Wissmannsdorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '  N , 6 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.72 km 2
Residents:	819 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	122 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54636
Area code :	06527
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 501
Community structure:	3 districts
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	bitburgerland.de
Local Mayor :	Rudolf Winter
Location of the local community Wißmannsdorf in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

St. Martin and Rosa West Side

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

geography

Wissmannsdorf is 240 to 430  m above sea level. NHN and the course of the Prüm river crosses the Eifel community.

The districts are Hermesdorf with the residential area Im Wäldchen , Koosbüsch with the residential area Pooshof (formerly the municipality of Brecht) and Wißmannsdorf with the residential areas Dalbachhof and Zur Weilersheck .

history

Laschkreuz in Lindenstrasse

An extensive grave field from the Latène period from the last century BC has been excavated on the Koos bush . Roman settlement remains in the Hermesdorf area and several Franconian grave finds in the Wißmannsdorf district are also known. The place Hermesdorf is mentioned for the first time in 1103 as "Herminesdorf". Wißmannsdorf appears for the first time as "Wissemestorf" in 1317 and as "Wysmesdorf" in 1325, while Koosbüsch represents a new settlement from 1832. Wißmannsdorf and Hermesdorf were part of the Luxembourg rule of Hamm ad Prüm until the French period . In 1816, Wißmannsdorf became the seat of a mayor's office, which in 1856 became the Baustert office , which subsequently moved its seat to Oberweis . In the mid-1950s, a more than 400-year-old tradition in the sandstone industry came to an end in Wißmannsdorf. In 1979, today's community Wißmannsdorf with the districts Hermesdorf and Koosbüsch was re-formed through a voluntary merger.

The community Wißmannsdorf was newly formed on June 10, 1979 from the communities Wissmannsdorf and Hermesdorf.

Statistics on population development

The development of the population of Wißmannsdorf in relation to today's municipal area: the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 179 1835 371 1871 511 1905 522 1939 657 1950 684 1961 686

year Residents 1970 743 1987 679 1997 807 2005 807 2011 804 2017 785

politics

The local council in Wißmannsdorf 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. The twelve seats in the municipal council are divided between four groups of voters .

The three local districts are represented by local councilors.

coat of arms

Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into three parts, as a symbol for the three Wißmannsdorf districts. For the patron of the parish church, St. Martin, the silver sword was included in the coat of arms, for the patron of the Hermesdorf chapel, the evangelist St. Lucas, the three red shields, while the oak leaf with acorn is the symbol for the Koosbüsch district and is open the name casnus goes back.

Partner communities

The partner municipality of Wißmannsdorf is Montaigut in France .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Catholic parish church of St. Martin and Rosa from 1784
• Rectory at Anton-Cordie-Platz 8 from 1767
• Church of St. Luke and Fides , Spes and Caritas from 1953 in Hermesdorf
• Church of St. Josef from 1960 in Koosbüsch
• A number of - some very old - crossroads are distributed over the municipality ; including the lashing cross from 1579.
• Several old farms and houses in the village

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wißmannsdorf

Green spaces and recreation

• Hiking routes in and around Wißmannsdorf

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair is celebrated on the Sunday after the commemoration day of Saint Rosa of Lima (23 August).
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)

Economy and Infrastructure

The place has an 18-hole golf course with a clubhouse, golf school and pro shop. A corner shop was able to survive to this day and there are several businesses, including full-time and part-time farms, small craft businesses and other employers. In terms of gastronomy, Wißmannsdorf has a hotel and a restaurant in the Wißmannsdorf district and three bars in the Koosbüsch district. The place has two lawn sports fields with changing buildings, two tennis courts, four public children's playgrounds, a well-developed network of hiking trails with benches and shelters, bowling alleys, fishing waters and a dance cafe.

Wißmannsdorf is the seat of a day-care center with three groups that is run by the church. The primary school is located in Rittersdorf (approx. 4 km). The schools in Bitburg, Biesdorf and Neuerburg are ideal for further school attendance.

In Wißmannsdorf there is a community hall that is used by the clubs and the village population for all kinds of festivities.

Personalities

• Antonius Cordie (1872–1946), pastor and local history researcher
• Martina Weber (* 1982), basketball player

literature

• Ernst Wackenroder (arr.): The art monuments of the Bitburg district (=  Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 12 / I ). Trier 1983, ISBN 3-88915-006-3 , p. 41, 305–306 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).
• Michael Berens: Parish church Wißmannsdorf St. Martin and St. Rosa, branch church Hermesdorf St. Lukas and Fides, Spes et Caritas, branch church Koosbüsch St. Joseph the worker . In: Geschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Bitburger Land (Hrsg.): The churches and chapels of the Bitburger Land . S. 95 ( online [PDF; accessed April 5, 2018]).

Web links

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

• Local community Wißmannsdorf on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Wißmannsdorf 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. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 110 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ contract v. J. 1325. Public. de Luxembourg 36, No. 131
4. ^ History of Wißmannsdorf. Retrieved April 3, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 182 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate: Regional data.
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
8. ^ Coat of arms of Wissmannsdorf
9. ↑ Hiking through Wissmannsdorf. Retrieved April 3, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Circular hiking trail from Wißmannsdorf through the Echtersbachtal. Retrieved April 3, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Fair in Wissmannsdorf. Retrieved April 3, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 .