Bergweiler
Weiler is a municipality in the district of Bernkastel -Wittlich, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Wittlich -Land.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
Geography
Geographical location
The village is located about five kilometers west of the county town of Wittlich in the southern Eifel at about 300 m above sea level. NN and granted an increased insight into the Wittlicher sink.
The village used for more precise localization was also called " mountain hamlet about Wittlich ", which explained both close to the city as well as geographical location.
Land use
The district area is 13.25 km ², of which 5.71 km ² agricultural land, 6.33 km ² is forest area.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring towns are Wittlich, breakage, Dreis and Hupperath.
History
Nearby mountain hamlet were traces of Stone Age settlement - stone tools - found that are dated to about 3000 BC. There are also references to Roman settlements near the place.
The first documentary mention as Wilre ( hamlet ) goes back to the year 981. After that, the name of the place changed several times, largely linguistically constituted adjustments. So the place was called then finally in 1056 Villaris 1171 Reinboldvillari, 1184 Villare, 1190 vilare 1219 Wilare 1243 Remboldswilre, in the 14th century Wilre supra montem, 1417 Wiler, 1428 Wilre 1487 Wyler, 1569 and 1656 Wiler mountain mountain hamlet. In an episcopal visitation protocol Bergweiler 1669 is mentioned with that name.
In this protocol, also the first time a small house of worship is mentioned, which is known by the present name feint chapel. In the 13th century mountain hamlet is called vicarage. 1669 and 1833 the church was rebuilt on the same site in the center at that time mountain hamlet ( sub- village). In 1957 the Catholic Church of St. John (Evangelist ) was - mostly by self- performance of residents - renovated and partially rebuilt. A cemetery adjoins the church with a church forecourt. The adjacent parish hall is the Eifel- home - museum of the town.
Dating back to the 17th century and roamed as a local Sanctuary feint chapel outside the village was also renovated in 1959. The Little Chapel is known as a hermitage for sick children. Previously, the weight of the sick child was measured in a manger in grain to be used as a donation for the chapel. Numerous votive inside the feint chapel still bear witness to the function of the chapel as Bittort. Of architectural interest is the turned to the front of small pulpit. Earlier, it was necessary that the priest, as the chapel was too small, preached from this pulpit outside the assembled on the open field in front of the chapel believers. The first mention of the feint chapel in 1656, a new building took place in 1717. 2004, the chapel was again extensively renovated by volunteers of the town and since then looks in new splendor. The feint chapel is the symbol of the village.
Before the French Revolution, the Lords of Warsberg were the owner of the manorial system in the imperial knights economic domination mountain hamlet. A long-time process to the imperial immediacy in front of the Imperial Chamber Court in 1794 rendered obsolete by the French occupation of the territory. 1815 Bergweiler part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Since 1946 he is part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.
The place is also today still divided both by the locals, as well as in maps in two districts. The old town center with the church is referred to as a mountain hamlet or sub- village, the newer part, which is several feet higher than the old part, Upper Bergweiler or Oberndorf. Appropriate development by the population growth leads now to the fact that the place continues to grow together.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in mountain hamlet consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 in a proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The twelve seats in the City Council are distributed among the group of voters Thielen (7 seats ) and the FWG Bergweiler (5 seats).
Coat of arms
The coat of arms description reads: " divided plate, top in black and gold goldbekrönter a reinforced silver growing lion, geschacht below Silver Red".
Coat Explanation: For a vested in the history coat of arms for Bergweiler you have to rely on the territorial conditions before 1789. Lord of mountain hamlet was the Baron of Warsberg. He exercised his powers within the Count of Sponheim transferred direct imperial rule Bergweiler. Therefore, the mountain Weiler Coat of both the rule of the Counts of Sponheim, and the basic glory of the Barons of Warsberg must express. This is done by a divided crest, the lower half of the white-red geschachtete Sponheim coat of arms and the upper half in black box shows the goldbekrönten growing silver Warsberger lions.
By permission of 1967, the municipality Bergweiler received the right to use this coat of arms.
Attractions
- In the Eifel heritage museum (Church Street 3) agricultural implements and tools of the 19th century shown. The focus of the museum is an oil painting depicting one of the many legends about the history of Wittlicher Säubrennerkirmes. Probably the biggest oil painting in Rhineland-Palatinate was painted by Otto Frankfurter.
- The Werthelstein (also Wedel stone or stone sausages, dialect Expectant Elsteen ) is a pillar -like, isolated boulder of about two to three meters in cross-section with relatively smooth surfaces. He stands at the spell border, where it crosses the old way of Bergweiler to Dreis. According to legend, he is a sacrificial stone. Since 1940, there is a natural monument.
- Feint Chapel: Little Sanctuary from the 17th century outside the town.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Bergweiler