Üdersdorf
Encyclopedia
Üdersdorf is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality
belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde
, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district
in Rhineland-Palatinate
, Germany
. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun
, whose seat is in the like-named town
.
, a part of the Eifel
known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.
Üdersdorf is a state-recognized recreational resort (Erholungsort) and offers a great many hiking trails in thickly wooded surroundings.
The maar
s (crater lakes) and the Lieser valley are right nearby. Not much farther away lie the spa towns of Daun
and Manderscheid
as well as the Nürburgring
.
. In 1563, twelve “hearths”, or households, and some 70 inhabitants were counted in Üdersdorf; Trittscheid and Tettscheid had seven households each.
Until 1794, the village belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun. In the time of French
rule, Üdersdorf was the seat of a mairie (“mayoralty”). When Prussia
took over the Rhineland
, to which Üdersdorf then belonged, after the Congress of Vienna
, the village passed to the then newly formed Daun district in 1815 or 1816 and was the seat of a Bürgermeisterei (also “mayoralty”) in the Amt of Daun. To this mayoralty belonged the villages of Uederdorf with the Uederdorfer Mühle (mills), Nieder-Stattfeld
, Ober-Stattfeld
, Trettscheid, Trittscheid and Weyersbach (Weiersbach, today an outlying centre of Daun
). In 1878, the seat of the Amt was moved to Niederstadtfeld.
The village had its first chapel
quite early on. In 1717, a church consecrated to Bartholomew the Apostle was built on the spot. Today’s church was built in the 1860s. A local parochial school is known to have existed beginning in 1769. The first schoolhouse was built in 1824. In 1936, the school building still used as a primary school now was built.
On 1 January 1971, the formerly self-administering municipalities of Tettscheid (132 inhabitants) and Trittscheid (148 inhabitants) were amalgamated with Üdersdorf.
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipality’s arms
might in English heraldic
language be described thus: Vert a bend sinister wavy argent, dexter a saw bendwise sinister of the same, the handles proper, and sinister three ears of wheat Or surmounted bendwise by a sickle of the second, the handle proper, on a chief of the third two bars gules fretty.
The “fretwork” in the chief
is taken from the arms once borne by the knight de Palacio, who was the one who gave Üdersdorf its first documentary mention. The bend sinister wavy (slanted wavy stripe) symbolizes the river Lieser. The saw stands for Üdersdorf’s, Tettscheid’s and Trittscheid’s artisanal beginnings and is also Saint Joseph
’s attribute; Joseph being patron saint of craftsmen, among others. The three ears of wheat and the sickle refer to agriculture
’s importance as the main source of food for people in all three centres for centuries.
, Grevenmacher
, Luxembourg
since 1987.
Municipalities of Germany
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belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde is an administrative unit in the German Bundesländer of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.-Rhineland-Palatinate:...
, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district
Districts of Germany
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in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
, Germany
Germany
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. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun
Daun (Verbandsgemeinde)
Daun is a collective municipality in the Vulkaneifel district of Rhineland-Palatinate. The seat of the Daun Verbandsgemeinde is in the municipality of Daun.- Constituent municipalities:# Betteldorf# Bleckhausen# Brockscheid...
, whose seat is in the like-named town
Daun, Germany
Daun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.- Location :...
.
Location
The municipality lies in the VulkaneifelVulkan Eifel
The Vulkan Eifel is a region in the Eifel Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lakes or maars, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuffs, lava...
, a part of the Eifel
Eifel
The Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium....
known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.
Üdersdorf is a state-recognized recreational resort (Erholungsort) and offers a great many hiking trails in thickly wooded surroundings.
The maar
Maar
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. The name comes from the local Moselle...
s (crater lakes) and the Lieser valley are right nearby. Not much farther away lie the spa towns of Daun
Daun, Germany
Daun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.- Location :...
and Manderscheid
Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich
Manderscheid is a town in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and also both a climatic spa and a Kneipp spa.- Location :...
as well as the Nürburgring
Nürburgring
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...
.
Constituent communities
Üdersdorf’s two outlying Ortsteile are Tettscheid and Trittscheid.History
In 1287, Üdersdorf had its first documentary mention in a donation document in which the earnings from the village of Oistersdorf were transferred to Himmerod AbbeyHimmerod Abbey
Himmerod Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in the community of Großlittgen in the Verbandsgemeinde of Manderscheid in the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located in the Eifel, in the valley of the Salm.-First foundation:Himmerod Abbey was founded in 1134 by Saint...
. In 1563, twelve “hearths”, or households, and some 70 inhabitants were counted in Üdersdorf; Trittscheid and Tettscheid had seven households each.
Until 1794, the village belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun. In the time of French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
rule, Üdersdorf was the seat of a mairie (“mayoralty”). When Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...
took over the Rhineland
Rhineland
Historically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....
