Wallscheid

Wallscheid
Coat of arms
Wallscheid
Location of Wallscheid within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
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 (2012-12-31)[1]
• Total	345
• Density	58/km2 (150/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

External links

• Corneliuskapelle (German)

Towns and municipalities in Bernkastel-Wittlich Altrich Arenrath Bausendorf Bengel Berglicht Bergweiler Bernkastel-Kues Bettenfeld Binsfeld Brauneberg Breit Bruch Büdlich Burg Burgen Burtscheid Deuselbach Dhronecken Diefenbach Dierfeld Dierscheid Dodenburg Dreis Eckfeld Eisenschmitt Enkirch Erden Esch Etgert Flußbach Gielert Gipperath Gladbach Gornhausen Graach an der Mosel Gräfendhron Greimerath Großlittgen Hasborn Heckenmünster Heidenburg Heidweiler Hetzerath Hilscheid Hochscheid Hontheim Horath Hupperath Immert Irmenach Karl Kesten Kinderbeuern Kinheim Klausen Kleinich Kommen Kröv Landscheid Laufeld Lieser Longkamp Lösnich Lötzbeuren Lückenburg Malborn Manderscheid Maring-Noviand Meerfeld Merschbach Minderlittgen Minheim Monzelfeld Morbach Mülheim Musweiler Neumagen-Dhron Neunkirchen Niederöfflingen Niederscheidweiler Niersbach Oberöfflingen Oberscheidweiler Osann-Monzel Pantenburg Piesport Platten Plein Reil Rivenich Rorodt Salmtal Schladt Schönberg Schwarzenborn Sehlem Starkenburg Talling Thalfang Traben-Trarbach Ürzig Veldenz Wallscheid Willwerscheid Wintrich Wittlich Zeltingen-Rachtig