Gemünd

Sarreguemines is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality New Castle. Sarreguemines is a nationally recognized tourist.

Location

Gmünd is located in the Eifel and is named after the mouth of the stream Irsen in the Our. The place is located west of Rodershausen. Here is a bridge over the Our River, which serves as the border crossing to Luxembourg.

History

The the hl. Servatius chapel dedicated to the village was first mentioned in 1563, with the corresponding place was called Gemun.

Gemuend belonged to the late 18th century to the county of Vianden in Luxembourg.

After 1792 French Revolutionary troops had the Austrian Netherlands, which included the Duchy of Luxembourg, occupied and annexed in October 1795. From 1795 to 1814 the place to Canton New Castle belonged to the department of forests.

In 1815, the former Luxembourg territory east of the Sauer and the Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Thus, the community came Gemuend 1816 Bitburg in the Trier region in the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, which merged in 1822 in the Rhine Province. Gemuend was managed by the mayor Karlshausen. After the First World War temporarily occupied by the French, the place is since 1946 part of Rhineland- Palatinate.

The population has declined drastically in recent decades, it was still 101 in 1967, declined to 1972 by more than half to 45 and in 2010 was only 10 ( main residence ).

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

Parish council

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