Köwerich

Köwerich on the Mosel is a municipality in the Trier -Saar castle in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Schweich on the Roman wine road.

History

Köwerich is one of the towns of Trier country whose documented demonstrable history dates to the early Middle Ages. This Köwerich may rely on two documents of the years 704 and 710, about whose authenticity there is no doubt and their Latin forms of the name are identified in villa Cabriaco and in monte Cabracense clearly as Köwerich.

The individual certificates themselves are not included in the original, but delivered in a custom built in Echternach scriptorium manuscript of the 13th century - in short form, but with the main data from the substantive content. Both documents of the years 704 and 710 relating to the place Köwerich are closely related to the monastery of Echternach and its founders, patrons and benefactors founded a few years earlier. The manuscript contains 240 copies of documents or extracts from the 7th to the 13th century and is because of its valuable contents as the Golden Book of the Abbey of Echternach known - as Liber aureus Epternacencis. The Golden Book is now - kept in the manuscript department of research and university library in the peace stone castle in the Thuringian town of Gotha - after a triggered by the turmoil of the French Revolution adventurous odyssey.

Köwerich also plays a certain role in the family history from Beethoven: The mother of Ludwig van Beethoven was named Mary Magdalene Keverich because one of their ancestors came from the place. At St. Cunibert - ranked No. 2 is the home of the ancestors of Beethoven.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Köwerich 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.

Mayor

For mayor Robert Linden (WG Welter ) was elected unopposed with 65.0 % of votes.

Culture and sights

• At the meeting of the districts of Klüsserath, Köwerich home and kick on the left (north) side of the Moselle is an approximately three -meter high roof-shaped tapering sandstone block of about half a meter in thickness, aufweiset oval -shaped depressions in the lower part. It is in this stone suspected a Celtic standing stone. More Celtic finds on the outskirts support this thesis.

• St. Cunibert Church: Two stone altars from the time of the Thirty Years' War (1620 and 1624).

See also: List of cultural monuments in Köwerich

Freeman

The native Köwericher Dr. Paul Jostock, an advocate of Catholic social teaching was in 1963 made ​​an honorary citizen. The theses Jostocks that are also for the current issues of social policy and social reform of importance, were the basis for two aligned in Köwerich interdisciplinary and international symposia in 2004 and 2006. Facing his 40th death anniversary, the 5th Köwericher Academic were dedicated day in 2005 the topic "Social Justice ".

Vineyards

• Köwericher hero
• Köwericher Laurentiuslay