Reiff

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Reiff (disambiguation) .

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '  N , 6 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Arzfeld
Height :	510 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.8 km 2
Residents:	47 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	8 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54619
Area code :	06550
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 297
Association administration address:	Luxemburger Strasse 6 54687 Arzfeld
Website :	www.reiff-net.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Wonner
Location of the local community Reiff in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Reiff is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Arzfeld .

geography

Reiff is located in the South Eifel nature park on the Irsen river, the Luxembourg border is around 5 km away. The Banzenhof and Wässerchen residential areas also belong to the community. Both localities also partly belong to the neighboring municipality of Eschfeld .

history

Reiff was first mentioned in 1501.

Until 1794 the place belonged to the dairy Eschfeld - Arzfeld in the Dasburg rule , which was part of the Duchy of Luxembourg . After the annexation of the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, by French revolutionary troops , the municipality of Reiff was assigned to the canton of Arzfeld in the department of forests in 1795. Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our rivers was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Reiff came to the newly established district of Prüm in the administrative district of Trier in 1816 and was administered by the mayor's office of Eschfeld . In 1843 Reiff consisted of 11 houses with 102 inhabitants. All residents were Catholic, they were parish in Eschfeld. Reiff also belonged to Eschfeld in terms of school.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 79 1835 102 1871 119 1905 129 1939 106 1950 77 1961 60

year Residents 1970 61 1987 49 1997 50 2005 54 2011 55 2017 50 2019 47

Municipal council

The council in Reiff 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.

Economy and Infrastructure

Reiff is predominantly agricultural; In 2010, four farms owned an average of 89 hectares. This means that the area mainly used by livestock and pasture farming had tripled within 15 years, while the number fell by seven during this time.

Web links

Commons : Reiff  - Collection of Images

• Website of the local community Reiff
• Reiff local community on the webpage of the Arzfeld community community
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Reiff in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

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 2020. S. 92 (PDF; 1 MB).
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 36
4. ^ Georg Bärsch : Description of the government district of Trier . tape 2 . Lintz, Trier 1846, p. 65 ( Google Books ).
5. ^ ^{A b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 20, 2020 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.