Pellenz

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The Pellenz is a hill country in the northwestern part of the Middle Rhine basin between Mayen in the southwest and Andernach in the northeast. In addition, Pellenz is the name of an association municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate that covers the entire north of the Pellenz landscape and has been based in the local municipality of Plaidt since May 2017 (until then it was administered from Andernach).

geography

Pellenz includes the predominantly industrial towns of Ochtendung , Kruft , Nickenich , Plaidt and Kretz ( Pellenz volcanoes , east) as well as Niedermendig (today Mendig ), Kottenheim , Thür ( Pellenzsenke , west) and Polch ( Pellenzhöhe , south), which protrudes into the Maifeld . The area is on the A 61 , A 48 and the Pellenz-Eifel-Bahn .

The small river Nette flows through the hilly and gently sloping landscape from west to east towards the Rhine with its memorable volcanic peaks (which are mostly excavated today) and delimits the landscape e.g. T. to the south, towards the Maifeld .

Natural structure

The Pellenz is structured as follows:

history

During excavations in Pellenz, settlement remains from over 300,000 years ago, Celtic as well as Roman settlement remains and burial grounds were found. Among other things, Wernerseck Castle is interesting for tourists .

The area originally belonged to the rulership of the Count Palatine . They later gave it to the Counts of Virneburg as a fief . In 1348 the Count of Virneburg had to surrender part of his rights to the Archbishopric of Trier , so that the Pellenz court was governed as a condominium . The name Pellenz can be derived from the Latin "palatia" ( Pfalz ) or "terra palatina" (Pfalzgrafenlandschaft). The area was divided into several dishes (pellenz dishes). The main place of one of these dishes (so-called large Pellenz with 14 Pellenz villages) was Niedermendig . The main town of the small Pellenz was Münstermaifeld . There were other pellets dishes at Bubenheimer Berg, at the three tons near Lonnig and around Masburg .

economy

The Pellenz is characterized by agriculture, the mining of pumice and lava sand in open-cast mining and the related building materials industry.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interactive map service and descriptions of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration

Web links

Wiktionary: Pellenz  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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