Ediger-Eller

Ediger-Eller
Municipality
Coat of arms
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59 104 53 112 48 120 40 124 36 127 35 135 24 132 Lutzerath poly 48 120 47 129 58 146 44 147 36 133 38 125 Bad Bertrich poly 58 102 65 102 68 106 81 106 81 110 68 117 63 115 58 116 53 113 57 108 Urschmitt poly 52 111 55 114 69 116 54 129 50 135 47 128 49 120 Kliding poly 49 134 56 146 72 147 71 142 76 133 73 125 69 127 66 121 60 124 Beuren poly 197 44 198 46 205 49 200 63 195 66 189 56 Moselkern poly 176 57 190 54 197 65 185 67 174 66 Müden poly 166 53 171 53 176 56 174 65 188 67 189 78 192 80 184 85 184 87 170 95 170 98 173 102 166 111 162 112 154 97 155 90 149 83 143 81 144 77 154 77 165 75 162 61 Treis-Karden poly 191 79 183 85 186 91 193 88 197 93 205 84 201 75 Lütz poly 184 87 169 95 178 106 187 106 195 103 199 106 203 102 194 88 187 92 Lieg poly 143 16 143 26 139 30 141 35 144 33 151 33 154 35 160 31 166 30 159 24 Roes poly 156 34 159 30 165 30 172 40 175 41 177 44 173 50 167 49 165 37 Möntenich poly 152 33 153 46 149 45 144 49 142 45 141 35 146 32 Forst (Eifel) poly 141 35 131 42 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poly 175 150 167 160 181 158 Reidenhausen poly 159 118 157 123 166 135 166 144 174 146 174 150 166 161 159 161 155 160 156 158 147 152 160 150 153 129 148 126 Mittelstrimmig poly 180 156 181 159 178 162 173 168 172 172 169 176 162 175 160 170 164 167 164 161 171 160 Blankenrath poly 183 175 182 179 172 184 160 183 163 178 160 173 170 175 173 170 175 176 Panzweiler poly 159 168 163 177 161 184 153 185 157 179 157 169 Walhausen poly 149 164 156 168 156 177 154 184 148 186 151 176 151 172 146 168 Schauren poly 147 169 142 173 143 180 152 176 Tellig poly 154 160 166 160 164 165 162 169 154 169 152 165 Hesweiler poly 147 125 153 128 161 149 147 153 144 138 144 129 Liesenich poly 145 142 148 152 156 159 152 166 135 152 Moritzheim poly 145 138 135 138 131 141 127 162 136 161 146 169 150 165 136 152 141 145 146 142 Grenderich poly 111 145 115 150 128 156 127 162 137 162 146 168 143 173 144 178 151 175 151 182 147 186 148 200 133 204 122 200 104 180 103 171 93 158 105 152 104 147 Zell poly 113 145 95 126 93 147 105 148 Neef poly 104 148 92 147 93 158 104 152 Bullay poly 95 131 90 135 76 133 72 140 76 145 94 146 Sankt Aldegund poly 92 144 77 145 74 147 77 152 77 158 93 159 Alf poly 92 158 99 162 92 180 86 172 81 167 81 159 Pünderich poly 79 58 82 52 90 53 107 68 101 72 97 82 90 71 85 71 Greimersburg poly 121 62 131 62 138 73 136 81 128 81 121 87 115 82 112 86 108 87 98 81 103 71 106 68 116 67 Klotten poly 83 73 94 89 91 98 86 99 80 101 76 93 80 86 79 79 Faid poly 91 98 95 103 93 113 85 115 80 110 81 100 Dohr poly 71 115 93 118 94 132 90 134 76 133 74 125 69 128 64 121 Bremm poly 147 83 156 91 154 92 163 112 158 117 154 117 150 112 142 112 136 107 135 101 141 97 138 92 144 89 Bruttig-Fankel poly 144 129 137 133 137 128 132 129 126 131 125 133 121 120 118 121 118 129 125 137 118 138 115 144 112 144 115 151 128 155 131 141 134 139 144 138 Senheim poly 117 129 125 137 117 138 112 137 112 132 Nehren poly 120 107 122 111 119 113 121 120 116 121 117 131 112 131 112 136 117 137 116 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Coordinates: 50°5′53″N 7°9′3″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Cochem-Zell
Municipal assoc.	Cochem
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Bernhard Himmen (CDU)
Area
• Total	19.13 km2 (7.39 sq mi)
Elevation	99 m (325 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	916
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56814
Dialling codes	02675
Vehicle registration	COC
Website	www.ediger-eller.de

Ediger

Ediger-Eller 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 Cochem, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

Ediger-Eller lies on the river Moselle. The constituent community of Eller is found at the foot of the Calmont.

