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Dünfus 
DünfusLocation of Dünfus within Cochem-Zell district
Coordinates 50°13′14″N 7°14′0″E / 50.22056°N 7.233333°ECoordinates: 50°13′14″N 7°14′0″E / 50.22056°N 7.233333°E Administration Country Germany State Rhineland-Palatinate District Cochem-Zell Municipal assoc. Treis-Karden Mayor Heinz Hermes Basic statistics Area 3.25 km2 (1.25 sq mi) Elevation 315 m (1034 ft) Population 288 (31 December 2010)[1] - Density 89 /km2 (230 /sq mi) Other information Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Licence plate COC Postal code 56754 Area code 02672 Website www.duenfus.de Dünfus is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Treis-Karden, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
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Geography
Location
Dünfus lies in a hollow in the Eifel south of the Brohlbach, west of Brohl and Forst.
History
In 1288, Dünfus had its first documentary mention with a reference to somebody named “Dizzeemann von Dunevuse”; the name is of Celtic origin and means “height on the brook”[2]. Between 1686 and 1688, a chapel was built in Saint Bartholomew’s honour. The overlordship was held by the Electorate of Trier until 1794 when the area was occupied by French Revolutionary troops. In 1815 Dünfus was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna and was made part of the Prussian Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Karden. In 1933, Dünfus was grouped into the newly formed Amt of Karden-Treis in the Cochem district. Since 1946, 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[3].
Mayor
Dünfus’s mayor is Heinz Hermes, and his deputies are Gerd Horst and Thomas Fuhrmann[4].
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: Schild geviert, Feld 1: in Gold eine schwarze Urne, Feld 2: in Grün eine silberne Rose, Feld 3: in Rot ein silberner Sparrenbalken, Feld 4: in Gold ein schwarzes breites Messer schräglinks.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Quarterly, first Or an urn sable, second vert a rose argent, third gules a bend dancetty of the fourth and fourth Or a flaying knife bendwise sinister of the second.
The ash urn is an archaeological artefact that was found in 1929 on the Häckelsberg, a local mountain, during excavation work. The rose refers to an estate held by the Rosenthal Monastery, which the monastery acquired in 1297 from Heinrich von Polch. The von Pyrmont noble family, too, held an estate in the village. Drawn from their arms is the charge in the third quarter, the bend dancetty (slanted zigzag stripe). The flaying knife is Saint Bartholomew’s attribute, thus representing the church’s patron saint.
The arms have been borne since 1985[5].
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
- Saint Bartholomew’s Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche St. Bartholomäus), Kirchstraße – aisleless church, about 1688; basalt wayside cross, from 1754
- Bergstraße 5 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, 18th century, barn; whole complex of buildings
- Brachtendorfer Weg 2 – well; hipped roof, 18th or 19th century
- Brunnenstraße – well
- Kirchstraße (no number) – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, 18th century (?)
- On Landesstraße (State Road) 180 between Hambuch and Binningen – wayside chapel; octagonal plastered building, 19th century[6]
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.
- ^ Dünfus’s history
- ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
- ^ Dünfus’s council
- ^ Description and explanation of Dünfus’s arms
- ^ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Cochem-Zell district
External links
- Municipality’s official webpage (German)
- Brief portrait of Dünfus with film at SWR Fernsehen (German)
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Categories:- Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
- Cochem-Zell geography stubs
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