
Beilstein () is an ''
Ortsgemeinde'' – a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
A (; plural ) is a low-level administrative division, administrative unit in the Germany, German States of Germany, federal states of Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt. A is typically composed of a small group of Municipalitie ...
'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
Cochem-Zell
Cochem-Zell (German: ''Landkreis Cochem-Zell'') is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-west of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Hunsrück, Bernkastel-Wittlich, and Vulkaneifel.
History
In 1816 the di ...
district
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in
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
,
Germany
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. It belongs to the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Cochem, whose seat is in the
like-named town.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies on the river
Moselle
The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...
.
History
Finds from
Frankish
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* Francia, a post-Roman ...
graves show that Beilstein was settled about AD 800. Beginning in 1268, the village was a fief held by the Lords of Braunshorn. Under Johann von Braunshorn (1299–1346), Beilstein was granted town privileges in 1309 by
Heinrich VII and was fortified. In 1309, a
Jewish
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community was founded, whose graveyard up above the
castle
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still exists today. In 1310 the former parish church was endowed. After the family von Braunshorn died out, the fief passed in 1360 to the family von Winneburg. After the
Electorate of Trier
The Electorate of Trier ( or '; ) was an Hochstift, 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-archbishop of Trier (') wh ...
took over ownership of Beilstein in 1488, it enfeoffed the Imperial Counts of Metternich with the
Lordship of Winneburg and Beilstein. In 1689 came the destruction of Castle Metternich (known as ''Die stolze Gemäuer'', or "The Proud Walling") by
French troops. The
Carmelite
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monastery was founded in 1636 (and dissolved in 1803). In 1691, the Carmelite monastery church's foundation stones were laid; the church was completed in 1783. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the village's appearance took on the shape that it still largely retains today. The Metternich lordship was swept away in 1794 when
French Revolutionary troops occupied the region. In 1815 Beilstein was assigned to the Kingdom of
Prussia
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at the
Congress of Vienna
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. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded
state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by
majority vote
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It is a subset of a Set (mathematics), set consisting of more than half of the se ...
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Mayor
Beilstein's mayor is Eugen Herrmann.
Coat of arms
Beilstein's old
arms
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Arm, Arms, or ARMS may also refer to:
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*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
, adopted in 1951, were the arms formerly borne by the Lords of Braunshorn. In English
heraldic
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language they might be described thus: Gules a bugle-horn argent stringed Or. The single
charge
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* ''Charge'' (Machel Montano album)
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in these arms has been incorporated into the new arms, designed by A. Friderichs, albeit with the string in the same
tincture
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as the horn itself. These newer arms might be described thus: Quarterly, first Or a bend dancetty gules, second sable an escallop argent, third gules a bugle-horn of the fourth and fourth argent a cross quartered of the second.
File:Beilstein COA (old).svg, Old arms
File:DEU Beilstein (Mosel) COA.svg, New arms
Culture and sightseeing
Sightseeing
The small village has one of the best preserved historical appearances on the
Moselle
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and is thus also sometimes known as a miniature
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
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or ''Dornröschen der Mosel'' ("Sleeping Beauty of the Moselle"). Towering above the village, which despite its small size is built to look much like a town, are the ruins of
Metternich Castle, which once belonged to the
like-named noble family.
The village is a
pilgrimage
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site, for it is here that the "Miraculous
Black Madonna
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" is displayed in the
Baroque
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Saint Joseph's Monastery Church. This is a statue of
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
origin from the 12th or 13th century, left behind by the Spaniards after their short time as Beilstein's lords after the
Thirty Years' War
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and shortly thereafter taken to
France
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, only to be brought back to Beilstein in 1950.
The
organ
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Biology
* Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function
* Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body.
Musical instruments
...
in the monastery church was built by Balthasar König from
Münstereifel/
Cologne
Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...
in 1738. Restoration work in 2002 gave the instrument back its original sound and character.
Each year in July and August, the ''Beilsteiner Märchensommer'' ("Beilstein Fairy-Tale Summer") is held, at which the
marionette
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theatre from
Cochem
Cochem () is the seat of and the biggest town in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With just over 5,000 inhabitants, Cochem falls just behind Kusel, in the Kusel district, as Germany's second smallest district seat. Since ...
produces
fairy tale
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s at the
winegrowing
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museum. Always opening and closing the series of events is a traditional version of the
Brothers Grimm
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’s "
Sleeping Beauty
"Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fi ...
