Kliding | |
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Location of Kliding within Cochem-Zell district  | |
  Kliding  Kliding | |
| Coordinates:50°6′31″N7°3′20″E / 50.10861°N 7.05556°E /50.10861; 7.05556 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Cochem-Zell |
| Municipal assoc. | Ulmen |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2019–24) | Gerhard Müller[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 5.27 km2 (2.03 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 415 m (1,362 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 217 |
| • Density | 41/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 56825 |
| Dialling codes | 02677 |
| Vehicle registration | COC |
| Website | www.kliding.de |
Kliding is anOrtsgemeinde – amunicipality belonging to aVerbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in theCochem-Zelldistrict inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany. It belongs to theVerbandsgemeinde of Ulmen, whose seat is in thelike-named town.
The municipality lies in theEifel, 7 km from the riverMoselle.
Yearlyprecipitation in Kliding amounts to 768 mm, which falls into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 56% of theGerman Weather Service’sweather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is April. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.5 times what it is in April. Precipitation varies only slightly. Only at 1% of the weather stations are even lower seasonalswings recorded.
In 1360, Kliding had its first documentary mention as a fief held by the widow of Dietrich, Lord atUlmen.Electoral-Trier overlordship ended with theFrench Revolutionary occupation of theRhine’s left bank between 1794 and 1796. In 1815 Kliding was assigned to the Kingdom ofPrussia at theCongress of Vienna.Urschmitt and Kliding, which together formed a single municipality, were split into two separate ones in 1848. In 1869, the consecration of a newchapel at Kliding was celebrated. Since 1946, Kliding has been part of the then newly foundedstate ofRhineland-Palatinate.
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected bymajority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[3]
Kliding’s mayor is Gerhard Müller.[1]
The municipality’sarms might be described thus: Per pale and chevron, argent and vert counterchanged, in dexter chief an oak sprig bendwise slipped fructed of two and leafed of four of the second, in sinister chief a cross patriarchal of the first, in dexter base a waterwheel spoked of four of the second, in sinister base a horseshoe bendwise, the ends to chief, sable.
The following are listed buildings or sites inRhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Saint Wendelin’s is also noted for its windows. Kliding is also home to aHeiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints) known as theDreifaltigkeitsheiligenhäuschen (“TrinityHeiligenhäuschen”), which stands on Mühlweg.
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