Nattenheim

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

Geography

Nattenheim is on belonging to Gutland Bickendorfer plateau. The municipality also includes the residential places Gersthof, Nattenheimer mill yard Solve mountain and Mühlenhof.

The main towns in the area are Bickendorf, Fließem and knights village. The nearest town is the county town of Bitburg.

History

1875 was west of the Roman road Trier- Cologne handling a Roman temple with fragmentary inscription and limestone statuette found. In this area also two Roman milestones of 121 and 139 AD were found. Nattenheim was the monastery of Echternach bequeathed in a deed of gift of 759 as " Nathneim ", later the site came to the abbey of Prüm. He counted up to the French time to rule Knights village in the Duchy of Luxembourg. In the 16th century consisted in Nattenheim, detectable from 1522 to the relocation to Bickendorf before 1596, a post office at the Netherlands postal route from Brussels Rheinhaus Augsburg and Innsbruck to Italy.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Nattenheim consists of twelve 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 two-part coat of arms shows in chief a red Glevenkreuz borrowed the coat of arms of the monastery of Echternach, and the hunting horn in the lower part, attribute the local Patrones Hubertus.

Attractions

  • The neo-Romanesque church of St. Hubertus was built in 1875, it is a Kalksteinquaderbau with Sandsteinhauwerk probably at the site of the 1570 mentioned earlier building, probably comes also a baptismal font from the 18th century.
  • Numerous farms and houses of the 18th and 19th century are well preserved in place.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Nattenheim

Others

Nattenheim is known as the village of witches throughout the West Eifel; which hath foundations of this fame, but is unknown. What is striking is the number of witch legends from Nattenheim.

Gutland (Luxembourg) Rittersdorf, Rhineland-Palatinate Oberhausen-Rheinhausen Municipal council Baustert Bettingen, Rhineland-Palatinate Biersdorf am See Brecht, Germany Brimingen Dahlem, Rhineland-Palatinate Dockendorf Dudeldorf Echtershausen Ehlenz Enzen Gondorf Halsdorf Hamm, Bitburg-Prüm Heilenbach Hisel Idesheim Ingendorf Meckel, Germany Messerich Metterich Niederstedem Niederweiler, Bitburg-Prüm Oberstedem Oberweis, Germany Sefferweich Wettlingen Wiersdorf Wolsfeld
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