Ediger-Eller
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Location of within Cochem-Zell district
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| Coordinates: 50°5′53″N 7°9′3″E / 50.09806°N 7.15083°ECoordinates: 50°5′53″N 7°9′3″E / 50.09806°N 7.15083°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Cochem-Zell | |
| Municipal assoc. | Cochem | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Heidi Hennen-Servaty | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 19.13 km2 (7.39 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 99 m (325 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 1,086 | |
| • Density | 57/km2 (150/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 56814 | |
| Dialling codes | 02675 | |
| Vehicle registration | COC | |
| Website | www.ediger-eller.de | |
Ediger-Eller 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 Cochem, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Ediger-Eller lies on the river Moselle. The constituent community of Eller is found at the foot of the Calmont.
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 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 Celtic 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 is a Roman-Gaulish 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 times, the seat of a monastery consecrated to Saint Fridolin. Built onto the Late Romanesque tower is a Baroque nave with fine furnishings, among them a Stumm organ. In Saint Arnulf’s Chapel across the street hangs the picture Verspottung Christi (“Mocking of Christ”) from the 15th century, after a drawing by Martin Schongauer. 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.
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