Udelfangen

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Udelfangen
Local community Trierweiler
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 35 ″  N , 6 ° 32 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 289  (240-360)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 307  (May 1, 2016)
Incorporation : March 16, 1974
Postal code : 54311
Area code : 0651
Udelfangen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Udelfangen

Location of Udelfangen in Rhineland-Palatinate

Udelfangen is a district of the local community Trierweiler in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate .

location

The village is located in the southern Eifel near the border with Luxembourg , which forms the Sauer here. It stretches from the valley of the "Udelfanger Bach" in a northerly direction up a hill and lies at a height of about 240 to 360 meters above sea ​​level .

The Katzenbach residential area also belongs to the Udelfangen district .

Trierweiler is located about 1.5 kilometers (km, all distances as the crow flies) south, Trier 7 km southeast and the city of Luxembourg 40 km southwest.

history

In 1030 "Odolvinga" was first mentioned in a document. On March 16, 1974, the until then independent community was incorporated into Trierweiler, as was Fusenich.

church

Infrastructure

traffic

  • Street

The next motorways are the A 64 in the south and the A 1 in the east. The federal highway 51 runs a few kilometers east through Hohensonne and the B 418 west in the valley of the Sauer. There are occasional bus connections to the surrounding towns.

  • rail

Trier Hauptbahnhof is the closest long-distance train station with IC / ICE connections.

  • Air traffic

The nearest airfields are the trier-föhren airport and the airport Bitburg ; international airports are Luxembourg Airport and Frankfurt-Hahn Airport .

Facilities

The primary school in the village was closed several years ago and the building was converted into a village hall.

economy

Since about the middle of the 19th century the quarrying of the Udelfanger sandstone , which from 1842 for further construction u. a. of the Cologne Cathedral was won on site, an important branch of the economy. Around 1870, around 250 workers were employed in the quarries . Today about half a dozen people are employed in the last remaining quarry. Agriculture also hardly plays a role with two full-time businesses and a few part-time farms.

There is a supraregional recording studio in the village as well as a few other craft and service companies. Except for a village restaurant, there is no tourist infrastructure.

Architectural monuments

Individual monuments

The following are under monument protection within the locality:

  • the Streckhof "Im Wiesengrund" 7, the residential part of which was built in 1841, while the economic part dates from 1871,
  • the Catholic branch church “St. Agritius ”in Lindenstrasse 9, a neo-Gothic hall building from 1885 by the architect Reinhold Wirtz from Trier, which was consecrated in 1886 and the associated churchyard with the cemetery cross from 1761 and
  • the transverse house "Lindenstrasse" 13, which essentially dates from the late 16th century and was expanded towards the end of the 19th century.
In the district
  • a partly sunken in the ground source version of a fountain from the 19th century west of the local situation at the intersection of County Road 7 (K 7) to the "Unter den Buchen"
  • the wayside cross to the west of the village at the intersection of the K 7 with the street "Unter den Buchen", a shaft cross from around 1870 as well
  • the wayside chapel west of Udelfangen above the gorge of the "Udelfanger Bach" on the K 7, a sandstone block building from 1887.

See also

Personalities who work or have worked on site

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Residents with main residence as of May 1, 2016, population statistics of the Trier-Land municipality
  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. 80 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
  3. First mention on the homepage of the Verbandsgemeinde. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  4. Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 180 (PDF; 2.8 MB).