Upper garlic

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′  N , 6 ° 25 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Prüm
Height :	530 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.59 km 2
Residents:	77 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54614
Area code :	06553
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 284
Association administration address:	Tiergartenstrasse 54 54595 Prüm
Website :	www.pruem.de
Local Mayor :	Arno Meyer
Location of the local community Oberlauch in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Limestone with the village coat of arms in Oberlauch

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

geography

The highest point is the Hardtkopf at 596  m above sea level. NHN , from the summit of which the entire Prümer Kalkmulde and Schönecker Schweiz can be seen. When the weather is good, the view to the south is unobstructed and the distance is over 60 km to the Hunsrück . In a northerly direction the distant view extends approx. 20 km to the Black Man ( 697  m ).

The Bongertshof and Im Tal residential areas also belong to Oberlauch .

history

On the eastern outskirts of Oberlauch, Roman graves are said to have been repeatedly discovered in a large burial mound 30 m in diameter and over 4 m high on a south-east slope. The description as a burial mound was doubted several times. The Trier region cultural database mentions a moth in Oberlauch, the remains of an abandoned castle.

etymology

In the list of goods of the Prüm Abbey, the place is mentioned in 893 as "Luhc". The terms upper and lower garlic are derived from it.

The names Luhc, Loch (1065), Loh or Luch (1103) should be traced back to the Latin word "lucus", after the wisdom Grimm and W. Jungandreas. The grove sanctified by a deity is called by the Romans: "lucus" .

According to Kluge, “Loh” in Middle High German means grove or clearing.

timeline

In the property register of the Prüm Abbey , the place is named in 893 as "Luhc" without further explanations. Oberlauch and Niederlauch formed one place at that time.

Remains of Roman settlement have been documented in Oberlauch up to the 4th century AD. Celtic-Roman graves were found between the upper and lower leeks. The Romans secured important roads and junctions with guards in a fortification (Burgus). This usually included a sanctuary in the immediate vicinity. Seven high roads are said to have met in Oberlauch in prehistoric times and also in Roman times.

During excavation work in 1970 a stone ax was found in the corridor "Auf den Kalköfen", which proves that people stayed here at least temporarily in the Neolithic Age .

On the eastern outskirts of Oberlauch you can still see a large flattened round hill on which a so-called moth, a residential defense tower, is said to have stood. In 1369, the 38th Abbot Dietrich von Kerpen from Prüm had such a defensive tower built because of an ongoing feud with the Lord of Schönecken in order to secure the high paths. A hill that is said to have been built in Roman times is also being discussed.

Oberlauch was first mentioned in 1574. Previously, the place was a Zennerei of the Prüm Abbey , which had a basic court here from a mayor and five lay judges. The Conventual, a member of the abbey in the position of sexton, received the income from the Luch or Leek farm in the Middle Ages.

Later the dean managed the sextonry and the combing, with which the provost's office was also connected. Again later, the prior took over this himself, in 1663 leasing the Küstereigüter zu Lauch for 15 years for three thalers and two sesters of rye and two sesters of oats. The Oberlaucher mowed and dried their hay on the open Bühl. The Jahrgeding held from the dean or the Prior.

In 1788, the Niederlaucher pastor reported six stocks for Oberlauch . These farms belonged to the landlord; they could not be shared, sold or loaned, but could be bequeathed to the eldest son. If there was only one son-in-law, he had to take the farm name. The names were: Backes, Ballmanns (Barmes), Bischofs Oberst, Bischofs Unterst, Schultheißen and Keyll. During the French rule until 1814, the place belonged to the canton of Prüm in the Saardepartement and then as an independent municipality to the mayor's office of Dingdorf in the district of Prüm . After the later Dingdorf office was dissolved, Oberlauch was assigned to the Schönecken office in 1936 . Even after the administrative reform in 1970, Oberlauch retained its independence as a local community and has since been part of the Prüm community .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 58 1835 74 1871 62 1905 72 1939 87

year Residents 1950 69 1961 62 1970 65 1987 60 2005 63

Municipal council

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

economy

The population lives mainly from agriculture (dairy farming).

Web links

Commons : Oberlauch  - Collection of Images

• Ortgemeinde Oberlauch on the pages of the Verbandsgemeinde Prüm
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Oberlauch in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Brief portrait of Oberlauch

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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 68 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Dirk Lutz Krauße : German Archaeological Institute: Iron Age Cultural Change and Romanization in the Mosel-Eifel Region , catalog of sites, 2006, p. 106 ( Memento from August 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in the Internet archive on February 6, 2016 ( PDF; 1.2 MB)
4. ^ Entry on Burghügel (Motte, Oberlauch) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on October 8, 2015.
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections