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Ediger-Eller is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a
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belonging to a ''
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'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell
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in
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,
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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Cochem, whose seat is in the like-named town.


Geography

Ediger-Eller lies on the river
Moselle The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...
. 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 Trier ( , ; ), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves ( , ) and Triers (see also Names of Trier in different languages, names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle (river), Moselle in Germany. It lies in a v ...
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
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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 The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced mountain range, upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle (river), Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued ...
is a Roman-
Gaul Gaul () was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Roman people, Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy. It covered an area of . Ac ...
ish 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 The Merovingian dynasty () was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until Pepin the Short in 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the ...
times, the seat of a monastery consecrated to Saint Fridolin. Built onto the Late Romanesque tower is a
Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
nave with fine furnishings, among them a Stumm
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. In Saint Arnulf's
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across the street hangs the picture ''Verspottung Christi'' (“Mocking of Christ”) from the 15th century, after a drawing by
Martin Schongauer Martin Schongauer (c. 1450–53, Colmar – 2 February 1491, Breisach), also known as Martin Schön ("Martin beautiful") or Hübsch Martin ("pretty Martin") by his contemporaries, was an Alsatian engraver and painter. He was the most important ...
. 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 Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
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
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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 A reliquary (also referred to as a ''shrine'', ''Chasse (casket), chasse'', or ''phylactery'') is a container for relics. A portable reliquary, or the room in which one is stored, may also be called a ''feretory''. Relics may be the purported ...
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 Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a Germans, German state centred on the North European Plain that originated from the 1525 secularization of the Prussia (region), Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centuries, ...
at the
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, 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 grandson,
Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until Abdication of Wilhelm II, his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as th ...
). 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 Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
. Beginning in 1946, the two municipalities were part of the then newly founded
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of
Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
. 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. File:2006-07-21 bahnhof ediger-eller.jpg, Ediger-Eller railway station, tunnel portal in the background File:2006-07-09 kaiser-wilhelm-tunnel portal eller.jpg, Tunnel portal near Eller File:Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel Bau zweite Tunnelröhre Eller 06-2010.jpg, ''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tunnel'' near Eller, building of the second bore, June 2010 File:Ediger Oberturm 0005.jpg, Cultural monument, the Ediger ''Oberturm'' File:Ediger-Eller 307.JPG, Holocaust Memorial plaque in the cemetery in Ediger File:Eller, Katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Hilarius Dm in dorpszicht foto3 2017-05-31 15.52.jpg, 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 Proportional representation (PR) refers to any electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (Political party, political parties) amon ...
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:


Mayor

Ediger-Eller's mayor is Bernhard Himmen.


Coat of arms

The municipality's
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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 Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:


Ediger

* Ediger village centre (monumental zone) – streets and buildings within the whole town wall with moat * Saint Martin’s
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Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Martin''), Kirchstraße – two-naved
hall church A hall church is a Church (building), church with a nave and aisles of approximately equal height. In England, Flanders and the Netherlands, it is covered by parallel roofs, typically, one for each vessel, whereas in Germany there is often one s ...
, 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 Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloying elements determine the form in which its car ...
grave crosses, late 19th century, Rheinböllen Ironworks; whole complex of buildings * So-called ''Meinradskapelle'', Moselweinstraße/corner of Kapellenstraße –
pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a travel, journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. A pilgrim (from the Latin ''peregrinus'') is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) w ...
chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...
to the Mother of God, staggered
aisleless church An aisleless church () is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways on either side of the nave and separated from the nave by col ...
, 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
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, 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) –
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Stations of the Cross, ''Bildstock'' type, 1762 * Bergstraße – '' Bildstock'', with
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group, 18th century * Eulenstraße (no number) – building with
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, 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
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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 –
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* 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
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and school built in the mid-19th century; desecrated during
Kristallnacht ( ) or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilia ...
but now restored and "serv ngas 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 ''
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'' 49, in the
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– 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 A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...
; 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,
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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
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’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
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; 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,
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, 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'',
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blocks, from 1877


Economy and infrastructure

The most important branches of the economy are winegrowing and
tourism Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...
. Raised in the
vineyard A vineyard ( , ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines. Many vineyards exist for winemaking; others for the production of raisins, table grapes, and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is kno ...
s is mainly
Riesling Riesling ( , ) is a white grape variety that originated in the Rhine region. Riesling is an aromatic grape variety displaying flowery, almost perfumed, aromas as well as high acidity. It is used to make dry, semi-sweet, sweet, and sparkling ...
. One of the local winemaking locations is Ediger Osterlämmchen.


Famous people


Sons and daughters of the town

* Eduard David, German politician ( SPD), Member of the Reichstag, Member of the
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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.


References


External links


Municipality’s official webpage
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