History

The two constituent communities have a history that, according to a documentary mention, stretches at least as far back as the year 639. Potsherds that have been found, which came from a Roman factory near Trier suggest that the municipality may have existed as early as the 2nd or 3rd century AD.

Even older traces of settlement – remnants of a stone wall of a flight castle from Celtic times – can be found on the Hochkessel, the mountain on the other side of the Moselle. On the side of the Moselle facing towards the Hunsrück is a Roman-Gaulish burying ground near Saint Peter's Chapel (Peters-Kapelle) in Neef.

The sparse remnants of a Roman legion's garrison outpost can be found in the heights of the Calmont.

The constituent community of Eller was as early as the 5th century, in Merovingian times, the seat of a monastery consecrated to Saint Fridolin. Built onto the Late Romanesque tower is a Baroque nave with fine furnishings, among them a Stumm organ. In Saint Arnulf's Chapel across the street hangs the picture Verspottung Christi (“Mocking of Christ”) from the 15th century, after a drawing by Martin Schongauer. The Pyrmont and Electoral-Trier manor houses from the 16th century, today the ancestral seat of the Barons of Landenberg-Trimborn, underscore Eller's former importance.

Behind the railway bridge, with a slope of 65%, rises the Calmont, whose south side is the world's steepest vineyard, reaching a height of 378 m. A hike up the via ferrata to the mountain ridge is among the most impressive experiences on the Moselle. On the other side, on the former Insula Sankt Nicolai, stands the ruin of a convent church that once belonged to the Stuben Augustinian convent, founded in 1137. From 1208 to 1788, it housed the famous Limburger Staurothek, a reliquary that is important to art history, allegedly containing bits of the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. Today, it is part of the Limburg cathedral treasury.

Beginning in 1794, Ediger and Eller lay under French rule and were merged to form a single municipality. In 1815 they were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna, and once again became two separate municipalities. Since 1877, Eller has lain near the end of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel, which begins in Cochem and is named after Emperor Wilhelm I (not his more infamous grandson, Wilhelm II). From the time of its completion until 1987, it was Germany's longest railway tunnel at 4 205 m. The tunnel is part of the Moselstrecke (Moselle line). Not far from the tunnel portal, and before the Moselle bridge, stands Ediger-Eller railway station.

Beginning in 1946, the two municipalities were part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. On 7 June 1969, in the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Ediger and Eller were once again merged to form a single municipality.

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  Ediger-Eller railway station, tunnel portal in the background
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  Tunnel portal near Eller
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  Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel near Eller, building of the second bore, June 2010
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  Cultural monument, the Ediger Oberturm
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  Holocaust Memorial plaque in the cemetery in Ediger
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  Catholich church (Pfarrkirche Sankt Hilarius) in Eller

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

	CDU	FWG	Total
2009	9	7	16 seats
2004	5	11	16 seats

Saint Martin's Church in Ediger

Mayor

Ediger-Eller's mayor is Bernhard Himmen.

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per pale vert a vine palewise embowed to dexter in chief leafed of three and fructed of one, all Or, and argent a cross enhanced gules.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

Ediger

• Ediger village centre (monumental zone) – streets and buildings within the whole town wall with moat
• Saint Martin’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Martin), Kirchstraße – two-naved hall church, about 1506-1512/1518, sacristy from the 16th century, expansion 1951/52; outside: baptismal font, about 1100; cross, late 15th century; graveyard: old wall, five cast-iron grave crosses, late 19th century, Rheinböllen Ironworks; whole complex of buildings
• So-called Meinradskapelle, Moselweinstraße/corner of Kapellenstraße – pilgrimage chapel to the Mother of God, staggered aisleless church, from 1666-1667
• Town wall (monumental zone) – 1362 leave to fortify the village, 1459 first mentioned; rectangular wallworks (on the side facing the mountains from the parish church to the Lohmühle), wall on Hochstraße; gate at the church, on the side facing the mountains arrow slits as well as remnants of a half-round tower; at the northeast corner a half-round open-backed defensive tower (Schalenturm) “Vinum bonum”; the wall runs parallel to Kapellenstraße to the Unterer Turm (“Lower Tower”) up at the Meinharduskapelle; on the west side of Moselstraße 18/19 town gate with Late Gothic portal, house of the bakers’ guild and the Brotherhood of Saint Anne, 1567; no. 19 archway frieze, late mediaeval portal; second tower on Moselstraße, there also town wall remnants, along whose course on Oberbachstraße a further open-backed defensive tower
• Way of the Cross, Bergstraße (monumental zone) – Baroque Stations of the Cross, Bildstock type, 1762
• Bergstraße – Bildstock, with Crucifixion group, 18th century
• Eulenstraße (no number) – building with mansard roof, 20th century
• Eulenstraße 5 – former Klausener Hof; three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, essentially from the 16th century
• Hochstraße – well
• Hochstraße 1 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, from 1549
• Hochstraße 3 – timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, from 1543
• Hochstraße 4 – former estate of Steinfeld Abbey; Baroque building with hipped mansard roof, 18th century
• Hochstraße 5 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, 17th century; characteristic of the village's appearance
• Hochstraße 9 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially from the 16th century
• Hochstraße 14 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, 16th century, alterations in the 17th or 18th century
• Hochstraße 16 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially possibly from the 16th century, conversion in the 18th century
• Hochstraße 18 – timber-frame house, partly solid, hipped mansard roof, from 1826, essentially from the late 16th century, expansion in the 18th century
• Hochstraße 19 – winemaker's house; quarrystone building, early 20th century
• Hochstraße 20 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, hipped mansard roof, from 1812, essentially possibly from the 16th or 17th century
• Hochstraße 26 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, half-hipped roof, 18th century
• Hochstraße 28 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, from 1628
• Hochstraße 35 – former winepress house; timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, from 1699
• Hochstraße 35 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, hipped mansard roof, from 1735 and 1783/1785
• Hochstraße 37 – timber-frame house, partly solid, from 1614, essentially possibly older
• Kapellenstraße 6 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, half-hipped roof, 17th century
• Kapellenstraße 8 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 16th century, addition in the 19th century
• Kirchstraße – sculpture of Christ the Saviour, 18th century, set into a wall
• Kirchstraße 4/6 – Baroque plastered building, 18th century; next to it a solid building, partly timber-frame, half-hipped roof, 17th century (?)
• Kirchstraße 10 – timber-frame house, 16th century
• Kirchstraße 15 – former Springiersbach estate and rectory; timber-frame house, plastered, mansard roof, 18th century; entrance gate, well
• Kuhgasse – winepress house, quarrystone building, partly timber-frame, possibly from the 19th century
• Moselweinstraße 11 – three-floor richly adorned timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, from 1657
• Moselweinstraße 12 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, 16th century
• Moselweinstraße 13 – former Electoral Amtshaus; three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, from 1515, Archbishop Richard von Greiffenklau zu Vollrads's (1511-1531) heraldic escutcheon
• Moselweinstraße 20 – former mayor's house, stately quarrystone building, about 1870/1880
• Nikolausstraße 5 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, 16th century
• Nikolausstraße 7 – timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, 16th century
• Nikolausstraße 14 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, from 1614, possibly expanded later
• Oberbachstraße 1 – solid building, from 1582, behind it a timber-frame house, partly solid, from 1600
• Oberbachstraße 2 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, mid to late 17th century
• Oberbachstraße 3 – plastered timber-frame house, 17th century
• Oberbachstraße 4 – three-floor richly adorned timber-frame house, partly solid, from 1623
• Oberbachstraße 10 – U-shaped complex; timber-frame house, plastered, early 19th century; plastered building with Renaissance tower, from 1584; so-called Sälchen (“Little Room”), plastered building, 16th century; barn
• Oberbachstraße 12 – quarrystone building, from 1820s?
• (hinter) Oberbachstraße 15 – plastered quarrystone building, from 1589
• Oberbachstraße 17 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, 16th century
• Oberbachstraße 18 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, 16th century
• Oberbachstraße 19 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially from the 16th century, knee wall from the 19th century
• Oberbachstraße 20 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, essentially possibly from the 16th century, uppermost floor added in the 19th century
• Oberbachstraße 22 – timber-frame house, partly solid, sided, essentially possibly from the 16th or 17th century
• Oberbachstraße 24 – niche relief, 18th century
• Oberbachstraße 30 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, 18th century, essentially possibly older
• Paulusstraße – Gotisches Haus; Gothic solid building, abuts Oberbachstraße 16
• Paulusstraße 1 – timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, half-hipped roof, from 1517
• Paulusstraße 2 – niche relief, 18th century
• Paulusstraße 3 – big building with hipped mansard roof, essentially possibly Baroque, alterations in the 1920s/1930s
• Paulusstraße 5 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, early 16th century; bridge gate, timber framing; timber-frame house, 16th century
• Paulusstraße 7 – Trier Cathedral Provost's estate; Baroque timber-frame house, partly solid, hipped mansard roof, 18th century
• Pelzerstraße 1 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, from 1623, essentially older
• Pelzerstraße 4 – stately timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century, essentially possibly older
• Pelzerstraße 8 – plastered building, 16th or 17th century
• Pelzerstraße 14 – plastered timber-frame house, 18th century
• Pelzerstraße 22 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, latter half of the 16th century
• Perstraße – wayside cross, from 1667
• Pützstraße 5 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, 17th century
• Pützstraße 7 – timber-frame house, partly solid, mansard roof, 18th century
• Raiffeisenstraße 7 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, 16th century
• Raiffeisenstraße 9 – plastered timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century; abutting solid building above archway frieze
• Raiffeisenstraße 9a – timber-frame house, partly solid, 16th century
• Rathausstraße – coat of arms
• Rathausstraße 1 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, 17th century; timber-frame addition from the 18th century; previous location of Jewish synagogue
• Rathausstraße 8 -- House of Psalms (Haus der Psalmen), Former Jewish synagogue and school built in the mid-19th century; desecrated during Kristallnacht but now restored and "serv[ing] as a place of remembrance and contemplation as well as a respectful encounter in the awareness of the common roots of Jewish and Christian faith."
• Rathausstraße 9 – timber-frame house, partly solid, Late Gothic portal with relief, 16th century
• Rathausstraße 13 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, essentially from the 16th century
• Unterbachstraße 2 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially possibly from the 17th century, knee wall from the 19th century
• Unterbachstraße 5 – solid building, 17th or 18th century
• Unterbachstraße 7 – timber-frame house, partly solid, possibly from the 16th or 17th century
• On Bundesstraße 49, in the vineyard – wayside cross, from 1783
• On Bundesstraße 49, going towards Nehren – Heiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints); relief with Crucifixion group, from 1788
• On Bundesstraße 49 – wayside cross, from 1835
• On the other side of the Moselle – wooden lookout pavilion
• On Kreisstraße (District Road) 19, north of Ediger – chapel; plastered building, 19th century
• Lehmen Estate, on Bundesstraße 49 – ruin of a Romanesque residential tower, dendrochronologically dated to 1233-1234
• Cross chapel with Way of the Cross; Baroque Way of the Cross, 15 stations; some from 1762; Cross chapel, aisleless church, from 1498, expansion 1704-1707

