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Brown Mountain is a municipality on the Moselle near Bernkastel -Kues Bernkastel- Wittlich district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Bernkastel- Kues and is especially known for its wines and meteorological events. By 1925, the name of the place " Dusemond " was. Brown Mountain is a nationally recognized tourist.

  • 4.1 Historically

Geography

Climate

Here, the highest ever measured in Germany temperature was 41.2 ° C recorded by on August 11, 1998 in Media Meteo Weather Station by Jörg tile man. Nevertheless, Brown mountain is not considered a Hitzepol Germany, as the weather station is excluded on a slate mine from the official measurement due to their location.

Community structure

Brown Berger districts are brown mountain, felting and Hirzlei.

The district Hirzlei is about five kilometers south of Brown Mountain in the valley of Glad Bach, there is no direct road linking the two towns. Mayor of Hirzlei is Ewald Adam.

History

Brown Mountain was first mentioned in 588 AD. The old place name " Dusemond " probably dates from the coming of the Roman era designation of a vineyard as " dulcis mons " (Latin for " sweet mountain") from. 1925, the place in Brown Mountain has been renamed.

Dusemond belonged to the old county Veldenz, in the Count Palatine Ludwig II in 1523 introduced the Reformation. In the Thirty Years' War took the Elector and Archbishop of Trier possession of the place. Only in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Earl of Veldenz was reinstated in his ancient rights, whereby the parish of the town became Protestant again. However, with the occupation of the county Veldenz by France in 1680, the situation changed again and there was dispute over the position of Catholics within the county. By adopting the French regulated on December 21, 1684 the situation: So was in towns with only one church - as well as the situation in Dusemond - those intended for use by both denominations. The local church, therefore, was to interdenominational church. This changed in 1955, when it was decided to divide the church and to separate structurally: 1/3 of the church has since been used by the evangelical community, 2/ 3 by the Catholics. This corresponds to the splitting of the original construction cost of the current, was completed in 1777 church.

The church itself was built in 1775-1777 according to the plans of the Palatine court architect Franz Wilhelm Rabaliatti. The onion dome is the only church tower of its kind in the entire Mosel region. He is also after the division of the Church continue to jointly owned by the two parishes.

The church today Brown Mountain was founded on June 7, 1969 by the merger of the municipalities Brown Mountain and felts.

The development of the population of Brown Mountain based on the present-day municipality; the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Parish council

The local council in Brown Mountain 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 16 seats in the Council are distributed among three groups of voters.

Viniculture

Besides tourism, the wine is the most important economic sector. The vines are cultivated on about 323 acres mostly on steep slopes. Here usually Riesling is grown; among other things, Müller -Thurgau, Kerner and spine fields in the flat and slopes also produced in small amounts.

The vineyards Brown Mountain are Großlage Kurfürstlay and is divided into the individual layers

  • Mandelgraben

The vines of the almond trench cover an area of ​​175 ha, the name refers to almond trees which formerly grew here.

  • Monastery garden

The Monastery Garden is a 95 ha, the second largest vineyard Brown Mountain, the name is derived from the garden of the Franciscan monastery in the village of felting

  • Juffer and Juffer sundial

The steep slope opposite the place is Brown Mountain ( Moselle Franconian for maid or virgin) called " deadeye ". Within this layer, the area is considered around the sundial as the " crown jewel " and was given the designation " Juffer sundial ".

  • Chamber

This 0.38 acre acreage is also in the " deadeye " below a rock promontory.

Historically

In 1868 the Royal cadastral Inspectors, steuerrath Clotten for the Royal Government to Trier was made a card for the wine-growing Region of Trier headed. Are there for the area Brown Mountain ( Dusemond ) under the major site Brauneberg the individual layers

  • Rabbit runner
  • Chamber
  • Falkenberg
  • Juffer
  • Mötschert
  • Burgerslay

Recorded.

Famous sons and daughters

  • Ulli, internationally known solo guitarist and guitar teacher
  • Katja Fehres, Location Wine Queen Mosel -Saar -Ruwer 2006/2007
  • Fabian Ostermann, conductor and international juror CISM ( Confédération Internationale des Sociétés Musicales )
  • Johann Matthias Schreiber (1709-1771), German organ builder
Bernkastel-Kues (Verbandsgemeinde) Jesus Louis II, Duke of Bavaria Protestant Reformation Municipal council Hectare Kerner (grape) Dornfelder Gornhausen Hochscheid Kesten (municipality) Kommen Lieser (Mosel) Longkamp Maring-Noviand Minheim Neumagen-Dhron Wintrich Altrich Arenrath Bausendorf Bengel Berglicht Bergweiler Bettenfeld Binsfeld Breit Bruch, Rhineland-Palatinate Burg, Bernkastel-Wittlich Deuselbach Dhronecken Diefenbach Dierfeld Dierscheid Dodenburg Dreis Eckfeld Eisenschmitt Enkirch Esch, Bernkastel-Wittlich Etgert Gielert Gipperath Gladbach, Rhineland-Palatinate Greimerath, Bernkastel-Wittlich Hasborn Heidenburg Heidweiler Hetzerath Hilscheid Hontheim Horath Hupperath Immert Irmenach Karl, Germany Kinheim, Germany Laufeld Malborn Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich Meerfeld Merschbach Minderlittgen Musweiler Niederscheidweiler Oberscheidweiler Osann-Monzel Pantenburg Platten, Germany Plein Reil, Germany Rivenich Rorodt Schladt Schwarzenborn Sehlem Starkenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate Talling Thalfang Wallscheid Willwerscheid
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