Udler 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 Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Geography
The municipality lies in the
Vulkan Eifel, a part of the
Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.
History
Udler, earlier known as
Odeler and
Oudler, belonged beginning in 1357 to the Electoral-Trier
Amt of Daun.
[Friedbert Wißkirchen: Neue Gemeindewappen im Kreis Daun in Heimatjahrbuch 1990 Landkreis Daun] After the
takeover of the
Rhineland, to which Udler then belonged, the village passed in 1815 or 1816 to the then newly formed Daun district and belonged to the
Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Gillenfeld. In the early 19th century, the village had 188 inhabitants living in 33 houses.
[Friedrich von Restorff: Topographisch-Statistische Beschreibung der Königlich Preußischen Rheinprovinzen 1830, Seite 888]
Population development
The figures given for the years 1871 to 1987 come from
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[ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz]
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1815 – 151
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1835 – 219
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1871 – 220
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1905 – 229
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1939 – 262
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1950 – 226
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1961 – 223
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1970 – 287
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1987 – 249
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2002 – 212
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Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
[ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat]
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads:
Unter silbernem Schildhaupt, darin ein rotes Balkenkreuz, in Blau auf einem silbernen Stein stehende silberne Taube.
The municipality’s arms might in English Heraldry language be described thus: Azure a dove standing on a stone argent, on a chief of the second a cross gules.
The red cross in the chief symbolizes Udler’s former allegiance to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun, which began in 1357. The tincture azure (blue) in the main field stands for the Sangweiher, a former Electoral fishpond in the municipality. The dove is a reference to the so-called Taubenlehen (“dove fief”), a promise that Eberhard von Udler made to the Church of the Saviour ( Salvatorkirche) in 1522 because he wanted to be healed of gout. This promise was later transferred to the municipality of Udler. The municipality’s patron saint is Saint Stephen, who was Martyrdom by being stoned to death. He is thus symbolized by the second charge in the main field, the stone.
Culture and sightseeing
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