, to which Üdersdorf then belonged, after the Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815. The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars,...
, the village passed to the then newly formed Daun district in 1815 or 1816 and was the seat of a Bürgermeisterei (also “mayoralty”) in the Amt of Daun. To this mayoralty belonged the villages of Uederdorf with the Uederdorfer Mühle (mills), Nieder-Stattfeld
Niederstadtfeld
Niederstadtfeld is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
, Ober-Stattfeld
Oberstadtfeld
Oberstadtfeld is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
, Trettscheid, Trittscheid and Weyersbach (Weiersbach, today an outlying centre of Daun
Daun, Germany
Daun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.- Location :...
). In 1878, the seat of the Amt was moved to Niederstadtfeld.
The village had its first chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
quite early on. In 1717, a church consecrated to Bartholomew the Apostle was built on the spot. Today’s church was built in the 1860s. A local parochial school is known to have existed beginning in 1769. The first schoolhouse was built in 1824. In 1936, the school building still used as a primary school now was built.
On 1 January 1971, the formerly self-administering municipalities of Tettscheid (132 inhabitants) and Trittscheid (148 inhabitants) were amalgamated with Üdersdorf.
Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by majority votePlurality voting system
The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies...
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: Unter goldenem Schildhaupt, darin ein rotes Schräggitter, durch silbernen, schräglinken Wellenbalken geteilten grünen Schild, oben eine silberne Säge, unten drei silberne Ähren, mit einer silbernen Sichel belegt.The municipality’s arms
Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
might in English heraldic
Heraldry
Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. Heraldry comes from Anglo-Norman herald, from the Germanic compound harja-waldaz, "army commander"...
language be described thus: Vert a bend sinister wavy argent, dexter a saw bendwise sinister of the same, the handles proper, and sinister three ears of wheat Or surmounted bendwise by a sickle of the second, the handle proper, on a chief of the third two bars gules fretty.
The “fretwork” in the chief
Chief (heraldry)
In heraldic blazon, a chief is a charge on a coat of arms that takes the form of a band running horizontally across the top edge of the shield. Writers disagree in how much of the shield's surface is to be covered by the chief, ranging from one-fourth to one-third. The former is more likely if the...
is taken from the arms once borne by the knight de Palacio, who was the one who gave Üdersdorf its first documentary mention. The bend sinister wavy (slanted wavy stripe) symbolizes the river Lieser. The saw stands for Üdersdorf’s, Tettscheid’s and Trittscheid’s artisanal beginnings and is also Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph is a figure in the Gospels, the husband of the Virgin Mary and the earthly father of Jesus Christ ....
’s attribute; Joseph being patron saint of craftsmen, among others. The three ears of wheat and the sickle refer to agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
’s importance as the main source of food for people in all three centres for centuries.
Town partnerships
Üdersdorf fosters partnerships with the following places: JunglinsterJunglinster
Junglinster is a commune and town in central Luxembourg in the district Grevenmacher with 5,813 inhabitants. Junglinster is known as the site of a transmitter., the town of Junglinster, which lies in the south of the commune, has a population of 2,224...
, Grevenmacher
Grevenmacher (canton)
Grevenmacher is a canton in the east of Luxembourg, in the Grevenmacher District. The capital is also called Grevenmacher.The canton of Grevenmacher consists of the following eight communes:*Betzdorf*Biwer*Flaxweiler*Grevenmacher*Junglinster...
, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
since 1987.
Üdersdorf
- Saint Bartholomew’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus), Manderscheider Straße 3 – basaltBasaltBasalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...
and sandstoneSandstoneSandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...
ClassicistClassicismClassicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint...
aisleless churchAisleless churchAn Aisleless church is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways either side of the nave separated from the nave by colonnades or arcades, a row of pillars or columns...
, 1863. - Near Aarleystraße 1 – former bakehouse, one-floor quarrystone building, 19th century?
- Alte Schulstraße 8 – former school, plastered building, apparently from 1860, one-floor classroom built onto the back (older?).
- Auf dem Berg 17 – two-floor solid building, 1865.
- Dauner Straße 8 – Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), latter half of the 19th century.
- Manderscheider Straße 1 – two-floor plastered building.
Tettscheid
- Saint JosseSaint JosseSaint Judoc or Saint Josse was a seventh-century Breton noble who sought the protection of Aymon, a predecessor of the counts of Ponthieu, to live as a hermit and renounce the crown of Brittany, in a place then called either Sidraga or Schaderias or Runiacum, located in the coastal forest near the...
’s Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche St. Jodocus), Im Dorf 1 – aisleless church from 1904. - Im Dorf 16 – estate along street, house, from 1801.