Eller

• Saint Hilarius's Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Hilarius), Bachstraße – Romanesque west tower, Late Gothic cupola, Gothic Revival quire, possibly from the latter half of the 17th century, Baroque aisleless church, from 1718
• Bachstraße – street chapel; open wood construction, from 1784; missionary cross, from 1733; fountain spout, late 18th century
• Bachstraße – former Saint Roch’s Chapel (Rochuskapelle); Baroque aisleless church, three-sided end wall about 1500; grave cross, from 1733
• Bachstraße 13 – door with fanlight, about 1828
• Bachstraße 15 – door with fanlight, about 1817
• Bachstraße 16 – former school; quarrystone building with timber-frame addition, late 19th century
• Bachstraße 21 – former rectory; three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid and slated, from 1903
• Bachstraße 22 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century
• Brunnenstraße 17 – timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially from the 16th century; three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially older, uppermost floor built in the 19th century
• Brunnenstraße 18 – timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered, 17th century
• Brunnenstraße 19 – building with combined end wall and gable, possibly from the 16th century
• Brunnenstraße 20 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century
• Brunnenstraße 26 – timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, 16th century
• Brunnenstraße 30 – timber-frame house, partly solid, balloon frame, 16th century
• Brunnenstraße 33 – Gothic window jamb
• Brunnenstraße 39 – cellar portal, from 1580
• Brunnenstraße 43 – former Pyrmont estate; building with two wings, outdoor stairway, from 1578 and 1582
• Moselweinstraße 59 – former Electoral wine cellar, called Freidthof; late mediaeval solid building, partly timber-frame, from 1641, alterations up to the 19th century; winepress house, timber-frame building, partly solid, from 1585; collection of hearth heating plates, 16th and 17th centuries
• Moselweinstraße 62 – three-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, half-hipped roof, from 1556, dendrochronologically dated to 1531-1532
• Moselweinstraße 67 – winemaker's villa; quarrystone building, about 1900
• Moselweinstraße 88 – villa; quarrystone building with tower, from 1879
• Neustraße 14 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century, essentially possibly from the 16th or 17th century
• Across the street from Plattertstraße 1 – Kellerei Eller; one-floor wine cellar building, Art Nouveau, from 1913
• St. Jakobstraße 3/5 – three-winged quarrystone double house, 19th century
• St. Jakobstraße 15 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century
• Uckertstraße 12 – plastered building, 18th century (?)
• Uckertstraße 16 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th or 19th century
• Portal of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel, sandstone blocks, from 1877

Economy and infrastructure

The most important branches of the economy are winegrowing and tourism. Raised in the vineyards is mainly Riesling. One of the local winemaking locations is Ediger Osterlämmchen.

Famous people

Panoramic view of Ediger

Sons and daughters of the town

• Eduard David, German politician (SPD), Member of the Reichstag, Member of the Hesse Landtag, Minister of the Interior

Further reading

• Alfons Friderichs, Karl Josef Gilles, Wolfgang Wolpert: Ediger-Eller an der Mosel. In: Rheinische Kunststätten, Heft 212, 1978.

External links

• Municipality’s official webpage (in German)