Gillenbeuren

Gillenbeuren is a municipality in the district Cochem-Zell, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality elms.

Geography

The municipality is located in a valley in the southern Eifel. To Gillenbeuren includes the residential places Berghof and Birkenhof.

History

The first written record comes from the year 1220. The robber baron Johann Lutter Kobern was arrested in 1536 at Gillenbeuren and later executed in Koblenz.

By the end of the 18th century Gillenbeuren belonged to the Electorate of Trier and glorious country was assigned to the high court Alflen in the Official Cochem. In Trier fire book from 1563 22 hearths (households) in Gillenbeuren ( Gelenbeuren ) were recorded, in 1684 there were only ten.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had the left bank of the Rhine was annexed, from 1798 to 1814 belonged to the canton Gillenbeuren Lutzerath in the arrondissement of Koblenz in the Rhine -Moselle department. The municipal council ( Gille Beuren community representatives in the Mairie Lutzerath ) was the Civil Mertes. In the village there was a school teacher.

Due to the decisions on the Congress of Vienna ( 1815), the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia. Under the Prussian administration, the community Gillenbeuren came in 1816 for mayor Lutzerath in the district Cochem, who belonged to the Rhine Province to the new Region of Koblenz and from 1822 on.

Since 1946, the community Gillenbeuren is part of Rhineland- Palatinate, since 1969 it belongs to the district Cochem- Zell and since 1970 at the municipality elms.

1985 Gillenbeuren Regional winner in the competition " Our village is beautiful ."

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Gillenbeuren 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.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality Gillenbeuren is a section in the tiller Divided plate. It includes top in green three golden ears, the front of a golden red, diagonally right step bars, accompanied by the top three, down two golden crosses, back in a red gold, diagonally left sword.