Competitions

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '  N , 6 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	220 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.46 km 2
Residents:	31 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	9 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54646
Area code :	06527
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 133
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Karl-Heinz Wonner
Location of the local community Wettlingen in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Wettlingen is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land .

geography

Wettlingen is 10 km southwest of Bitburg near Bettingen an der Prüm . Of the 346 hectares of community area, 85 hectares are forest, 223 are used for agriculture (as of 2017).

history

Wettlingen is a community of Franconian origin. The remains of Franconian graves were found on the community mountain. The place is mentioned for the first time around 1200 in a list of foundations of the Trier cathedral chapter . The place had a mill, which was sold in 1329 by the Lord of Neuerburg to Johann de la Roche. The Agatha Chapel is first mentioned in 1570. After the Thirty Years War , four of the seven farms remained unmanaged.

Until the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Luxembourg rule Bettingen . From 1795 to 1814 Wettlingen belonged to the French department of forests before it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia on the basis of the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 . Under the Prussian administration, Wettlingen was assigned to the mayor's office of Bettingen in the Bitburg district, newly established in 1816, in the Trier administrative district , which from 1822 belonged to the Rhine province . In 1856 Wettlingen came to the mayor's office in Alsdorf , in 1914 to the mayor's office of Wolsfeld (from 1927 Wolsfeld office ), in 1970 to the Bitburg-Land community and in 2014 to the Bitburger Land community .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 76 1835 102 1871 127 1905 99 1939 82 1950 62 1961 67

year Residents 1970 77 1987 57 1997 53 2005 50 2011 52 2017 38

Municipal council

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

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Wettlingen
• List of natural monuments in Wettlingen

Web links

Commons : Wettlingen  - Collection of images

• Local municipality Wettlingen on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Wettlingen 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. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections