Zettingen
Zettingen is a municipality in the district Cochem-Zell, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Emperor Esch.
Geography
Zettingen is located four kilometers east of the city Kaisersesch immediately south of the federal motorway 48 The village stretches along a west to east to Brohlbach sloping terrain and covers altitudes between 360 m above sea level. Sea level and 385 m above sea level. NN. South of the town originates with the Kerzbach a tributary of the Brohlbachs. Geographically, can the about three- quarters of agricultural and forested little municipality to assign to the Emperor Escher Eifel edge.
Zettingen bordered (clockwise ) to the local communities Gamlen, Brachtendorf, Dünfus, Wirfus, Illerich and Hambuch.
History
The first mention Zettingens found in 1267th Archaeological finds in and around the place but it can be concluded that the area was settled by the Romans.
In the 13th century that the archbishops of Trier, to bring the Treasury Klotten with its hinterland, which included Zettingen, per se. On October 1, 1251 the Archbishop of Trier, Arnold II of Isenburg incorporated with the approval of the Patrons of the Cistercian monastery Rosenthal, the parish Hambuch with the respective localities.
From 1350 also had the monastery Mädburg in the Elz Valley in Kehrig property in Zettingen.
In the 15th century, the lords of Brohl owned a farm in Zettingen, which later fell to Georg von der Leyen and Dietrich von Braun mountain. The Lords of Brohl were also owners of the Bailiwick, the chickens and geese interest to Zettingen. Likewise, the collegiate pin had to be carded in Zettingen meadows, farmland and wild country. After the secularization of ecclesiastical property they were auctioned in the period 1804-1808 by the French. This also applied to the landed property of the monastery Rosental at Binningen, the four acres of arable land, three acres of wild land and an acre of meadow had to Zettingen.
By the end of the 18th century Zettingen belonged to the Electorate of Trier gorgeous country and the high court Klotten in the Official Cochem was assigned. In Trier fire book from 1563 ten hearths (households) were recorded in Zettingen 1684 there were only seven.
In 1794, French revolutionary troops had the left bank of the Rhine was annexed, from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton Zettingen Kaisersesch in the arrondissement of Koblenz in the Rhine -Moselle department. The municipal council ( ZETTINGER community representatives in the Mairie Emperor Esch) was 1808, the citizens Steffes.
Due to the decisions on the Congress of Vienna ( 1815), the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia. Under the Prussian administration Zettingen the community came to the mayor's Emperor Esch district Cochem, who belonged to the Rhine Province to the new Region of Koblenz and from 1822 on.
Since 1946, the community Zettingen is part of Rhineland- Palatinate, since 1968 it belongs to the municipality Emperor Esch and since 1969 the district Cochem- Zell.
The development of the population of Zettingen, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Zettingen 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.
Mayor
Mayor is since August 2011 John Hammes. His predecessor, Hans -Josef damage had resigned April 30, 2011 after 32 years in office for personal reasons. Damage was the longest-serving mayor in the municipality Kaisersesch and in the Cochem - Zell.
Public institutions
Since 1982, the local church Zettingen operates with neighboring communities Brachtendorf, Gamlen and Kaifenheim Kaifenheim in a 3- gruppigen kindergarten, which has been extended to a group and a multipurpose room in 2003.
Personalities
The following personalities were born in Zettingen: