Willerscheid

Willerscheid City of Bad Münstereifel Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 52 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	439 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	152  (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	53902
Area code :	02257
Location of Willerscheid in Bad Münstereifel
Willerscheid, aerial photo (2015)

Willerscheid is a district of Bad Münstereifel in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the village community and formerly independent municipality of Mutscheid .

location

The place is southeast of the core city of Bad Münstereifel. State road 165 runs south of the village. Willerscheid belongs to the Mutscheid village community .

history

Willerscheid was first mentioned in a document in 1187. The Abbey Steinfeld had a here court . According to legend, the court in Willerscheid was given to the Premonstratensians because they stopped in Willerscheid when the bones of St. Potentinus were transported to Steinfeld. In 1503, in addition to the Stadelhof, there are other farms in the abbey's culinary master's book, which were also subject to interest from the Premonstratensians in Steinfeld.

The workforce of the Glückstal mine from the Libussa union in 1901

"Hic fodina plumbi" - "Lead is mined here" reads maps from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In the "Glücksthal" concession field, lead and copper ore had been mined since the 16th century at the latest . Mining came to a standstill due to the low productivity , but during the French period there was a revival from 1803. The buildings for the lead smelting, in which silver also fell, were built near the Buchholzbacher Mühle near the junction of the Escher Bach with the Brobach coming from Hummerzheim . A report from 1830 puts the workforce at that time at 24 miners and miners. At the same time, 31 children were also working in ore processing under the supervision of a riser . In the middle of the 19th century the mining company employed 136 workers (mostly children) who supported a total of 336 family members. As the Glückstal mine dropped less and less in the following decades, this had, as expected, serious consequences for the economic development of Mutscheid.

Ore mining experienced its last heyday in the period from 1934 to 1941, when the Klappertshardt operating point was built and operated in the Glücksthal concession field . The above-ground buildings are still there.

In the valley near Willerscheid, the tunnel mouth hole of the Roland tunnel has been preserved. The former shaft building of Wilhelmschachts on the outskirts was used as a school after 1865 . A new school building from around 1900 comprised a classroom and a teacher's apartment and was used until the end of the 1960s, before it was replaced by the newly built secondary school in Mutscheid and the new primary school in Nitterscheid.

Others

• The RVK bus line 819 stops in town. The TaxiBusPlus is available.
• The primary school children are brought to the municipal Catholic primary school in Mutscheid .
• Today Willerscheid and the Glücksthal are particularly well-known because of the annual forest festival that takes place here on the last weekend in July.

literature

• Volker Reppke, Friedrich Knauer, Andreas Schmickler: Mining in the Mutscheid (Eifel) - the Glücksthal mine self-published: Friedrich Knauer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-060461-4

Web links

• Homepage of Bad Münstereifel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures . Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Edgar Fass: Glückstal and Klappertshardt. A look back at the former lead ore works in the Mutscheid . [1]