Wallscheid

Wallscheid

Coat of arms
Wallscheid

Coordinates: 50°05′58″N 6°53′05″E / 50.09944°N 6.88472°E / 50.09944; 6.88472Coordinates: 50°05′58″N 6°53′05″E / 50.09944°N 6.88472°E / 50.09944; 6.88472
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Bernkastel-Wittlich
Municipal assoc. Wittlich-Land
Government
 • Mayor Peter Hermes
Area
 • Total 5.95 km2 (2.30 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
 • Total 332
 • Density 56/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 54531
Dialling codes 06572
Vehicle registration WIL

Wallscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

The holiday municipality lies in the Eifel; 7 km to the west lies Manderscheid. Wallsch

History

Sometime before 771, Öfflingen, and thereby also today’s municipality of Wallscheid, were donated to the Abbey of Echternach. The Lords of Manderscheid were installed as Vögte by the Abbey. Beginning in 1794, Wallscheid lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Tierced in mantle, dexter Or a fleur-de-lis gules, sinister Or a fess dancetty of the second, and in base gules a postal horn of the first.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

Worth mentioning is the Corneliuskapelle a chapel in Wallscheid built in 1777.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

To the west runs the Autobahn A 1. In Wittlich is a railway station on the Koblenz-Trier railway line.

References

  1. ↑ "Gemeinden in Deutschland mit Bevölkerung am 31. Dezember 2015" (PDF). Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2016.
  2. ↑ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat


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