Dudeldorf

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '  N , 6 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	290 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.01 km 2
Residents:	1297 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	118 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54647
Area code :	06565
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 027
Community structure:	2 districts
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	www.dudeldorf.de
Local Mayor :	Stefan Lonia
Location of the local community Dudeldorf in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Dudeldorf is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been part of the Bitburger Land community since July 1, 2014 .

geography

location

The local community is located in the Eifel . The Ordorf district belongs to Dudeldorf. The soil in Dudeldorf is very loamy, in some places even clayey, and therefore attracts a lot of water. Dudeldorf lies in a valley and is crossed by several streams. The longest of them is the Langebach , which was used for fishing (mostly brown trout ), for tanning leather and by mills from the middle of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century . The other streams - Zwergenbach , Birkenhofgraben , Magelterbach and Langwiesgraben - are very short and narrow. The forest of Dudeldorf Im Kallen or Im Märchen is a popular destination for cyclists and hikers in the season.

Community structure

The community is divided into the districts of Dudeldorf and Ordorf; The community also includes the residential areas Birkenhof, Eicherhof, Föhringsmühle, Heschhof, Pfalzhof, Rothmühle, Hotel im Märchen, Marschelter Mühle, Schälertshof and Wiesenhof.

Climate of Dudeldorf

climate

Dudeldorf lies in the temperate climate zone . The warmest months are on average July and August with a temperature of 23 ° C. The coldest month is January with an average temperature of −1 ° C; it is also the wettest month of the year. The sunniest months are May to August, with an average of around seven hours of sun per day.

history

Stone Age and Roman Age

Finds of Stone Age equipment and Roman buildings show that Dudeldorf was an early settlement. In the Langwiese , old dry stone walls can still be found today, which were used for viticulture in Roman times and were laid out like steps. North-east of the village, a Roman bath was discovered through aerial photographs, which is hidden underground.

Middle Ages and Modern Times

Duodelonis villa was first mentioned in a document in 816 .

The von Dudeldorf family had two castles, which were mentioned throughout the Middle Ages and which were given to the Archbishop of Trier by the Count of Vianden as a fief before the 13th century .

When the male line died out in 1375, changing owners of the estate and the two fortified houses followed. The city ​​charter granted by King John of Bohemia as Count of Luxembourg in 1345 placed the “Oppidum de Dudelendorp” directly under the sovereign.

In 1451 the lords of the castle, Johann, Graf zu Nassau, Vianden and Diez and Johann, Herr zu Kriechingen, allowed the citizens to levy a tariff that was to be used to restore the gates and walls. Around 1470, Count Jörg von Virneburg managed the only known enemy incursion into Dudeldorf, which went on without a fight, but in which a fire was started. The extent of the damage is not known.

In 1632 the Braun von Schmidtburg family came into the possession of both castle houses via the estate of the Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin .

In 1734 the two houses that were still in existence were enlarged, the second still appears in the Austrian cadastral plan from 1766, but because of its poor condition as a sheepfold. Like Ordorf, Dudeldorf belonged to the duchy of Luxembourg until 1795 . The manorial rule was exercised by three lords until 1794: the Trier monasteries St. Irminen, St. Maximin and the lords of the castle in Dudeldorf, Ordorf and part of Gondorf .

After the castle was sold in 1813, part of the building was given to the community as a school. In 1856 the privileges were lost with the enactment of the Prussian town and country code. From then on, Dudeldorf was a rural community and seat of a mayor's office in the Bitburg district. In 1860 the mayorships of Gindorf , Metterich and Ordorf became with the mayorry of Dudeldorf.

The First World War

When the First World War broke out in 1914 , 1150 people lived in Dudeldorf (including Ordorf). Of these, 200 men moved to the front. At the end of the war, 24 Dudeldorfer soldiers had died and 18 were taken prisoner. After the remaining German troops had withdrawn from Dudeldorf, the Americans followed on December 1, 1918 and quartered in the castle .

In 1929, Dudeldorf was the seat of an administrative district in the old district of Bitburg , which comprised nine communities.

The Third Reich and the Second World War

In 1937 the neighboring village of Ordorf was incorporated into Dudeldorf.

In the summer of 1939, German soldiers quartered in Dudeldorf and its surroundings. The announcement day on September 1, 1939 called for all reservists to be called up.

In the spring of 1940 there was an increased, sharper training and exercise of the billeted troops. With the beginning of the western campaign, the Dudeldorfer troops withdrew within a few hours. At the end of 1940 121 soldiers from Dudeldorf went to war, that was every eighth fellow citizen. The farmers and farmers from Dudeldorf were asked to increase their food production. The schoolchildren at the elementary school in Dudeldorf searched the fields for Colorado beetles to prevent them from eating away at the harvest.

In 1943 and 1944 there were more and more low-level aircraft attacks in Dudeldorf. A radar station for air defense was built in the Totenacker district on Philippsheimer Strasse . The associated soldiers were housed in self-built barracks. In June 1944, 22 American bombs fell on the area of ​​the radar station and on the adjoining area of Katzenpfädchen-Lehmkaule , but without causing military damage. The population was greatly alarmed by this event. Farmers who had been working in the fields since then watched the bombers flying by were now in danger themselves and from then on went to the air raid shelters when there was an air raid alarm. In the autumn of the same year, the harvest was partly brought in in the dark, as the constant air raids made field work impossible during the day. Because of the advance of the Allied troops, the German soldiers withdrew from France in September 1944 and took up quarters in Dudeldorf. The soldiers set up a horse hospital. A few weeks later, these soldiers withdrew and air force soldiers took over the positions around Dudeldorf with anti-aircraft guns. In the second week of September, the first columns of military workers arrived in Dudeldorf. They were housed in the castle and in private houses and built anti-tank ditches around Dudeldorf. On September 17, 1944, the local bell announced that a refugee train was leaving Philippsheim for the interior of the Reich. Unfortunately, only a few took advantage of this opportunity. After the Americans moved closer and closer, tank barriers, trenches, trenches and other defensive structures were built in a hurry. The number of German soldiers in the village grew more and more. On New Year's Eve, the flak position outside the village was attacked. Some of these bombs also fell on the neighboring houses in Dudeldorf. Four bombs hit the long wall , killing two people and injuring four.

In the coming winter the soldiers withdrew from Dudeldorf. However, the soldiers lacked equipment and fuel. So they pulled their luggage with horses or with handcarts. After more and more poorly equipped soldiers moved away and the well-equipped Americans moved in, the population expected the worst. Guns were set up on the heights around Dudeldorf. The low-flying attacked the ragged German soldiers who showed up. Bombs fell and artillery shells hit the village. From now on, the shelters were made permanent. The cellars were secured with supports and beds and kitchen facilities were set up there.

Following the abrupt escape of the NS district leadership from Dudeldorf, the fight for the area around Dudeldorf began on March 1, 1945. Two days later, on March 3rd, the last German soldiers, mostly paratroopers and airborne troops, left Dudeldorf. When they withdrew, the soldiers blew up the two bridges that connected the lower village with the upper village. The houses in the lower village were badly damaged in the explosion. At that time, hardly any house still had doors or windows, as these were completely destroyed by the pressure wave. A few hours after the blasting, on the night of March 3rd to 4th, the Americans moved into Dudeldorf. They shot at Dudeldorf with phosphorus shells, and several buildings caught fire. With this heavy fire it was impossible to extinguish the burning houses. In the attempt to save the houses, six Dudeldorfer died and two were injured. The first Americans moved into Dudeldorf on the morning of March 4th. They came from Gondorf and penetrated the Oberdorf and occupied one district after the other. From now on Dudeldorf was in the fire of German grenade and mine throwers from Spangdahlem. The fighting game for Dudeldorf lasted three whole days, until March 7, 1945. There were funnels , collapsed house gables, overturned electricity pylons and rubble and ashes on the streets. American tanks and vehicles of all kinds rolled inexorably on the roads to the east. After weeks of fear and destruction, people set out to restore order to the devastated village and clean up what the fighting had destroyed.

post war period

After the Second World War, the inner town center of Dudeldorf flourished completely anew. The economic miracle also had an impact in Dudeldorf.

Nine years after the end of the war, a large parade was held during the Krautwischkirmes in 1954 to mark the 600th anniversary of the town charter. The entire village was decorated and a large procession with carriages and actors from all ages of the village was shown.

In 1956 the elementary school Dudeldorf and the settlement communities were built in Schulstrasse.

Dudeldorf has been part of the Bitburg-Land community since 1970. Hardly any other place in the district suffered as much as Dudeldorf from the demolition and defacement of historical buildings in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1972 the day care center in Dudeldorf was built. Since 1985, the street scene, especially the main street, has been harmonized again in some areas through demolition. In 2011 Dudeldorf won the competition Our village has a future .

Population development

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

year Residents 1796 596 1815 873 1828 750 1830 866 1835 1,079 1840 850

year Residents 1848 878 1871 1,127 1895 791 1905 1.008 1939 1.004 1950 1,095

year Residents 1953 1,126 1961 1,242 1962 1,404 1970 1,174 1987 1,047 1992 1,121

year Residents 2005 1,059 2008 995 2011 1,063 2017 1,219

Legends and fairy tales

Over the centuries many legends about Dudeldorf emerged, for example the little plague flame . A blue flame that brought the Black Death to Dudeldorf in the middle of the 16th century. A stonemason from Dudeldorf followed the flame and saw how it crept into a crevice in the city ​​wall . The stonemason immediately took a hammer and trowel and closed the crack. From then on, no Dudeldorfer fell ill with the plague. A few years later the stonemason wanted to convince himself whether the plague flame was still alive. He cautiously opened the crack and was startled when the little flame slipped out of the crack. A new plague spread in the village. The Metz pursued the flame out of a guilty conscience. However, this noticed it and tried to flee through the woods of Dudeldorf. When it settled on an old and stone cross, the stonemason chiseled it. This wayside cross still stands in the Kallen forest today . On the plague cross you can see a hammer and pliers and underneath the inscription: Schmit Hans von Dudeldorf had this cross made in honor of God, Amen!

