Rockeskyll

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Gerolstein
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.88 km 2
Residents:	226 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	38 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54570
Area code :	06591
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 058
Association administration address:	Kyllweg 1 ; 54568 Gerolstein
Website :	www.rockeskyll.de
Local Mayor :	Volker Oos
Location of the local community Rockeskyll in the Vulkaneifel district

Rockeskyll, aerial photo (2015)

Church of St. Bartholomew from 1511

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

Geographical location

Rockeskyll is located in the Eastern Eifel in the Vulkaneifel Nature Park . About 4.5 kilometers south-south-west is the core town of Gerolstein , 4 km north-north-west that of Hillesheim and 11.5 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of the district town of Daun . To the west of the village rises the 554.6 m high Rockeskyller Kopf , an extinct stratovolcano or stratovolcano . The Kaulbach flows through the village as the right source brook of the Hangelsbach , which flows into the Kyll , which runs to the southwest . To the west of the district of Rockeskyll part are the protected landscape Gerolstein and the surrounding area .

history

There were Stone Age traces of settlement on the “Kuhweide” corridor on the Kyller Höhe.

The area around Rockeskyll was evidently inhabited by finds as early as Roman and Celtic times.

A certificate from Emperor Heinrich IV from 1098, in which he confirmed his possessions to the St. Simeon Abbey in Trier , was also mentioned as 'kila' among other localities. This 'kila', as well as a 'kila' mentioned in a document as early as 1084, is, according to regional local researchers, very likely to be today's Rockeskyll. The historian Heinrich Beyer assigned the document from 1098 to the town of Stadtkyll .

Rockeskyll had market rights since the 15th century . The last cattle and junk markets were held in the 1920s. The market square is still reminiscent of two oaks, designated as natural monuments, which are located in the south of the village.

Until the end of the 18th century Rockeskyll belonged to the Daun office in the Electorate of Trier .

After the annexation of the Left Bank of the Rhine in the First Coalition War (1794), Rockeskyll belonged from 1798 to the canton of Gerolstein in the arrondissement de Prüm , which belonged to the Saar department . Rockeskyll became the seat of a mairie . The towns of Rockeskyll, Berlingen , Betteldorf , Bewingen , Essingen , Gees , Hinterweiler , Hohenfels , Pelm and Roth belonged to Mairie Rockeskyll . Because of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna (1815), a. the Eifel part of the Saar department to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, Rockeskyll became the seat of a mayor's office , which had the same scope as the previous Mairie in terms of the assigned communities. The mayor Rockeskyll belonged to the circle down in Trier and from 1822 to the Rhine province . Since 1946 Rockeskyll has belonged to the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and since November 7, 1970 to the community of Gerolstein .

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	191
1835	235
1871	269
1905	247
1939	291
1950	322
1961	232

year	Residents
1970	248
1987	280
1997	314
2005	289
2011	252
2017	225

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Blazon : "Divided by blue over silver, above a golden scale , below a lattice cross formed from three red threads."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The scales refer to the old market law of the municipality. The lattice cross symbolizes a striking architectural detail from the church built in 1728. The colors red and silver indicate that the place was part of Kurtrier .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Former rectory from 1826

Roman Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomew from 1511

Stations of the Cross from 1750 on the churchyard wall

Former rectory from 1826 location

Wayside shrine Antoniushäuschen from 1774, on the edge of a wooded hilltop location

There are some - some very old - crossroads spread across the municipality .

Path chapel from the 18th or 19th century, on the outskirts in the direction of Hohenfels-Essingen

Green spaces and recreation

Volcanic stratifications at the Rockeskyller Kopf natural monument

The Rockeskyller Kopf is an extinct volcanic complex from the Quaternary period and around 360,000 years old.
Two of the original three old oaks that germinated around 1700 at Dorfstrasse 3
The oak at the castle fountain was planted around 1840. location50.243998 6.692624
Hiking trails in and around Rockeskyll

Regular events

Annual fair or parish fair

Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday

Schewe-Sonnisch on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Disc Sunday )

Thanksgiving on the 3rd weekend in September

Economy and Transport

Rockeskyll is located directly on the B 410 . The state road L 27 leads through the village.

literature

Hartwig Löhr (arrangement and gesture): The Eifel village Rockeskyll . Ed .: Rockeskyll parish. Rockeskyll 1993, p. 36–43 (The Rockeskyll settlement area in prehistoric times).
Gesine Weber: The Urnfield Age Grave Field of Rockeskyll, Gerolstein Association, District of Daun / Eifel. In: Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring areas . Trier 1993, p. 7-27 .