Arzfeld
Arzfeld is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It is the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality, which it also belongs. Arzfeld is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.
Geography
Arzfeld on the Islek Plateau in the South Eifel Nature Park.
The municipality is divided into the districts Arzfeld Halen Bach, Hicke Hausen, sticks and Neurath. The hamlet Arzfeld includes the living spaces on mine Büsch, Arzfelderhöhe, Arzfeldermühle, On the downside, on the sun, Dreis and Prümerbach; Hölzchen belongs to Langenfeld.
History
History
The place was first mentioned in a document of 1391 as Ayrtzfelt.
The entire present-day municipality belonged to the end of the 18th century the Duchy of Luxembourg. Arzfeld Halen Bach and Hicke Hausen belonged to the dominion Dasbourg, sticks and Neurath to rule New Castle. After the annexation of the Austrian Netherlands, which included the Duchy of Luxembourg by French revolutionary troops in the five communities was assigned in 1795 to the Canton Arzfeld in the department of forests. Due to the decisions on the Congress of Vienna, the former Luxembourg territory east of the Sauer and the Our 1815 awarded to the Kingdom of Prussia. Under the Prussian administration places in 1816 came to the newly built circuit Prüm in the Trier region. Arzfeld became the seat of a mayoralty, which also included Neurath and Irrhausen. Halen Bach belonged to the mayor's Lichtenborn, Hicke Hausen for mayor ash box and sticks to the mayoralty Ringhuscheid.
On 1 July 1971, until then independent municipality Hicke Hausen ( 18 inhabitants ) was incorporated into Arzfeld, the incorporation of Halen Bach ( 58 inhabitants), sticks (95) and Neurath (103 ) on June 1, 1972.
Parish Arzfeld
As a parish Arzfeld belonged until 1801 to the deanery Stablo in the diocese of Liège, until 1817 the diocese of Metz and since then the diocese of Trier.
Coaching Arzfeld
At least since 1522 was in Arzfeld an early post office at the Netherlands postal route from Brussels to Augsburg to Innsbruck, Tyrol and Italy. This post office was also mentioned in 1537 and later frequently documented. Only in the course of the route shift in the late 17th century was carried out with the involvement of Luxembourg and Trier in 1680 /81 closure, the son of the last Arzfelder postmaster was transferred to stone fort.
Demographics
The development of the population of Arzfeld based on the present-day municipality; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Parish council
The local council in Arzfeld 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 municipal council ::
Traffic
The town is crossed by the highway 410. From Arzfeld from leading south from the county road 58