Mesenich

Mesenich
Mesenich
Coat of arms of Mesenich
Mesenich is located in Germany
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Mesenich
Coordinates 50°551N 7°1152E / 50.0975°N 7.19778°E / 50.0975; 7.19778Coordinates: 50°551N 7°1152E / 50.0975°N 7.19778°E / 50.0975; 7.19778
Administration
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Cochem-Zell
Municipal assoc. Cochem
Mayor Ute Arens
Basic statistics
Area 2.98 km2 (1.15 sq mi)
Elevation 95 m  (312 ft)
Population 295 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 99 /km2 (256 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate COC
Postal code 56820
Area code 02673
Website www.mesenich.de

Mesenich is an Ortsgemeindea municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipalityin the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Cochem, whose seat is in the like-named town. Mesenich is a winegrowing centre.

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Geography

Location

The municipality lies on the river Moselle roughly 4 km southeast of Cochem.

History

Finds from the Stone Age, remnants of Roman settlements and graves from Merovingian times bear witness to the municipalitys early days[2].

As early as 1050, Mesenich had its first documentary mention in connection with the Polish queen and count palatines daughter Richezas donation to the Brauweiler Benedictine Monastery near Cologne.

The municipalitys name, originally Mesinich, is, like most other nearby villagesnames, of Celtic origin. Besides winegrowing and subsistence agriculture, shipbuilding was an important means of livelihood. This explains why an anchor is included as a charge in the municipalitys coat of arms.

Between 1050 and 1088, the Abbot of Brauweiler, Wolfhelm, had the parish church built; it is consecrated to Saint Nicholas. The church had its first documentary mention on 18 November 1088 in a document from Archbishop of Trier Egilbert. In the course of the centuries, the church has been remodelled several times.

About 1200, the Romanesque churchtower was renovated, in 1730 the church got the main and side altars that it still has today and in 1736, the Baroque nave was consecrated. After the renovation in 1971, the church took on its current appearance.

The architectural focal point in the municipality today is the Late Baroque-Classicist Brauweiler Hof, which until the late 18th century served as the tithing manor. It was built in 1771 under master builder Nikolaus Lauxen, and today it is under private ownership[3].

After French Revolutionary troops occupied the lands on the Rhines left bank in 1794, the monastery holdings were sold off. In 1814 Mesenich was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. 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 chairwoman[4].

Mayor

Mesenichs mayor is Ute Arens, and her deputies are Martin Arens and Peter Serwazi[5].

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: Im Blau einen nach halbrechts gewandten Bischof in goldenem Gewand mit Mitra und Stab in der Linke, mit der Rechten einen silbernen schwebenden Anker segnend, zu seinen Füßen einen silbernen Schild, darin ein roter Adler, hinter dem ein Bischofstab schräglinks zu sehen ist.

The municipalitys arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure Saint Nicholas in trian aspect proper vested and mitred Or, in his sinister hand a bishops staff of the same, his dexter hand raised in benediction over an anchor argent, surmounting his legs an inescutcheon of the same charged with an eagle displayed gules surmounting a bishops staff bendwise sinister of the first.

The bishop who stands as the main charge in the municipalitys arms is the churchs patron saint, Nicholas, who was also the Brauweiler Monasterys patron saint, and to whom Archbishop Egilbert of Trier consecrated Mesenichs first chapel on 18 November 1088. The charge that Nicholas isblessing”, the anchor, stands for the villages sailing men and shipbuilders of yore. The inescutcheon at the saints feet is the Brauweiler Monasterys arms, thus representing the municipalitys former feudal lords, who also held court jurisdiction.

The arms were designed by H. Gutensohn of Koblenz and have been borne since 7 March 1952[6].

