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Mosbruch 
MosbruchLocation of Mosbruch within Vulkaneifel district
Coordinates 50.2615°N 6.9395°E / 50.2615°N 6.9395°ECoordinates: 50.2615°N 6.9395°E / 50.2615°N 6.9395°E Administration Country Germany State Rhineland-Palatinate District Vulkaneifel Municipal assoc. Kelberg Mayor Walter Morsch Basic statistics Area 3.39 km2 (1.31 sq mi) Elevation 489 m (1604 ft) Population 157 (31 December 2010)[1] - Density 46 /km2 (120 /sq mi) Other information Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Licence plate DAU Postal code 56767 Area code 02692 Website www.mosbruch.de Mosbruch 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 Kelberg, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
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Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, 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.
Near Mosbruch rises the Üßbach. The foremost point of interest, however, is the Mosbrucher Weiher, a dried-up maar and today a nature conservation area.
History
Bearing witness to prehistoric settlement in what is now Mosbruch is a group of six barrows of unknown date sitting on a ridge northwest of the village. They have, however, been damaged by grave-robbing activities, and finds made at the site in the 19th and 20th centuries have been lost[2].
In 1440 came a documentary reference to two places, Mosbruch and Zum Ried. The former has since absorbed the latter, but there are still two chapels in the municipality, one for each of the two formerly separate municipalities. In feudal times, the Üßbach formed the border between the Electorate of Cologne and the Electorate of Trier[3].
Zum Ried (“At the Reed”) is also spelt “Zumried”[4].
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Mayor
Mosbruch’s mayor is Walter Morsch, and his deputy is Jürgen Gitzen[5].
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: Von Silber und Rot geviert; 1. ein schwarzes Balkenkreuz, 2. ein silberner Äbtissinenstab, 3. zwei silberene gekreuzte Kerzen, 4. eine rote Raute.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Quarterly, first argent a cross sable, second gules issuant from fess point an abbess’s staff bendwise sinister of the first, third gules two candles with fire per saltire of the first, and fourth argent a lozenge of the third.
The black cross in the first quartering is the charge formerly borne by the Electorate of Cologne, to which Mosbruch belonged ecclesiastically until 1803. The Electors of Cologne also owned the Mosbrucher Weiher, the now dry (but then still filled with water) maar, in which fish were raised. The silver abbess’s staff in the second quartering stands for Saint Mechtildis, the patron saint of the chapel in Zumried (formerly a separate municipality but now part of Mosbruch). The candles per saltire (that is, in the manner of an X-shaped cross) stand for Saint Blaise, the patron saint of the chapel in Mosbruch. In feudal times, the village belonged to the County of Virneburg, whose Counts bore as an armorial charge seven lozenges in two rows, of four and three. A single lozenge has become a charge in Mosbruch’s arms to represent these former lords[6].
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
- Catholic branch church, Zum Weiher 1, triaxial aisleless church from 1857.
- Catholic chapel, Zumriederstraße, biaxial aisleless church from 18th/19th century.
- Hauptstraße 12 – estate complex, timber-frame house from 19th century, timber-frame commercial building, partly solid, 18th/19th century.
- Friedrichsmühle (mill), south of the village on the Üßbach[7].
References
- ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2010" (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik.rlp.de/fileadmin/dokumente/berichte/A1033_201022_hj_G.pdf.
- ^ Datenbank der Kulturgüter in der Region Trier
- ^ Mosbruch at Hierzuland
- ^ …at least at the official site it is.
- ^ Mosbruch’s council
- ^ Description and explanation of Mosbruch’s arms
- ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Vulkaneifel district
External links
- Municipality’s official webpage (German)
- Mosbruch in the collective municipality’s Web pages (German)
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Categories:- Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Vulkaneifel geography stubs
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