Saint Thomas (Eifel)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 6 ° 36 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	288 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.13 km 2
Residents:	261 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	29 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54655
Area code :	06563
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 113
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	www.sankt-thomas-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Rudolf Höser
Location of the local community Sankt Thomas in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Sankt Thomas is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land . The place name is derived from the former St. Thomas monastery located on the parish of the municipality .

geography

Sankt Thomas lies in the valley of the Kyll . The community also includes the living spaces Bruderholz, Kasholz, St. Johann and Forsthaus Johanniswald.

history

The first written mention of the place comes from the year 973. Originally the place was called Ernistburen or Ernistbura , later then Erlenburen or Erlesbura . Only later did the place take on the name of the St. Thomas Monastery . The three historic districts are the Klosterbering, the Klostermühle on the other side of the Kyll and the development around the eastern bridgehead of the Kyllbrücke, which is located south of the Klostermühle and Kloster.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 135 1835 177 1871 245 1905 289 1939 313 1950 370

year Residents 1961 345 1970 359 1987 312 2005 306 2011 288 2017 258

politics

Municipal council

The council in St. Thomas 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.

Community partnerships

The community of St. Thomas maintains a community partnership with the French community of Pontigny .

monastery

St. Thomas Monastery

former monastery church

In St. Thomas, the former is Cistercian Monastery of St. Thomas at the Kyll , which is now the Diocese of Trier serves as a training center. The convent was founded around 1170 near a chapel built in honor of Thomas Beckett. The monastery of St. Thomas was abolished in the course of secularization in 1802, which at the same time deprived the place of its economic basis. After the Prussian state bought the house in 1847, it was given to the Bishop of Trier in 1852, who used it as a penal institution ( Demeritenhaus ) for clergy until 1942 . In the period from 1957 to 1974 the house functioned as the Catholic rural elementary school of the Trier diocese.

Today the former monastery serves as the retreat house of St. Thomas of the Trier diocese .

traffic

The railway station St. Thomas is located on the Eifel circuit ( Cologne - Euskirchen -Gerolstein- Trier ) and is served by the following features:

line	designation	Line course	Clock frequency
RB 22	Eifel Express	Cologne Fair / Deutz - Cologne - Euskirchen - Jünkerath - Gerolstein - St. Thomas - Bitburg-Erdorf - Ehrang - Trier (Cologne Fair / Deutz - Gerolstein asRE 22)	60 min (in the HVZ amplifier Gerolstein – Trier)

Sankt Thomas is part of the Trier Region Transport Association . The federal motorway 60 is seven kilometers away .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in St. Thomas
• List of natural monuments in Sankt Thomas

Web links

Commons : Sankt Thomas  - Collection of Images

• Local community Sankt Thomas on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Sankt Thomas (Eifel) 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 108 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ ^{a b} St. Thomas an der Kyll . 3. Edition. Episcopal Priestly House, 1994, p. 1 ff .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Heinz : The history of the house. In: St. Thomas - retreat house of the diocese of Trier. Retrieved February 10, 2017 . 
5. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
7. ↑ Stefan Burr: A place with atmosphere and history. In: Paulinus. Retrieved February 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Deutsche Bahn course book. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .