Sankt Thomas
St. Thomas is a municipality in the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kyllburg. The place name is derived from the lying on the boundary of the municipality of the former monastery of Saint Thomas. St. Thomas is a nationally recognized tourist.
Geography
St. Thomas is located in the Valley of the Kyll. The municipality also includes the residential places Bruderholzstrasse, Kasholz, St. Johann and Forestry House locust forest.
History
The first written mention of the village dates from the year 973 was originally the place Ernistburen, later called Boers or alder Erlesbura. Only later the place took the name of the monastery. The three historic districts are the Bering monastery, the monastery mill beyond the Kyll and the buildings around the east bridgehead of the Kyllbrücke, which south of the monastery mill and monastery is located.
The development of the population of Saint Thomas, the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Saint Thomas is composed 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.
Community partnership
The municipality of St. Thomas maintains a community partnership with the French community Pontigny.
Monastery
In St. Thomas, the former Cistercian Monastery St. Thomas is at the Kyll that the diocese of Trier serves as a training center today. The convent was founded in 1170 in the vicinity of Thomas Beckett in honor built chapel. The monastery of St. Thomas was canceled because of the secularization in 1802, making the place at the same time the economic basis was taken. After the Prussian state had bought the house in 1847, it was left by him in 1852 to the Bishop of Trier, which used it until 1942 as a prison ( Demeritenhaus ) for clergy. In the period 1957-1974 the house served as a Catholic country elementary school of the Diocese of Trier.
Today the former monastery serves as a retreat center of the Diocese of St. Thomas Trier. The Retreat House St. Thomas wants his own words, " provide room and give impulses. People and events people want to accompany you on the journey of faith and life. "
Traffic
The breakpoint St. Thomas is located on the Eifel circuit (Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein -Trier ), on the rail passenger transport the Eifel (RB 83) Gerolstein Trier wrong.
St. Thomas is one of the transport association Trier region. In seven km from the motorway is 60