Karlshausen

Karlshausen ( Luxembourgish: Korelsen ) is a municipality in the Eifel region in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality New Castle.

Geography

Karlshausen is located in the South Eifel nature. The municipality also includes the villages and habitations Finkenhof, Gashof, Hood Dell, The Gay, Juckerstraße, Karl Hauser mill Lutgeshof, Peiferhof, Schranzenhof and Wolperdorf.

History

An early settlement of the landscape around Karlshausen in Roman times is to insinuate by appropriate findings. The name suffix -sen indicates an original settlement from the Carolingian period. In the records of the Trinitarians of Vianden was already in 1348 by a church de Carlshuse the speech. In the archives of the Diocese of Trier, a church was recorded in 1389 to Carelshusen, 1640 Karlshausen is recorded as an independent parish.

Wonderful country, the village belonged to the end of the 18th century in the county of Vianden Duchy of Luxembourg, which was part of the Austrian Netherlands. After taking the region by French revolutionary troops (1794 ) Karlshausen belonged from 1795 to 1814 for Canton New Castle in the French department of forests.

Due to the decisions on the Congress of Vienna, the former Luxembourg territory east of the Sauer and the Our 1815 assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia. Karlshausen was seat of the mayor's office in 1816 newly built district of Bitburg in the Trier region. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

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

Parish council

The local council in Karlshausen 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.

Attractions

• The chapel with star vaults and Bohemian cap was built in 1861 with building materials from the demolition of the former parish church of 1547.
• In the center is the parish church of St. Bartholomew, a four-axle, novelty acting hall building of 1861.

• In addition to the parish church a niche cross was erected in 1950, whose original location is not known, but which probably dates from the first half of the 17th century.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Karlshausen

Education

Karlshausen is the seat of a primary school and a kindergarten. The catchment area primary school includes the local communities Karlshausen, Leimbach, doubt Scheid, Sevenig, Scheitenkorb, Dauwelshausen, Sarreguemines, About Eisenbach, Affler, Rodershausen, Waldhof- Falkenstein, Gaymühle, Keppeshausen and Bauler.