Üdersdorf

Üdersdorf
Coat of arms
Üdersdorf
Location of Üdersdorf within Vulkaneifel district
Coordinates: 50°09′11″N 6°48′12″E / 50.15306°N 6.80333°E / 50.15306; 6.80333Coordinates: 50°09′11″N 6°48′12″E / 50.15306°N 6.80333°E / 50.15306; 6.80333
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Vulkaneifel
Municipal assoc.	Daun
Government
• Mayor	Klaus Schmitt
Area
• Total	17.47 km2 (6.75 sq mi)
Elevation	438 m (1,437 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,109
• Density	63/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54552
Dialling codes	06596
Vehicle registration	DAU
Website	www.uedersdorf.de

Üdersdorf 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.

The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, 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.

Üdersdorf is a state-recognized recreational resort (Erholungsort) and offers a great many hiking trails in thickly wooded surroundings.

The maars (crater lakes) and the Lieser valley are right nearby. Not much farther away lie the spa towns of Daun and Manderscheid as well as the Nürburgring.

Üdersdorf’s two outlying Ortsteile are Tettscheid and Trittscheid.

In 1287, Üdersdorf had its first documentary mention in a donation document in which the earnings from the village of Oistersdorf were transferred to Himmerod Abbey. In 1563, twelve “hearths”, or households, and some 70 inhabitants were counted in Üdersdorf; Trittscheid and Tettscheid had seven households each.

Until 1794, the village belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun. In the time of French rule, Üdersdorf was the seat of a mairie (“mayoralty”). When Prussia took over the Rhineland, to which Üdersdorf then belonged, after the Congress of Vienna, the village passed to the then newly formed Daun district in 1815 or 1816 and was the seat of a Bürgermeisterei (also “mayoralty”) in the Amt of Daun. To this mayoralty belonged the villages of Uederdorf with the Uederdorfer Mühle (mills), Nieder-Stattfeld, Ober-Stattfeld, Trettscheid, Trittscheid and Weyersbach (Weiersbach, today an outlying centre of Daun). In 1878, the seat of the Amt was moved to Niederstadtfeld.