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Coat of arms of the local community Ochtendung
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Map of Germany, position of the municipality Ochtendung highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Mayen-Koblenz
Association municipality : Maifeld
Height : 200 m above sea level NHN
Area : 24.07 km 2
Residents: 5460 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 227 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 56299
Area code : 02625
License plate : MYK, MY
Community key : 07 1 37 086
LOCODE : DE OCD
Community structure: 6 districts
Association administration address: Marktplatz 4
56751 Polch
Website : www.ochtendung.de
Local Mayor : Lothar Kalter ( SPD )
Location of the local community Ochtendung in the district of Mayen-Koblenz
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Ochtendung is a municipality in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Maifeld Association , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Polch .

geography

Ochtendung is located in a former volcanic area. The nearby extinct volcanoes Mount Carmel and Tönchesberg and northerly point group are evidence of volcanic activity in different periods.

Ochtendung is close to the A 48 and A 61 and each has its own motorway exit. The place is located above the Nettetal . Neighboring communities are Lonnig , Bassenheim , Plaidt , Kruft and Saffig . Until a few years ago the B 258 began in Koblenz and led via Ochtendung to Mayen and then on to Belgium past the Nürburgring. The part between Koblenz and Mayen was graduated because of its proximity to Autobahn 48; since then this has been the L 98 .

The rails of the former Koblenz-Lützel-Mayen Ost railway line , which was shut down for passenger traffic in December 1983, are still [out of date] up to Ochtendung . Today a railway cycle path runs along the route from Ochtendung .

Community structure

The districts Alsingerhof, Emmingerhof, Sackenheimerhöfe (former district of Bassenheim ), Fressenhof and Waldorferhof belong to Ochtendung .

history

The name of the place Ochtendung is derived from the word Thing , Ding, (Ochten dung from "of demo dinge"). In earlier times a thing was the term for a court , or more precisely: for the place where the court was held.

Emperor Charles IV granted Ochtendung Frankfurt city rights on January 8, 1354 . In 1563 the village included 75 under the name Ochtendunk , and in 1683 64 fire places . It belonged to the Electorate of Trier until the end of the 18th century and initially formed its own administrative district with its seat at Wernerseck Castle , but later came under the administration of the Münster-Maienfeld Office .

Population development

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

Population development of Ochtendung from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table
year Residents
1815 980
1835 1,384
1871 1,824
1905 2,518
1939 2,966
1950 3,518
year Residents
1961 3.712
1970 4,067
1987 3,910
1997 4,970
2005 5,228
2017 5,423

archeology

The southeast Eifel is a "treasure trove" for archaeologists. In 1997, Axel von Berg found a Neanderthal dome with 3 stone artifacts (a broad scraper, a discoid core and a small cut) 3 km north of Ochtendung, in the area of ​​the "Wanneköpfe" volcano. The dome is the roof of the skull of an adult man (30–45 years old) that had broken into three parts under the pressure of the earth, but which could be joined together again seamlessly. Their age could be dated geologically and with the leucine analysis to 160,000–170,000 years; so it comes from a so-called "early Neanderthal". The calotte is particularly interesting because of its morphological proximity to homo erectus and because it shows traces of human processing on the edges. Presumably it was "reworked" and used as a tool or bowl. The dome was covered by sediment very quickly and is therefore in a very good state of preservation.

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Ochtendung consists of 22 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 distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FWG I do total
2019 10 9 - 3 22 seats
2014 10 9 2 1 22 seats
2009 11 7th 2 2 22 seats
2004 9 10 2 1 22 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group Ochtendung e. V.
  • I do it = I do it - THE CITIZENS - Initiative e. V.

mayor

Lothar Kalter (SPD) became the local mayor of Ochtendung on June 26, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, he was elected for five years with 55.14% of the vote. Kalter is the successor to Rita Hirsch (SPD), who did not run again after ten years in office.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Ochtendung
 Blazon : "In silver a continuous red bar cross , angled by four black rings (circles)."
Justification of the coat of arms: The red cross in silver is the coat of arms of Kurtrier , to which Ochtendung belonged for over seven hundred years, the circles (rings) symbolize the old court in the Maifeld, called "Ding" or "Thing" at the time. The place name Ochtendung is derived from this term - the place was mentioned in the first documentary mention on June 10, 963, “of demo dinge”. It was an act of donation by the Franconian count Udo and his two vice counts Raginbold and Bernhard in favor of the Münstermaifeld monastery.

Community partnerships

The municipality has partnerships with Caiazzo in Italy and La Chaussée-Saint-Victor in France.

Culture and sights

Attractions

Tumulus of Ochtendung

See also: List of cultural monuments in Ochtendung

See also: List of stumbling blocks in Ochtendung

tourism

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Ochtendung

  • Johann Jakob Kraft (1808–1884), auxiliary bishop in Trier
  • Jakob Vogt (1902–1985), weightlifter
  • Werner Peters (1906–1990), farmer and politician (CDU)
  • Josef Rüber (1917–1977), farmer and politician (CDU)
  • Magdalena Frühinsfeld (* 1951), general practitioner in Wilhermsdorf
  • Jürgen Weigt (* 1957), General in the Bundeswehr
  • Peter Peters (* 1962), journalist and football official
  • Harald Paganetti (* 1962), Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston
  • Kristin Silbereisen (* 1985), table tennis player

swell

  • Human Evolution, 19.1 pp. 1–8 (2004) (journal)
  • Terra Nostra, publications of the GeoUnion Alfred Wegener Foundation, 2006/2 (congress journal)

Web links

Commons : Ochtendung  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, pp. 145, 155, 215/216.
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  4. ↑ Neanderthal remains discovered in the Eifel crater ( Memento from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Axel von Berg, Silvana Condemi & Manfred Frechen: The skull cap of the Neanderthal man from Ochtendung / Osteifel - archeology, paleoanthropology and geology . In: Ice Age and the Present . Hannover 2000 ( online ( memento from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 9.1 MB ; accessed on March 25, 2014]).
  6. ^ Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
  7. ^ The State Returning Officer of Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Maifeld, Verbandsgemeinde, eleventh line of results. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ochtendung. Coat of arms. In: The Maifeld. Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Harald Paganetti. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on August 28, 2014 .