Hellenthal

Hellenthal is a municipality in the Eifel region and belongs to the district of Euskirchen. In addition to his own for the Eifel conditions strikingly large number of villages and hamlets (see below) Hellenthal is nationally known for the Oleftalsperre, his game reserve with bird show and the visitor mine pit welfare. The large model railway exhibition ArsTecnica and the international exhibition of Christmas cribs " Krippana " located near the hamlet of Losheim at the German - Belgian border. In the spring, between mid-April and mid-May, blooming million wild daffodils in the valleys in the German -Belgian border.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 Mayor
  • 3.2 municipal
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms and Seal
  • 4.1 Museums
  • 4.2 Structures
  • 4.3 Tourism

Geography

Geographical Location

Hellenthal is the southernmost municipality of North Rhine- Westphalia. To the south of the district downside is the southernmost point of the federal state, the Losheimer Landgraben.

Community structure

  • Related places and hamlets, special features in brackets:
  • Treatment I
  • Preparation II
  • Büschem
  • Blumenthal
  • Fracture
  • Bungenberg
  • Dickerscheid
  • Dommersbach
  • Calibrate
  • Felser
  • Giescheid
  • Pit welfare
  • Hahnberg
  • House - oaks
  • Hedges
  • Heiden
  • Hescheld
  • Hönningen
  • Hollerath (winter sports resort, ski lift )
  • Inger Berg
  • Kamberg
  • Kammerwald
  • Return ( Southernmost point of NRW )
  • Kradenhövel
  • Kreuzberg
  • Linden
  • Losheim
  • Losheimergraben (border crossing to Belgium )
  • Manscheid
  • Miescheid
  • Miescheiderheide
  • Neuhaus
  • Oberdalmerscheid
  • Oberpreth
  • Oberreifferscheid
  • Oberschömbach
  • Paulushof
  • Pfeiffershof
  • Platiß
  • Ramscheid
  • Junk Eider height
  • Reifferscheid ( historical Burgdorf, held annually castle festival at the castle Reifferscheid )
  • Rescheid ( visitor mine )
  • Rodenbusch
  • Schnorr mountain
  • Schwalenbach
  • Sieberath
  • Udenbreth (winter sports area "White Stone", a ski lift )
  • Unterdalmerscheid
  • Unterpreth
  • Unterschömbach
  • Wahld
  • Meadows
  • Wildenburg with the Wildenstein Castle (Eifel )
  • Winten
  • Witt Scheid
  • Wolfert
  • Wollenberg
  • Ten point
  • Zingscheid

Neighboring communities

  • Town of Monschau ( Aachen region )
  • City Schleiden ( Euskirchen )
  • Community Kall ( Euskirchen )
  • Nice community home ( Euskirchen )
  • Dahlem ( Euskirchen )
  • Local communities Hallschlag, Ormont and Scheid (VG Upper Kyll, Eifel district, RLP)
  • Local church Roth bei Prüm (VBG Prüm, Eifel district of Bitburg -Prüm, RLP)
  • Community Büllingen (B )
  • Bütgenbach (B )

History

"With the invasion of French troops in the fall of 1794, the medieval territorial lordships were swept away. The country received a new administrative structure that follows the French centralist order. Reifferscheid, Kronenburg and Schleiden were cantonal capitals, which mairies ( mayors ) were assumed. Prussia, which took over our area in 1819 after a brief episode in the reign of Mecklenburg -Strelitz, who once made administrative division remained largely at Hellenthal, Hollerath and Udenbreth were ever a mayor in the district of Blankenheim, the first combined with the circle Gemuend and after the administration was moved in 1829 by Schleiden, henceforth the name, district Schleiden ' led. "

Since the Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919, which dictated the separation of the districts of Eupen and Malmedy, located in Hellenthal on a length of 17 km, the western boundary of the former German Empire and the present Federal Republic to the Kingdom of Belgium.

In December 1944, the Western Front was in the area of Hellenthal. On 16 December the Wehrmacht began the Battle of the Bulge: she moved two weeks ago in length and lost ground in the weeks afterwards.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1969, the former municipalities Hellenthal, Hollerath, Losheim and Udenbreth were merged to form the new town of Hellenthal basis of the law on the restructuring of municipalities of the district Schleiden. Two and a half years later, with the entry into force of the law on the restructuring of municipalities and districts of the restructuring space Aachen ( Aachen- law ) 1 January 1972 Hellenthal were three corridors from ( Kerperscheid ) to the neighboring town of Schleiden. At the same areas from the community were Kall (to the places Bungenberg, hedges, heaths, Kreuzberg, Linden, Manscheid, Oberschömbach, Unterschömbach, Paulushof, Wildenburg and Winten the original local elections ) incorporated into the town of Hellenthal.

