Urschmitt

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Elms
Height :	390 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.61 km 2
Residents:	185 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	28 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56825
Area code :	02677
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 085
LOCODE :	DE R7G
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 ; 56766 Ulmen
Website :	www.urschmitt.de
Local Mayor :	Peter Jahnen
Location of the Urschmitt community in the Cochem-Zell district

Urschmitt is a municipality in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Ulmen community .

geography

Urschmitt is eight kilometers southwest of the city of Cochem and four kilometers northwest of the Moselle . The village extends over a comparatively flat area east of the Blinzberg hill ( 430 m above sea level ). Geographically , the municipality of leaves Gevenicher plateau in the Eastern Moseleifel assign, in the here the valleys and side valleys of to earth Bach and Ellerbachs cut. The eastern half of the municipality includes part of the Cochem State Forest . It reaches its lowest point on the ground at 165 m above sea level. NHN at the southern exit of the Erlenbach from the district. The Forsthaus Sommet residential area belongs to Urschmitt .

Urschmitt borders (clockwise) on the local communities of Weiler , Dohr , Ediger-Eller , Kliding and Lutzerath .

At the end of the 1960s, RWE planned the large Bremm pumped storage plant . Its six-kilometer-long Obersee in the immediately west of Erdenbachtal and the smaller Untersee in eastern Ellerbachtal would have markedly delimited the ridge with Urschmitt, Kliding and Beuren on both sides along state road 106.

history

Urschmitt is first mentioned in 980 - at that time still under the name Ursmadia . The rule of Kurtrier ended with the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794/96 by French revolutionary troops . In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Urschmitt and Kliding , which formed one municipality, were divided in 1848. Since 1946 the place has been part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

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

year	Residents
1815	~ 200
1835	251
1871	268
1905	274
1939	281
1950	255

year	Residents
1961	238
1970	297
1987	234
1997	297
2005	277
2019	185

Municipal council

The municipal council in Urschmitt 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.

Attractions

Urschmitt has few historical monuments, the church was built in 1910. The altar of the parish church of St. Quirinus , however, comes from the former Stuben monastery . Directly opposite the church is a traditional half-timbered house, as was common back then. Another half-timbered house is now in the Kommern open-air museum , it was dismantled stone by stone and rebuilt there.

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