Jünkerath
Juenkerath is a municipality in the volcanic Eifel region of Rhineland -Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Upper Kyll who it belongs too. Juenkerath is a nationally recognized resort and recognized as a basic center in accordance with state planning.
Geography
Juenkerath with the district Glaadt located in Kylltal in the Eifel. Geologically Juenkerath to Kalkeifel.
History
The name is derived from Icorigium, a station on the Roman road Trier- Cologne, which is already listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana from the 4th century.
The present municipality was part of the direct imperial rule Juenkerath was to Manderscheid - Blankenheim since the 15th century belonged to the counts.
In 1687, Count Ernst von Manderscheid - Salentin Blankenheim an ironworks in Juenkerath, which later developed the Jünkerather union.
As a result of the Peace of Luneville Juenkerath fell like the entire left bank of the Rhine to France in 1801 and arrived in 1815, following the decisions of the Congress of Vienna to Prussia. Count Sternberg - Manderscheid as ruler in the kingdom received in 1803 for the loss of Blankenheim, Juenkerath, Gerolstein and Dolldorf as compensation, inter alia, the estates of former monasteries Weissenau and shot Ried in Upper Swabia awarded.
On October 9, 1910, a troop train collided with a passenger train and Juenkerath. In this case, 16 people died and 28 others were injured.
The municipality was formed Juenkerath new on 27 February 1930 on a statutory basis. In the "Law concerning the formation of the rural community Juenkerath ( Kreis Daun )" was defined:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Juenkerath consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The distribution of seats in the local council:
Coat of arms
The blazon of the coat of arms of Juenkerath reads: " In the blue field is a silver gold crowned lion, surrounded by five golden lilies and covered with a red fünflätzigen Tournament collar. "
The Jünkerather coat of arms dates back to the coat of arms of the lords of Junkeroide as site -based nobility and the original membership of the rule Schleiden. The red Tournament collar is the coat of arms of the Counts of Manderscheid - Blankenheim borrowed the possessed from the 15th century to the rich direct control Juenkerath. The coat of arms of the municipality Juenkerath was approved on 28 March 1935.
Traffic
The Juenkerath station is located on the Eifel circuit (Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein -Trier ), on the local passenger
- RE 12 " Eifel -Mosel- Express" Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein Trier
- RE 22 " Eifel- Express" Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein By binding to Trier (RB 83) and
- RB 24 " Eifel -Bahn " Cologne - Euskirchen - Kall, operate in rush hour to Gerolstein.
For the entire public transport tariff of the transport association region applies Trier (VRT ) and the tariff of the transport association Rhein-Sieg and collective space border of the NRW - tariff.
In Juenkerath also branched off the disused and now dismantled Vennquerbahn about Losheim / Belgian frontier to Malmedy.
Museums
- The Iron Museum in Juenkerath documents the history of the Eifel iron industry since the 15th century. Exhibits include, inter alia, molds, decorative stoves, stove cast iron plates and much more.
- In Railroad Museum Juenkerath a number of interesting exhibits from over 140 years of railway history Jünkerather be shown, such as a unique space in the Eifel collection of railway service caps.
Sons and daughters of the community
- Therese Schlundt (* 1922), Midwife