Dedenbach

Dede Bach is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Brohltal, which has its administrative headquarters in Niederzissen.

Geographical location

Dede Bach is located in the Eifel region, in a tributary of the Vinxtbachs. The municipality is located in the conservation area " Rhein- Ahr -Eifel ".

The municipality is divided into the districts Oberndorf, means village and sub- village.

History

In the place did not occur before the 12th century larger closed settlements - comparatively late. Before that it was there, just as in the neighboring towns and Vinxt Schalkenbach, if only a few settlements and farms from the Roman period and the Frankish era. Was first documented Dede Bach in a document dated July 25, 1309 by Gerhard Burggraf of the Landskron. In it, the Count has agreed to the effect with king box that it will continue to right the previously purchased tithe called by a meadow, " in the Beenth " below the " Villam Deidenbach " entitled.

The spelling of today's local church has changed in the course of its history several times: in 1309 they were called " Deidenbach " 1310 " Deydenbag " 1329 " Dedynbach " 1441 " Deydenbach " 1624 " Diedenbach " and from 1696 Dede Bach ( dialect: Dädemech ).

The development of the population of Dede Bach, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Dede Bach 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 reads: "In Green by a silver bar twin shaft obliquely divided, above a golden sechsspeichiges Roman wheel, down a golden high cross. "

Public institutions

  • Eifel Gold Hall Dede Bach

Attractions

  • Shoemaker Cross of 1761 - High Cross with Pietàdarstellung around which a lots of legends. It is near the small basaltic volcano stone tuft.
  • Chapel of St. Mary virgins, built in 1894 Architect:. Caspar Clemens Pickel
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