Niederweis

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

• 4.1 Railway

Geography

Niederweis located on the edge of the South Eifel Nature Park. The municipality also includes the residential places Eichelhof, Höhjunk (zip code 54298 ), Mill and Forest house.

History

A prehistoric settlement of the district around the present Niederweis is through weapons, Vascular and grave finds occupied as a Roman settlement.

In the founding years of the Abbey of Echternach a Martheus the Abbey bequeathed a piece of land between " Wys " and Enghien. In the year 801, then give Harduwin and his wife, rich landlords in Bidgau turn the abbey in their possession, " Wis quod est super fluvio Situm Prumia ". Between 861 and 867 are more landowners, together with Enghien called.

By the end of the 18th century the village belonged to the provost Luxembourg Echternach. From 1795 to 1814 Niederweis 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 Niederweis, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Niederweis 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.

Coat of arms

The blazon is: " plate silver quartered by a red cross topped with a golden Glevenkreuz, in 1 an oblique right blue monkey hand, in 2 a diagonally left black sheet, in 3 a diagonally left black ear, in 4 a diagonally right blue wave bar".

Traffic

Railway

Niederweis had a station on the Nims Sauer Valley Railway Bitburg- Erdorf - Irrel - Hedgehog. The passenger traffic of the route was discontinued in the northern section, in which Niederweis was in 1969, freight traffic in 1988; the tracks were torn down in the following years. The station building had been previously sold by the German Federal Railroad. The train station is located just outside of the local situation of Niederweis, on the boundary Alsdorf. The station was intended for the operation of the two localities. ( A in the 1950s planned for the community Alsdorf breakpoint was never realized. )

Attractions

• Castle Niederweis
• Church of Saint John the Evangelist

See also: List of cultural monuments in Niederweis