Boxberg, Rhineland-Palatinate

Boxberg

Coat of arms
Boxberg
Location of Boxberg within Vulkaneifel district
Coordinates: 50°16′32″N 6°52′42″E / 50.27556°N 6.87833°E / 50.27556; 6.87833Coordinates: 50°16′32″N 6°52′42″E / 50.27556°N 6.87833°E / 50.27556; 6.87833
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Vulkaneifel
Municipal assoc. Kelberg
Government
 • Mayor Werner Lenarz
Area
 • Total 5.64 km2 (2.18 sq mi)
Elevation 560 m (1,840 ft)
Population (2017-12-31)[1]
 • Total 222
 • Density 39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 54552
Dialling codes 02692
Vehicle registration DAU

Boxberg 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.

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.

Boxberg is also where the river Lieser rises.

History

In feudal times, the village belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun. The Niederehe Monastery owned landholdings at “Bocksberg”, which under French rule were auctioned off. Under Prussian administration, Boxberg was a municipality in the Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Sarmersbach. In the course of administrative restructuring in 1970, Boxberg was assigned to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kelberg.

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.

Coat of arms

The German blazon reads: In Silber ein schrägrechter, blauer Wellenbalken; oben ein rotes Rad, unten ein schräg aufgerichtetes rotes Schwert.

The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Argent a bend wavy azure between a wheel spoked of six and a sword bendwise, the pommel to base, all gules.

The bend wavy (that is, wavy slanted stripe) is meant to represent the river Lieser, which rises in Boxberg’s municipal area. The wheel has two meanings. Not only does it stand for the agricultural structure that prevailed in Boxberg for centuries, but it is also the local patron saint’s attribute; the local church is consecrated to Saint Catherine, who was to have been martyred on a breaking wheel. The sword also refers to death sentences. It stands for the old Electoral-Trier execution place, then known as “Schundbalg”, believed to have been the hill now called the Schillberg. The customary method of execution, however, did not involve a sword. The condemned were hanged on the gallows that stood there.[2]

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

Religion

The citizens of Boxberg are roughly 90% Roman Catholic and belong to the parish of St. Hubertus Beinhausen with its parish church at Hilgerath.

References

  1. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz "Bevölkerungsstand 2017 - Gemeindeebene" Check |url= value (help). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2018.
  2. ↑ Description and explanation of Boxberg’s arms
  3. ↑ Directory of Cultural Monuments in Vulkaneifel district
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