Ockfen

Ockfen is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Saar castle. Ockfen is a nationally recognized tourist.

  • 2.1 municipal
  • 4.1 Viticulture

History

975 in a deed of Trier Archbishop Dietrich I. first time as Occava owned by the Abbey of St. Martin in Trier was Ockfen mentioned. Later entries denominated Occkenen 1037, 1168 Ockefa, 1220 Ockeve 1274 Ockave. 1381 of Ockfan place was called. The abbey was built in Ockfen a farm, and was mainly the organization of the wine industry.

On July 18, 1946 Ockfen was assigned to the Saarland together with 80 other municipalities in the counties registers and Saar castle, which no longer was under the Allied Control Council at the time. However, this association did not last long, for on 8 June 1947, Ockfen and 60 other previously outsourced to the communities in the French occupation zone newly formed in 1946, the state of Rhineland -Palatinate.

Population Development

The development of the population, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Data source: Statistical Office of Rhineland -Palatinate

Policy

Parish council

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

Religion

The Catholic parish church of St. Valentin built as a neo-Gothic hall stages in 1906 to designs by the architect Ernst Trier fire - In a strongly sloping hillside to the south in 1904. The exterior presents itself as stucco building with decorative sandstone and shale quarry stone elements. The moving roof landscape is covered with slate. After suffering heavy damage in 1945, the church was restored.

Economy

Viniculture

Ockfen part of the wine-growing area in the Saar Mosel region. In the village 15 wineries operate, the area under vines is 53 hectares. About 96 % of the cultivated wine are white varieties ( 2007).

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