Another legend is based on the Schooper male , a little ghost that cannot rest. Because this area is said to have belonged to a contentious and stingy man. After a dispute with the owner of the neighboring field, both went to court. However, the curmudgeon lied to the neighbor and the judge. As punishment, he fell dead after a curse from the judge. The male haunts the fields and begs walkers to release him from his suffering by praying the Our Father . However, this request has so far been unsuccessful. Even today the little Schooper man hovers over the fields of Dudeldorf at night and complains to himself.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Dudeldorf consists of 16 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	WGR 1	WGR 2	total
2019	-	7th	5	4th	16 seats
2014	-	9	5	2	16 seats
2009	-	7th	6th	3	16 seats
2004	4th	7th	2	3	16 seats

Local mayor

• Stefan Lonien (since 2014)
• Reinhard Becker (from 1991 to 2014)
• Ludwig Paas † (from 1979 to 1991)
• Peter Pitsch † (from 1969 to 1979)
• Matthias Mares † (from 1960 to 1969)
• Johann Fabry † (community school in the Third Reich and from 1952 to 1956)
• Rudolf Schreiber † (from 1949 to 1952 and from 1956 to 1960)
• Hubert Plein † (from 1948 to 1949)
• Fritz Freis † (from 1946 to 1948)

Mayor

• Norbert Laroch † (from 1949 to 1970)
• Johannes Hieronimus † (from 1946 to 1948)
• Matthias Breuer † (from 1945 to 1946)
• Josef Jost † (from 1936 to 1937)
• Matthias Maraite † (from 1926 to 1931)

coat of arms

	Blazon : "On a red shield there is a silver, right-looking, double-tailed, blue-tongued and armored and gold-crowned rising lion."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms of Dudeldorf shows a lion looking to the left ( heraldic right ) and wearing a crown on its head. The lion itself is silver and the background of the coat of arms is red. The heraldic animal goes back to the coat of arms of Jakob Dudilndorf, attested in the Balduineum from the years 1340-1345. It is the silver Bohemian lion .

Culture and sights

music

In 1996 the association Dudeldorf Lion Pipes & Drums was founded. This is a music association that is heavily related to Scottish bagpipe music. The Lion Pipes & Drums play mainly at big parties and campaigns and have become known nationwide.

Buildings

• Dudeldorf Castle , converted into a two-wing mansion complex in the 18th century
• City fortifications of Dudeldorf and city gates from the 14th century
• Catholic parish church of St. Maria Königin from 1909/10
• Former cemetery Dudeldorf with a cross chapel from the 19th century
• Altes Brauhaus Dudeldorf , mansion from the 18th century
• Former notary's office in Dudeldorf from the 19th century

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  Coat of arms on the Obertor

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  Catholic parish church of St. Mary Queen

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  Stepped gable house

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  Market fountain

See also: List of cultural monuments in Dudeldorf

See also: List of natural monuments in Dudeldorf

Regular events

Every summer the Krautwischfest or Krautwischkirmes takes place in mid-August , a decades-old tradition. In the early years of the fair, people mostly celebrated in the inns in Dudeldorf. Later the fairground was the school yard, outside the city gates. Since 2013, the fair no longer takes place on the school grounds, but in the historic center, namely on the old castle grounds .

Every year on the first weekend in Advent, the Christmas market takes place between the Dudeldorf city gates , which was founded by the Dudeldorf trade association in the 1980s.

Personalities

• Dominik Konstantin Munich (1763–1818), theologian and historian
• Philipp Karl Munich (1777–1858), lawyer, from 1840 to 1858 president of the highest Luxembourg court
• Josef Neumann (1856–1912), Catholic clergyman and founder of the Kreuzbund
• Marie-Luise Allendorf (1927-2010), German journalist and 1981-1988 editor in chief of the GDR - weekly For You
• Maria Unger (* 1952), mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian district town of Gütersloh since 1994
• Edgar Schmitt (* 1963), former soccer player

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (arr.): The art monuments of the Bitburg district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / I ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 83–90 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).
• Roland Hillen: Dudeldorf. A contribution to the history of our homeland. Dudeldorf 1954, DNB 452018617 .
• Ernst Lutsch: Dudeldorf. Living conditions, economy, demographic structures and residents up to the middle of the 19th century (=  Trier historical research . Volume 16 ). Kliomedia, Trier 1991, ISBN 3-923087-15-2 .

Web links

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

• Web presence of the local church in Dudeldorf
• Local community Dudeldorf on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Dudeldorf in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Markus Stölp: Living in the Eifel. Between demolition and departure. In: FAZ.net.

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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 106 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
4. ^ The State Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, individual results. Retrieved August 14, 2019 . 
5. ^ Entry on the coat of arms of the municipality of Dudeldorf in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on September 1, 2016.