Waldrach
Waldrach ( Moselle Franconian: Forest Risch) is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Ruwer, which it also belongs. Waldrach is a nationally recognized resort and recognized as a basic center in accordance with state planning.
- 5.1 Agriculture and Viticulture
- 5.2 in
- 5.3 Media
- 5.4 traffic
Geography
The wine is in the Ruwer valley. To Waldrach includes the living spaces house fighting, grinding mill and melting mill.
History
The colonization of the Trier country, which was probably only sporadically at the time of the Celts learned with the conquest and possession of by the Romans a huge boom. With the end of hostilities came into existence in the country more and more Roman Hofgüter and villas, and at the same time also village settlements, especially in the valleys of the Mosel, Saar and Ruwer, then where increasingly the wine began and was intensively ( most famous vineyard is the Waldrach crown). Also, the cider is produced in the area. Located in the lower Ruwer Valley wine town Waldrach, with a district size of 1,200 ha, of which about 70 hectares of vineyards, can look back on a nearly 2,000 -year history. Remains of Roman settlements were in the area of the parish, grinder mill ( grinding mill marble, according to Ausonius ) found in Zalzick and St. Liepert (Roman Hofgut ). Slightly above the grinding mill of the inlet or the beginning was the fed by the waters of the Ruwer Roman aqueduct that ran through a closed channel construction and the Roman city of Trier supplied with water. A replica of the cross section of this Roman aqueduct is located at the southern edge of a parking lot of the county road 12 remains of the original Roman aqueduct can be seen at the former railway station.
The place name has been changed several times in his writing over the centuries. " Valeriacum " is called, the place in deeds of Charlemagne ( 802 ), and Otto the Great ( 949). Welfare derived from the name " Valerius ," one of the first three bishops in Trier. Since Eckhart certificate of 981 - in which the parish church is first mentioned - the place is called then Waltrach (1200 Waltracha, 1212 Walt revenge, 1255 Walt throat, 1323 Waltraco, 1411 Valtrich, 1646 Waltrich ) and in 1841 for the first time Waldrach.
The tower of the Catholic Parish Church of St. Lawrence dates back to the 12th century. The parish church in its present form was built in 1904 /05. When taking the place by U.S. forces in February 1945, this translated to the roof of the church through targeted attack on fire, because it was thought an observation post of the Volkssturm in the church tower. However, this assumption proved to be incorrect because the Volkssturm was moved away by this time according to coat. The roof burned completely by the fire. After the war the church was extensively restored and modernized in the early 1980s. Further renovations took place in 2005 before the 100th church anniversary.
The 1967 opened St. Lawrence Elementary and secondary school was a center school, later a regional school, and from 2009 /2010 Realschule plus for the surrounding local communities.
In 1985, Mechthild Meyer (later Weis ) from Waldrach German Wine Queen. The " place of our German Wine Queen " (formerly Lower Church Street 1, later moved to the south-west edge of the town ) was named in reference to this event.
The development of the population, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Since November 1, 2005 Waldrach seat of the municipal administration Ruwer with a newly built City Hall in the Lower Church Street is 1
Parish council
The local council in Waldrach consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
Blazon: The shield is divided and split up. Top right in silver a red cross bar. Top left in a green sloping left silver wave band on either side accompanied by a golden tree. Down in gold, a green vine with three green leaves and two green grapes.
Coat of Reason: The red bar Silver Cross is the heraldic emblem of the Archdiocese and the Electorate of Trier, was among the Waldrach from the Middle Ages until the secularization. The silver wave band featuring the Ruwer. The fir trees have " naturally" to the term " forest " in place names down. The vine reminded that Waldrach is the largest wine-growing community in the Ruwer.
Culture and sights
More than 20 clubs are active in various areas of society.
Worth seeing are part of the Roman Ruwerwasserleitung at the former railway station as well as a replica of the Ruwerwasserleitung above the village on the road of the Romans.
Economy and infrastructure
Agriculture and Viticulture
The up in the 1980s landscape determining distinct viticulture is now rapidly declining, as can be seen clearly at the disused farmland. This is due, inter alia, the decreasing number of part-time growers, for the financially provides the wine by the high human and material requirements of the management of steep slopes and the low producer prices no more incentives.
Business
Waldrach has some commercial and craft shops. Between Waldrach and chasuble is a commercial area. There, in 2011, moved into a newly built shopping market Wasgau market. The largest employers are the school and the community association management. Tourism is attached more and more importance in recent years.
About Waldrach the wind Waldrach Invest GmbH & Co KG operates a civic wind farm currently has ten wind turbines. This wind farm is to be expanded in the coming years.
Media
Local media are the Trierische friend of the people, the Mosel- Ruwertaler Wochenspiegel and the Official Journal of the municipality Ruwer.
Traffic
Through the municipal area of Waldrach leads the federal highway 52 through the local situation leads the provincial road 149 Transportation: Waldrach is connected to both the urban bus network of the city of Trier, as well as on the interurban R200/202 ( ( Türkismühle ) Hermes wedge -Trier ). From the late 19th century until the end of the 20th century resulted in the high forest path through Waldrach. There, now runs the Ruwer -Hochwald - bike trail.
Pictures
School building
Fire station and community center Waldrach
Hall VG Ruwer
Waldrach in the Ruwer valley
Place of "our" German Wine Queen
Old Train Station
Wind turbines at Waldrach