Policy

Mayor

  • Full-time mayor Rudolf Westerburg (independent)
  • 1 Deputy. Mayor Werner Wamser (SPD )
  • 2 Deputy. Mayor Peter Brown (FDP)

Parish council

Due to the recent local elections of 30 August 2009, the municipal council of Hellenthal is composed as follows:

  • CDU 11 seats
  • SPD 9 seats
  • FDP 4 seats
  • UWV 3 seats
  • BVH 3 seats
  • Green 2 seats

(As of municipal elections of 30 August 2009)

Coat of Arms and Seal

The town of Hellenthal has been awarded with certificate of the District President of Cologne on 8 July 1988 the right to bear a coat of arms and an official seal.

  • Blazon: " Shared by blue and silver; above a silver cross of St. Anthony, below a red heart-shaped shield, surmounted by a 5 - lätzigen tournament blue collar. "
  • Meaning: The cross of St. Anthony is a landmark Bright valley, it was located - within - Tartschenschildes on the keystone of the main portal and the crown of the ridge turret on the built about 1520 Anthony Chapel in Hellenthal. In the lower part of the root shield coat of arms of the noble family of Reifferscheid because part of Hellenthal belonged to the manor and parish Reifferscheid.
  • Description of the Seal: " Top of the seal round the blazon of the church in black and white outline drawing, inscription: TOWN HELLENTHAL, transcription below: CIRCLE EUSKIRCHEN "

Culture, attractions and tourism

Museums

  • Visitors' Mine " pit welfare" ( Rescheid )
  • ArsKRIPPANA, a Crib Exhibition ( Losheim, part of the Ardennes culture Boulevard)
  • ArsTecnica with 110 sqm large model railway and various dioramas ( Losheim, part of the Ardennes culture Boulevard)
  • ArsFIGURA, a doll exhibition ( Losheim, part of the Ardennes culture Boulevard)
  • Exhibition " Weather, Climate, Man" ( Udenbreth )

Structures

  • Tower Eifel Bärbel Cross
  • Castle ruins Reifferscheid
  • Wildenstein Castle
  • Oleftalsperre
  • Grenzlandhalle
  • West Wall Systems

See also: list of architectural monuments in Hellenthal

Tourism

  • The municipal area there are numerous remains of the former West Wall, including at the Oleftalsperre and along the Belgian border.
  • Game Hellenthal with bird show Hellenthal
  • The National Park Information Point Hellenthal detailed information about the tourist attractions in the national park Eifel.
  • In the districts Udenbreth and Hollerath ski slope, toboggan hill and cross-country ski trails winter sports are offered.
  • Due to the location of the bike path leads Eifel- altitude route that leads as a circuit around the national park Eifel.
  • The bike path valleys route also runs through the village. It opens up interesting tourist places in North Rhine -Westphalia on family-friendly route.
  • There are also some local cycling: - Circular Oleftalsperre Hellenthal (13,5 km ) - Urftseeroute Gemuend - Urfttalsperre and back ( about 20 km) - Bright Thalerhöhe route (25,5 km )
  • Oleftalbahn (see Transport)

Traffic

The community Hellenthal lies in the catchment area of ​​the A 1 B 265 leads in a north-south direction through the municipal area; in the south the B 421 touches the community.

Hellenthal is the terminus of Oleftalbahn Kall, with further station in Hellenthal- Blumenthal. Since autumn 2010, are held every Sunday and public holiday during the summer months instead of tourist rides with a historic railcar MAN to Hellenthal.

Another station consisted in Hellenthal- Losheim at the back built in 2004 Vennquerbahn. This resulted from Juenkerath over the Belgian border to Malmedy Malmedy or.

The central connection point for public transport is the bus station Bright Thaler today. From there, there by bus RVK a connection through the valley of Schleiden by Kall. The connection of the rear districts to the bus station is ensured by additional bus services in direct connection. These lines are mostly as Paratransit, that is, only to booking, serviced.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Karl Haas, Jewish merchants from Hellenthal Cherry Seiffen and persecuted during the Holocaust (1890 -? )
  • Willibald Kirfel, Indologist from Reifferscheid (1885-1964)
  • Peter Klinkhammer, senior teacher and "father of skiing " in Hollerath (1865-1945)
  • Carl Pirath, traffic scientists
  • Albert Poensgen, from the village of Seiffen cherry, industrialist
  • Julius Poensgen, from the village of Seiffen Kirsch, Industrial and Commerce
  • Karl Reger, auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Aachen
  • Eugen Virmond, chronicler of Schleidener Oberthales (1844-1906)
  • Reinhold Wirtz (1842-1898), architect and Diocesan architect

Known electorate

  • Hermann Ritter, "Professor of Hellenthal " teacher in Reifferscheid, writer (1864-1925)
  • Fritz von Wille, landscape painter, lived for a time in Reifferscheid ( 1899-1905 and 1908-1911 )
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