Piesport

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '  N , 6 ° 55'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Bernkastel-Kues
Height :	119 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.6 km 2
Residents:	2082 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	106 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54498
Area code :	06507
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 105
Community structure:	5 districts
Association administration address:	Gestade 18 54470 Bernkastel-Kues
Website :	www.piesport.de
Local Mayor :	Stefan Schmitt ( CDU )
Location of the local community Piesport in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district

View from Haus Moselblick to the Piesporter Moselle loop . In the background of about 190  m above sea level. NHN high Minheimer Grauberg .

View of the settlement (foreground) and Niederemmel (background)

View of the settlement district, in the background Neumagen-Dhron

All Saints Chapel in Müstert

Piesport is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate and the largest wine-growing village in the Mosel region . It has been a member of the Bernkastel-Kues community since January 1, 2012 .

geography

Piesport consists of the districts:

left of the Moselle: Alt-Piesport and Ferres,

right of the Moselle: Niederemmel (Emmel, Reinsport and Müstert), the settlement and the weekend house area "Zimmet".

The local community is surrounded by vineyards, meadows and forests, on a Moselle loop that bulges to the north in the Moselle valley between Bernkastel-Kues and Trier , more precisely between Minheim and Neumagen . The district of Piesport is located on the left bank of the river Eifel . On the opposite side of the river, on the Hunsrück side, which rises gently, is the district of Müstert and, a little further downstream, at the exit of the loop, the district of Reinsport. The higher part of the district around the church of St. Martin is Emmel. Ferres is a little upstream on the left bank of the river. Müstert used to consist of only a few houses that gathered around the All Saints Chapel at the bridgehead of the lower of the two Moselle bridges. This district has grown together over the centuries with Emmel and Reinsport and formed the independent municipality of Niederemmel until the administrative reform in 1969. The B 53 , the Moseluferstraße , runs through the Niederemmel district . From here, at a distribution roundabout at the entrance to the town from Neumagen, the L 50 branches off to the north over the Moselle bridge to Klausen and the L 156 to the south in the direction of Neumagen-Dhron .

climate

Fluctuations in rainfall

The annual precipitation is 737 mm. The precipitation is in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 49 percent of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in February. They vary only minimally and are extremely evenly distributed over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at only three percent of the measuring stations.

Origin of name

It can be assumed that there was a ford through the Moselle at the site of today's location in Roman times, through which wagons could drive when the water level was low. This ford was dedicated to Mercurius Bigontius , a local deity, from which the name Porto Pigontio was derived, from which Piesport gradually became.
A sanctuary was also dedicated to Bigontius, which stood on the north, left bank on the mountain slope and which today only reminds of the chapel house , which is popularly called Michelskirch ( location → ). In Christian times it was replaced by a church consecrated to St. Michael the Archangel, which was attested in 1350 as the matrix ecclesia ("mother church"). However, because of the long and arduous path to the parish of Piesport on the banks of the Moselle, a new church was built with the patronage of St. Michael, today's parish church of St. Michael .

history

The Romans already settled in the region around Piesport. “Like the tiers of an amphitheater”, the vineyards framed the place, wrote the poet Ausonius . Between the districts of Alt-Piesport and Ferres, the largest Roman wine press north of the Alps was discovered in 1985 and partially reconstructed. It is the center of the annual Roman wine press festival on the second weekend in October. In 1950 a Roman slide glass was found in a sarcophagus on a burial ground near Niederemmel , which is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier . Witnesses Roman times are also the Roman Road (L 157) at the level between Niederemmel and Morbach , at the when hunting seat Tonnkopf a Roman grave has been found and the Römerhof on the south edge of Niederemmel.

The first written mention of Piesport was in 776. Between 1506 and 1508, Piesport lost 82 of its 95 citizens (households) to the plague. In the Middle Ages and the early modern period, Piesport belonged to Kurtrier . From 1794 the area was under French rule, in 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 it has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Today's community was formed on June 7, 1969 from the dissolved communities Piesport (then 503 inhabitants) and Niederemmel (1,633 inhabitants).

On January 1, 2012, the Neumagen-Dhron community was dissolved as part of the municipal and administrative reform and the Piesport community was incorporated into the Bernkastel-Kues community .

The Müsterter Bridge , or Reinsporter Bridge , as it was also called (destroyed in the war and released again in 1949; renovated in 1979; load-bearing capacity 9 tons), which connected the town center to the east with the wine-growing area opposite, was built on July 15, 2009 by badly damaged a ship. However, this is not the first time that one of the river piers has been rammed. As a result, the bridge was closed and demolished in June 2015 for cost reasons, as the piers turned out to be ailing and in need of renovation.

The events of the aforementioned plague from 1506 to 1508 were dealt with in two historical novels with freedom of writing:

• Deana Zinßmeister: The plague village (=  plague trilogy . 3rd part). Goldmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 3-442-48101-5 .
• Peter Essner: The Spoar - fateful years of a small Moselle village . 2018, ISBN 3-7467-8905-2 .

Municipal council

The local council in Piesport consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

choice	SPD	CDU	Flat share	total	Explanation
2019	-	9	7th	16 seats	WG Meuren (6 seats), WG Leyendecker (1 seat)
2014	2	9	5	16 seats	WG Maximini (2 seats), WG Meuren (3 seats)
2009	2	9	5	16 seats	WG Maximini (5 seats)
2004	3	5	8th	16 seats	WG 1 (4 seats), WG 2 (4 seats)

Culture and sights

Buildings

• St. Michael , built in the 18th century
• All Saints Chapel, Müstert, built in 1553. The name of the district goes back to the Latin monasterium . It is assumed that here ( location → ) already in the 6./7. It was an ecclesiastical center in the 19th century, which gained increasing importance in the first phase of the Christianisation of the area and was later responsible for pastoral care for the villages of Piesport, Emmel and Müstert. At the beginning of 882 the parish of Müstert probably fell victim to the Norman storm. The Piesporter and Emmeler churches took over his responsibilities. In the following documents show Müstert as Munster (1055), Munstre (1098), Monasterium (1179) and Munster (early 19th century). The current church building dates from 1553 and was consecrated in 1680. Two side altars and a wooden high altar with two paintings (Coronation of Mary and a depiction of All Saints in the arched field between two pairs of Corinthian columns and wings made of pierced acanthus tendrils ) define the interior.
• Roman wine press at the end of the Piesport district in the direction of Ferres ( Location → )

See also list of cultural monuments in Piesport

Moselloreley

On the left bank of the Moselle opposite the district of Reinsport is the Moselloreley natural monument , similar to the Loreley on the Rhine . The rock massif, rising 85 m high from the Moselle, does not allow any traffic connections downstream; the steep bank doesn't even offer space for a footpath. But there are a few vineyards on its very steep slopes . Mining continued for a decade in the 1930s. There is a hiking trail above the Moselloreley.

In May 2012, Edgar Reitz used the backdrop of the Moselloreley with the mine as a backdrop for some scenes in the film The Other Home - Chronicle of Desire .

Viticulture

Piesport is heavily influenced by viticulture and, with 413 hectares of vineyards, it is by far the largest wine-growing community on the Moselle . Traditionally, Riesling is mainly grown. The place is part of the Bernkastel area . The vineyards are in the major Michelsberg area . A distinction is made between the following ten individual Piesporter layers:

Günterslay Podium Falkenberg Gold droplets canon

Schubertslay Grafenberg garden Kreuzwingert Hofberger

In November 2006, the Gault Millau magazine voted Theo Brille from the Reinhold haar winery in Piesport as the 2007 winemaker of the year .

Regular events

• Horse festival, festival with live concerts (annually, second weekend in August).

Personalities

• Johannes Hau, pastor of the Michaelskirch parish in Piesport from 1765 to 1803, brought about the historic turning point in the re-cultivation of the Riesling grape in the wine village of Piesport. In his honor, a fountain from 1983 in front of St. Michaels Church bears his name.
• Reinhard Heß (1904–1998), Trier painter and important glass painter, created various stained glass windows in St. Martin's Church in Niederemmel
• Philipp Lichter was pastor of the Michaelskirche parish in Piesport from 1834 to 1870
• Winfried Weber (* 1945), German Christian archaeologist and long-time director of the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum in Trier, was born in Piesport

Web links

Commons : Piesport  - collection of images

• Community website
• To search for cultural assets of the local community of Piesport in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Exact outlines of the Piesporter individual layers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Piesport; Buildings and culture guide. Edited by the local community of Piesport; Idea, advice and participation: Edgar Breit, local mayor; Texts and co-creation: Josef Schemer; 1995
3. ↑ 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. 192 (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.  
4. ↑ Three municipalities become two. In: www.volksfreund.de. September 14, 2011.
5. ↑ Müsterter bridge falls next year in Trierischer Volksfreund from September 3, 2014
6. ↑ The demolition of the Müsterter Bridge in Piesport began in Volksfreund on June 9, 2015
7. ↑ Election 2019
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
9. ↑ Election 2009
10. ↑ Election 2004
11. ↑ Information board at the fountain