Peterswald-Löffelscheid is an – a

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belonging to a , a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell

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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel.

Geography

Location

The municipality lies in the

Hunsrück The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...

roughly 8 km east-southeast of Zell.

Constituent communities

As the municipality's name implies, there are two centres, or ''

Ortsteil A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population t ...

e'', named Peterswald and Löffelscheid.

History

In 1233, the municipality had its first documentary mention as ''Silva s. Petri''. A later mention calls it ''Petrusdorf''. The two places both belonged to the “three-lord” territory, As in the Beltheim Court, the lordship was shared by the

Electorate of Trier The Electorate of Trier (german: Kurfürstentum Trier or ' or Trèves) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the end of the 9th to the early 19th century. It was the temporal possession of the prince- ...

, the

Counts of Sponheim The House of Sponheim or Spanheim was a medieval German noble family, which originated in Rhenish Franconia. They were immediate Counts of Sponheim until 1437 and Dukes of Carinthia from 1122 until 1269. Its cadet branches ruled in the Imperial C ...

and the family Braunshorn (later Winneburg and Metternich). In 1790, the lordship of Peterswald with the villages of Peterswald and Löffelscheid was assigned to the Counts of Metternich. Beginning in 1794, both places lay under

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rule. In 1814 they were assigned to the Kingdom of

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

at the

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. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of

. On 7 November 1970 came the merger of the two municipalities into one.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by

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might be described thus: Tierced in mantle dexter vert two swords in saltire, the hilts to chief, argent, sinister a fleur-de-lis of the second, and in base argent a cross counter-compony argent and gules.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in

’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

Löffelscheid

* On ''Kreisstraße'' (District Road) 51 between Löffelscheid and Peterswald – ''Heiligenhäuschen'' (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints)

Peterswald

Saint Peter Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...

’s and Saint Paul’s

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Church (''Kirche St. Peter und Paul''), Zeller Straße –

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aisleless church An aisleless church (german: Saalkirche) 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 on either side of the nave and separated fro ...

, marked 1765 and 1766, west tower, 1923;

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group, late 19th century; whole complex (''see also section below'') * Schulweg 2 – ''Quereinhaus'' (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street);

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building, partly solid, 18th or 19th century * Schulweg 6 – ''Hakenhof''; timber-frame house, partly solid, about 1900Directory of Cultural Monuments in Cochem-Zell district
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Church in Löffelscheid

The festive consecration of the new branch church in Löffelscheid, the Church of the

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(''Maria Heimsuchung'') was held on 5 July 1964. The patron is Mary, and a secondary patron is

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. The church is a round building (two cones were set into each other). The architect was Bruno Schönhagen of

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...

. The high wall stands along with the old

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(

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) as emblematic of the Mother of God, the Saints and

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in the tabernacle. The smaller cone “bears”

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– the

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– the

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and the confession

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. The church's ceiling surrounds one like the protective mantle of the Mother of God. The pews stand in semicircular rows around the altar, which is a simple table made of red

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. The bell tower does not directly adjoin the church and has a height of 28 m.

Church in Peterswald

Today's church in Peterswald was built in 1765 and 1766. The church, built in the middle of the village, is an aisleless church with an offset quire. The former west gable got its current façade through tower construction in 1923. The bell tower's features include sound slats on all sides, a convexity in the upswept roof and a cross. The wall paintings of the very old altar show three versions of the Arrest of Jesus and the briefing of five Disciples. Worth seeing is an old

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...

bell from 1463.

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Peterswald-Löffelscheid is linked to

Blankenrath Blankenrath 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 Zell, whose s ...

by bus route 761, run by the ''Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel'' (“Rhine-Moselle Transport Association”). The municipality is also served by the Association's routes 321 and 669. Only 5 km southwest of Peterswald-Löffelscheid lies Hahn. The constituent community of Löffelscheid lies within the Frankfurt-Hahn Airport noise protection zone, and is therefore subject to a certain amount of noise.

References

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