Sevenig (Our)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 6 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Arzfeld
Height :	470 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.82 km 2
Residents:	73 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	15 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54617
Area code :	06559
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 310
Association administration address:	Luxemburger Strasse 6 54687 Arzfeld
Website :	www.sevenig-our.de
Local Mayor :	Helmut Nelles
Location of the local community Sevenig (Our) in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm

Parish Church of St. John

Sevenig from the southeast

Sevenig (Our) is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Arzfeld and is located directly to the east of the border triangle between Germany , Belgium and Luxembourg .

geography

The street village is located in a basin of the Irsen east of the Our . It is located in the Islek in the southern Eifel . Sevenig (Our) also includes the Mühle and Wehrbüsch residential areas .

With 49.7%, almost half of the municipal area is used for agriculture, 46.5% are forest (as of 2011).

Sevenig borders Harspelt in the north , Roscheid in the east, Dahnen in the south and Clervaux (Luxembourg) and Burg-Reuland (Belgium) in the west .

history

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Dasburg rule in the Duchy of Luxembourg .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged at the time, and annexed it in October 1795 . Under French administration , Sevenig belonged to the canton of Arzfeld , which was administratively assigned to the arrondissement of Bitburg in the department of forests .

Due to the resolutions at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . The place belonged from 1816 to the mayor's office Harspelt in the new district of Prüm in the administrative region of Trier and from 1822 to the end of the Second World War to the Rhine province . After 1936 the community belonged to the Daleiden-Leidenborn office . At the end of the Second World War, large parts of the place were destroyed.

The community received the name component "(Our)" on January 1, 1971.

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of the municipality of Sevenig (Our), the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 100 1835 127 1871 129 1905 131 1939 129 1950 124 1961 125

year Residents 1970 128 1987 68 1997 69 2005 63 2011 52 2017 60

Municipal council

The municipal council in Sevenig 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.

Culture and sights

• Catholic Church of St. John from the 18th century
• Mill in the Irsental
• Königslei viewpoint
• The border triangle of Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg at the European monument

See also: List of cultural monuments in Sevenig (Our)

Economy and Infrastructure

Sevenig (Our) is today an agricultural community . Since 1971, when 20 farms were still counted, the agricultural area has decreased from 249 ha to 115 ha (2007), which were managed by three farms.

Sevenig is on Landesstraße 1 from Leidenborn to Dasburg .

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (edit.): The art monuments of the Prüm district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / II ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 91 (222 p., With 12 plates and 227 ills. In the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

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

• Website of the local community Sevenig (Our)
• Local community Sevenig (Our) on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Arzfeld
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Sevenig (Our) 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 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 61 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ ^{A b c} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
4. ↑ District administration of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm: Administrative affiliation of the individual communities ( online PDF )
5. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 187 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections