Watzerath

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′  N , 6 ° 22 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Prüm
Height :	390 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.62 km 2
Residents:	443 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	96 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54595
Area code :	06551
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 320
Association administration address:	Tiergartenstrasse 54 54595 Prüm
Website :	www.pruem.de
Local Mayor :	Rainer Martin Kockelmann
Location of the local community Watzerath in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

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

geography

location

Watzerath is located in the North Eifel Nature Park . The Berghof residential area also belongs to the community .

climate

The annual precipitation is 927 mm. The rainfall is high. They are in the upper quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 80% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in April. The rainfall is distributed fairly evenly over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 33% of the measuring stations .

history

The place name on "-rath" suggests that the village was founded around 900–1000 AD. In 1445 the place was first mentioned in a document as "Watzenrode". With the construction and commissioning of the Gerolstein – St. Vith experienced a slight upswing in Watzerath. Around 1900 Watzerath received its own ticket office and later its own train station. Passenger traffic on the railway line was stopped in 1973. Today the place is largely agricultural.

Water supply

The beginnings of the Prüm district waterworks go back to 1927. Even if the name "Schneifel-Gruppewasserwerk" was used for the first larger project of a central group water supply in the Prüm district and the sponsorship was initially with the mayor's office at the time, Nederprüm-Pronsfeld, this planned group can easily be seen as the cornerstone of the district waterworks .

1927–1945: The first section ran from 1927 to 1944 and was under the direction of the then district architect Thur during construction, from around 1939 onwards. During these years Schlemmer was district administrator for the Prüm district. As can be seen from the old files, there was a lively correspondence about the planning and the efforts to finance and implement the measure. The following is a transcript of the meeting from February 2, 1927:

“On February 2, 1927, the community representatives of the communities of Niedermehlen, Steinmehlen, Weinsfeld, Watzerath, Pittenbach, Pronsfeld, Lünebach and Strickscheid met in Watzerath to discuss a lecture by the mayor Mangold from Prüm and Dipl.-Ing. Endris from Gerolstein to discuss the construction of a group waterworks on the basis of the preliminary draft also available to the government. In principle, they were ready to carry out the intended measure with a total expenditure of around 260,000 RM if the German Empire, the Prussian State and the Rhine Province granted the municipalities sufficient funds to secure the financing. "( Geschichtsverein Prüm )

coat of arms

	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms of the local community already existed in 1465 and shows two silver fish on a blue background, this is supposed to symbolize the proximity of the river Prüm.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 109 1835 165 1871 190 1905 230 1939 261 1950 242 1961 283

year Residents 1970 299 1987 317 1997 382 2005 426 2011 402 2017 413 2019 443

Municipal council

The municipal council in Watzerath 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.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Chapel with early fair building

• Late Gothic chapel with an attached early fair building
• The Lutzmühle (Weinsfelder Mühle) above the town on Mönbach was in operation until 1968.
• Late baroque wayside cross from 1757 (opposite Dorfstrasse 14)

See also: List of cultural monuments in Watzerath

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair .
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Castle burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• Children's Carnival (Sunday before Shrovetide)
• Cap meeting (Friday after Fat Thursday)
• Sports festival of the DJK (1st weekend in July)
• Skat tournament (Christmas Day)

traffic

Watzerath is connected to the following bus routes:

line	Line course
407	Prüm - Ettelbruck
412	Prüm– Waxweiler
413	Prüm– Neuerburg
418	( Sevenig -) Steinebrück –Prüm
419	Affler –Prüm

There are buses of the Rhein-Mosel-Bus .

The Watzerath stop was on the Gerolstein – St. Vith . Passenger traffic between Prüm and Pronsfeld ceased on May 28, 1972. The Gerolstein – Pronsfeld section was shut down in accordance with Section 11 AEG on June 11, 2001.

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (edit.): The art monuments of the Prüm district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / II ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 134 (222 p., With 9 plates and 185 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

Commons : Watzerath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the local community Watzerath
• Local community Watzerath on the VG Prüm website
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Watzerath in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Short portrait of Watzerath ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at Hierzuland , SWR television

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2020. S. 99 (PDF; 1 MB).
3. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms. Watzerath community, accessed on October 12, 2016 . 
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: My village, my city. Retrieved August 10, 2020 . 
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections.
6. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .