Hermeskeil ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁməskaɪl] ) is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . It is situated in the Hunsrück , approx. 25 km southeast of Trier . Its population is about 5,900.
4-588: Hermeskeil is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Hermeskeil . The old locomotive depot, Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil is now a museum housing German steam engines. The Flugausstellung aircraft museum displays more than 100 aircraft and is the largest private museum of that kind in Europe. A Gaulish burial of the 1st century AD was discovered in a field near Hermeskeil in 2009. A Roman castrum has been identified in 2015: it
8-468: Is the only castrum created by Julius Caesar inside Magna Germania , when he crossed the Rhine river in 53 BC This Trier-Saarburg location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Verbandsgemeinde A Verbandsgemeinde ( German pronunciation: [fɛɐ̯ˈbantsɡəˌmaɪndə] ; plural Verbandsgemeinden ) is a low-level administrative unit in
12-606: The Verbandsgemeinden were established in 1969. Formerly the name for an administrative unit was Amt . Most of the functions of municipal government for several municipalities are consolidated and administered centrally from a larger or more central town or municipality among the group, while the individual municipalities (Ortsgemeinden) still maintain a limited degree of local autonomy. The 11 districts of Saxony-Anhalt are divided into Verwaltungsgemeinschaften and, since 1 July 2009 also Verbandsgemeinden . Since
16-488: The German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt . A Verbandsgemeinde is typically composed of a small group of villages or towns. The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is divided into 163 Verbandsgemeinden , which are municipal associations grouped within the 24 districts of the state and subdivided into 2,257 Ortsgemeinden (singular Ortsgemeinde ) which comprise single settlements. Most of
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