Roes | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Roes within Cochem-Zell district  | |
 Location of Roes | |
  Roes  Roes | |
| Coordinates:50°14′46″N7°15′38″E / 50.24611°N 7.26056°E /50.24611; 7.26056 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Cochem-Zell |
| Municipal assoc. | Kaisersesch |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2019–24) | Jörg Fuhrmann[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 6.74 km2 (2.60 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 330 m (1,080 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 478 |
| • Density | 70.9/km2 (184/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56754 |
| Dialling codes | 02672 |
| Vehicle registration | COC |
| Website | www.roes-eifel.de |
Roes is anOrtsgemeinde – amunicipality belonging to aVerbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in theCochem-Zelldistrict inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It belongs to theVerbandsgemeinde of Kaisersesch.
The municipality lies in the part of the easternEifel known as theVordereifel (“Fore-Eifel” or “Further Eifel”), between Treis-Karden andAutobahnA 48.
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected bymajority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[3]
Roes’s mayor is Jörg Fuhrmann, and his deputies are Johannes Schmitt and Michael Sesterhenn.[4]
The German blazon reads:Über blauem Schildfuß, darin ein silberner Schwan, gespalten durch einen mit einer silbernen Urne mit drei goldenen Ähren und Halmen belegten grünen Pfahl; vorne in Silber ein roter Sparrenschrägbalken; hinten in Silber drei rote heraldische Rosen, pfahlweise übereinander.
The municipality’sarms might in Englishheraldic language be described thus: Argent, between a bend dancetty and three roses in pale gules a pale vert charged with an urn of the first issuant from which three ears of wheat Or, on a base azure a swan sans legs of the first.
The swan refers to theSchwanenkirche (“Swan’s Church”), which was originally built between about 1460 and 1492. The “bend dancetty” (diagonal zigzag) is drawn from the arms once borne by the Lords of Pyrmont, who built theSchwanenkirche. In 1936, from a cremation grave fromUrnfield times east of the Roes-Brohl road came the urn that stands as acharge on the pale. This stands for the long history of settlement in the area. The three ears of wheat stand foragriculture. The three roses are acanting charge, referring to the municipality’s name and its origin.[5]
The following are listed buildings or sites inRhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Also, although not a listed building, an old school building is also to be found in Roes.
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