Reil

This article deals with the local church in Reil; for further meanings of this term, see Reil (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′  N , 7 ° 7 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Association municipality :	Traben-Trarbach
Height :	110 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.13 km 2
Residents:	969 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56861
Area code :	06542
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Community key :	07 2 31 110
Association administration address:	Am Markt 3 56841 Traben-Trarbach
Website :	www.reil-mosel.de
Mayoress :	Elke Schnabel ( CDU )
Location of the local community of Reil in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district

Reil, seen from the south

Reil is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Traben-Trarbach community .

Reil was the second capital of the Kröver Empire , a Carolingian crown estate that existed until the French Revolution .

geography

Reil lies on the Moselle and is heavily influenced by viticulture and tourism. Reil also includes the hot stone district and the Forsthaus Reiler Hals, Hammermühle and Margaretenhof residential areas .

history

Reil was mentioned in writing for the first time in a document from King Henry II from 1008. The document is dated May 18, 1008. It documents an exchange contract with which Archbishop Willigis of Mainz hands over a farm in Reil (then Rigula) to the Church of Saint Stephen in Mainz in exchange for another farm in Büchenbach (then Buochinbah). During the Middle Ages there was an important pilgrimage site on the opposite side of the Moselle, called Reilkirch, whose Romanesque tower and early Gothic nave were completely demolished in the 19th century.

Since Reil was also called Rile or Ryle in the Middle Ages, it is often claimed that the first master builder of Cologne Cathedral , Gerhard von Rile , came from the town. A noble family, from which Master Gerhard could have come, is mentioned in documents for the first time in 1285. Its last representative, David von Reil, died impoverished in 1610.

From 1794 Reil was under French rule , in 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Since 1946 the place has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 823 1835 1.317 1871 1,219 1905 1,419 1939 1,577 1950 1,683

year Residents 1961 1,498 1970 1,464 1987 1,233 1997 1,239 2005 1,131 2017 1.010

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Reil consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary local mayor as chairwoman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	total
2019	9	7th	16 seats
2014	10	6th	16 seats
2009	09	7th	16 seats
2004	09	7th	16 seats

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In gold, a black double -headed eagle with redtongues and armor, floating between the heads a golden imperial crown set with red pearls with a black circlet and bow, on both sides of the eagle's tail the black capital letters 'RE' in front and 'YL' in the back." One variety shows the eagle completely black and the crown golden.
	Foundation of the coat of arms: The double-headed eagle is the Habsburg imperial eagle , the Emperor Ferdinand III. awarded to some villages of the Cröver Empire as a protective emblem in 1628.

Partner municipality

A partnership with the Belgian municipality of Zedelgem has existed since 2007

Culture and sights

The sports club TuS Reil is the largest club in Reil with around 550 members.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Reil was one of the largest wine-growing communities on the Moselle with more than 200 hectares of vineyards. The individual layers Goldlay, Falklay, Mullay-Hofberg and Sorentberg belong to the Vom Heiß Stein area and the Bernkastel area of ​​the Moselle cultivation area . In the past few years the area under vines has decreased by around half to 120 hectares. Tourism, especially enotourism (grape harvest holidays), is therefore playing an increasingly important role. The place is the stage destination of the Moselsteig . There is a kindergarten and a primary school in Reil.

The federal highway 53 runs on the other side of the Moselle . Reil is located on the Moselweinbahn railway line , which went into operation in 1883 , on which the Rhenus Veniro RB 85 trains (Bullay - Reil - Kövenig - Traben-Trarbach) run every hour every hour according to the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle .

Personalities

• Master Gerhard (* around 1210/1215 probably in Reil; † April 24 or 25 around 1271 in Cologne , Gerhard von Rile , latinized as Magister Gerardus )
• Johann Franciscus Ermels (also Ermel, Ermelein; * 1641 in Reilkirchen, † 1693 in Nuremberg) was a German portrait, history and landscape painter.
• Paulo Evaristo Arns OFM (born September 14, 1921 in Forquilhinha, Brazil, † December 14, 2016 in São Paulo) was Archbishop of São Paulo and the son of an emigrant from Reil.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Reil

literature

• Joachim Schiffhauer: Reil. The story of a Moselle village. Koblenz 1954.
• Erwin Schaaf and Johannes Mötsch : Contributions to the history of the Kröver empire . Bernkastel-Kues 1998.
• Local community Reil / Mosel: Chronicle of the community Reil. The story of a Moselle village. Reil 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028865-4 .

Web links

Commons : Reil  - Collection of Images

• Reil parish
• History, pictures and links from Reil
• Link catalog on the subject of Reil at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 59 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ Bailiffs of the St. Stephan monastery
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ according to NDB (1964) probably around 1271 ; according to ADB (1878) towards the end of the 13th century ; after Merlo, Nachrichten (1850) 1295 ; after Hasak, Dom, p. 55 1280 .