Hinterweiler

Hinterweiler is a municipality in the volcanic Eifel region of Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Daun.

Location

Hinterweiler located southeast of Rockeskyll between Kirchweiler and Betteldorf. The seriousness of a mountain, the second highest mountain in the Eifel ( 699 m above sea level. NN ), the spatial location is southeast on the boundary of the municipality.

History

By the end of the 18th century Hinterweiler belonged to the Electoral-Trier office down. During the so-called French period ( 1798-1814 ) Hinterweiler was assigned to the Canton Gerolstein in the Saarland Department. After the region was awarded the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, following the decisions of the Congress of Vienna, the community Hinterweiler stood from 1816 to under the administration of mayor Rockeskyll in the Kreis Daun, who was part of the district of Koblenz in the Rhine Province (1822 ).

From the Middle Ages to about 1930 of Ernst mountain millstones were broken at the base.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Hinterweiler 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 description reads: " sign with arch divided the main shield, the top of a growing silver, black, rotbewehrter eagle, down in a green with three golden ears occupied, silver millstone".

The green mountain crest in the lower part represents the nearly 700 -meter-high Ernstberg. The millstone documented the recovery of the millstones. The golden ears indicate that agriculture was for centuries the main source of income of the village. The eagle is the attribute of the local and the church patron, St. John the Evangelist.

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