Bengel (Moselle)

Bengel
Bengel
Location of Bengel within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
Coordinates: 50°00′58″N 07°03′51″E / 50.01611°N 7.06417°E / 50.01611; 7.06417Coordinates: 50°00′58″N 07°03′51″E / 50.01611°N 7.06417°E / 50.01611; 7.06417
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Municipal assoc.	Traben-Trarbach
Government
• Mayor	Walter Debald (SPD)
Area
• Total	27.49 km2 (10.61 sq mi)
Elevation	150 m (490 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	808
• Density	29/km2 (76/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54538
Dialling codes	06532
Vehicle registration	WIL
Website	www.gemeinde-bengel.de

Bengel is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The municipality lies at the foot of the Eifel on the river Alf near the Moselle valley, has some 900 inhabitants and is found in the Middle Moselle-Kondelwald holiday region. The municipal area is 78% wooded. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Traben-Trarbach.

Bengel’s Ortsteile are Springiersbach and Neithof.

In Springiersbach in 1102, the Augustinian Springiersbach Monastery was founded, to which the village of Bengel and also Neithof were assigned. Beginning in 1794, Bengel lay under French hegemony. In 1802, the church and the monastery in Springiersbach were secularized. To save the almost new church from being torn down, the Bishop of Trier raised it to Parish Church of Bengel. In 1815, the municipality was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1947, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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.