Menningen

Menningen is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Irrel.

Geography

The village lies on the Prüm in the German - Luxembourg Nature Park.

History

Menningen is first mentioned in a document of the Abbey of Echternach from the period 771-814, as a " Mennegen ".

By the end of the 18th century belonged to the provost Menningen Echternach in Duchy of Luxembourg ( district Echternach ). In 1794, French revolutionary troops had the Austrian Netherlands, to which the region was at that time occupied. Under the French administration of the site from 1795 to the district Bitburg belonged in the department of forests and has been managed by the Mairie Enghien in the canton of Echternach. 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. Under the Prussian administration Menningen in 1816 assigned to the mayor's Ralingen in the district of Trier.

On June 7, 1969 Menningen was incorporated from the later resolution of the district of Trier and in the district of Bitburg.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Menningen 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.

Coat of arms

The crest is silver, divided by a blue wave Göpel, this in chief is a red three-arched bridge, on the right a red heraldic lily, topped with a silver cross, left betagleuchteter tower with a pitched roof, in the sign a nimbiertes grave cross, topped with a silver Schwurhand.

Culture and sights

The site of Menningen is dominated by the Menninger viaduct, a railway bridge in the former Nims Sauer rollercoaster of Erdorf about Irrel according to hedgehog. The Dry Stone building was put into operation in 1915 and destroyed in the second world war. In subsequent years, a somewhat simplified bridge, which still stands today was built. About the viaduct continues today no longer train; the route was decommissioned in 1988 and subsequently dismantled. On the route is predominantly a bike path.

The Church of St. Agatha from the 12th/13th. Century stands in the village center in the middle of aided by a powerful wall cemetery. The original Romanesque designs were lost in large part to conversions in 1688 and 1842.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Menningen