Weidingen, Germany

Weidingen is a municipality in the Eifel region and belongs to the district of Bitburg -Prüm, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality New Castle and is still today a famous Marian pilgrimage site.

Geography

Weidingen located on the edge of the South Eifel Nature Park, and consists of the districts Weidingen and Niederweidingen. The hamlet Weidingen includes the residential places Kalenborn, Rodenhof and scouring Dell.

History

Legend has it that the saint Willibrord 730 erected a church on the site of a pagan temple. An over the centuries the decline projecting image of Mary standing in a wicker shrub, from which the name Weidig, Widen or Wedingen to have derived in consequence. 1205 has witnessed the predecessor of today's Sanctuary. By the end of the 18th century belonged to the rule Weidingen New Castle in the Duchy of Luxembourg and was the capital of a dairy farm, which included Hütterscheid, Niederweidingen and Outscheid.

In 1794, French revolutionary troops had the Austrian Netherlands, which included the Duchy of Luxembourg, occupied and annexed in October 1795. From 1795 to 1814 the place to Canton New Castle belonged in the forests department. Weidingen was the seat of a Mairie.

In 1815, the former Luxembourg territory east of the Sauer and the Our was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Thus the place came Weidingen 1816 Bitburg in the Trier region in the province of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, which merged in 1822 in the Rhine Province. Weidingen was the official residence of the mayor of the same name. To mayoralty belonged the communities Altscheid, Berkoth, Burscheid, Niederweidingen and Uppershausen.

After World War II temporarily occupied by the French, the place is since 1946 part of Rhineland- Palatinate then newly founded.

The parish village or the district today Weidingen was once called " Oberweidingen ".

Today's church was (187 inhabitants) is newly formed on 7 June 1969 the municipalities Niederweidingen (39 inhabitants) and Weidingen.

The development of the population of Weidingen based on the present-day municipality; the values from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Parish council

The local council in Weidingen 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.

Attractions

The predecessor of today's parish and pilgrimage church of Immaculate Conception built in 1205 Count Fried Soon Hamm. It was 1247 parish church of her is still the part of the tower to the confessional. In 1396 the first church was extended. This gave rise to the now known as Old Church part that is often mistakenly viewed as a side aisle. To make room, they broke in 1500 through the right wall of the old church to grow a larger third church. 1541 a part of the first church was demolished in order to grow a high tower. After two destroyed by lightning in 1771, the church, the tower in 1783 were re-established. Weidingen is still famous pilgrimage to Maria - Consoler of the Afflicted, the high altar houses the miraculous image.
The Catholic rectory with an oven cultivation from the first half of the 19th century ( King mountain road ).
Two is a listed houses from the 18th century ( Garden Street ).
Weidingen has the oldest niche cross the region, which is dated to the year 1636 ( Garden Street ).
Another niche cross made in 1639 is north west of the town, on the road to Philip Weiler.
A grange like Dreiseithof in Niederweidingen; the seven-axle three-storey house with barns and connecting buildings were built in 1828 ( Michel Bachstraße ).