Ãœrzig
Ürzig is a municipality in the Mosel valley in the district of Bernkastel -Wittlich, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Bernkastel- Kues. Ürzig is a nationally recognized tourist.
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 community partnership
- 4.1 Structures
- 4.2 Ürziger spice garden
- 5.1 Viticulture
- 5.2 traffic
Geography
Geographical location
The local church is surrounded by vineyards in the Mosel large loop between Bernkastel- Kues and Traben -Trarbach, near Trier. Ürzig is located on the left bank of the river where extremely steep slopes rise to the Eifel; on the opposite side of the Moselle, the valley widens to a very flat landscape that eventually borders on the Hunsrück.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities are building village in the north, Kinheim and soils in the east and Zeltingen -Rachtig the south and west. Nearest regional center is about nine kilometers to double town of Bernkastel- Kues and about eight kilometers away Wittlich. Trier, the largest city in the region is about 37 kilometers away.
Population
The population density is 150 inhabitants per square kilometer. As a dialect is still spoken Moselle Franconian in the region, a dialect group of the Middle Franconian.
Climate
Ürzig lies in the transition zone from temperate maritime climate to the continental climate; it there is a very warm and sunny compared to other regions of Germany Air - at the nearby Brown Mountain was born on 11 August 1998, the record temperature of 41.2 ° C in the shade, the highest ever measured in the Federal Republic of air temperature detected.
Through the Eifel barrier Ürzig is right in the protection and the rain shadow of the westerly winds, which can also cause a Föhneffekt. At the same time an air heating is favored by low air exchange with the surrounding area. This is associated with a regular high humidity, which ensures, in particular in the summer for some incriminating, humid weather and brings many storms with them due to the constant evaporation of water Mosel.
History
In the vicinity were found remains of settlements from the Bronze Age. Around 500 BC, settled the Treverians, a Celtic- Germanic mixed people, of which the Latin name of the city of Trier, Augusta Treverorum derived, the region around Trier. Around 50 BC to 500 AD, followed by the Romans. Viticulture has always been important economic activity; especially spiritual wineries, such as the Abbey Himmerod Carmelite Springiersbach whose farms have been preserved, settled in the Mosel village.
Since 1946 it has been part of the newly founded state of Rhineland- Palatinate.
Policy
Parish council
The local council in Ürzig 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. The twelve seats are distributed among three groups of voters.
Community partnership
- The local church Ürzig maintains a partnership with the community Aloxe- Corton, France.
Culture and sights
Structures
The historic center of Ürzig is full of small alleys and angles as well as the old patrician and half-timbered houses from the 16th and 17th centuries. Therefore, the entire historic quarter, with the Catholic parish church of St. Maternus and the half-timbered houses was placed on the main square as a conservation zone under monument protection.
Knights gender once built three castles, only one of which is still preserved as a ruin. Is a sundial on the remains of a former watch tower in the vineyards. The Ürziger sundial is the oldest sundial on the Mosel. A baroque Moenchhof on the promenade was the end of the 1980s as the setting for the television production Moselbrück.
Ürziger spice garden
In June 2005 the Ürziger spice garden was inaugurated as a regional attraction. In the project on behalf of the Cultural Office Bernkastel -Kues is a Mediterranean herb garden in an exposed steep slopes of Ürziger Würzgartens. There grow and bloom a total of 10,000 perennials in over 160 varieties, thousands of bulbous plants native shrubs, wild roses and historic roses as well as traditional medicinal and aromatic plants.
Economy and infrastructure
The most significant economic sectors are viticulture and tourism.
Viniculture
In Ürzig today there are several wineries that grow Riesling mainly on steep slopes. Best-known vineyard is the Ürziger Würzgarten; Furthermore, there is the less known vineyard Ürziger Goldwingert. They belong to the wine growing region Mosel- Saar- Ruwer.
Traffic
Ürzig is located on the main road 53, which runs along the Mosel from Trier to Alf. It is part of the Mosel Wine Road, a 242 km long tourist route from Perl on the German- French border to Koblenz. Immediately upon Ürzig the construction of a high- Moselle crossing the main road 50 is planned.
The place has a dock for the Mosel shipping. From May to October it is approached regularly scheduled services from the Mosel Ship Tourism.
The train station of Ürzig located just three kilometers outside the actual town on the railway line route Mosel between Trier and Koblenz.
The local church is one of the transport association Region Trier ( VRT).
Famous sons and daughters
- Christian Dieden (* 1810, † 1898), politician, member of the Reichstag
- Karl Christoffel (* 1895, † 1986), historian and writer
- Edmund Conen (* 1914, † 1990) national football team
- Günter Eymael (* 1952), politician