Waves (mosel)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '  N , 6 ° 26'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Trier-Saarburg
Association municipality :	Conc
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.09 km 2
Residents:	810 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	262 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54441
Area code :	06584
License plate :	TR, SAB
Community key :	07 2 35 146
Association administration address:	Am Markt 11 54329 Conc
Website :	www.wellen-mosel.de
Local Mayor :	Hans Dostert
Location of the local community of Wellen in the district of Trier-Saarburg

Waves with mining equipment in the background

Border bridge over the Moselle between Grevenmacher and Wellen

Border bridge with bridgehead on the German side

St. Kunibert

Mining facilities of the dolomite mine

Wellen is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . She belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Konz .

geography

Wellen lies in the west of the Verbandsgemeinde Konz, on the Moselle opposite the Luxembourgish municipality Grevenmacher , with which it is connected by a bridge. The place is touched by B 419 and has a stop on the Upper Moselle route .

history

In 646, Wellen is said to have been mentioned for the first time with the Franconian word Vualeheim . The name later changed to Valem, Welem and finally Wellen. The name Wellen may have come from the personal name Wale of a Frankish settler who settled here with his clan. After 1150 the place belonged to Luxembourg , later to the Burgundian , Spanish and Austrian Netherlands .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the area until 1815 Wellen came to the Prussian province of the Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine (from 1822 Rhine province ) and there to the mayor's office Nittel . In 1878, Wellen received its own station on the Thionville – Trier line . In the Second World War wave was evacuated twice.

On July 18, 1946, Wellen, together with 80 other municipalities in the districts of Trier and Saarburg , was annexed to the Saar area , which was separated from the rest of the French occupation zone in February 1946 and which at that time was no longer under the Allied Control Council. On June 6, 1947 this territorial outsourcing was withdrawn to 21 municipalities again, so waves came to the 1946 newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 227 1835 256 1871 281 1905 380 1939 635

year Residents 1950 683 1961 830 1970 753 1987 675 2005 736

year Residents 2010 828 2015 802 2018 817

Municipal council

The local council in Wellen consists of twelve council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

Distribution of seats in the local council:

choice	SPD	CDU	WGR	total
2019	-	5	7th	12 seats
2014	2	4th	6th	12 seats
2009	4th	3	5	12 seats
2004	4th	4th	4th	12 seats
1999	6th	3	3	12 seats

economy

Limestone has been mined in Wellen since 1874. Since further processing on site was discontinued in 2003, the number of employees there has decreased considerably.

At the end of December 2011, the Supervisory Board of Porr AG announced its intention to acquire the Trier lime, dolomite and cement works. At an event, the company presented its plans to citizens, which, however, still require official approval.

societies

• Gymnastics and Games Association TKDZ Wellen 1910 e. V.
• Concordia waves music association
• Youth theater group Wellen
• Volunteer fire brigade waves
• Wellener Karnevals Club eV

Personalities

• Heinrich Haas (pilot) (1885–1910), German aviation pioneer

See also

• List of cultural monuments in waves

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Saarburg district . (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 15, III. Department). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939 (reprint from the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), pp. 279-280.

Web links

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

• Official website of the local community of Wellen
• To search for cultural assets of the local community of Wellen (Mosel) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
• Link catalog on waves at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ Christian Kremer: Is Stuttgart 21 coming underground in waves? In: Trierischer Volksfreund. December 19, 2011.
4. ^ Christian Kremer: Waste in the mine tunnel: information evening on Trier lime, dolomite and cement works. In: Trierischer Volksfreund. 17th January 2012.