Niersbach

This article describes the community of Niersbach; on the DFB official, see Wolfgang Niersbach .

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 6 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Wittlich-Land
Height :	280 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.82 km 2
Residents:	699 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54518
Primaries :	06508, 06575
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 504
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.niersbach-greverath.de
Local Mayor :	Hans-Josef Weirich
Location of the local community Niersbach in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Niersbach in the Eifel is a municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate .

geography

Niersbach is in the West Eifel . The two districts of Niersbach and Greverath as well as the residential areas Obere Mühle, Untere Mühle and Wenzelhausen belong to the community .

history

Niersbach was first mentioned in 1473 as Nydersbach .

Wonderfully country belonged Niersbach and Greverath by the end of the 18th century the Duchy of Luxembourg and was part of the rule breaking .

After 1792 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . From 1795 to 1814 both places belonged to the canton of Dudeldorf in the department of forests .

In 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . This brought the communities of Niersbach and Greverath in 1816 to the Wittlich district in the Trier administrative district in the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine province , which was added to the Rhine province in 1822.

The current community was formed on June 10, 1979 from the dissolved communities Niersbach and Greverath.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 450 1835 599 1871 666 1905 632 1939 607 1950 648

year Residents 1961 649 1970 667 1987 647 1997 693 2005 711 2019 699

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Niersbach consists of twelve 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 twelve seats in the municipal council are divided between two groups of voters .

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver over a green corrugated shield base, a blue potter's wheel, each with a red flame, above a blue pot."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The colors red and silver are reminiscent of the electoral rule of Trier. Pottery wheel and clay vessel and red flames are symbols of the pottery trade that has been practiced in Niersbach from the earliest times up to our days. The green wave sign stands for agriculture and forestry in the Niersbach-Greverath area.

Culture and sights

• Catholic Church of St. Bernhard from 1793 in Niersbach
• Catholic Church of St. Laurentius from 1860 in Greverath
• Hut burning on the first Sunday of Lent (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• The award-winning Eifelsteig hiking trail leads through Niersbach / Greverath ; Partner hiking trail Meulenwaldroute
• Töpferbrunnen (center of Niersbach),
• Martinsbrunnen (between Greverath and Heidweiler) by the Wittlich sculptor Hans Scherl
• Dreesbrunnen mineral spring (Niersbach, exit Mühlenstraße towards Bruch)
• Historic village smithy in Greverath
• Wegekapelle (memorial) at the exit towards Arenrath

See also: List of cultural monuments in Niersbach

Web links

Commons : Niersbach  - Collection of Images

• Niersbach on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Niersbach in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Brief portrait of Greverath on SWR television
• Link catalog on the subject of Niersbach at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 1, 2017 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 58 (PDF; 1.9 MB).
3. ↑ Statistical-topographical description of the government district of Trier. Hetzrodt 1818, p. 48 ( Google Books ).
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. 190 (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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of the municipality of Niersbach in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 1, 2017.
8. ^ Sights in Niersbach & Greverath. Retrieved March 1, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Meulenwald hiking route. Retrieved March 1, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Eifelsteig hiking route. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .