Herzfeld
Herzfeld is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. She is a member of the collective municipality.
Geography
The municipality is located in the western Eifel, immediately south of the community Leidenborn, located around 5 km from the border triangle Germany - Belgium - Luxembourg. Neighboring communities are suffering Born in the East, Seng Erich in the southeast, Esch field in the south, the west and Harspelt Lützkampen in the northwest. Nearly three-quarters of the municipality is agricultural land, about 20 percent forest cover.
History
By the end of the 18th century Herzfeld was a hamlet that belonged to dairy Harspelt, then to the dairy Leidenborn in the reign Dasbourg. In 1800, four households ( hearths) were counted with 30 inhabitants. At the heart of field included the two courts " Locherhof " and " yard Neuenberg " together with 8 inhabitants.
In the context of the Napoleonic Wars, the region came under French administration in 1794 and was one of 1798 at the Mairie Leidenborn in the canton of Prüm in the Saarland Department. Herzfeld was a separate municipality. Ecclesiastical belonged to the parish Herzfeld Großkampen, which belonged to the deanery in the diocese of Liege Stablo. After the Rhineland came under the Treaties, the Congress of Vienna to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, Herzfeld belonged to the mayor's Leidenborn in the 1816 newly created district of Prüm.
The development of the population, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Data source: Statistical Office of Rhineland -Palatinate
Policy
The local council in Herzfeld 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.
Cultural monuments
- Worth seeing is a built in 1830 house with knee wall; the five-axis residential part followed by Backhaus shows late classical motifs ..
Economy and infrastructure
Herzfeld is an agricultural municipality today. The largest employer in the community is a carpenter. Since 1971, when eight farms had been counted yet, the agricultural area of 198 ha to 264 ha ( 2005) has increased, which were managed by four companies.
Among the companies in Leidenborn is a courtyard that breeds Galloway cattle and Camargue horses.