Grenderich is an – a municipality belonging to a , a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel.

Geography

Grenderich lies on an interfluve in the northern

Hunsrück The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...

some 5 km from the river

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) 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 jo ...

History

In 1238, Grenderich apparently had its first documentary mention. It was until 1781 part of the “Three-Lord Territory”. As in the Beltheim court, the landlordship was shared among the

Electorate of Trier The Electorate of Trier (german: Kurfürstentum Trier or ' or Trèves) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire that existed from the end of the 9th to the early 19th century. It was the temporal possession of the prince- ...

, the

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and the House of Braunshorn (later Winneburg and Metternich). Beginning in 1794, Grenderich lay under

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rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. The foundation stone for the Grenderich church was laid in 1870. The new building was completed in 1872 to plans drawn up by the district master builder Schmitt from Cochem. Since 1946, Grenderich has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Under the ''Verwaltungsvereinfachungsgesetz'' (“Administration Simplification Law”) of 18 July 1970, with effect from 7 November 1970, the municipality was grouped into the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell. At the same time as the

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was being built in the 1980s, a Patriot missile base was built within Grenderich’s limits. This base was abandoned in 1990 and the unit moved to the Middle East to be deployed in the Gulf War.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by

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might be described thus: Per pale argent a cross gules and gules an axe argent, the edge to sinister, helved Or.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: * Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church (''Kirche St. Matthias''), Hauptstraße:

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hall church, 1870-1872; modern campanile * Graveyard; graveyard cross, from 1860 * Hauptstraße 34: ''Quereinhaus'' (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street); timber-frame building, partly solid, 19th centuryDirectory of Cultural Monuments in Cochem-Zell district
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Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Grenderich is linked to the long-distance road network by '' Bundesstraße'' 421 about 6 km to the south. The nearest railway station is ''

Bullay Bullay is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat i ...

(DB)'' on the ''Moselstrecke'' ( railway line), lying roughly 11 km to the west.

Sundry

Between the villages of

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and

Gusenburg Gusenburg is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe aft ...

in the Trier-Saarburg district, also in Rhineland-Palatinate, once lay another place called Grenderich. It vanished at the time of the Thirty Years' War.

References

External links

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