Ließem
Ließem is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bitburg -Land.
Geography
The place is located in the south-west Eifel, about 10 km north- west of the county town of Bitburg. By Ließem the lower reaches of the Ehlenzbaches, a tributary of the Nims flows. The village is crossed by the national road 7 and a county road, whose intersection forms the center of the township. The nearest links to the motorway is 60 Bitburg in about three kilometers away. Of the 2.99 km ² large municipality, a comparatively high proportion is used for agriculture with 84%, only 4% of forest existed (as of 2012).
To Ließem includes the residential places Heidthof and resettlement knight and part of Ritter Dell.
History
The first written mention of the village was carried out in 1016 as " Liudesheim ". At the mention of a castle " Leyseim " as Luxembourg fief seat of the Earl of Schoenecken it was 1316. These later passed into the possession of the Electors of Trier Baldwin of Trier, who destroyed the mid 14th century. The castle was then rebuilt again.
The rule Ließem belonged to the end of the 18th century the Duchy of Luxembourg. From 1795 to 1814 the first place belonged to the Republic of France, and later to the French Empire, and was assigned to the Forest Department. The Ließemer castle was constructed in 1803 as the seat of the Biersdorfer Mairie, which passed in the same Prussian mayor's Beer village in 1816. The latter was founded in 1856 by the mayor Bickendorf ( 1927 Official ) replaced that was merged in the course of municipal reform in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1970 with four offices to the municipality Bitburg -Land.
1473 were registered three taxable hearths, a few years later there are two households. In the middle of the 19th century the place had 76 inhabitants in nine residential buildings. The population grew until 1895 to 110, went after the turn of the century until the 1970s continuously to about 80 back and is now at 81 (as at 31 December 2012).
The development of the population of Ließem, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Parish council
The local council in Ließem consists of six 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 now existing Burgbau originated in 1953 on the site of the destroyed castle in 1353. Within the building there is, inter alia, a rigging system from about 1600, and two abundant articulated mantelpieces from the 18th century. In the forecourt of the castle, built in 1893, a Pietà is made of sandstone. Since the mid-20th century, the estate of the family belongs lights.
Also worth seeing are the monuments of nature "Sycamore " in the castle area and the "300 - year old oak tree " at home Johann Meyer and the restored arch bridge over the Ehlenzbach.
See also: List of cultural monuments in Ließem