Ediger-Eller

Ediger -Eller is a Rhineland-Palatinate municipality in the district Cochem- Zell. It belongs to the municipality of Cochem. Ediger -Eller is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Ediger- Eller is on the Mosel. The district Eller is located at the foot of Calmont.

History

The history of the two towns goes back in accordance with a documented reference to at least the year 636. Found pottery shards from a Roman factory in Trier have an existence in the 2nd to 3rd century AD suspect.

Even older traces of settlement - remains of the stone wall of a Fliehburg from Celtic times - can be found on the located on the opposite side of the Moselle mountain high boiler. On the Hunsrück facing side of the Mosel is a Roman- Gallic burial ground near the Neefer Peter's chapel. The scant remains of a garrison outpost of a Roman legion can be found on the ridge of the Calmont.

The district Eller was already in the 5th century in Merovingian seat of a monastery dedicated to Saint Fridolin. In the late Romanesque tower stands a baroque ship with good facilities, including a Stumm organ. In the opposite St. Arnulf's Chapel the mural Mocking of Christ hangs from the 15th century, originated from a drawing of Martin Schongauer. The courtyard houses of Pyrmont and the Electorate of Trier from the 16th century, today headquarters of Baron von Landsberg - Trimborn, underline the importance of former Eller.

Behind the railway bridge increases with 65 ° slope of Calmont in pure southern exposure as the steepest vineyard in the world up to 378 m. A walk on the via ferrata on the ridge is one of the most fascinating experiences on the Mosel. Compared to the former Insulation Sankt Nicolai, stands the ruins of a monastery church of the Augustinian congregation parlors, which was founded in 1137. It housed from 1208 to 1788 the famous reliquary, an art-historically valuable container with alleged wood particles from the cross of Jesus, which is now part of Limburg Cathedral.

In 1794, the occupation was carried out by French revolutionary troops, both places formed a community. 1815, the two places was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna and were independent again. Since 1877, ending near Eller of the Kaiser-Wilhelm- Tunnel is named ( since its completion until 1987, with a length of 4,205 m, the longest railway tunnel in Germany ), which begins in Cochem and after Emperor Wilhelm I.. This tunnel is a section of the Moselbahn. Not far from the tunnel entrance, before the Moselle bridge, closest train station Ediger -Eller.

Since 1946, the two autonomous communities Eller (Mosel) and Ediger are part of the then new state of Rhineland- Palatinate. On 7 June 1969, the Rhineland-Palatinate region of this reform the church Ediger- Eller was newly formed in the frame.

On 10 September 2010 Ediger-Eller was voted as the most beautiful place in Rhineland-Palatinate in the Federal decision in competition at Our village has a future and has been awarded one of eight gold medals.

Station Ediger -Eller, tunnel portal in the background

Tunnel portal at Eller

Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel at Eller, construction of the second tunnel tube 06-2010

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Ediger- Eller 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 location.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Structures

  • In the district Ediger Catholic parish church of St. Martin: two-aisled late Gothic church with a Romanesque baptismal font and altar from the Baroque period.
  • City ​​wall
  • Chapel of the Cross ( above the vineyards ) with relief "Christ in the winepress "
  • Residential Turmhofgut loams southeast of the town located near the neighboring village of Nehren located on the Moselle
  • Church of St. Hilary with late Romanesque tower
  • St. Arnulf Chapel with mural " Mocking of Christ "
  • Rochus - chapel opposite the church

Economy and infrastructure

The most significant economic sectors are viticulture and tourism. In the vineyards Riesling is grown mainly. It is an area of ​​approximately 22 ha for growing grapes available, which, however, due to the slope of a lot of manual work and requires muscle strength (→ steep vineyards ). After the wine in Calmontmassiv reasons of profitability declined for decades, some winemakers since 2005 again ready to restock their faces again. Among the local individual layers Ediger Elzhofberg and Ediger include Osterlämmchen.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Eduard David, born June 11, 1863 in Ediger, † December 24, 1930 in Berlin, German politician ( SPD), MdR, MP (Hesse), Minister of the Interior
  • Heinz Balthes (* 1937 in Ediger / Mosel), stage
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