Winterspelt

This article deals with the Rhineland-Palatinate community of Winterspelt. For the novel of the same name by Alfred Andersch see Winterspelt (Andersch) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '  N , 6 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Prüm
Height :	500 m above sea level NHN
Area :	25.6 km 2
Residents:	825 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54616
Area code :	06555
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 329
Community structure:	10 districts
Association administration address:	Tiergartenstrasse 54 54595 Prüm
Website :	www.winterspelt.de
Local Mayor :	Hubert Tautges
Location of the local community Winterspelt in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

St. Michael Church

Winterspelt (pronunciation: [ ˈvintəʃpɛlt ]) is a municipality in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the community of Prüm .

geography

location

Winterspelt is located southwest of Großlangenfeld in the Schnee-Eifel in close proximity to the German- Belgian border. Neighboring communities on the Belgian side are Burg-Reuland and Sankt Vith .

structure

The community comprises ten districts (population including secondary residences, as of June 1, 2013):

District	Residents
Eigelscheid with Weißenhof	95
Elcherath	107
Hasselbach	44
Heckhalenfeld	63
Hemmeres	44
Their	49
Stone bridge	33
Urb with Urbermühle	43
Wallmerath	61
Winterspelt with Breitenfenn	397

geology

The near-surface geological subsurface is formed by Lower Devonian clay slates with greywacke inclusions .

climate

The annual precipitation is 924 mm. The rainfall is high. They are in the upper quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 79% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is April, with the most rainfall in December. In December there is 1.5 times more rainfall than in April. The rainfall is distributed fairly evenly over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 28% of the measuring stations .

history

Winterspelt was the main town of a prudish mayor's office , to which, in addition to Winterspelt itself, Eigelscheid, Elcherath, Hemmeres , yours and Walmerath belonged; the current district of Urb belonged to the Bleialf mayor's office . Both Schult Hot estates were parts of the Office Prüm and belonged to the late 18th century country wonderfully for electorate Trier . Heckhalenfeld, on the other hand, belonged to the Harspelt dairy in the Dasburg rulership and was a sovereign part of the Duchy of Luxembourg .

In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the left bank of the Rhine . From 1795 on, Heckhalenfeld belonged to the canton of Arzfeld in the forest department , the other villages in what is now the municipality of Winterspelt from 1798 to the canton of Schönberg in the Saar department .

Once at the Congress of Vienna (1815), the region of the Kingdom of Prussia had been assigned to the communities Winterspelt and Urb were the mayor Winterscheid , the community Heckhalenfeld the mayoralty Leidenborn , both in the county Prüm and Trier and 1822 in the Rhine province assigned .

On January 1, 1971, the two previously independent communities Heckhalenfeld (at that time 77 inhabitants) and Urb (80 inhabitants) were incorporated into Winterspelt.

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 422 1835 680 1871 827 1905 778 1939 962 1950 971

year Residents 1961 839 1970 816 1987 871 1997 878 2005 818 2019 825

politics

Municipal council

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

coat of arms

Blazon : "Shield split from red in front of silver, in front a golden rafter beam, behind an upright, red flaming sword with a black handle."

Justification for the coat of arms: In the choir of the Elcherath Church there is a keystone with a heart shield that shows a red rafter. It stands for the builder of the church, the Prüm Abbot Wilhelm from the family of the Manderscheider Counts , who led the red rafter bar in gold in the coat of arms. It stands in the coat of arms in reversed colors for the district of Elcherath. In the second field of the coat of arms is the flaming sword as an attribute of the Archangel Michael , the church and town patron of Winterspelt.

Attractions

• 

  St. Willibrord (Elcherath), interior
  Parish Church of St. Michael
• Church in Elcherath
• Crossroads inside and outside the village
• Chapels in Urb, Hemmeres, Ihr and Heckhalenfeld

See also:

• List of cultural monuments in Winterspelt
• List of natural monuments in Winterspelt

traffic

The "Winterspelt junction" of the A 60 is the first on the German side.

Others

Winterspelt and its surroundings are the setting for the novel of the same name by Alfred Andersch .

Web links

Commons : Winterspelt  - collection of images

• Internet presence of the local community Winterspelt
• Ortgemeinde Winterspelt on the website of the Association of Prüm
• To search for cultural goods of the local community Winterspelt in the database of cultural goods in the Trier region .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, municipalities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Population data on www.pruem.de
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, pp. 122, 124, 152.
4. ↑ ^{a b} District administration of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm: Administrative affiliation of the individual communities ( online PDF )
5. ↑ Official municipality directory 2006 ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (= State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 393 ). Bad Ems March 2006, p. 201 (PDF; 2.6 MB). Info: An up-to-date directory ( 2016 ) is available, but in the section "Territorial changes - Territorial administrative reform" it does not give any population figures.  
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections