Niederraden

This article deals with the Eifel community Niederraden. For Niederraden, the district of Oberraden (Neuwied district), see Niederraden (Oberraden) .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 6 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	311 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2 km 2
Residents:	41 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54675
Area code :	06522
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 090
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Jörg Steffen
Location of the local community Niederraden in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Niederraden, aerial photo (2017)

Niederraden is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel .

Geographical location

The place is not far from the mouth of the Radenbach in the Enz , southeast of Neuerburg . Neighboring towns are Fischbach-Oberraden , Utscheid and Sinspelt . The Krummacker residential area also belongs to Niederraden .

history

Niederraden is first mentioned in 1501 as Nyeraden together with the neighboring Oberraden. After the Thirty Years' War the place remained almost desolate. Niederraden belonged to the Luxembourg county of Vianden and was in the administrative and judicial district of the Geckler dairy .

With the occupation of the Austrian Netherlands (1794), to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, by French revolutionary troops , the town became French and belonged to the Forests Department from 1795 to 1814 . In 1815 the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Niederraden thus came to the Bitburg district in the Trier administrative district in 1816 and was administered by the Mayor's Office Outscheid .

Old linden tree with St. Mary's altar in Niederraden

The Lady Chapel was built at the end of the 19th century. In 1910 the place had 83 inhabitants, the number has since declined. In the 1930s, the old Marienkapelle was replaced by a new building. Niederraden has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 and has been a member of the Südeifel municipality since 2014 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 52 1835 67 1871 68 1905 69 1939 82 1950 80 1961 88

year Residents 1970 89 1987 69 1997 48 2005 40 2011 52 2017 44

Municipal council

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

economy

Niederraden is still an agricultural place today.

Attractions

• Lady Chapel
• Mary's altar in the hollow trunk of a 700-year-old linden tree

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

Personalities

• Hans Theis (1921–1975), local historian, politician

Web links

Commons : Niederraden  - Collection of Images

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Niederraden 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. 100 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 .