Wehr, Rhineland-Palatinate

Weir is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Brohltal, which has its administrative headquarters in Niederzissen.

Geography

The municipality is located in the west of the East Eifel Laacher lake. At the weir include the residential places Steinbergerhof and Welsch Wiesenmuhle.

History

In Wehrer basin remains of a Roman settlement have been found, but not be reconstructed due to agricultural use. The first written record comes from the year 920 The Village belongs military since the founding of the monastery of Steinfeld in the year 1069-1073 to this later Premonstratensian abbey; until the secularization of the year in 1800. The abbot of Steinfeld was for 900 years " Agriculture and Lehnherr " to Weir, he exercised the higher and lower jurisdiction over the village. Four times a year a trial by jury took place in defense.

After the French occupation of the left bank of the Rhine (1794 ) was the military canton in the department of the Rhine and Moselle Arrondissement Bonn. Under Prussian administration was fortified in 1815 a church that was assigned to the mayor's office in the district of Mayen Burgbrohl.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in defense consists of 16 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: split "Shield and split front. Up in blue two silver lilies a golden star. Below in red diagonally crossed silver Abtsstab and silver sword. Back in gold two obliquely crossed red arrows ".

The star with the two lilies are taken from the arms of the abbey of Steinfeld, the Abtsstab and the sword should remember that the abbot of Steinfeld and the secular rule and jurisdiction exercised, the two schräggekreutzten arrows are the attributes of the parish patron Potentinus. In the Middle Ages led military these arrows in his seal. The coat of arms was designed by Bruno Andre and approved on January 7, 1982 by the District Government of Koblenz.

Attractions

• The parish church of St. Potentinus with early Baroque altar group. The church is a cross- vaulted nave system from 1702 with completely preserved, for the region unusually rich Baroque interior. The west tower is in Tuffsteinquaderung of 1220 / 40th
• The cellar of the monastery of Steinfeld is a two-story, exceedingly handsome building of 1730 from alternating layers of light and dark tuff, high mansard roof and zweiläufiger staircase.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Wehr

Others

In Wehrer basin is the largest carbon dioxide deposits in Europe. The sources are used industrially.