Gillenfeld
Gillespie Field ( in Eifel dialect: " Jillwed ") is a municipality in the volcanic Eifel region of Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Daun. Gillespie Field is a nationally recognized resort and recognized as a basic center in accordance with state planning.
- 4.1 street
- 4.2 railway
- 5.1 Gillenfelder Maare
- 5.2 The Trockenmaare - Drought Maar Maar and Hitsche
Geographical location
The place is located in the Eifel with a volcanic lake, the Pulvermaar. By Gille field of the Maare-Moselle cycle path on the route of the former railway line from Wittlich to Daun.
To Gille field also includes the residential places Andreashof, On the Maarhöhe, Birkenhof, Erlenhof, yard Romans Mountain, Johanneshof and Maarhof.
History
First mentioned was the place Gillespie Field in 1016, when Emperor Henry II had the Koblenz Florin pin awarded the market, coin and customs law to Gilliveld.
By the end of the 18th century, the Florin pin and the Arenberger exercised the basic rule in Gillespie Field. The provost of Florin pin held the high and low justice.
As a result of the French Revolutionary Wars, Gillespie Field had to suffer the troops through trains. From 1798 to 1814, the Gillenfelder members of the French Republic and the French Empire were (from 1804). Under the French administration Gille field belonged to the Saar Department. 1814/15 was the assignment of the entire Eifel to Prussia, and the French the official language was replaced again by the German. Between 1836 and 1884 a great wave of emigration to America and in the conquered by the French in Algeria was held from Gillespie Field, where 126 people left their hometown. In the years 1876 and 1887 the city was then hit by two devastating fires.
1876 was the lower village and 1887 Oberdorf victim to a conflagration. Only the foundation of the volunteer fire department in 1880, it is due, perhaps, that the fire in 1887 did not reach the proportions of 1876. Also known as vicarage can Gillenfeld look back on a long tradition. Early as 1220, the place appears as a parish and receives the Archbishop law. At the present day parish includes the villages of Gillespie Field Ellscheid, Saxler and angle. Parish Church is the built in 1898 St. Andrew's Church, which was built next to the old church, of which only the west tower still remained.
The events and the time of the Third Reich went with the occupation by U.S. forces on 10 March 1945 in Gillespie Field to an end.
In 1968, the new elementary school was built, and the village was extended by the strong demand for building land. The 1970s then brought the administrative reform which led to the dissolution of the Office Gillespie Field and integration in the community association Daun. On 22 March 1988, the route closure down -Wittlich led to the closure of the station Gillespie Field.
The development of the population of Gillespie Field, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Gille field consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman location.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms description reads: " Divided by wave cut; above in silver a red crown ( crown imperial ), below in blue with a silver jug. "
The imperial crown symbolizes conferred by the Emperor in the 11th century market, coin and customs rights; the shaft section and the blue color of the lower part Crest have the Gillenfelder maars and thus also on the back volcanism; the pitcher recalls basic rule of Koblenz Florin pin to seal various representations of the St. Florin has always been presented with a wine jug. The coat of arms was approved on 28 November 1990.
Traffic
Road
Gillespie Field can be reached via the A 1 / A 48 ( Koblenz- Trier- Saarbrücken), exit Mehren / Gille field, direction Zell / Mosel (B 421) or the departure Gillespie Field / Manderscheid (A 1 / A 48 Saarbruecken -Trier -Koblenz ) further direction Gillespie field ( Pulvermaar / Holzmaar )
Train
On December 1, 1909 Gillespie Field has been connected with the opening of the Maare-Mosel -Bahn to the German rail network. Since May 29, 1988 Gille field is no longer accessible by train.
Attractions
Gille fields Maare
Pulver is not far from Gillespie field is removed and is by Lake Constance and the Alps lakes of the deepest natural lake in Germany. In summer there is a brisk bathing here. Together with the Holzmaar it forms the Gillenfelder maars.
The Trockenmaare - Drought Maar Maar and Hitsche
West of Alftals lie in a group of volcanoes lined up three maars: Holzmaar, the drought and the Hitsche Maar Maar. They emerged one after another along the geological fault line: First, in the northwest of the Hitsche Maar, then the drought Maar and last Holzmaar in the southeast. Thus, the volcanic activity migrated from northwest to southeast. The Hitsche Maar Maar is the oldest and the youngest Holzmaar within this Maargruppe. These three maars incurred during the Weichsel glaciation and probably older than 20,000 years.
The age sequence of the three crater lakes can be derived from the superposition sequence of tuffs. Thus, the tuffs of Hitsche maar of the tuffs of droughts maar be covered and the tuffs of droughts maar again. Holzmaar by the tuffs of which have been thus recently ejected
Structures
See list of cultural monuments in Gillespie Field