Niederstedem

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 6 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	259 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.46 km 2
Residents:	244 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	45 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54634
Area code :	06568
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 091
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Johann Hatz
Location of the local community Niederstedem in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Niederstedem is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land .

geography

The village is located in the South West Eifel , about 5 km south of the center of the district town of Bitburg. The municipality covers part of the so-called "Bitburger Gutland" and is crossed by the federal highway 257 . At 71.2%, a comparatively high proportion of the 5.46 km² area is used for agriculture, only 12.9% are forested. Within the local community, the altitude varies between 260 and 290  m above sea level. NHN .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 893 in the Prümer Urbar . In the corridors “Alshöhe” and “Im Grasmärchen”, the remains of Roman settlements and in the corridor “Auf der Zahl”, Franconian grave finds testify to a very early, sedentary settlement of the municipality. The first written mention of the place took place in 893, at that time still as "Stedeheym". A conceptual separation between the municipalities of Ober- and Niederstedem, which no longer belong together , was made from 1528. The two places - in the documents "Over et Nyederstedem" - belonged to the provost of Bitburg in the Duchy of Luxembourg until 1795 .

In 1848 Niederstedem had 218 residents in 22 houses, making the village the same size as its parish and administrative center, Messerich . The mayor's office of Messerich , created under Prussian administration in 1816, was merged into the mayor's office of Alsdorf in 1856 , from which the Wolsfeld office later emerged. Since 1970, the municipality has been administratively part of the Bitburg-Land Association and since 2014 of the Bitburger Land Association .

In the tank farm explosion near Niederstedem on September 23, 1954, 29 people were killed by the explosion of a large tank filled with aircraft fuel.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 126 1835 186 1871 204 1905 204 1939 218 1950 185 1961 175

year Residents 1970 212 1987 197 1997 222 2005 229 2011 259 2017 258

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Niederstedem consists of six council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the presiding local mayor . The six seats in the local council are divided between four groups of voters .

mayor

The honorary local mayor has been Johann Hatz since 2019. The predecessor was Willi Niederprüm.

coat of arms

As an indication of the earlier affiliation to the St. Maximin Abbey in Trier , the head of the shield shows the double-headed eagle and in the lower part, as an indication of St. James the Elder , the silver pilgrim's shell.

Attractions

Niederstedem, St. Jakobus

Monolith as an altar table in the church

The old development of the place characterizes the townscape. The landmark is the branch church St. Jakobus, which can be traced back to the year 1140. The church cemetery is covered with gravestones from the years 1880-1910. A war memorial has been erected there , which is dedicated to the fallen of the First World War . Also worth seeing are three late baroque crosses distributed over the municipality . A 150-year-old chestnut, various old oaks and several willows are designated as natural monuments .

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Niederstedem
• List of natural monuments in Niederstedem

economy

Like many other communities in the Eifel, Niederstedem is dominated by agriculture , so there are still several full-time farmers. Although most of the employed commute to the very nearby district town of Bitburg, the Trier area or Luxembourg, Niederstedem itself has a small number of jobs with a few businesses. This includes two inns, a repair workshop and an RWE transformer station in which the Vianden pumped storage plant is also connected to the German power grid.

Web links

Commons : Niederstedem  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local community Niederstedem on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the Niederstedem local community 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. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
3. ^ September 27, 1954. Funeral service for the victims of the explosion in Niederstedem. State Main Archive Koblenz , accessed on May 21, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
5. ↑ Description of the coat of arms on the website of the Bitburger Land association