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Hierzuland , SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ ^{A b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved January 28, 2020 . 
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. 114 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 179, 204 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Homepage of the Eifelsteig
7. ^ The Hillesheim detective house. www.eifel.info, accessed on July 1, 2018 . 
8. ^ Geopath ( Memento from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )