Scheid (Eifel)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′  N , 6 ° 25 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Gerolstein
Height :	590 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.49 km 2
Residents:	118 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	21 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54611
Area code :	06557
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 237
Association administration address:	Kyllweg 1 54568 Gerolstein
Website :	www.scheid-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Gottfried Hack
Location of the local community Scheid in the Vulkaneifel district

Scheid parish square

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

Geographical location

The Eifelort Scheid is located in the northwest of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The municipality borders on North Rhine-Westphalia . The border with Belgium is about 3 km from the town center. In addition to the main town, the districts of Birkenhof, Erlenhof, Lindenhof, Losheimerstraße, Schwalbenhof, Tannenhof and Wiesenhof belong to the municipality.

history

The place name is derived from watershed .

Scheid belonged to the Luxembourg dominion of Kronenburg until the end of the 18th century .

After the region was captured by French revolutionary troops (1794), Scheid belonged to the French canton of Kronenburg in the Ourthe department from 1795 to 1814 .

As a result of the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna, the three municipalities of Hallschlag , Ormont and Scheid came from the Ourthe department to the Kingdom of Prussia . The three communities were assigned to the Hallschlag mayor's office in the Prüm district, newly established in 1816, in the Trier administrative district . At the beginning of the 20th century, a grenade factory was built near Scheid, which was destroyed by fire after the First World War . From 1938 a part of the west wall was built near the community of Scheid , which was supposed to shield the German western border as a defense system. During the Second World War , Scheid was located on the western front from September 1944 to March 1945 and was almost completely destroyed. After the end of the war, large parts of the Scheid community were closed due to the risk of mines .

As part of the Rhineland-Palatinate functional and territorial reform , the municipality of Scheid was reclassified together with 14 other municipalities 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 Scheid, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 101 1835 150 1871 161 1905 126 1939 131 1950 125

year Residents 1961 139 1970 131 1987 116 1997 123 2005 124 2019 118

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Scheid 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.

Saint Cornelius; built in 1968

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver divided by a blue oblique left wavy bar, in front a green spruce with branches, behind a red oblique-left hip horn."

Justification for the coat of arms: The blue wavy bar that divides the coat of arms at an angle to the left represents the many streams that flow through the Scheid district. The spruce stands for the place name, which can be traced back to a Celtic meaning for forest or wood, but at the same time also points to the important forest management in the community. The horn symbolizes Saint Cornelius , the patron saint of the chapel and the community Scheid and at the same time the saint of the farmers and the cattle, which indicates the agricultural structure of the community.

Culture and sights

Cusp line as a valuable biotope chain

• Renaissance altar from the former chapel from 1739 in the St. Korneliuskirche (Frauenkroner Straße 1)
• Castle burning on the first Sunday of Lent (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• Annual fair or parish fair is celebrated on the Sunday after Ascension Day.
• Remains of the former west wall (cusp line ), which runs near the border (Belgium), west of the village ( ⊙ )
• Bunker systems, loopholes around 1938

See also: List of cultural monuments in Scheid

Economy and Infrastructure

The most important investment income of the densely wooded community was the timber trade and hunting leases.

Since 1999, with the installation of 36 wind turbines, a steady source of income has been developed for the next decades.

See also: List of wind turbines in Rhineland-Palatinate

Web links

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

• Website of the local community Scheid
• Representation of the local community Scheid on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Scheid in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Economy & living in Scheid (Eifel)
• Portrait of Scheid (Eifel)
• Americans visit Siegfried Line

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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 116 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Presentation of the local history on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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. ↑ Description of the coat of arms on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll
8. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
9. ^ Westwall Scheid (Eifel). Retrieved July 5, 2017 . 
10. ^ Westwall center Dahlem. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 27, 2017 ; Retrieved July 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ To search for cultural goods of the local community Scheid (Westwall bunker) in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region ; accessed on July 14, 2017.
12. ^ Sources of income for the community of Scheid (Eifel). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 2, 2017 ; Retrieved July 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Scheid wind turbines. Retrieved July 12, 2017 .