Arenrath | |
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Location of Arenrath within Bernkastel-Wittlich district  | |
  Arenrath  Arenrath | |
| Coordinates:49°57′17″N06°44′29″E / 49.95472°N 6.74139°E /49.95472; 6.74139 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Bernkastel-Wittlich |
| Municipal assoc. | Wittlich-Land |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2019–24) | Ludwig Schmitz[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 6.77 km2 (2.61 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 265 m (869 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 385 |
| • Density | 57/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 54518 |
| Dialling codes | 06575 |
| Vehicle registration | WIL |
| Website | www.arenrath.eu |
Arenrath is anOrtsgemeinde – amunicipality belonging to aVerbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in theBernkastel-Wittlichdistrict inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany.
The municipality lies in theEifel some 13 km west of the district seat of Wittlich, betweenBruch andBinsfeld. It belongs to theVerbandsgemeinde of Wittlich-Land, whose seat is inWittlich, although that town is itself not in theVerbandsgemeinde.
Arenrath is known for the Moselle agate stones that come from the local gravelquarries.
In theMiddle Ages, Arenrath, which had its first documentary mention asArendroch in 1156, formed its own lordly domain within theElectorate of Trier.
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected bymajority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[3]
The mayor (Ortsbürgermeister) is Ludwig Schmitz.
The German blazon reads:Wappen von rechtem silbernem Stufenbalken geteilt, oben in Grün links 3 goldene Ähren, unten in Rot ein silberner Ärmel mit silberner Hand, die eine goldene Schale hält.
The municipality’sarms might in Englishheraldic language be described thus: A demibar in sinister and another in dexter enhanced, the two joined between the honour and fess points with a pallet couped at these points, all argent, in chief vert, sinister three ears of wheat Or conjoined at the stems, in base gules an arm couped below the shoulder, vested and embowed, the hand to dexter, all of the first, the hand holding a bowl of the third.
Theescutcheon’s silver parting (described in the German blazon as aStufenbalken, and apparently having no equivalent in English heraldic language) and the begging bowl are said to be references to the local church’s patron saint,Alexius, who is represented in legend as a beggar under a staircase. The wheat ears stand for agriculture and the fieldtincture vert (green) is a reference to the municipality’s name, Arenrath, which itself refers to “Arend’s clearing”. Green stands for woods and fields while the gules-argent (red-silver) combination is a reference to the village’s former allegiance to theElectorate of Trier.
Arenrath was granted the right to bear its own arms in 1982.
There is a natural monument in the so-calledTeufelsstein ("Devil’s Rock"), asandstone boulder that lies near the municipal limit between Bruch and Arenrath.
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