{{Infobox German place |type = Ortsgemeinde |image_photo = Wirfus6.jpg |image_coa = Wappen Wirfus.png |coordinates = {{coord|50|12|6|N|7|12|22|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Wirfus in COC.svg |state = Rheinland-Pfalz |district = Cochem-Zell |Verbandsgemeinde = Cochem |elevation = 342 |area = 4.65 |postal_code = 56814 |area_code = 02653 |licence = COC |Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 1 35 090 |divisions = |website = |mayor = Herbert Thönnes<ref>[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1350000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Cochem-Zell], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.</ref> |leader_term = 2019–24 |party = }} '''Wirfus''' 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.
==Geography==
===Location=== The municipality lies in the Eifel about 1.5 km east of Illerich and roughly 6 km north of the river Moselle.
==History== Barrow groups point to early settlement of what is now Wirfus. In 1056, the municipality had its first documentary mention.
With the occupation of the Rhine’s left bank by French Revolutionary troops in 1794, the Electorate of Trier, for centuries the local overlord, fell. In 1814 Wirfus was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
==Politics==
===Municipal council=== The council is made up of 7 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.<ref>[http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1350109000.html Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat]</ref>
===Mayor=== Wirfus's mayor is Herbert Thönnes, and his deputies are Resi Henzgen and Reiner Geyermann.<ref>[http://www.vgcochem.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-stadt-cochemdie-ortsgemeinden/wirfus/gemeinderat.html#content_top Wirfus’s council]</ref>
===Coat of arms=== The German blazon reads: ''Wappen durch goldenen Stabsparren geteilt, oben rechts in Rot goldene Pflugschar, oben links in Rot goldene Rose, unten in Grün silberne Urne.''
The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Gules a pile transposed Or surmounted by a pile transposed vert charged with an urn argent, in dexter chief a ploughshare affronty and in sinister chief a rose of the second.
The arms were designed by A. Friderichs and J. Junglas.<ref>[http://www.vgcochem.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-stadt-cochemdie-ortsgemeinden/wirfus/allgemeines.html#content_top Description and explanation of Wirfus’s arms]</ref>
==Culture and sightseeing==
===Buildings=== The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: * Saint Margaret's Catholic Church (''Kirche St. Margaretha''), Kirchstraße 8 – Late Gothic quire, Baroque aisleless church, 1770; on the church: basalt niche cross, marked 1739 * Hauptstraße – fountain, early 19th century * Hauptstraße/corner of Kirchstraße – five boundary stones, one marked 1689 * Illericher Straße – basalt wayside cross, 18th century * On ''Kreisstraße'' 24 going towards Illerich – wayside cross; basalt niche cross, marked 1675 * On ''Kreisstraße'' 25 going towards Klotten – grave cross, marked 1684 * On ''Kreisstraße'' 25 – wayside cross, marked 1907 * Junction of ''Kreisstraße'' 25 and ''Landesstraße'' 107 – basalt wayside cross, marked 1777<ref>[http://denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de/Cochem-Zell.pdf Directory of Cultural Monuments in Cochem-Zell district]</ref>
===Rosental Chapel=== The Rosental Chapel was renovated from the ground up in the 1960s by Johannes Junglas, who was born on 12 February 1898 in Wirfus, and who after the Second World War held various high offices of state (State Secretary, Minister). Today a street in Wirfus is named after him.<ref>[http://www.vgcochem.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-stadt-cochemdie-ortsgemeinden/wirfus/allgemeines.html#content_top Rosental Chapel]</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} * [http://www.cochem-land.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-ortsgemeinden/wirfus.html Wirfus in the collective municipality’s webpages] {{in lang|de}}
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