Ammeldingen an der Our

Anmeldingen is a municipality in the Eifel region in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate and belongs to the municipality of New Castle.

Geography

Ammeldingen lies directly on the border with Luxembourg on the east bank of the Our ​​River border. The small town is crossed by the extending in a north-south direction County Road 5; the county road 3 starts in Ammeldingen and leads to the east. In the northwest Gentingen is three kilometers away, in the southeast of Walldorf ( 3 km) and in the northeast Niedersgegen ( 3 km). About the Our place is Luxembourg's HOESDORF / Hoesdorf (municipality Reisdorf ).

History

The first mention was made in the year 767 from 1570 a chapel is registered. Ammeldingen belonged to the late 18th century to the Luxembourg county of Vianden.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had the Austrian Netherlands, which included the county of Vianden, occupied and annexed in October 1795. Under the French administration of the city from 1795 to 1814 belonged to the Mairie at Walldorf in the canton of Vianden, which belonged administratively to District Diekirch in the forests department.

Due to the decisions on the Congress of Vienna, the former Luxembourg territory east of the Sauer and the Our 1815 assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia. 1816 the community Ammeldingen administratively for mayor Walldorf in the newly formed district of Bitburg and was from 1822 until the end of World War II to the Rhine province.

After the First World War, the town was temporarily occupied by the French. During World War II the city was at the Western Wall, from which to date have received some bunker in the vicinity of the place. The former customs house a few meters south of the town went, as visible from the opposite heights, as the white house into the military history of the region, as at December 10, 1944 met here U.S. and German patrols and parted peacefully again. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

After the population Ammeldingens was relatively constant from the first half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, it is since the 1960s to now 23 inhabitants (as of May 2011) dropped.

The development of the population of Anmeldingen, the values ​​from 1871 to 2011 based on population censuses:

Parish council

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

Attractions

  • The Catholic Church of St. Urban Branch and St. Wendelin, a neighbor ocher hall building with spire roof riders from the year 1816; it was restored in 1945 and 1980 partly redesigned.
  • A former home, now a farm building, dating from the 17th century (village road 5).
  • The former Customs House ( White House) at the southern end of the village is now a hotel.
  • Cemetery with a construction period union enclosure and large Familiengrabmälern in secession forms, special attention has the cross on the grave of the spouses Biwer († 1844 or 1848).

See also: List of cultural monuments in Anmeldingen

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