Gindorf

Gindorf in the Eifel is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kyllburg.

Geography

Gindorf located northeast of Bitburg on the Gindorfer Plateau, a landscape of the so-called Food Land. To Gindorf includes the residential places and Lissenhof Wiesenhof.

History

The town was first mentioned in 893 in Prüm land register in under the name " Gingeyndorpht ".

The place belonged to the late 18th century to the provost Bitburg, which was a part of the Duchy of Luxembourg.

After 1792 French Revolutionary troops had the Austrian Netherlands, to which the duchy of Luxembourg and thus Gindorf was occupied and annexed in 1795 at that time. Under the French administration Gindorf 1795 was assigned to the Canton Dudeldorf, of the district Bitburg in the department of forests belonged administratively. Gindorf was the seat of a Mairie.

Following decisions at the Vienna Congress in 1815, the region came to the Kingdom of Prussia. Under the Prussian administration Gindorf belonged to the mayor's Ordorf in 1816 newly built district of Bitburg in the Trier region.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Gindorf 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.

Coat of arms

The blazon is: "Under a silver shield with seven main blue oblique right strips, in a golden red, sechsarmiges cross."

The colors of the bars indicate the former Luxembourg sovereignty. The six-armed cross is the attribute of the churches and local patron, St.. Urban.