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	Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '  N , 6 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	483 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.82 km 2
Residents:	32 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54673
Area code :	06524
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 116
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Arnold Kotz
Location of the local community Scheitkorb in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Chapel of St. Peter from the southeast

Scheitkorb is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel .

Geographical location

Scheitkorb is located in the Südeifel Nature Park between the communities of Rodershausen and Karlshausen .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1480 as Schytenkorff . It was administered by the neighboring Karlshausen dairy and thus belonged to the Luxembourg county of Vianden .

With the annexation of the Austrian Netherlands , to which Luxembourg and thus Scheitkorb belonged, by French revolutionary troops , the place belonged to the French Forests Department from 1795 to 1814 . In 1815 he was at the Congress of Vienna the Kingdom of Prussia assigned and was from 1816 to the mayor Koxhausen managed.

In 1857 the place received its own chapel, allegedly as a result of a lottery win by a citizen of the Scheitenkorber who is said to have praised the foundation of such a chapel in this case.

After the First World War , the area belonged to the French part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland . After the Second World War , Keppeshausen became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 32 1835 34 1871 57 1905 69 1939 63 1950 58 1961 47

year Residents 1970 46 1987 41 1997 34 2005 29 2011 41 2017 34

Municipal council

The local council in Scheitkorb 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.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in log basket

Web links

Commons : Log basket  - collection of images

• To search for cultural goods of the local community Scheitkorb in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .
• Location profile on www.eifel.de

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: My village, my city. Retrieved August 7, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .