Ockfen

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '  N , 6 ° 35'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Saarburg-Kell
Height :	170 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.46 km 2
Residents:	599 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	243 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54441
Area code :	06581
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 098
Association administration address:	Schloßberg 6 54439 Saarburg
Website :	www.ockfen.com
Local Mayor :	Gerd Benzmüller
Location of the local community Ockfen in the district of Trier-Saarburg

View of the Ockfen location (2006)

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

history

Ockfen was first mentioned in 975 in a document from Archbishop Dietrich I of Trier as Occava owned by the St. Martin Abbey in Trier. Later mentions were 1037 Occkenen , 1168 Ockefa , 1220 Ockeve , 1274 Ockave . In 1381 the place was called Ockfan . The abbey built an estate in Ockfen, which was mainly used to organize the wine industry.

Belonging to Saarland

On July 18, 1946 Ockfen was together with other 80 municipalities in the counties Trier and Saarburg the Saarland allocated that is no longer at the time the Allied Control shelter. However, this assignment did not last long, because on June 8, 1947, Ockfen and 60 other previously spun off municipalities came to the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate in the French occupation zone in 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 205 1835 283 1871 329 1905 449 1939 717 1950 495

year Residents 1961 546 1970 503 1987 571 2005 637 2011 636 2017 606

religion

The Catholic parish church of St. Valentin was built as a neo-Gothic stepped hall on a steep slope towards the south from 1904–1906 according to plans by the Trier architect Ernst Brand . The exterior presents itself as a plastered building with decorative sandstone and slate stone elements. The moving roof landscape is covered with slate. After severe damage in 1945, the church was restored.

Municipal council

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

Viticulture

Ockfen part of the wine field Saar in the Mosel region . 15 wine-growing businesses are active in the village, and the area under vines is 53 hectares. About 96% of the cultivated wine is white wine (2007).

Vineyards

• Ockfener Bockstein

traffic

At the breakpoint Schoden-Ockfen keep hourly regional trains line RB 71 on the Saar Railway Trier - Saarbrücken of DB Regio .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Ockfen

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Saarburg district . (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 15, III. Department). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939 (reprint from the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), pp. 156–157.

Web links

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

• Ockfen on the website of the Saarburg-Kell association
• Local parish Ockfen (private website)
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Ockfen in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on Ockfen 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: My village, my city. Retrieved July 23, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections