Lampades

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 39 '  N , 6 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Saarburg-Kell
Height :	420 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.16 km 2
Residents:	554 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	68 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54316
Area code :	06588
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 072
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Schlossberg 6 54439 Saarburg
Website :	lampaden.de
Local Mayor :	Martin Marx
Location of the local community Lampaden in the district of Trier-Saarburg

Lampaden is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Saarburg-Kell association.

Districts are the hamlets Obersehr, Niedersehr and Geisemerich. A partnership with the municipality of Cocheren in France has existed since 1985 .

history

The Franconian King Zwentibold bequeathed the area to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias in Trier around 900 .

During the Second World War, the only two V3s that were used against a target stood near Lampaden : From December 1944 to January 1945, the city of Luxembourg was shelled from here. The guns were installed on the Ruwer , along what is now a forestry road. Heavy fighting at the end of the world war cost the lives of countless soldiers here.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 270 1835 305 1871 385 1905 442 1939 504 1950 503 1961 512

year Residents 1970 530 1987 522 1997 536 2005 532 2011 575 2017 566

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Lampaden consists of twelve council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairman. A majority vote had taken place in the 2009 municipal council election .

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	CDU	WGR 1	WGR 2	total
2019	5	5	2	12 seats
2014	5	4th	3	12 seats
2009	by majority vote			12 seats

Local mayor

• until 2014: Ewald Hermesdorf, CDU
• from 2014: Martin Marx

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head, inside a red bar cross, a golden abbot's staff and a golden ax crossed in black, topped with a silver oil lamp jug." The coat of arms was designed by Karl Heinz Brust and approved on February 10, 1983. The head of the shield refers to the former affiliation to the Electorate of Trier . The abbot's staff and ax are based on motifs in an old seal that has been kept by the S. Matthias Abbey in Trier to date . The oil lamp jug ("lamp") refers to the place name "Lampaden". It symbolizes the former delivery of lamp oil to maintain the church lights.

Attractions

Center Lampaden with St. Quentin and the parish hall

The Catholic parish church of St. Quentin goes back to a Romanesque predecessor church named in 1148, parts of which have been preserved in the western area.

During the street expansion from 2007-2008, the village square was beautified. Since then, a village fountain can also be admired there.

Heid Castle is not far from the former Lampaden train station . It belongs to the municipality of Schillingen , but is closer to Lampaden (approx. 2 km) than to Schillingen (approx. 6 km).

See also: List of cultural monuments in Lampaden

Transport and infrastructure

There is a bus connection on line 207 from Trier to Losheim am See with four to five journeys in each direction. The bus mostly uses the federal highway 268, about five kilometers away .

Until the shutdown of the Hochwaldbahn or its dismantling, Lampaden also had its own train station in the valley. It is now possible to cycle to Trier or Hermeskeil along the route of the former Hochwaldbahn ( Ruwer-Hochwald-Radweg ).

In the center of the village is the Jakobs country bakery, which also operates a small grocery store. The bakery also provides local supplies to many surrounding communities and has a local delivery service.

Web links

Commons : Lampaden  - collection of images

• Website of the local church
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Lampaden in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on lampades 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 (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 124 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved July 17, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ^ Heribert Scholer: Family Book Lampaden - Parish St. Quintus 1700-1900 . Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies. Volume 306. Cologne, 2016. p. 6