KÃ¶rperich

Körperich is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality New Castle. Körperich is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

Geography

Körperich consists of the villages

Körperich and
Kewenig (4 km to the southeast ),
Niedersgegen (3 km to the southeast ),
Obersgegen (1 km to the north) and
Seimerich (1 km to the south).

The main village is situated on the Körperich Gaybach, a tributary of the Sauer. To the west lies approximately 3 km away, the Luxembourg border at Roth an der Our, in the east Hüttingen.

The annual rainfall is 802 mm. The deposits are located in the middle third of the detected values in Germany. At 63% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values are registered. The driest month is April, the most rainfall comes in November. In November, falling 1.4 times more precipitation than in April. Precipitation varies only slightly and are distributed extremely evenly throughout the year. At only 1% of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Finds from the Stone Age evidence of early colonization. A cremation cemetery and the remains of Roman buildings also bear witness to a settlement in Roman times.

First records of the place is in a donation record of 783, where in a document a Theugerus and a Harduvicus as Schenker of goods are called to the Abbey of Echternach and Körperich as Geine at the Geihe ( Gaybach ) refers.

1330 leads the taxa generalis Körperich as Kirpurg to 1570 then as Kirprich. For a long time in the Middle Ages and then Körperich belonged to the county of Vianden Luxembourg.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had the Austrian Netherlands, which included the Duchy of Luxembourg, occupied and annexed in October 1795. From 1795 to 1814 the town belonged to the canton of Vianden in the forests department. Körperich was the seat of a Mairie.

In 1815, the former Luxembourg territory east of the Sauer and the Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. This is the place Körperich 1816 Bitburg came in the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, which merged in 1822 in the Rhine Province in the Trier region. Körperich was the official residence of the mayor of the same name.

After World War II temporarily occupied by the French, the place is since 1946 part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

On 7 June 1969, the church today Körperich was from the communities Körperich ( 562 inhabitants), Niedersgegen (164) Obersgegen (296) and Seimerich (91 ) formed anew. The community Kewenig was incorporated into Niedersgegen on July 1, 1967.

The development of the population of Körperich based on the present-day municipality; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Körperich 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 is: " In gold, a red slant Links bar topped with three white Maltese crosses on the figure and accompanied by two red lilies ".

Attractions

The foundations of the Catholic parish church of St. Hubertus date from the Middle Ages. However, it was rebuilt in 1790, the west tower was added in 1826. 1924 was extended by built a new choir in the south and re- created the entrance on the north side. Worth mentioning the Rococo altar in white and gold, and on the door of the tabernacle is rotatable a relief-like representation of the sacrifice of Isaac.