Hamlet (near elms)

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	Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '  N , 7 ° 5'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Elms
Height :	388 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.32 km 2
Residents:	288 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56825
Area code :	02678
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 089
Association administration address:	Marktplatz 1 56766 Ulmen
Website :	www.weiler-vordereifel.de
Local Mayor :	Otto Schneider
Location of the local community Weiler in the district of Cochem-Zell

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

geography

Weiler is located in the Vordereifel at 390  m above sea level. NHN . Weiler is located 14 km west of Cochem on the Moselle and the Weilerbach, a tributary of the Ellerbach, a tributary of the Moselle , on a sloping mountain ridge.

history

Weiler is a foundation of the 7th / 8th Century. The first documentary mention comes from the year 1017. The place was probably given to Kurtrier in 1294 , but the high jurisdiction was disputed for centuries between the City Court of Cochem and the High Court of Lutzerath. The village was burned down during the Thirty Years War . With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops , the rule of Kurtrier ended. In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna . Weiler has been part of the then new state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 1946 .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 182 1835 240 1871 218 1905 256 1939 246 1950 253

year Residents 1961 249 1970 282 1987 286 1997 296 2005 321 2019 288

Municipal council

The local council in the hamlet 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.

Attractions

• Church with a Romanesque tower
• 300 year old linden tree ("Manna Esch")

Hamlet, St. Martin

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in hamlet
• List of natural monuments in hamlet

Personalities

• Bernhard Stein was Professor of Biblical Studies and Bishop of Trier from 1967–1980 . He was the eighth of eleven children of the village school teacher Nikolaus Stein and his wife Maria Eva Stein nee. Keßler born in Weiler. No members of the Stein family now live in Weiler.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Weiler bei Ulmen)  - Collection of images

• Local parish Weiler
• Local community hamlet on the website of the Ulmen community
• Literature about hamlets in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

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 - regional data
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections