Bereborn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kelberg, whose seat is in the Kelberg.
Geography
The municipality lies in the
High Eifel at the foot of the
Hochkelberg nature conservation area, some 18 km northeast of the district seat of Daun. North of the village rises the
Elzbach.
History
In the
Middle Ages, Bereborn belonged to the County of Virneburg. Under
Napoleonic Wars occupation, the village was in the
Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of
Virneburg.
In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Bereborn was transferred in 1970 from the Mayen district to the Daun district, now known as the Vulkaneifel district.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads:
Von Silber und Blau geteilt, oben 7 (4:3) rote Rauten, unten einen silbernen Ziehbrunnen.
The municipality’s arms might in English Heraldry language be described thus: Per fess argent seven lozenges gules, four and three, and azure a well masoned with winch and pail, all of the first.
In Feudalism times, Bereborn belonged to the County of Virneburg whose lords bore the seven-lozenge charge in their arms. This has been adopted in Bereborn’s arms. The well is Canting arms and refers to the placename ending —born – cognate with the English language “bourn(e)” – which in the local dialect can mean “well” (in German language, the word is Brunnen; the English cognate means “stream” or “brook”[ “Bourn” at Oxford.]).[ Description and explanation of Bereborn’s arms]
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
Natural monuments
In the village centre, the
Kaiserlinde (“Emperor’s
Tilia”) with a memorial stone recalls the one hundredth anniversary of the victory over
Napoleon I at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813.
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
To the north,
Bundesstraße 410 runs by the municipality.
Further reading
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Erich Mertes-Kolverath: Die Dörfer der Verbandsgemeinde Kelberg, Ihre erste Erwähnung und Nennung in der Literatur. In: Landeskundliche Vierteljahresblätter. Jahrgang 32, 1986, Heft 3
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