Alsdorf, Bitburg-Prüm

Alsdorf is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Irrel.

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Geography

Alsdorf is on the edge of the South Eifel Nature Park. The municipality also includes the residential places station Niederweis and upper corners.

History

Scattered finds from the Neolithic suggest an early, non-directional colonization of the district. Artifacts, including a well-preserved amphora, point to a Roman settlement within the borders of today's village. In the middle of the 8th century ( 739/775 ), the Abbey of Echternach bequeathed an inheritance in a place that is called " Alctresdorf " means ( in loco cognominato Alctresdorf ).

Already in 1330 Alsdorf is mentioned as a vicarage of the Archbishopric of Trier in the taxa generalis and farmed in the sequence of different fief holders.

By the end of the 18th century the village belonged to the provost Luxembourg Echternach. From 1795 to 1814 Alsdorf part of the French Département de Forestry ( Forest Department ) before it was due to the decisions taken at the Congress of Vienna agreements (1815 ) assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Alsdorf consists of eight council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Under blue shield head, in a vierbogige bridge in silver, cleaved by an inserted wandered red top, covered with a silver lime leaf, a red high right cross, left a red finial ".

Economy and infrastructure

Alsdorf is predominantly agricultural.

Traffic

Railway

The local situation of Alsdorf was tangent to the year 1988 by the standard gauge, single-track railway line Erdorf - Irrel Hedgehog ( Nims Sauer Valley Railway ). Alsdorf never had its own railway station, but was operated by the area between the villages of Alsdorf and Niederweis station Niederweis. Passenger traffic on the northern section of the route, in the region was also Alsdorf, was set in 1968, the setting of freight followed exactly 20 years later, in 1988. The railway tracks were torn down in the following years.

The Niederweis station, located on Alsdorfer district, had been some years before sold to a private buyer. An early 1950s by the local church Alsdorf at the former German Federal Railroad requested breakpoint was never realized.

The B 257 / E 29 (formerly E 42 ) runs above Alsdorf and forms the direct link between Echternach ( Lux ) and Bitburg. In the course of the construction project " bypass local situation Wolsfeld " the connection of Alsdorf was changed in late 2008.

Old cemetery chapel and parish church

A broken stone church from 1472 had a predecessor, which was already mentioned in the above-mentioned taxa generalis. The bridge subsequently canceled in 1926, the choir received today serves as a cemetery chapel.

Since 1904, the neo-Romanesque parish church of St. Peter is on the main road in the village center as a place of worship for the communities Alsdorf, Niederweis and Kaschenbach.