Kehlen

Throats ( Luxembourgish keels ) is a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in the canton chapels.

Composition of the community

The municipality comprises the towns of:

• Dondelange
• Throats and throats - Brameschhof
• Keispelt

• Meispelt
• Nospelt
• Olm is divided into three parts: Olm - Duerf, Olm - Kraizwee and Olm - Huesekneppchen
• Three farms: Direndall, Weidendall and Quatre -Vents

History

The name " throats " comes forth from the Latin Callidovilla (country of Callido ), the settlement is detected from 636 on earlier settlements have archaeological excavations and the discovery of Celtic graves around throats out, Gallo-Roman cemeteries and Roman villas in the area of Nospelt and Merovingian graves between Nospelt and Dondelingen.

At the height of Schoenberg close throats, at the junction of two Roman roads, there was likely a group of Gallo- Roman buildings, and then the discovery of a base suggesting that represents four deities. The original is kept in the State Museum; replication was placed in front of the cemetery of Schoenberg. The fact that Schoenberg was included in the list of national monuments, it owes the chapel ( choir of the former church ) and the old grave stones dating back to the beginning of the 16th century. The former parish church of Schoenberg, whose registers go back to 1637, was in response to the abbey of St. Maximin in Trier. According to legend, is said to have existed on the plateau of Schoenfels a village that had disappeared after a plague; but no traces were found.

The villages Keispelt and Meispelt developed as a result of extensive deforestation, which were sponsored by the Frankish nobles and the Abbey of St. Maximin. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the dominion Ansembourg for which Keispelt functioned as the capital.

In Nospelt was located one of the oldest centers of manufacturing of kitchen appliances made ​​of clay; the craft of pottery ( " Aulebäcker ", 1819: 17 companies; until 1914 ) was known about the borders of the country. In the last leftover pottery workshop " at Dittches " a potter Museum ( Rue des Potiers 13) was established. 1973 block of red sandstone was erected in the center, into which the sculptor Léon Nosbusch has sculpted the relief of working on the potter's wheel. An 8 km long hiking trail leads over the Nospelter district to the nature reserve " Telpeschholz ," a heath and gorse landscape.

Dondelingen (French: Dondelange ) in the past was known for his two grain mills, which have been proven already for 1280 and 1328; they no longer exist but. The windows of the chapel dedicated to St. Hubert in Dondelingen provide wild game dar.

The location Olm was mentioned for the first time in 1528 on a " fireplace directory". Today it has over 1500 inhabitants, of whom about 1200 in the development area Huesekneppchen.

The social history of the village is dominated by farmers and artisans. With the industrialization of the country as well as the structural changes after the Second World War the majority of the population are employed in service today.

Customs

At Easter, is " Emaischen " celebrated what follows on the tradition of pottery in Nospelt. The vendor stalls " sold that day " will be offered.