Fleringen, Germany
Fleringen is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Prüm.
Geography
Fleringen lies 508 m above sea level, in the foothills of the Prüm Kalkmulde between Waller home and Rommersheim. The landscape is characterized by flat heights with rugged dolomite limestone rocks.
Baselt is a district of Fleringen. The municipality also includes the living spaces in the Muhl, Lindenhof, Zingsheld, Eisenackerhof and Riedhof.
History
Since early medieval estates, manorial system, as well as the sovereignty lay in Fleringen at the Trier Abbey of St. Irminen. After years of controversy, the Abbey of St. Irminen left in 1761, the two villages Fleringen and Oberhersdorf the Duke of Arenberg for 250 thalers yearly lease and thus he acquired as a fief of the income and rights of dominion Fleringen.
The stock owners to Fleringen and Oberhersdorf had taken after the occupation of the country by France (1794 ) the exclusive possession of the forests in claim and therefore started a lawsuit against the church. The prefect of the department of Saarland, however, brought an action conflict with a decision of 10 January, 1807. Due to the decisions of the Congress of Vienna came Fleringen 1815 to Prussia. In 1817, the stock owner asked the Prussian Ministry of the Interior to decide the Konfiktsklage or recognize their right to property. The Home Office ruled in favor of the stock owners. Therefore, the community has as yet been no community forest.
During the emergency period in the second half of the 19th century, many inhabitants emigrated to the United States. The Second World War taught in place of considerable destruction, which are barely visible today.
The development of the population of Fleringen, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Parish council
The local council in Fleringen 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.
Attractions
- Catholic Parish Church of St. Luke
- The Kraus Book ( Süntel Book )
- Menhir at Fleringen
See also: List of cultural monuments in Fleringen
Church of St. Luke
The Fleringer Church of St. Luke is already mentioned in 1330. Tower and chancel represent the oldest part dar. In a visitation report of 1570 is called the state of the church building ruinous and urges the cultivation of a nave, but this was not carried out until 1683. Tower and chancel were preserved.
The choir is about pulling a late Gothic stellar vault. The Baroque altar called as Year 1663 and as customize Johann Molitor of Prum. Above the tabernacle is in a shell niche a Holzfiguar St. Luke and also in a small niche, the hl. Catherine. The side panels of the altar carry over the doors to the sacristy a Pieta right and left mother Anne with Mary and the child. Right next to the Arc de Triomphe, which concludes the choir falls, against a light background to the Mother of God figure with child. An old Rhenish work.
In the years 1973/1974 the interior of the church was renovated. Some of defective parts, such as wood pulpit, confessional, side altar and wood paneling were removed. In the chancel were discovered old ceiling paintings, which have been expertly restored. Make Christ is the Judge of the world, surrounded by the four evangelists. The Prüm Folk Museum displays on loan to an old Fleringer chasuble, a precious silk embroidery, called "Kölner Border", which probably dates from 1421.
A book from 1922 can be seen that there is one of the oldest bells in the region in Fleringen. It is the middle bell, the "New restored in 1956 ," carrying a unrecognizable coat of arms in 1400 and to the inscription. So to assume that it is still is this old bell.