# Filz

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**Filz** is an *[Ortsgemeinde](/source/Ortsgemeinde_(Germany))* – a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Germany) belonging to a *[Verbandsgemeinde](/source/Verbandsgemeinde)*, a kind of collective municipality – in the [Cochem-Zell](/source/Cochem-Zell) [district](/source/Districts_of_Germany) in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the [*Verbandsgemeinde* of Ulmen](/source/Ulmen_(Verbandsgemeinde)), whose seat is in the [like-named town](/source/Ulmen).

## Geography

The municipality lies in the South [Eifel](/source/Eifel), south of [Ulmen](/source/Ulmen) and east of [Daun](/source/Daun,_Germany).

## History

The municipality's overlord in the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages) was the [Electorate of Trier](/source/Electorate_of_Trier). Beginning in 1794, Filz lay under [French](/source/France) rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of [Prussia](/source/Prussia) at the [Congress of Vienna](/source/Congress_of_Vienna), becoming part of that kingdom's [Rhine Province](/source/Rhine_Province). Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded [state](/source/States_of_Germany) of [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate).

## Politics

### Municipal council

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by [majority vote](/source/Plurality_voting_system) at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]

### Mayor

Filz's mayor is Helmut Römer.[1]

### Coat of arms

The municipality's [arms](/source/Coat_of_arms) might be described thus: Tierced in mantle, dexter azure a sword bendwise sinister, the pommel to chief, argent, sinister gules a bishop's staff bendwise and to dexter a wheel spoked of seven Or, and in base Or an ear of wheat leafed of two vert.

## Culture and sightseeing

### Buildings

The following are listed buildings or sites in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate)’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

- Saint Catherine's and Saint Nicholas's [Catholic](/source/Catholic_Church) Church (branch church; *Filialkirche St. Katharina und Nikolaus*), Hauptstraße 25 – [aisleless church](/source/Aisleless_church), about 1730
- Ringstraße 14: estate complex; building with half-hipped roof, from 1849[3]

## References

1. [Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Cochem-Zell](https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1350000000000.html), Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.

1. [Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat](http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1350303000.html).

1. [Directory of Cultural Monuments in Cochem-Zell district](http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Cochem-Zell.pdf)

## External links

- [Brief portrait of Filz with film](http://www.swr.de/landesschau-rp/hierzuland/-/id=100766/nid=100766/did=3799252/j3buo1/index.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160312104906/http://www.swr.de/landesschau-rp/hierzuland/-/id=100766/nid=100766/did=3799252/j3buo1/index.html) 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine at [SWR Fernsehen](/source/SWR_Fernsehen) (in German)

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