Speicher (Eifel)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Storage
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Area :	15.36 km 2
Residents:	3558 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	232 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54662
Area code :	06562
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 123
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 36 ; 54662 Speicher
Website :	www.vg-speicher.de
City Mayor :	Erhard Hirschberg ( CDU )
Location of the city of Speicher in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Speicher is a town near the Kyll in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate and the administrative seat of the association of the same name . According to state planning, the storage facility is designated as a basic center.

geography

Speicher is located in the natural and cultural landscape of the southern Eifel not far from Bitburg . The city is located 20 kilometers north of Trier and 19 kilometers west of the district town of Wittlich (both as the crow flies ).

Speicher also includes the residential areas at Speicher, Bermeshausen, Commeshof, Laymühle, Schalfelderhof and Speicherermühle.

history

Speicher 834 is mentioned for the first time in a document as madabodi spicarium (spicarium from Latin spica = ear of corn), 1136 the name Spichera appears in a document. Ancient finds in the Speicherer Wald, which are of Roman origin, however, suggest that Speicher is even older. Speicher had been under Luxembourg sovereignty since 1354 and was part of the rulership of Bruch . In 1815 Speicher was added to the Kingdom of Prussia .

The Romans are responsible for the development of a pottery industry that flourished towards the end of the first and the beginning of the second century AD, and which has survived as a domestic industry to the present day. Numerous ovens and pottery finds unearthed in the Speicherer Forest bear witness to the extensive production of pottery and bricks up to the 5th century. From the early 14th century, Speicher pottery masters began producing Speicher stoneware that has been produced up to the modern era. The pottery was offered for sale by merchants in the traveling trade all over Germany and beyond in neighboring countries.

The municipality of Speicher was elevated to a town on May 8, 2011.

Population development

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

Population memory

year	Residents
1815	1,331
1835	1,946
1871	2,160
1905	2,034
1939	2.140
1950	2,420

year	Residents
1961	2,785
1970	3,060
1987	2,687
1997	2,978
2005	3.131
2019	3,558

religion

Historically, Speicher, like almost all of the Eifel, has been Catholic; 76.8% of the residents are Catholic, 9.9% Protestant, the remaining 13.3% other or without religion. For many centuries the city was part of the Archbishopric and Electorate of Trier , an important spiritual territory in the Holy Roman Empire , whose archbishop was traditionally one of the seven electors . In particular because of the empire's claim to holiness, it was unacceptable that individual regions should turn away from the old Roman church. Renewal movements such as the Reformation were never able to gain a foothold in the Trier region and thus also within Speicher. Central church of the parish St. Philippus u. Jakobus ( Diocese of Trier ) is the parish church of the same name , built in 1896 in neo-Gothic style , which with its high tower still dominates the townscape today. Nevertheless, there is also a church of the Protestant parish of Bitburg in Speicher.

politics

City council

The city council in Speicher consists of 20 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary city mayor as chairman. The designation city council, previously municipal council, was based on the city elevation in 2011.

The distribution of seats in the city council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FDP	total
2019	7th	10	3	20 seats
2014	8th	9	3	20 seats
2009	6th	11	3	20 seats
2004	5	12	3	20 seats

coat of arms

Blazon : “In black a curled red tip, inside a growing golden ear; in front a golden jug, behind a golden potter's wheel. "

Justification of the coat of arms: With the symbols of the jug and potter's wheel, the municipal coat of arms indicates the extraordinary importance of the ceramics industry in the Speicher area, which dates back to Roman times. Pottery manufacturing flourished again in the 14th century. Around 1485 a brotherhood of jug bakers was founded. The ear is an indication of the original form of the place name "Spicarium" which goes back to (Latin) spica = the ear.

Culture and sights

In Speicher there are a number of listed cultural monuments.

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View towards the Kylltal

Buildings

Speicherer train station

The Catholic parish church of St. Philip and St. James , a neo-Gothic three-aisled hall church with a monumental entrance hall; Planned in 1895 by the Trier diocesan master builder Reinhold Wirtz .
The cemetery with a cemetery cross from 1848; Several wayside crosses near the cemetery (crosses, niche crosses), some in the 16th century.
The Kreuzkapelle, a plastered building with a turret from 1777; a crucifixion group in the south wall .
The former town hall, a broad hipped roof building in reform architecture ; erected around 1920/30 (Jacobsstrasse).
The Bahnhofstrasse and Jacobsstrasse monument zone, four villa-like houses with mansard roofs and the former town hall; Erected between 1920 and 1930.
The Maarstraße monument zone, a characteristic section for the development on the outskirts of the village; built in the middle of the 19th century.

District

The memorial zone at Speicher station, the station on the Eifelbahn and the station keeper's house at the Kyll Bridge at the north portal of the Loskyller Tunnel; around 1871.
The storage mill, a four-storey oil mill building from the middle of the 19th century, the core probably from the 16th or 17th century, main building from 1752, chapel 1700 (in the Kylltal west of Speicher).
The Laymühle, a side -by-side house , elaborate water management systems from the early 19th century.
The Commeshof, courtyard from 1845 with a three-axle former residential house from 1860 and a chapel from 1858 (in a side valley of the Kallenbach).
The picture chapel, a plastered building with a neo-Gothic entrance from 1877 (in the forest east of the village).
Several crossroads, 16th and 18th centuries.

language

Speicherer motto: Wat me geen, dat geema gär, äwa ma geen neist. (What we give, we like to give, but we don't give anything)

The native language of the Speicherer is Moselle Franconian in its locally colored way. There are small but subtle differences to the Moselle Franconian of the neighboring communities. The typical example of this is the "real" for the number eight, which is translated by the neighboring communities as "aacht". For example, while one goes “oabichten” (work) in Herforst, the storers go “create”.

Just as the Luxembourgish Moselle Franconian is peppered with a multitude of French terms, the Speicherer is interspersed with Yenish expressions, which can be traced back to the tradition of the outpatient traders. Example: Den Houtz miaz. (The man doesn't understand.)

traffic

Non-electrified Eifel route Cologne-Trier

The station memory is located on the Eifel circuit (KBS 474). It is served by the following trains in local rail passenger transport (as of 2018):

line	designation	Line course	Clock frequency
RB 22	Eifel Express	Cologne Fair / Deutz - Cologne - Euskirchen - Jünkerath - Gerolstein - Bitburg-Erdorf - Speicher - Ehrang - Trier (Cologne Fair / Deutz - Gerolstein asRE 22)	60 min (in the HVZ amplifier Gerolstein – Trier)

Local rail passenger transport is carried out by DB Regio NRW . Vehicles from the 620 and 622 series are used here. The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT) applies .

Personalities

Born in memory

Jakob Husch (1875–1950), politician (center, CDU), member of the Hessian state parliament
Simon Salomon (1873–1943), publisher, murdered in Theresienstadt concentration camp, pseudonym: Siegbert Salter
Jean Winterich (1886–1931), member of the state parliament KPD (1924–1931) and member of the central committee of the KPD (1927–1931)
Johann Jacobs (1903–1988), SPD member of the state parliament, mayor of Speicher 1956–1964
Philipp W. Fabry (* 1927), philologist and historian
Peter Leo Reichertz (1930–1987), doctor and medical IT specialist
Gerd Billen (* 1955), nutritionist
Joscha Remus (* 1958), writer

Connected to storage

Reinhold Wirtz (1842–1898), architect, local district and diocesan master builder for the Diocese of Trier
Hanns-Ferdinand Müller (* 1965), manager and entrepreneur, grew up in Speicher

literature

Ernst Wackenroder (arr.): The art monuments of the Bitburg district (= Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / I ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 268–269 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).
Norbert Endres: Zwing Zwu Zwai - Speicherer dialect. Eifelverein, Speicher 1998, ISBN 3-921805-13-9 .
Hans Hermann Reck (arrangement): Bitburg-Prüm district. Verbandsgemeinden Kyllburg and Speicher (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1991, ISBN 3-88462-081-9 .