Utscheid

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '  N , 6 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	South Eifel
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.75 km 2
Residents:	421 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54675
Primaries :	06564, 06527, 06522
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 102
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Pestalozzistraße 7 54673 Neuerburg
Website :	suedeifelinfo.de
Local Mayor :	Johann Reuter
Location of the local community Utscheid in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Utscheid, historical view

Utscheid, today

Utscheid is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of southern Eifel .

geography

Utscheid is located in the South Eifel nature park . Worth mentioning is the Michelbach flowing through the village , which flows into the Radenbach near Niederraden .

In addition to the main town, the districts Buscht, Glashütte, Hamerskaul, Neuhaus and Rußdorf belong to the municipality.

Neighboring places

Fischbach-Oberraden		Weidingen
		Hütterscheid
Niederraden and Sinspelt	Brimingen	Baustert

history

The area around Utscheid was evidenced by finds already settled in Roman and Celtic times.

In 1962, a grave field from the younger Bronze Age (1200 - 700 BC) was discovered in a clay pit in Utscheid. Several vessels contained the ashes of the dead. The rich decoration of the pottery is based on a few simple elements: line, point and wedge. The finds were exhibited to the public and can be viewed in the Bitburg-Prüm District Museum .

The place Utscheid was first mentioned in 1330 under the name Oizscheit or Oytscheit in a tax list. He belonged to the lordship of Neuerburg . In the course of the Thirty Years War, the place fell into desolation . Visitation files from 1712 reported on the state of construction of the church, which was replaced by a new building in 1746. Only the basement of the tower building remained of the old church. A glassworks has operated here since the 1770s. This was bought by Johann Dominik Laeis in 1796 in order to then close it.

Until the end of the 18th century, Utscheid belonged to the rulership of Neuerburg in the Duchy of Luxembourg and was assigned to the Weidingen dairy .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the Austrian Netherlands , to which the Duchy of Luxembourg belonged, and annexed it in October 1795 . From 1795 to 1814 the place belonged to the canton Neuerburg in the forest department . Utscheid was the seat of a Mairie .

In 1815, the former Luxembourg area east of the Sauer and Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Thus the Utscheid came Weidingen 1816 Bitburg in Trier in the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine , which in 1822 Rheinprovinz opened. Utscheid became the official seat of the mayor's office of the same name . The municipalities of Brimingen , Burg , Fischbach , Niederraden , Oberraden and Sinspelt belonged to the mayor's office .

After the First World War , the area belonged to the French part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland . After the Second World War , Utscheid became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone .

On March 1, 1971 Outscheid was renamed Utscheid.

Population development

Population development Utscheid

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

year Residents 1815 124 1835 335 1871 445 1905 472 1939 545 1950 520 1961 487

year Residents 1970 510 1987 486 1997 515 2005 498 2011 459 2017 434 2018 428

politics

Municipal council

The ceramic finds from the Utscheid clay pit are in the Bitburg-Prüm District Museum

The municipal council in Utscheid consists of eight council members who were elected by a majority vote in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman. Until 2009 the council had twelve council members.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Shield by ascending, curved, lowered point, in it a silver shield in blue with a black sloping bar, split; in front in silver a red tower with a black spire, behind in red a vertical golden key. "

Justification of the coat of arms: The Apostle Peter is the patron of the church and parish in Utscheid. St. Peter is represented with the key on the back of the coat of arms. The old water tower in the coat of arms in front is a landmark of the Utscheid community. The Utscheid area used to belong to the Neuerburg rulership, which is symbolized by the small coat of arms of Friedrich von Neuerburg in the lower tip of the coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Sights in Utscheid

Buildings

• The church of St. Peter from 1746, with a tower partly preserved from the Middle Ages, has extensive baroque furnishings
• Catholic rectory from 1767
• The 16 meter high circular water tower dating from 1956 - and 1993 by Oswald Mathias Ungers rebuilt ⊙
• Two-sided farmstead with a stately home from 1800
• Tines cross from 1756 ⊙
• Residential and holiday home Villa Glashütte with a gable roof, built by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1986-88, on the edge of the municipality, south of the towns of Buscht and Russdorf, in a forest valley on the Läschbach on the site of the former glassworks ⊙
• Parish hall - a conversion of the residential and warehouse of the former regional product retailer Weber by Oswald Mathias Ungers

See also: List of cultural monuments in Utscheid

Green spaces and recreation

• "Tongrube bei Utscheid" nature reserve ⊙
• Hiking routes z. B. Michelbachtal, Glashütte or Fischbach
• Premium hiking trails in the Südeifel Nature Park
• Glider airfield Utscheid

See also: List of nature reserves in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Regular events

• The annual fair or parish fair is celebrated on the Sunday after June 29th (Peter and Paul).
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Retail and craft are part of a small, village-friendly economic structure. Your representatives are two car dealers and a seamstress. An engineering office, a support office, an insurance agency and a heating technician also offer their services.

In addition to guesthouses and a holiday home, a campsite offers other accommodation options.

In 2011 the solar power plant Utscheid-Neuhaus (Eifel) of the Oslo company Scatec Solar was built. The 47,000 m² facility on the conversion area of ​​the old one ("Ziegelei Neuhaus" ⊙ ) generates an annual production of 2.3 million kilowatt hours and can supply around 600 households with electricity. The investment volume was € 5 million.

See also: List of power plants in Germany

media

On December 31, 2012, Utscheid was the municipality with the highest per capita debt in Rhineland-Palatinate, with a debt of € 12,200 per inhabitant.

