Dümpelfeld

Dümpelfeld is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Adenau.

Geography

Dümpelfeld is located seven kilometers north of the town Adenau at the mouth of Adenauer Bach in the Ahr. The residential areas of the town extends along both the Ahr and up into the side of the Adenauer Bach into it. Directly west rises the scorn head ( 357 m above sea level. NN ), to the east the land rises more slowly at the Mansfeld head ( 480 m above sea level. NN ). A large part of its territory lies in the state forest Adenau, in the outer north, the nature reserve located on the Teufelsley.

Community structure

To the local community Dümpelfeld include not only the eponymous district of the county designated as local districts Niederadenau and Lückenbach and the living space Hahn Steiner mill. Niederadenau remains above the Adenauer Bach, Lückenbach in the neighboring of the gap Bach same name. In addition, since the early 2000s, part of a weekend in the area Ommelbachtal with about 60 houses, of which about 40 inhabited permanently, as a splinter settlement to Dümpelfeld. It is 1.5 to 3 km from the village center in the northeast and was built initially as pure Weekend area in the 1960s. During the Third Reich was near a large military training area. The Ommelbachstrasse leads northwards to a position that is now unused. Until about 1997 there, the civil defense office had a practice site.

History and Origin of the name

Settlement traces indicate the existence of a Roman villa rustica on the district area. The name Dümpelfeld points with its first part " Dümpel " ( pond ) on moist land, the second part of " field" ( - velt ) was often used around the turn of the second Christian millennium for the establishment of new living quarters. At the time of its inception, the area belonged to the St. Cunibert - pin in Cologne.

Dümpelfeld was probably in 1153 first mentioned in writing with the mention of a certification witnesses named Karolus de Dumplenvelt, the second time was issued in 1251 in a document of the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden that ( is in the village, the Dümpelfeld called ) in villa, queer Dumpinvelt vocatur.

After 1815, the village belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia and from 1816 to the mayoralty Adenau who belonged to the circle Adenau in the Region of Koblenz in the Rhine Province (1822 ). In the following decades Dümpelfeld was, as well as the neighboring towns, increasingly connected to the road network. 1886/88 Dümpelfeld was connected with the opening of the railway line Adenau Altenahr -Ahrweiler to the rail network. On August 16, 1918 heavier railway accident when a passenger train in Dümpelfeld Here occurred with a troop train collided. 31 people died and 73 others were injured.

1985, almost 100 years later, the line was closed with the Dümpelfelder station on the decision of the Federal Ministry of Transport. The employment in the railways gave many residents a stable livelihood. Both, the image of the center of Dümpelfeld formative over 100 years old railway bridges were demolished in November 2010.

On October 1, 1976, the previously independent local churches Lückenbach and Niederadenau were incorporated to Dümpelfeld.

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

Parish council

The local council in Dümpelfeld consists of 12 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Attractions

The Church of St. Cyriacus of the 13th century, now used as a cemetery chapel was renovated in 2003. In addition, a few old houses, near the weekend area ( improperly called by the native population formerly "millions hill " ) the Teufelsley, the largest quartzite rock in Europe.

• See also list of cultural monuments in Dümpelfeld

Clubs

In Dümpelfeld there is a bachelors club, a sports club (SC Dümpelfeld ) and a male voice choir ( glee club Cecilia Dümpelfeld / Hönningen ). There is also a Friends of the volunteer fire department and the ' early Church ' and the chapel club " Maria Magdalena " in Niederadenau. 2009 has also a church choir, which CyriaChor founded. The clubs set up in August from the traditional Dümpelfelder fair.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Walter Adler ( born 1947 ), theater and radio drama