Mürlenbach

Mürlenbach in the volcanic Eifel is a municipality in the volcanic Eifel region of Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Gerolstein. Mürlenbach is a nationally recognized resort.

  • 5.1 Rail transport
  • 5.2 Established businesses

Geography

Mürlenbach is located in the Natural Park of Volcanic Eifel and partly in the nature reserve " Gerolstein and environment."

To Mürlenbach includes the residential places Etzenberg, Grindelwald Born, Hanert, Hardt, house Hersbach, in crosses, Steinich and white soaps.

History

The Bertradaburg is regarded as one of the possible places of birth of Charlemagne, but this can not be evidence. The existence of the castle has been proven documented only since the 13th century (compare the Mittelrheinische document book ), but speak archaeological findings for the previous buildings still existing impressive castle undated age.

In and around Mürlenbach a series of Roman medieval remains ( smaller temples, coin hoards ) were observed, which are documented in the archives of the Rheinische Landesmuseum Trier. For a meaning in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the convenient location near the old Roman road from Trier speaks to Cologne at the junction of a side path the same. East These roads were used in all probability, at least until the High Middle Ages.

Whether Mürlenbach already in the Early Middle Ages belonged to the abbey of Prüm and would thus put in an indirect proximity to the Carolingian kingship, is also barely detectable. In the High Middle Ages, in any event, place and castle belonged to the abbey of Prüm. The castle was both as a border fortification as well as a retreat of the Prüm Monastery of importance.

With Anschließung the Abbey to the Electorate of Trier, the castle lost much since the 16th century in importance, although it was initially developed and provided with artillery bastions. After the secularization of the electorate after the French revolutionary wars which at that time already partially ruined castle was sold for use as a quarry.

A fire set up on 21 April 1824 severe devastation. 24 houses, 25 barns and stables and the church were destroyed or damaged.

Both church and local church presented to the 20th century as a regional center dar.

As part of Rhineland-Palatinate, functional and territorial reform Mürlenbach was reclassified along with 14 other communities on 7 November 1970 by the same resolution Prüm district in the county down (since 2007 County Volcanic Eifel ).

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

Religion

Most of the inhabitants are Christians Mürlenbachs, which, in turn, the vast majority Roman Catholic. There is in place a Catholic Church, St. Lucy Church.

Besides Christians lived since the second half of the 19th century until the late 1930s and Jews in Mürlenbach. Here the number on the basis of Census: 12 (1885 ), 8 ( 1895), 9 (1905 ), 4 ( 1930).

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Mürlenbach consists of twelve 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:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description reads: "In an elevated green, inflected, silver tip, is a red gatehouse with two towers, a blue Wellenschildfuß partly covering. In front is a silver lamb with flag, a red cross in it, behind a left inverted silver dagger ".

Economy and infrastructure

Rail transport

The breakpoint Mürlenbach is located on the Eifel circuit (Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein -Trier ), on the rail passenger transport the Eifel (RB 83) Gerolstein Trier wrong.

For the entire public transport (PT ) the rate of transport association Region Trier ( VRT) applies.

Established businesses

In Mürlenbach develops and manufactures the company Feluwa Pumps GmbH since 1960 process pumps and sewage lifting units, including dates, the complete pump system for the Berlin Lehrter Station and the environment of Spangdahlem Air Base pump technology of Feluwa.

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