Wallenborn

This article deals with a German local church. For further meanings see Wallenborn (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 9 '  N , 6 ° 43'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Down
Height :	425 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.23 km 2
Residents:	416 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54570
Area code :	06599
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 079
Association administration address:	Leopoldstrasse 29 54550 Daun
Website :	www.wallenborn-eifel.de
Local Mayor :	Günther Mehles
Location of the local community of Wallenborn in the Vulkaneifel district

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Cold water geyser Wallender Born

Wallenborn is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . She belongs to the community of Daun .

geography

The place is in the Vulkaneifel approx. 10 km as the crow flies or 12 km by road southwest of Daun on the federal highway 257 .

history

The first mention of the place under the name "Wall Burne" found one a document dated 20 July 1225 in Gerhard von Blankenheim the Abbey Himmerod a piece donated piece affirms land.

Until the end of the 18th century, Wallenborn was an enclave in the Electorate of Manderscheid , but it was part of the imperial knighthood and belonged jointly to the Duke of Aremberg and Baron von Zandt.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 223 1835 293 1871 315 1905 375 1939 427 1950 434

year Residents 1961 447 1970 456 1987 491 2005 484 2011 428 2017 429

politics

Municipal council

The council in Wallenborn consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a shield head, which is divided with nine arcs of blue and silver rising towards the center, a silver arrow turned downwards in red, in front accompanied by a golden medlar with blue tufts, behind by a golden, crowned lion head."

Justification of the coat of arms: The nine arches rising towards the middle are supposed to symbolize the Wallenden Born , which gave the place its name. The silver arrow stands for the patron saint, St. Sebastian . Medlar and a crowned lion's head are reminiscent of two lords of Wallenborn: the Zandt von Merl , who had three crowned lions in their coat of arms, and the lord of Arenberg with three medlars in their coat of arms.

Culture and sights

See also : List of cultural monuments in Wallenborn

Cultural monuments

In Wallenborn there are some listed cultural monuments:

• Catholic branch church St. Sebastian: a hall from 1814, extended in 1951; In the churchyard there is a sandstone cross from 1684
• Way cross : made of red sandstone from the first half of the 17th century, it is a shaft cross of the so-called Kyllburg type, it can be found in the main street
• Crossroads with the year 162 [0]: in Weidenbacher Straße
• Wayside shrine: a wayside shrine with a stone relief of the fourteen helpers from 1812 is located in Weidenbacher Straße

Natural monuments

• Wallender Born : The main attraction of the village is a mofette called "Wallender Born", also popularly known as Brubbel , which has beendrilledinto an active cold water geyser . It erupts about every 30 minutes and can reach a height of 4 m.

traffic

• Road: Bundesstraße 257 runs past Wallenborn .
• Bus / train: Wallenborn is part of the Trier region . The bus line 523 of the Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft offers some connections to the Gerolstein train station on the Eifel line from Cologne - Trier , as well as a daily connection to the city of Daun .

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the local community Wallenborn
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Wallenborn in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Gerhard Becker: Wallenborn - almost 800 years of village history. 1988 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Heinrich Beyer , Leopold Eltester , Adam Goerz: Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories: From the years 1212 to 1260 , Volume 3, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1874, p. 208 ( online )
3. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Georg Bärsch : Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel , Volume 3, Edition 2, Part 1, Mayer, 1854, p. 53 ( online )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ^ ^{A b} Friedbert Wißkirchen: New community coat of arms in the Daun district. In: Heimatjahrbuch 1990. Landkreis Vulkaneifel, accessed on April 6, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Zandt von Merl
8. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Vulkaneifel district. Mainz 2020, p. 56 (PDF; 4.6 MB).
9. ^ H. Wolfgang Wagner, Friederike Kremb-Wagner, Martin Koziol, Jörg FW Negendank: Trier and surroundings . Ed .: Peter Rothe (=  collection of geological guides . Volume 60 ). 3. Edition. Gebr. Bornträger Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-443-15094-5 , p. 255-256 .