Vulkaneifel

The county volcanic Eifel (until 31 December 2006 County Down ) is a district in the north-west of Rhineland -Palatinate in the Eifel and the smallest by population of the country as well as fourth-smallest of the covenant. The administrative headquarters of the district is located in Daun.

Geography

The county volcanic Eifel region in the western part of the same region with altitudes 150-700 m. Due to the earlier volcanism numerous mineral springs have emerged ( Sauerbrunnen ). The Kyll flows through the county territory in north-south direction. Furthermore, the circuit area by dragging the German game road that German road and volcano Eifelsteig.

Neighboring districts

It is bordered to the west by the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in the north by the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen and to the district of Ahrweiler, in the east by the district of Mayen -Koblenz and the district Cochem- Zell and on the south by the district of Bernkastel -Wittlich. In the municipality of Ormont the district area extends up to about 250 meters to Belgium zoom, has no common border with this, however, because of a land Strip of North Rhine -Westphalia.

History

The circular area of Daun was once part of the Electorate Electorate of Trier before 1800. In 1815, it came under Prussian administration and 1816 was the Kreis Daun, which was slightly modified several times throughout its history. In the 1970 local government reform it was last increased slightly. On 1 January 2007, the renaming came into the district of Eifel in force.

The county since 1994 has been the initiative Region Trier ( IRT).

Coat of arms

Description: In silver against gold split shields, covered with golden heart shield, is a polymer formed from three right and three left oblique strips red grille, front in silver a red beams cross, back in gold an upright -looking, red reinforced lion, covered with a fünflätzigen red Tournament collar (Coat of Arms February 25, 1951 Awards )

Meaning: The red cross represents the Electorate of Trier, the lion of the Counts of Blankenheim - Gerolstein. The heart sign was the root symbol of the Lords and later Count von Daun.

Policy

Council

The council of the district of Eifel consists of 38 elected volunteer council members and the district administration as chairman. After the last council elections on 7 June 2009, gives the following distribution of seats:

Due to the peculiarities of the Rhineland-Palatinate electoral system at the local elections (personalized proportional representation ), the percentage shown in the diagram are voting shares as a " weighted results " reported, which may reflect the voting behavior only arithmetically.

Landtag and the Bundestag

  • The Diet Constituency 20 - Vulkan Eifel is congruent with the county. At the last state election in 2011, Herbert Schneider (CDU ) was elected directly. Astrid Schmitt (SPD ) was elected on the regional list ( Rank 18) in the state legislature.
  • The county is part of the volcanic Eifel parliamentary constituency 203 - Bitburg. Was directly elected at the last general election in 2009 Patrick Schnieder (CDU ) from the district of Bitburg -Prüm. About the country list obtained Ulrike Höfken ( Alliance 90/The Greens ) from the district of Bitburg -Prüm a seat, as Edmund Geisen (FDP) from the district of volcanic Eifel.

Renaming

On 1 January 2007 the former County Down was renamed at the initiative of the then district administrator Heinz Onnertz district in the volcanic Eifel. Some years before there had been an attempt to change the name. At the time, the initiative of the CDU faction in the council had gone down. This was at that time, however, even at the urging of the population, discarded and has not been supported by the other parties in the council.

Traffic

The county volcanic Eifel is traversed in a north-south direction from the 1870/71 opened by the Rhenish Railway Company Eifel track Cologne -Trier. Is the node Gerolstein, the Prussian State Railways has taken as the starting point for the 1883 and 1895 went into operation in branch lines to Prüm and Daun Mayen her. From the last-mentioned railway, there were down from 1909 /10, cross connection to the Moselle main route Wengerohr (now Wittlich Hbf).

In 1912, came from military reasons following routes which will branch off from the main path through the Eifel:

To enable the network had reached a circumference of 179 km in length. 37 km for the regular passenger of which are left over after sections totaling 104 km were decommissioned in the postwar years:

This Eifelquerbahn is traversed since 2001 after ten -year break from the volcanic Eifel -Bahn -GmbH on weekends again.

The eastern district area is touched by the federal highways 1 ( Trier- Cologne) and 48 (Trier -Koblenz ). In addition, several federal, state and county roads run through the county territory, including the B 257, B 410 and B 421

Cities and Towns

(Population at 31 December 2012)

Association of communities with their member municipalities:

( The seat of the municipality *)

  • 2 municipality Gerolstein
  • 3 Hillesheim
  • 4 municipality Kelberg
  • 5 municipality Upper Kyll

District administrators

Others

In the northwestern part of the district there are the remains of the former West Wall.

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