Klotten

Klotten, official spelling to 6 December 1935: Clotten, is a municipality in the district Cochem-Zell, in Rhineland -Palatinate. The belongs to the municipality of Cochem. Klotten is a nationally recognized tourist.

Geography

The wine Klotten lies on the Moselle and surrounded by steep slate slopes. Vineyards are Coraidelstein castle, Brown and Rosenberg.

History

The place is mentioned in documents in 698. The Queen of Poland Richeza, daughter of the Count Palatine Ezzo and granddaughter of Emperor Otto II, probably held on with her three children from 1040 to 1049 in Klotten. In Klotten they had had a chapel ( St. Nicholas Church ) and a residential tower built, which was connected by a bridge to the chapel. Your possessions she had bequeathed to the Benedictine Abbey Brauweiler near Cologne after her death on 21 March 1063. Your sarcophagus is now at the Cologne Cathedral, left behind the high altar, the Three Kings Shrine.

The state rule Kurtriers ended with the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine 1794/96 by French revolutionary troops. Until 1814 Klotten belonged to the Mairie Pomerania in the canton of Cochem. 1815, the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946 it has been part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Klotten 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.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Community partnership

Klotten maintains since 1972 a partnership with the community Berlaimont in the French region of Nord -Pas -de -Calais.

Attractions

On a hilltop castle located on Klotten Coraidelstein. Nearby on the Moselhöhe is the Wildlife and Leisure Park Klotten. Worth seeing are the lying on Moselhöhenweg hand chapel and the nature reserve Dortebachtal

Since 2002 located in the late-Gothic parish church of St. Maximinus, a relic of Poland Queen Richeza.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Klotten

Steeple

Board with the arms of Klotten and the partner community Berlaimont