Reuth (Eifel)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Gerolstein
Height :	560 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.15 km 2
Residents:	166 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54597
Area code :	06552
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 235
Association administration address:	Kyllweg 1 54568 Gerolstein
Website :	www.reuth-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Ewald Hansen
Location of the local community Reuth in the Vulkaneifel district

Rest area with Siechkreuz

Reuth is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Gerolstein community .

Geographical location

The place is in the Eifel . The hamlet of Neureuth also belongs to Reuth .

history

The place name Reuth has the meaning of a medieval clearing.

In 1335 the Counts of Blankenheim handed over the town of Kyle with the town of Reuth to King John of Bohemia and received it back as a fief . In 1423 Reuth became the property of the Counts of Loon . Reuth came to the Counts of Manderscheid in 1469 .

After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops in 1794 , Reuth belonged to the canton of Lissendorf in the Saardepartement from 1798 to 1814 and was assigned to Stadtkyll by the Mairie . By the Congress of Vienna (1815) Reuth came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1816 part of the circle Prüm in Trier . The municipality was under the administration of the mayor's office Stadtkyll .

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform , Reuth was reclassified together with 14 other communities on November 7, 1970 from the district of Prüm , which was dissolved at the same time, to the district of Daun (since 2007 district Vulkaneifel).

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 137 1835 222 1871 228 1905 208 1939 240 1950 219

year Residents 1961 209 1970 240 1987 208 1997 231 2005 215 2019 166

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

Blazon : "Split by gold and red, above a wavy bar split by blue and silver in front ared ax turned to the right , behind above three golden balls (1: 2) a golden miter with a red cross."

Reasons for the coat of arms: The golden and red colors of the coat of arms indicate the medieval affiliation of Reuth to the County of Manderscheid-Blankenheim . The blue-silver wavy bar in the lower part of the coat of arms symbolizes the Reuther Bach, which has the same name as the place. The place name Reuth is traced back to a medieval clearing . The ax is in the front field for the clearing and the place name. For the patron of the place and the small chapel, the three golden spheres and the miter stand as attributes of St. Nicholas .

Culture and sights

Chapel of Saint Nicholas

• The St. Nicholas Chapel, rebuilt in 1950, with the old choir and sacrament house
• Plague cross before the 18th century
• Castle burning on the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• Reuth is of more than 142 ha forest area for recreation surrounded
• Trail riding from the Reutherhof
• The Prümquelle - a pond spring in a small swamp area in the Arenberg Forest - is within walking distance in the direction of Ormont -Neuenstein ( ⊙ )

See also: List of cultural monuments in Reuth

Economy and Infrastructure

Craft businesses, service providers, a large grocer and a restaurant are located in the local community.

Since 2000, a steady source of income has been opened up for the next few decades in the Reuth wind farm with the installation of ten wind turbines .

See also : List of wind turbines in Rhineland-Palatinate

Born in Reuth

• Johannes Schmitz (1869–1957), member of the Reichstag (center)

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the local community Reuth
• Representation of the local community Reuth on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll
• Construction brochure Reuth
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Reuth 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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 74 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ↑ Presentation of the local history on the website of the local community Reuth
4. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 156 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. Retrieved on July 5, 2016 (description of the coat of arms on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll). 
8. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved July 27, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Trail riding from Reuth. Retrieved July 19, 2017 . 
11. ^ Economy in Reuth. Retrieved July 11, 2017 . 
12. ↑ wind turbines. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 11, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.