Wolsfeld

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '  N , 6 ° 28'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm
Association municipality :	Bitburger Land
Height :	230 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.27 km 2
Residents:	1026 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	111 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	54636
Area code :	06568
License plate :	BIT, PRÜ
Community key :	07 2 32 137
Association administration address:	Hubert-Prim-Strasse 7 54634 Bitburg
Website :	wolsfeld.de
Local Mayor :	Ralf Schiemann
Location of the local community Wolsfeld in the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm

Wolsfeld Castle

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

geography

The community lies on the edge of the South Eifel nature park in the Nims valley . The Herzbach, Wolsfelderberg and In der Burg residential areas also belong to Wolsfeld.

history

Wolsfeld was first mentioned in a document in 798 or 799, when a Harduwinus and his wife gave the Echternach Abbey their goods to "Wolfftualt, quod situm est super fluuio Nimisa". This document is also one of the oldest mentions of the name of the river Nims . In the 13th century the place was called "Volvisvelt". He belonged to the Luxembourg rule Ließem .

Population development

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

year Residents 1815 239 1835 346 1871 442 1905 485 1939 590 1950 659 1961 641

year Residents 1970 675 1987 632 1997 739 2005 804 2011 829 2017 1.007

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Wolsfeld consists of 16 council members, who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote, and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

coat of arms

	Justification for the coat of arms: The Hubertushirsch in the shield head is the attribute of the local church patron St. Hubertus . In the lower right part is the coat of arms of the Pallandt family , the black bars in gold and in the left part the coat of arms of the Counts of Saintignon , three golden towers on a red background, which owned Wolsfeld Castle in the 19th century .

Culture and sights

St. Hubertus from 1923

Old St. Hubertus around 1500

Buildings

• Catholic parish church of St. Hubertus from 1926
• Wolsfeld Castle from 1605, a nine-axis residential building
• Chapel in Hubertusstrasse from 1619
• Old Hubertus Church, former parish church from 1500

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wolsfeld

Green spaces and recreation

• Lindenallee in Bahnhofstrasse
• Hiking routes in and around Wolsfeld

See also: List of natural monuments in Wolsfeld

Regular events

• Annual fair or parish fair
• Traditional rattling or rattling on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
• Hut burning on the first weekend after Ash Wednesday (so-called Scheef Sunday)
• Hillclimb - The municipality has been the venue for the Wolsfelder AvD hillclimb , organized by the Eifel Motor Sport Club , since 1958 . The race will take place on Whit Monday from the end of the village on the side road to Wolsfelderberg and is part of the Berg Cup racing series that has been taking place since 1987. It is the last event of its kind in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Wolsfeld is on the busy federal highway 257 between Bitburg and Echternach . A bypass that has been required by local residents for decades was included in the urgent need in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan and was implemented as part of the € 2 billion program to improve the transport infrastructure in 2005-2008 . The bypass was opened to traffic on December 13, 2008.

railroad

Wolsfeld was the station of the former Nims-Sauertalbahn (Erdorf - Irrel - Igel), a branch line of the Eifelbahn . This railway line was opened before the First World War . After the route was destroyed towards the end of the Second World War and operations were resumed after the war, passenger and freight traffic continued on the route for a good two decades. The cessation of passenger traffic (conversion to bus) took place in 1969, the remaining freight traffic was shut down gradually and finally in 1995. The Wolsfeld - Bitburg (city) section was dismantled in 1997. A tank farm with siding was maintained directly at Wolsfeld station to supply the American airfields in Bitburg and Spangdahlem. Parts of the disused route section are now used as a cycle path.

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. 306–310 (315 p., With 12 plates and 227 illustrations in the text. Reprinted by the Schwann edition, Düsseldorf 1927).

Web links

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

• Local community Wolsfeld on the website of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburger Land
• The castle in Wolsfeld
• To search for cultural assets of the local community Wolsfeld 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. 109 (PDF; 3 MB).
3. ↑ Heinrich Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , 1860, supplement p. 6 ( dilibri.de )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local elections 2019, city and municipal council elections
6. ↑ Declaration of the coat of arms Wolsfeld
7. ↑ Hiking route Wolsfeld Hiking 60 plus. Retrieved February 2, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Hüttenbrennen in the Eifel. Retrieved May 1, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Hut Sunday in the Eifel. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Berg Cup racing series. Retrieved February 2, 2018 .