Sirzenich

Sirzenich Local community Trierweiler Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 51 ″ N , 6 ° 35 ′ 43 ″ E
Height :	324 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1439 (May 1, 2016)
Incorporation :	March 20, 1971
Postal code :	54311
Area code :	0651
Location of Sirzenich in Rhineland-Palatinate
	St. John Evangelist

Sirzenich is a district of the local community Trierweiler in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate with about 1400 inhabitants.

location

The village is located in the southern Eifel near the border with Luxembourg , which is formed here by the Sauer . The place is elevated above the valley of the Sirzenicher Bach , a left tributary of the Moselle , at an altitude of about 350 m above sea level. NHN in the center and rises to 385 m above sea level. NHN on the Aacher Höhe . The Schützenhaus residential area and part of Neuhaus also belong to the Sirzenich district .

Trierweiler is about 2.5 kilometers (km, all distances are as the crow flies) to the west, Trier a good 3 km to the east and the city of Luxembourg 35 km to the southwest.

history

In 975 the place was first mentioned as "Sarceni". But there are indications (excavation finds) that the location was already settled by the Celts during the Iron Age and then by the Romans . The Roman road Trier – Cologne ran near the town. On March 20, 1971, a new municipality of Trierweiler was formed from the two independent municipalities of Sirzenich (with 680 inhabitants at the time (E.) and Trierweiler (508 E.). On March 16, 1974, the municipalities of Udelfangen (245 E. / Status 1974) and Fusenich with 94 E. were added in the form of a congregation .

traffic

Road: The next autobahns are federal autobahn 64 in the north with exit no. 3 "Trier" and federal autobahn 1 in the east. The federal highway 51 runs about one kilometer northeast. There are regular bus connections to Trier and the surrounding towns.
Rail: Trier Hauptbahnhof is the closest train station.
Air transport: The nearest airfields are the trier-föhren airport and the airport Bitburg ; international airports are Luxembourg Airport and Frankfurt-Hahn Airport .

economy

Industrial plant
Industrial plant

Agriculture hardly plays a role today. There are a few medium-sized craft and service companies in the village. In the Trierweiler-Sirzenich industrial area , conveniently located on the A 64 and B 51, a number of businesses have settled. There is only a rudimentary tourist infrastructure.

monument

Under monument protection is the Catholic branch church of St. John the Evangelist , whose choir dates back to the year 1436, while the hall building from 1681's.

Born in Sirzenich

Bernhard Schneider (* 1959), Catholic theologian and church historian

Web links

Internet presence of the local community of Trierweiler
To search for cultural assets in the Sirzenich district of the Trierweiler community in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

↑ Residents with main residence as of May 1, 2016, population statistics of the Trier-Land municipality
↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 122 f . (PDF; 3 MB).

↑ Sirzenich. Local community Trierweiler, accessed on December 2, 2018 .

↑ Trierweiler. Günter Hauenstein, accessed on December 2, 2018 (private website with information on sights and history in the Luxembourg / Nahe / Rhine / Eifel region).

^ Find [INV GO 4] Sirzenich: female bust made of silver. (No longer available online.) In: Fundtsückarchiv. Landesmuseum Trier, December 2009, archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 .

↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 198 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.
^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Trier-Saarburg. Mainz 2020, p. 71 (PDF; 6.5 MB).

[1] Residents with main residence as of May 1, 2016, population statistics of the Trier-Land municipality

[DE-RP_LANDIS-Karte-2] Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

[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. 122 f . (PDF; 3 MB).

[4] Sirzenich. Local community Trierweiler, accessed on December 2, 2018 .

[5] Trierweiler. Günter Hauenstein, accessed on December 2, 2018 (private website with information on sights and history in the Luxembourg / Nahe / Rhine / Eifel region).

[6] Find [INV GO 4] Sirzenich: female bust made of silver. (No longer available online.) In: Fundtsückarchiv. Landesmuseum Trier, December 2009, archived from the original on July 27, 2011 ; accessed on December 2, 2018 .

[7] Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 198 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.

[8] General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Trier-Saarburg. Mainz 2020, p. 71 (PDF; 6.5 MB).