Hontheim

This article is about the municipality in Germany. For the theologians, see Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim and Joseph Hontheim.

Hontheim

Coat of arms

Hontheim

Location of Hontheim within Bernkastel-Wittlich district

Coordinates: 50°4′7.21″N 6°59′30.81″E / 50.0686694°N 6.9918917°ECoordinates: 50°4′7.21″N 6°59′30.81″E / 50.0686694°N 6.9918917°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Ilona Lauxen (WG Steffens)

Area

• Total

24.77 km² (9.56 sq mi)

Population (2013-12-31)^[1]

• Total

831

• Density

34/km² (87/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

54538

02674

WIL

Hontheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Hontheim

Geography

Location

The municipality lies on a plateau in the southern Volcanic Eifel at the northern edge of the Kondelwald forest. The municipal area is 58.4% wooded. Hontheim belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Traben-Trarbach.

Constituent communities

Hontheim’s Ortsteile, besides the main centre, are Wispelt, Krinkhof and Bonsbeuern.

History

Beginning in 1794, Hontheim lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 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:^[2]

	Steffens	Götten	Komes	Gellner	Total
2009	7	2	2	1	12 seats

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess Or a cross gules and gules a hound courant of the first.^[3]

Economy and infrastructure

Through the municipality runs Bundesstraße 421. To the west runs the Autobahn A 1. In Ürzig is a railway station on the Koblenz-Trier railway line. The state spa town of Bad Bertrich, with Germany’s only Glauber’s salt (sodium sulphate decahydrate; Na₂SO₄•10H₂O) hot spring, is only 3 km away.

References

External links

Hontheim (German)

Towns and municipalities in Bernkastel-Wittlich

Altrich Arenrath Bausendorf Bengel Berglicht Bergweiler Bernkastel-Kues Bettenfeld Binsfeld Brauneberg Breit Bruch Büdlich Burg Burgen Burtscheid Deuselbach Dhronecken Diefenbach Dierfeld Dierscheid Dodenburg Dreis Eckfeld Eisenschmitt Enkirch Erden Esch Etgert Flußbach Gielert Gipperath Gladbach Gornhausen Graach an der Mosel Gräfendhron Greimerath Großlittgen Hasborn Heckenmünster Heidenburg Heidweiler Hetzerath Hilscheid Hochscheid Hontheim Horath Hupperath Immert Irmenach Karl Kesten Kinderbeuern Kinheim Klausen Kleinich Kommen Kröv Landscheid Laufeld Lieser Longkamp Lösnich Lötzbeuren Lückenburg Malborn Manderscheid Maring-Noviand Meerfeld Merschbach Minderlittgen Minheim Monzelfeld Morbach Mülheim Musweiler Neumagen-Dhron Neunkirchen Niederöfflingen Niederscheidweiler Niersbach Oberöfflingen Oberscheidweiler Osann-Monzel Pantenburg Piesport Platten Plein Reil Rivenich Rorodt Salmtal Schladt Schönberg Schwarzenborn Sehlem Starkenburg Talling Thalfang Traben-Trarbach Ürzig Veldenz Wallscheid Willwerscheid Wintrich Wittlich Zeltingen-Rachtig

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