", in keeping with one of the village's nicknames.
Buildings
The following are listed buildings or sites in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
*
Castle Metternich ruins (monumental zone) – mentioned in 1268, destroyed in 1689;
keep
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from about 1200, southwest round tower from the 14th century, basement of a building wing; parts of a residential building and side buildings, outer bailey with round tower, wall with the town, outer gate, ringwall and bailey.
*
Saint Joseph
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Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern O ...
’s
Catholic
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Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Joseph'') and
Carmelite
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monastery (monumental zone) – three-naved
hall church
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, begun 1691, bears year 1738, design by Friar Franz Wynant, Springiersbach Monastery, whole building complex with monastery buildings, graveyard and walled monastery area, monastery buildings/rectory: plastered buildings from 1686-1692 and 1687 respectively, latter with cellar portal; Klostertreppe 56:
Baroque
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pavilion; in the graveyard three grave crosses, 1663, 18th century, 19th century,
Gothic Revival
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grave cross, 1887.
* Fortifications – begun in the early 14th century, originally tied in with the
castle
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, with 5 gates and with towers; two round towers preserved: at the southwest corner (Moselstraße 3/4) and the northwest corner (Alte Wehrstraße 19); two overbuilt gates (Alte Wehrstraße and Bachstraße 19).
* Village centre, Alte Wehrstraße, Auf dem Teich, Bachstraße, Fürst-Metternich-Straße, Klosterstraße, marketplace, Moselstraße, Schloßstraße, Weingasse (monumental zone) – historical village structure with remnants of the old fortifications down to the Moselle waterfront, including a vineyard pavilion in the north, a former school in the east and castle ruins in the south.
* Alte Wehrstraße – town wall gate, on top of which a quarrystone house.
* Alte Wehrstraße 19 – building with
mansard roof
A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope at a steeper angle than the upper, and often punctured by dormer wi ...
and tower stump with
timber-frame
Timber framing () and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. If the struc ...
structure built on top, essentially
late mediaeval; converted in the 18th century.
* At Alte Wehrstraße 22 – Baroque vineyard pavilion, 18th century, whole complex with quarrystone house, 19th century, garden and pavilion.
* Bachstraße 8 – building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame, 18th century.
* Bachstraße 32 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century.
* At Bachstraße 39 – town wall gateway arch.
* Bachstraße 50 – building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame, 18th century.
* Fürst-Metternich-Straße 28 – building with half-hipped roof, partly timber-frame, from 1757.
* Fürst-Metternich-Straße 37 – ''Haus Sausen'', three-floor building with half-hipped roof, partly timber-frame, slated, from 1726.
* Im Mühlental 17 – building with half-hipped roof, partly timber-frame, from about 1800.
* Klostertreppe 29 – building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame, from 1757.
* Klostertreppe 30 – ''Haus Ekartz'', three-floor building with half-hipped roof, partly timber-frame, slated, from 1714.
* Klostertreppe 31 – building with half-hipped roof, partly timber-frame, from 1726.
* Klostertreppe 39 – timber-frame house, partly solid, marked 1747, 1761 and 1826.
* Marktplatz (marketplace) – tithe house, quarrystone building with polygonal staircase and half-hipped roof, 1537, conversion 1759.
* Marktplatz 1 – former
Saint Christopher
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’s
Catholic
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Parish Church, so-called "Old School",
aisleless church
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from 1732 with parts of the building from the 16th century, portal with year 1578, fountain 19th century.
* Marktplatz 3 – former Metternich estate, three-floor building with hipped mansard roof, partly timber-frame, from 1727 and 1770.
* Marktplatz 34 – building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame, from the 18th century,
cast-iron
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pump from the 19th century.
* Marktplatz 35 – three-floor plastered building with timber-frame top floor, about 1800.
* Moselstraße (no number) – old tollhouse with hipped mansard roof, partly timber-frame, formerly bore year 1634, conversion (?) in 18th or early 19th century.
* Moselstraße 1 – inn ''Zur Burg'' ("At the Castle"), building with mansard roof, crow-stepped gable; tower with tent roof from old fortifications, Baroque addition.
* Moselstraße 2a – building with mansard roof, from the 18th century.
* Moselstraße 2 – former ''
Amtshaus'', solid building, partly with twinned windows, 17th/18th century (?).
* Moselstraße 3/4 – no. 3: plastered building, possibly essentially late mediaeval, made over in Baroque, 18th century; no. 4: building with mansard roof, from the 18th century.
* Schloßstraße – wayside
chapel
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, open chapel, 17th century, Baroque stone
Madonna
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.
* Schloßstraße 37 – three-floor quarrystone building, 18th century.
* Schloßstraße 38 – quarrystone building, 19th century.
* At Schloßstraße 56 –
Classicist
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door leaf, earlier half of the 19th century.
* At Weingasse 10 – back wall part of wall-gable combination,
Gothic windows, possibly essentially 15th/16th century.
* Weingasse 12 – former
synagogue
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, three-floor quarrystone building, 18th/19th century.
* Weingasse 13 – three-floor building with mansard roof, partly timber-frame, 18th/19th century.
*
Jewish
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graveyard, on the south ridge of the castle mountain above the
Moselle
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– opened in the 17th century, 104 stele-type gravestones.
*
Chapel
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, above the castle near the Jewish graveyard – aisleless church, 1652, before the chapel two crosses, 18th/19th century and 1942 respectively; in the vineyard wall two
sandstone
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reliefs.
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Beilstein in film
The municipality has been the setting in a number of German films, such as the 1958 film version of ''Der Schinderhannes'', about the well known outlaw starring Curd Jürgens
Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in ''Des Teufels Gener ...
, Nazi
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filmmaker Carl Froelich
Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin.
Biography
Apparatus builder and cameraman
From 1903 Froelich was a colleague of Oskar Messter, one of ...
’s 1936 work ''Wenn wir alle Engel wären'' ("If We Were All Angels") starring Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a Ge ...
and the 1938 film ''Das Verlegenheitskind'' starring Ida Wüst
Ida Wüst (; 10 October 1884 – 4 October 1958) was a German stage and film actress whose career was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s with Universum Film AG (UFA).
Life and career
Little is known about Ida Wüst's early childhood. She discovere ...
and Paul Klinger
Paul Karl Heinrich Klinksik (14 June 1907, Essen – 14 November 1971, Munich) was a German stage and film actor who also worked in radio drama and soundtrack Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbing.
Family life
His father, a civil engineer, was Karl Heinr ...
.
Famous people
Honorary citizens
* Isaac Asir ha-Tikvah, or Isaac of Beilstein (a thirteenth century rabbi, later of Heidelberg).
* Journalist and author Walter Henkels (1906–1987) was awarded honorary citizenship on 4 September 1981.
Further reading
* Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles: ''Beilstein an der Mosel''. Rheinisches Kunststättenheft, 1. Auflage 1980, Heft 242 u. 2. veränderte Auflage 1987, Heft 242.
Schaefer, Johann Matthias (Hrsg.): ''Beitrag zur Lokal-Geschichte Beilstein's a/M. oder "Oft hat ein kleines Dorf eine nicht gerade alltägliche Geschichte"''. Cochem, ca. 1900
Gallery
File:Beilstein BW 1.JPG, Way into the village on the Moselle
File:Beilstein BW 3.JPG, Old tollhouse
File:Beilstein BW 7.JPG, Tithe house
File:Beilstein BW 12.JPG, Klostertreppe
File:Burg Metternich BW 5.JPG, Castle Metternich ruins
File:BeilsteinMoselPanorama1.jpg, View from the Moselle's left bank of Beilstein and the Castle Metternich ruins
File:BeilsteinMetternBlick.jpg, Beilstein with Castle Metternich ruins – view from ''Waldeslust Briedern''
File:Klosterkirche_Beilstein1.jpg, Saint Joseph
According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph (; ) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the Catholic Church, Eastern O ...
’s - view of the altar and pulpit
See also
*County of Beilstein
The House of Nassau is the name of a European aristocratic dynasty. The name originated with a lordship associated with Nassau Castle, which is located in what is now Nassau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. With the fall of the Hohenstaufen d ...
References
External links
Beilstein local history and transport club
{{Authority control
Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Cochem-Zell