Korweiler

Korweiler, official spelling to 6 December 1935: Corweiler, is a municipality in the Rhein- Hunsrück district, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kastellaun.

Geography

Korweiler located in the northern Hunsrück on a ridge east of Dünnbachtals.

Location description

Korweiler is a typical Hunsrücker scattered village, which is built around his Catholic Church. Built in 1907, single-nave church, the so-called Bartholomew chapel is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. Once a year ", Go to chatter " the community is the " Municipalities " in the former school, a typical brick building, together, to eat together to drink, and go through the Past again.

History

The oldest evidence of settlement date from the early La Tène period. In the system of roads 1939/40, southeast of the town of Iron Age settlement groups were discovered. According to the ceramics found they are around 2400 years old and younger attributable to the Hunsrück- Eifel culture. There were then conducted further testing, but it is very likely that there were at this point Iron Age houses.

The present town was first documented in 1307 as " Corwilre ". According to the deed Sibodo presented by Schmidt in his mountain " Corwilre " located goods to the monastery Kumbd, which included a Hofgut, serfs and income in the city in the following centuries up to modern times.

Although belonged Korweiler since the late Middle Ages or early modern times also to rule and Burg Waldeck, took the place but due to the Kumbder property rights and a special position within the rule of Waldeck one. However, the Boos of Waldeck stopped a long time the umbrella of money, that is, the rights and income of the monastery square Kumbd. The rule Waldeck was rich immediately not later than the 16th century, and included not only the grounds of the castle itself, the villages Dorweiler, Mannebach and Korweiler and the deserted village Hausen Braunshorn. In spite of belonging to the reign of Waldeck all residents were Korweilers as " Willibrordskinder ", that is, as originally a fief of the Abbey of Saint Willibrord in Echternach belonging. From this multiple membership grew in the early modern period always disagreements with the Knights of Waldeck, which led to conflicts and comparing up to the Imperial Court of Justice.

1711 burned the place, together with the Kumbschen family farm for the most part low and was again rebuilt. Therefore, only a few buildings have survived, dating older than the 18th century.

1794, the region was occupied by French revolutionary troops in 1798 part of the Department Rhin -et -Moselle, and thus French until 1814. In consequence of the agreed at the Congress of Vienna redistribution of territories were essential parts of the Rhineland, thus Korweiler, 1815 Kingdom of Prussia. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

Parish council

The local council in Korweiler 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.

Dialect

The Moselle Franconian dialect of the region is still spoken by a majority of the population, although the number of those who actively to master and use the dialect decreases.