Waldorf, Rhineland-Palatinate

Waldorf is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Bad Breisig.

Geography

Waldorf is located in Vinxtbachtal and just outside the volcano park Brohltal between Sinzig and Niederzissen, below the extinct volcano Bausenberg. At Waldorf include residential places Adam mill, Marie height and Ockenfelsmühle.

History

Studies of the historian Eugen Ewig showed that the history of the site is to be evidenced by 646 AD. The place was first mentioned in a deed dated 1 June 960 detectable in a donation of Merovingian king Sigebert III. ( 630-656 ) was described in favor of the Abbey of St. Martin at Metz. The name was first mentioned as Walendorp ( = village of whales ) in the year 1033.

1540 burnt half the village from Waldorf, together with the church. At that time there were about 200 people in 42 families in the village. From 1666 to 1668 Waldorf suffered from the plague.

By the end of the 18th century was a Waldorf for Electoral Cologne office Andernach associated sub- rule. The " rule Waldorf " consisted only of the village of Waldorf and was a fief of the Abbey of Stavelot Erbvogtei and owned by the Barons of Walpot Bassenheim to Bornheim. This also exerted a right to nominate the priest at the church of St. Remacle to Waldorf.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had occupied the left bank of the Rhine. Under the French administration Waldorf belonged to the Mairie Niederbreisig in Canton Andernach, who was assigned to the Rhine-Moselle department. Under the contracts at the Congress of Vienna contracts the region, thus also Waldorf, 1815 came to the Kingdom of Prussia. Waldorf belonged from 1816 to the mayoralty Niederbreisig in Ahrweiler district, the part of the district of Coblenz and from 1822 to the Rhine Province was.

In the fire on December 23, 1824 70 houses were destroyed by fire.

Since 1946, the community belongs to the state of Rhineland -Palatinate and since 1969 the municipality Bad Breisig.

1996 celebrated the community their 1350 anniversary.

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

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Waldorf 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. In the previous election in 2004, the council members were elected by majority vote.

Allocation of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms description according the the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz on 16 December 1987: "shield divided by a wavy blue bar bar top in gold, a black, rotbewehrter, border wolf, bear a slight left made ​​red crosier; bottom split front in silver a black, continuous cross; rear of silver and red twelve times confess changes ".

The upper half symbolizes the attributes of St. Remacle. The partial wave beams symbolizes the Vinxtbach, the old territorial and linguistic border between Lower and Upper Germany. The lower part refers to the "old" relations of domination: the black cross on a silver base symbolizes the country's domination of the Electorate of Cologne, the red-silver twelvefold confess ändertes cross indicates the Barons Walpot of Bassenheim.

Culture

Each year with the theater total guest appearances the nationally important theater project from Bochum in the Vinxtbachhalle. Total Theatre is a fringe theater project young actor that has no own venue and not a permanent ensemble.

Events

• Spectaculum historiae, Village Festival with references to the history of the place stations
• St. Remacle - fair, on the first weekend of September each year take place from Catholic bachelors club Waldorf 1738 eV

Attractions

• St. Remacle, church from the 14th century
• Orchard trail
• Museum of Local History

See also: List of cultural monuments in Waldorf