Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Area :	397.54 km 2
Residents:	30,497 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	77 inhabitants per km 2
License plate :	WIL, BKS
Association key :	07 2 31 5008
Association structure:	45 parishes
Association administration address ; :	Kurfürstenstrasse 1 ; 54516 Wittlich
Website :	www.vg-wittlich-land.de
Mayor :	Dennis Junk ( CDU )
Location of the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich

Town hall, seat of the administration of the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land

The Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land is an administrative unit in the legal form of a regional authority in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Verbandsgemeinde includes the city of Manderscheid and 44 independent local communities , the administrative seat is in the city of Wittlich , which does not belong to the Verbandsgemeinde. 30,497 inhabitants live in the administrative area.

The new Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land was created on July 1, 2014 through the incorporation of the communities that had previously belonged to the Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid into the previous Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land .

Association members communities

Local parish, city	Area (km²)	Residents
Altrich	16.25	1,709
Arenrath	6.77	394
Mountain hamlet	13.22	865
Bettenfeld	17.27	683
Binsfeld	9.96	1,234
fracture	8.63	480
Dierfeld	1.54	10
Dierscheid	2.42	180
Dodenburg	3.84	102
Three	11.26	1,402
Corner field	12.75	349
Eisenschmitt	10.84	301
Esch	2.29	409
Gipperath	4.87	229
Gladbach	3.60	362
Greimerath	3.75	237
Großlittgen	13.20	960
Hasborn	6.18	617
Heckenmünster	4.88	137
Heidweiler	10.29	162
Hetzerath	13.87	2,356
Hupperath	4.11	602
Karl	10.38	203
Klausen	9.22	1,396
Landscheid	30.20	2.152
Laufeld	6.10	524
Manderscheid , city	10.06	1,402
Meerfeld	13.22	347
Minority	8.19	691
Musweiler	3.05	56
Niederöfflingen	8.17	429
Niederscheidweiler	7.83	262
Niersbach	12.82	699
Oberöfflingen	7.44	271
Oberscheidweiler	4.50	180
Osann-Monzel	16.58	1,721
Pantenburg	4.98	238
plates	6.63	871
Plein	7.22	616
Rivenich	7.78	720
Salmtal	14.09	2,433
Schladt	4.96	137
Schwarzenborn	5.13	56
Sehlem	11.25	973
Wallscheid	5.95	340
Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land	397.54	30,497

(Residents on December 31, 2019)

history

The Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land and the previous Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid were established in 1968 as part of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate from several offices from the Prussian period .

On September 28, 2010 the state government passed the “First Law on Local and Administrative Reform” with the aim of improving the efficiency, competitiveness and administrative power of local structures. With regard to the association communities, it was determined that they should include at least 12,000 inhabitants (main residence on June 30, 2009). The Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid had 7,943 inhabitants on the reference date. During the so-called voluntary phase, which was limited to June 30, 2012, a voluntary amalgamation of the Verbandsgemeinde Manderscheid with a neighboring regional authority did not come about.

On December 20, 2013, a state law decreed that the Manderscheid community was incorporated into the Wittlich-Land community on July 1, 2014.

Both municipalities had submitted a norm review complaint to the Rhineland-Palatinate Constitutional Court in Koblenz . On January 11, 2016, the lawsuits were rejected by the Constitutional Court.

Population development

The development of the number of inhabitants in relation to today's area of the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year	Residents
1815	13,059
1835	18,618
1871	20,117
1905	21,164
1939	22,952
1950	24,531

year	Residents
1961	24,904
1970	26,968
1987	26,743
1997	29,427
2005	29,700
2017	30,162

Population development of the VG Wittlich-Land from 1815 to 2017

politics

Association municipal council

The Verbandsgemeinderat Wittlich-Land consists of 40 voluntary council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the full-time mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	GREEN	FDP	ÖDP	FWG	AfD	total
2019	6th	17th	6th	2	-	8th	1	40 seats
2014	6th	17th	2	2	1	8th	-	36 seats
2009	8th	16	-	4th	-	8th	-	36 seats
2004	8th	18th	-	2	-	8th	-	36 seats
1999	10	20th	-	-	-	6th	-	36 seats

FWG = FWG Wittlich-Land e. V.

mayor

Full-time mayor until 2014 was Christoph Holkenbrink, CDU. Dennis Junk (CDU) was directly elected mayor of the new community on June 8, 2014 in a run-off election with 55.44% . His eight-year term began on July 1, 2014.

coat of arms

The description of the coat of arms is as follows: Square, 1: in silver a red cross, covered with a silver lily, 2: in red, two golden, intertwined rings one on top of the other, 3: in red, silver, six-spoke wheel, 4: in gold, red zigzag bar, shield border 14-fold black - set in silver.

Coats of arms:

The red cross in a silver field indicates that it belongs to the former Electorate of Trier . The silver lily, symbol of the Mother of God, placed on the Balkenkreuz refers to the veneration of Mary in the pilgrimage site of Klausen .
The two rings from the coat of arms of Himmerod Abbey say that little things grow through harmony.
The six-spoke wagon wheel refers to the outpatient trade in the Binsfeld / Landscheid area.
The red zigzag bar in the golden field symbolizes the County of Manderscheid .
The 14-fold black and silver shield border explains that the Trier district belongs to the former Free State of Prussia .

The Verbandsgemeinderat Wittlich-Land decided on September 22, 2016 to introduce a new coat of arms for the Verbandsgemeinde. The draft was approved by the Bernkastel-Wittlich district administration with a certificate dated November 8, 2016.