Peffingen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 55 '  N , 6 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	198 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.8 km 2
Residents:	221 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54668
Area code :	06523
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 103
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Herbert Zillen
Location of the local community Peffingen in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Peffingen (Peffïgen) by Jean Bertels 1597

The Huwelslay

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

geography

Peffingen is located on the Prüm in the South Eifel Nature Park . The place is about 10 km southwest of the city of Bitburg .

The Huwelslay residential area also belongs to the community.

history

In 789/90 Reginarda donated her inheritance to the Echternach Abbey in pago Benese in villa que vocatur Piffingen . Peffingen is further mentioned 853 as Piffinga in the will of the Luxembourg Countess Erkanfrida. The place later belonged to the Bettingen rule . The place was an independent parish with its own church as early as the 16th century. A new church, built in 1762, was under the protection of St. Apollonia and the Fourteen Holy Helpers .

Statistics on population development

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

year Residents 1815 167 1835 217 1871 217 1905 222 1939 235 1950 240 1961 231

year Residents 1970 233 1987 209 1997 203 2005 225 2011 231 2017 214

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Quartered by a gold-red arrowhead cross in mixed up colors, 1 and 4 red, 2 and 3 silver with a blue wavy bar."
	Foundation of the coat of arms: Until the end of the 18th century, the duchy of Luxembourg held sovereignty . The anchor cross with double hooks is intended to indicate the eventful history of the place. The two wave bars symbolize the Prüm , which flows through the town.

Attractions

Buildings

• 

  St. Apollonia, high altar
  The chapel of St. Apollonia to the Fourteen Holy Helpers from 1844 with a sandstone war memorial at the church entrance.
• The former mill from 1780 is most likely the oldest building in Peffingen and has a late Gothic sandstone relief as a spoil .
• Mill at Brückenstrasse 4 from 1806

See also: List of cultural monuments in Peffingen

Green spaces and recreation

• Due to its extensive forests, Peffingen is suitable as a starting point for hiking and cycling tours on developed and marked paths.
• Huwelslay (old German for owl rock, huwel = owl, lei, ley, lay = rock) - a limestone rock on the western slope of the heather ridge between Holsthum and Peffingen, which forms a stalactite cave. ⊙

See also: List of natural monuments in Peffingen

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

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. 264–265 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

Commons : Peffingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• To search for cultural assets of the local community Peffingen in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

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. 100 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ^ Camille Wampach : Documents and source book on the history of the old Luxembourg territories up to the Burgundian period. Luxembourg 1935–1955.
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Description of the coat of arms. Verbandsgemeinde Südeifel, p. 27 , accessed on August 6, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Bike tours in Peffingen. Retrieved March 3, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Hiking in Peffingen. Retrieved March 3, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .