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Bathrobes in the Eifel is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kyllburg.
Geography
Bathrobes located northeast of Bitburg on the Gindorfer Plateau, a landscape of the so-called Food Land. To bathrobes includes the residential places Heidehof and Waldhof.
History
The place was first mentioned in the year 893 in Prüm land register in under the name " Badenheym ".
The place belonged to the late 18th century to the provost Bitburg, which was a part of the Duchy of Luxembourg.
After 1792 French Revolutionary troops had the Austrian Netherlands, to which the duchy of Luxembourg and therefore belonged bathrobes, occupied and annexed in 1795 at that time. Under the French administration bathrobes in 1795 was assigned to the Canton Dudeldorf, of the district Bitburg in the department of forests belonged administratively.
Following decisions at the Vienna Congress in 1815, the region came to the Kingdom of Prussia. Under the Prussian administration bathrobes belonged to the mayor's Ordorf in 1816 newly built district of Bitburg of the district of Trier.
The development of the population of bathrobes, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Religion
The parish bathrobes was originally a branch of Ordorf. A survey conducted in 1570 visitation of the parish Ordorf there was at the chapel " Badenhem " already own cemetery. The chapel was dedicated at the time of the Blessed Virgin Mary and had three altars. Since 1738 was the hl. Eligius as a saint of the chapel. During the so-called French period the inhabitants of bathrobes applied for a separation of the parish Ordorf. In the reorganization of the church being bathrobes in 1803 Sukkursalpfarrei ( auxiliary parish ).
1907, the present parish church was built.
The present parish bathrobes has no branches. It is part of the church organization of the parishes around Wilsecker, which also houses the office of the pastor. The parish bathrobes belongs to the diocese of Trier.
Parish council
The local council in bathrobes consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local council:
Traffic
Bathrobes has a junction on the main highway 60 from Liege to Wittlich. Exit 7
Sons and daughters of the town
- Josef Stiren (1930-2003), theologian and writer
- Wilhelm Arnoldi (1798-1864), Bishop of Trier 1842-1864
- Matthias Arnoldi (1809-1884), professor of theology and canon