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinates Directory of Cultural Monuments:

  • Saint Nicholass Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus) – Romanesque west tower, possibly about 1200, upper part possibly Late Gothic, possibly about 1480; Baroque aisleless nave, marked 1733, sacristy, marked 168(8?); grave cross, 18th century; graveyard, Coronation of the Virgin group, 18th century; warriorsmemorial with relief as gateway arch, 1920s; whole complex with church and graveyard
  • Village centre (monumental zone) – from Römerstraße to the Old School on Briederweg, along Abteistraße and Zehnthofstraße including church and graveyard
  • cast-iron hand pump, late 19th century
  • Abteistraße 6solid building, 17th or 18th century
  • Abteistraße 7timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, hipped roof, dendrochronologically dated to 1478/1479 and 1486, expansions in the 18th and early 20th centuries; addition; commercial building with mediaeval entrance; whole complex
  • Abteistraße 8timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, half-hipped roof, roof trusses about 1470/1480, conversion possibly in the 18th century
  • Abteistraße/Römerstraßebarn, about 1480
  • Briederner Wegcast-iron hand pump, late 19th century
  • Briederner Weg 1solid building, partly timber-frame, dendrochronologically dated to 1529/1530
  • Briederner Weg 2cast-iron hand pump, late 19th century
  • Briederner Weg 10old school; quarrystone building, 1886/1887
  • Briederner Weg 11quarrystone house with sandstone window frames, marked 1898
  • im Winkel 4timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century
  • Kehrstraße 6timber-frame house, roofed with Eternit, mansard roof, 18th century
  • Kirchstraße 5solid building with timber-frame oriel, dendrochronologically dated to 1460 ± 5 years
  • Kirchstraße 6former Brauweiler Hof, Brauweiler Monasterys tithing manor; representative building with half-hipped roof, Abbot Amandus Herrigers (1756-1778) coat of arms, about 1770, architect possibly Nikolaus Lauxen; Baroque figure of Saint Nicholas; winepress house, dendrochronologically dated to 1651
  • Kirchstraße 7solid building, essentially late mediaeval, 15th century, timber-frame oriel, marked 1762
  • Kirchstraße 8winepress house, partly timber-frame, about 1605/1606
  • Kirchstraße 9solid building, dendrochronologically dated to 1542/1543, cellar portal marked 1605, timber-frame oriel from the 18th century
  • Kirchstraße 10three-floor house, timber-frame upper floor marked 1737, essentially possibly older
  • Kirchstraße 12three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, dendrochronologically dated to 1478 ± 5 years, marked 1772
  • Kochstraße 4solid building, dendrochronologically dated to 1485
  • Raiffeisenstraßetimber-frame barn, partly solid, 18th or 19th century; relief, early 18th century
  • Raiffeisenstraße 1cast-iron pump, late 19th century
  • Römerstraße 1solid building, dendrochronologically dated to 1494/1544
  • Römerstraße 7timber-frame house, partly solid, mansard roof, 18th century
  • Römerstraße 9mansard roof building, 18th century
  • Weinbergstraßewinepress house, quarrystone mansard roof building, 18th century
  • Weinbergstraße 3timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, possibly from the 16th century, cellar portal marked 1605
  • Weinbergstraße 11quarrystone building, partly timber-frame, Moselle-style, 1910
  • Weinbergstraße 13timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, marked 1584, addition 1869, conversion 1934
  • Weinbergstraße 14two-part timber-frame house, partly solid or plastered, 16th century, newer part from the 18th or 19th century; whole complex together with no. 16
  • Weinbergstraße 16timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, dendrochronologically dated to 1525; well; whole complex together with no. 14
  • Weinbergstraße 18timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, late 16th century
  • Weinbergstraße 20cast-iron cross, late 19th century
  • Zehnthofstraßegarden with wrought-iron pavilion, marked 1895
  • Zehnthofstraße 2quarrystone building with half-hipped roof, mid 19th century
  • Zehnthofstraße 4quarrystone building with timber-frame oriel, marked 1569
  • Zehnthofstraße 5quarrystone building, early 19th century
  • Before Zehnthofstraße 5cast-iron hand pump, late 19th century
  • Zehnthofstraße 8quarrystone house, plastered, dendrochronologically dated to 1562, conversion in the 19th century; whole complex with garden
  • Zehnthofstraße 13timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, hipped mansard roof, dendrochronologically dated to 1737
  • Zehnthofstraße 17see Kirchstraße 6
  • Zehnthofstraße 18lintel, marked 1771
  • Zehnthofstraße 21plastered building, marked 1926
  • Weinbergskapelle (“Vineyard Chapel”) – Baroque quarrystone building
  • On the other side of the Moselle, on Bundesstraße 49ruins of a factory, plastered building with middle risalto
  • north of Mesenichforest chapel, so-called Erdpfalzhäuschen[7]

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