Schleid (near Bitburg)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 6 ° 30 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	378 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.24 km 2
Residents:	395 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	63 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54636
Area code :	06569
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 118
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Stephan Grengs
Location of the local community Schleid in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Schleid from the northwest

St. Barbara (1840), south view

Schleid is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land .

geography

The community is located in the South West Eifel , approx. 14 km northwest of the district town of Bitburg . The federal motorway 60 runs immediately to the west of the village , at which the next junction Bitburg is about 5 km away. Of the 6.24 km² municipal area, 51% are used for agriculture, 37% are forest (as of 2017). To the northwest of the village is the Hardberg with a height of 495.4  m above sea level. NHN .

Schleid also includes the Behfels, Burg, Hof Bennes, Hof Wilhelmshöhe, Mittelwies and Pintenhof residential areas .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 893 in the Prümer Urbar as "Vuerscleite". The abbey had nine manses (courtyards) there at the time .

Schleid belonged to the late 18th century country wonderfully for electorate Trier , but was under two different administrations and jurisdictions . The south-western part belonged to the Kyllburg Office , the northeast part to the Prüm Office (originally the Principality of Prüm ).

After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops (1794), Schleid belonged to the Canton of Kyllburg in the Saar Department from 1798 to 1814 . Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna , the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815. Under the Prussian administration, Schleid was subordinated to the Seffern mayor in the newly established Bitburg district in the Trier administrative district in 1816 . In 1856 the municipality Schleid came administratively to the mayor's office Bickendorf , which was renamed to Amt Bickendorf in 1927. Schleid has been a member of the Bitburg-Land community since 1970 and of the Bitburger Land community from July 1, 2014 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 188 1835 284 1871 377 1905 371 1939 394 1950 394

year Residents 1961 421 1970 441 1987 402 2005 376 2011 373 2017 378

Population development of Schleid (near Bitburg) from 1815 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Schleid consists of eight council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. The eight seats in the municipal council are divided between two groups of voters .

coat of arms

The Schleidter Bach used to divide the place up between the manors of the Imperial Abbey of Prüm and the Electorate of Trier . This fact is symbolized for the stream by the silver wave pole and for the division in two by the two curves. Red and silver are the colors of the Prüm Abbey.

Attractions

The St. Barbara branch church was built in 1840 and expanded between 1880 and 1890. The castle chapel from 1909 and the Celtic fortress surrounded by moats are also worth seeing .

See also : List of cultural monuments in Schleid

Web links

Commons : Schleid (near Bitburg)  - Collection of images

• Local municipality Schleid on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the Schleid community (near Bitburg) 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. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ 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).
4. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, p. 151 ( www.dilibri.de )
5. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, pp. 115, 124.
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections