Schankweiler

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

Geography

The municipality is located in the South Eifel nature, ranging from the northern slope of the plateau Ferschweiler down into Enztal. To Schankweiler and the living space belongs Rohrbacher mill.

History

Grave findings provide evidence for an early settlement of this area. From the time of the Corded Ware culture of the Hallstatt culture to Roman legacies are detected. The Franks left a vast burial ground and various individual graves. So it must be of some 4000 years of continuous settlement history in this area.

The first mention of the village by name Schankweiler ( Crenchovilare ) shows a deed of gift of 721, in the Bertrada and her son Charibert give their closed -owned Crenchovillare in Bedgau at the Prüm the monastery of Echternach.

In the early Middle Ages Schankweiler was as much as Holsthum the Luxembourg rule Bourscheid that those came from 1496 in the possession of various lines of the noble family von Metternich and 1753 the barons Schenk von Schmidt castle.

The parish Schankweiler belonged to the deanery Bitburg in the archdiocese of Trier, Holsthum was a branch of Schankweiler. Patron saint of the church has always been St. Michael. 1570 the parish was still called Hoilzwiler, in a visitation log from this time Holtz Wiler was replaced by Schunkwiler. From 1658, only the current name Schankweiler in use. 1594 the present church was built or renewed. The tower, without a helmet, and the vestry was added in 1729. 1796, the two bells were confiscated in the first coalition war by the French. Today, St. Michael 's Schankweiler a branch church of Holsthum and belongs to the parish community Alsdorf -Eisenach - Holsthum - Irrel the Dean Bitburg.

In 1757, the school building is not yet available, but there was a " winter school " the teacher was set for three months each.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Schankweiler 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 blazon is: " In red with a silver, seven- tiered stepped gable, topped with a red, silver betagleuchteten chapel with roof skylights over blue wave beams, accompanied right of a silver cup, left by a silver oak leaf with three silver acorns ".

Attractions

• The Schankweiler Klause is a 1762/63 established pilgrimage church with valuable high altar.
• The parish church of St. Michael is a single-nave building with a cross -ribbed vaults originating in the 16th century.
• The Women's Bill Cross is a menhir, which was fashioned into a cross. He stands at a roadside on the Ferschweiler plateau in the Eifel, between Ferschweiler, Schankweiler, Nusbaum and Boll village.
• Stem cross on a farm on the opposite Enzseite
• East of the village is a stone cist grave.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Schankweiler