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	Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′  N , 6 ° 58 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Vulkaneifel
Association municipality :	Kelberg
Height :	505 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.18 km 2
Residents:	126 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	53539
Area code :	02692
License plate :	DAU
Community key :	07 2 33 244
Association administration address:	Dauner Strasse 22 53539 Kelberg
Website :	www.vgv-kelberg.de
Local Mayor :	Winfried Rech
Location of the local community Welcherath in the Vulkaneifel district

Welcherath is a municipality in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the association community Kelberg .

Welcherath, aerial photo (2016)

Welcherath, church, aerial photo (2016)

geography

It is situated in the northwest of the nature park Eifel and partly in the conservation area "Kelberg". The Bränkekopf ( 622.5  m above sea  level ) is located in the northwest of the district .

history

Welcherath was first mentioned under the name "Uuerikenroth" in a possibly forged document from the Archbishop of Trier Ruotbert from the year 943. At the request of a certain Ratherus consecrated the archbishop, the Church Welcherath and imputed it as a branch of the Church to Nachtsheim . The church at Welcherath became an independent parish church before 1660.

In a list of the properties of the Laach Abbey from 1139, two farms are mentioned in Welcherath ( Werchenrede ) .

A school is already mentioned during a visit in 1785.

Until the end of the 18th century, Welcherath belonged to the archbishopric of Cologne ( Nürburg ), but the church belonged to the Archdiocese of Trier .

In the so-called French period , Welcherath belonged to the canton of Adenau in the Rhine-Moselle department from 1798 to 1814 . After the Congress of Vienna , the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815. Under the Prussian administration, Welcherath was assigned to the Kelberg mayor in the newly formed district of Adenau in the administrative district of Koblenz , which belonged to the Rhine province from 1822 on .

Welcherath always remained administratively with Kelberg . The mayor's office in Kelberg was renamed “Amt Kelberg” in 1927, like all the mayor's offices in the Rhine Province. After the dissolution of the Adenau district in 1932, Welcherath and the Kelberg district became part of the Mayen district , which remained until 1970.

In the course of the municipal reorganization of Rhineland-Palatinate and the reorganization of the association municipality Kelberg, the municipality Welcherath came on November 7, 1970 from the district Mayen, which was dissolved at the same time, to the district Daun (today district Vulkaneifel).

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 159 1835 140 1871 87 1905 91 1939 130

year Residents 1950 146 1961 141 1970 146 1987 128 2005 133

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver, two people (male and female) holding hands in red robes with gold trim and gold nimbus ." It was approved in 1951.
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms goes back to a court seal from 1691 and represents the holy martyr couple Chrysanthus and Daria ; they are the local patrons of Welcherath.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Welcherath
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  St. Chrysantius and Daria

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  inner space

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  Ceiling painting

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  Church interior westward

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  Organ gallery

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  Mayer organ (1981)

Web links

Commons : Welcherath  - collection of images

• Website Ortgemeinde Welcherath
• Local community Welcherath on the pages of the association community Kelberg
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Welcherath in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, document 178
3. ^ ^{A b} Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier , Trier: 1887; P. 137 Parish Welcherath
4. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch , Volume I, Coblenz: Hölscher, 1860, certificate 506
5. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, p. 5 ( online edition at dilibri )
6. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 156 (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. ^ Friedbert Wißkirchen: New municipal coat of arms in the Daun district. In: Heimatjahrbuch. District Daun, 1989, p. 142 , accessed on July 31, 2018 .