Bleckhausen

Bleckhausen (in Eifel dialect: " Blääkes ") is a municipality in the volcanic Eifel region of Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Daun.

Geographical location

Bleckhausen located southeast of Willow Creek between the small and the Kyll Lieser.

Southeast of the community lies the nature reserve juniper terrain at Bleckhausen, the largest of its kind in the Eifel.

To Bleckhausen includes the residential places Bleckhausenermühle and courtyard at the Mark.

History

The oldest known document is confirmed on 15 June 1354 in the Archbishop of Trier, Bohemund II ( 1354-1362 ), the Archbishop Baldwin ( 1307-1354 ) built chapel to Bleckhausen. The place belonged to the Electoral-Trier Office Manderscheid. In 1721 to 25 residents were in Bleckhausen.

During the French administration Bleckhausen was elevated to a parish, until then the place to Manderscheid was the parish. The parish Bleckhausen was also assigned to protect.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Bleckhausen consists of eight 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 Coat of Arms description is: " Argent, a red slant right bar, topped with a gold chevron; above a black cross of St. Anthony, down three wavy blue bars ".

Attractions

  • To the local community includes a listed Bleck Hausener mill. It is first mentioned in 1718. Parts of the grinder are still preserved. Beginning of the 20th century had in the small mill building adjacent work rooms nor the fourteen -member family of millers be accommodated.
  • The Wacholderheide and the natural monument "Three Oaks".

See also: List of cultural monuments in Bleckhausen

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