On December 31, 2017, the per capita debt was € 9,231.

education

Schools within a 15 km radius are: Hildegardis all-day school in Mettendorf, elementary and secondary school plus in Neuerburg, grammar school in Biesdorf, grammar school in Neuerburg, advanced grammar school in Neuerburg, college at grammar school in Neuerburg, adult education center in South Eifel in Neuerburg.

traffic

The community is accessed through the state road 8 and the federal road 50 .

Personalities

• Johann Peter Steffes (1883–1955), chair of the philosophy and history of religion 1927–1952 at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster
• Oswald Mathias Ungers (1926–2007), German architect and architectural theorist
• Herbert Fandel (* 1964), former Bundesliga and FIFA referee

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  Utscheid, aerial photo (2017)

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  Water tower bushes

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  Two-sided homestead Schulstrasse 1

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  Utscheid solar park

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  Utscheid glassworks

literature

• Wackenroder, Ernst : Rhine Province. - The art monuments of the Rhine Province. The art monuments of the Bitburg district. Vol. 12 / I. Düsseldorf 1927. 4to. X, 315 p. With 12 plates u. 227 fig. In the text. Page 232. ISBN 978-3-88915-006-6 .
• Parish Utscheid 1330–1980. Festschrift / Ed. On the occasion of d. Consecration d. Parish church ud organ consecration, verb. with d. 650 years Parish anniversary on 08/24/1980. Besides. Ax. Bitburg. Burbach 1980.
• Utscheid rectory extensively renovated and expanded. In: Paulinus. Vol. 115. Trier 1989. No. 6. p. 30.
• Adolf Valentin, Johanna Roder, Egon Kirchen: 3 small chapels in our home. In: Historical working group of the parish of Baustert, Eifel (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch ous der Bouster Poar. Baustert May 2014, pp. 117–121.
• Adolf Valentin: The glassworks near Utscheid through the ages. In: Home calendar for the Bitburg-Prüm district. 1980, pp. 100-102.
• Johannes Nosbüsch (1929): "Watt mol wor": the way to school. In: Local calendar of the Bitburg-Prüm district. 2007, pp. 117-125.
• Martin Kieren: A meadow, a house: an attempt to survive with the form: Oswald Mathias Ungers' house in the Eifel. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung. 129, June 1995, pp. 84-91.
• Lothar Monshausen: A baroque cross in Utscheid-Buscht. In: home calendar Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm. 65. 2016, pp. 129-130.
• Thomas Wieckhorst: Modesty and restraint: conversion of a small water tower in Utscheid for residential purposes. In: Building fabric. February 12, 1996, pp. 26-28.
• Agnes Colling: cultural monument saved from deterioration. In: Ous der Heemicht. No. 8, July 1997, pp. 15-16.
• Rudolfine Schröter: Barrows from Outscheid, Krs. Bitburg. In: Trier magazine for the history and art of the Trier region and its neighboring areas. 30. 1967, pp. 62-69.
• Karl Becker (arrangement and gesture): Festschrift for the consecration of the secondary school Mettendorf [Krs. Bitburg] . Ed .: School Association Mettendorf. Merzig October 25, 1968 (60 pages, with contributions to the history of the school system, among others in Outscheid).

Web links

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

• Location portrait Utscheid ( Memento from August 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Tourism website Utscheid
• Future Check Utscheid 2014
• About Utscheid
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Utscheid in the database of cultural goods 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 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 100 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ D. Krausse: Iron Age cultural change and Romanization in the Mosel-Eifel area (=  Roman-Germanic research . Volume 63 ). Mainz, Frankfurt a. M., Esslingen 2006, p. 130 ( online ( memento from June 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]).
4. ^ Taxa generalis subsidiorum cleri Trevirensis. Retrieved November 29, 2017 . 
5. ^ Entry on the former glassworks in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 11, 2016.
6. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 187 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
7. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
8. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
9. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. (PDF) Retrieved July 5, 2016 . 
10. ↑ entry to the water tower (Buscht, community Utscheid) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on April 13, 2016.
11. ↑ Utscheid water tower. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
12. ↑ The water tower in Utscheid. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
13. ^ Entry on two-sided homestead in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved April 7, 2016.
14. ^ Entry on the former glassworks (Rußdorf, Utscheid municipality) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on April 13, 2016.
15. ^ Oswald Mathias Ungers - House Belvederestrasse 60, Cologne-Müngersdorf. (PDF) Edition Axel Menges , accessed on April 13, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Public infrastructure buildings: parish hall of the local community 54675 Utscheid (1998). In: Baukultur Eifel. Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, accessed on April 13, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Delux Utscheid gorge path. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
18. ^ Hiking route Baustert-Niederweidingen-Fischbach-Utscheid in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Utscheid hiking trail. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Utscheid solar power plant. Scatec Solar, accessed April 30, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Debt of German municipalities: huge differences. ( Memento from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft , August 1, 2014, accessed on August 19, 2014.
24. ↑ Integrated debts of municipalities and municipal associations 2017. (XLSX)
25. ^ Gregor Brand: Johann Peter Steffes: Religious scholar and theologian from Utscheid. In: Eifel newspaper. February 17, 2016, accessed March 25, 2016 . 
26. ^ Eduard Hegel: History of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of Münster 1773–1964 (=  Münster contributions to theology . Volume 30.2 ). Münster 1971, p. 90-93 ( online ).