# Wirfus

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**Wirfus** 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 Cochem](/source/Cochem_(Verbandsgemeinde)), whose seat is in the [like-named town](/source/Cochem).

## Geography

### Location

The municipality lies in the [Eifel](/source/Eifel) about 1.5 km east of [Illerich](/source/Illerich) and roughly 6 km north of the river [Moselle](/source/Moselle_(river)).

## History

[Barrow](/source/Tumulus) 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](/source/Rhine)’s left bank by [French Revolutionary](/source/French_Revolutionary_Wars) troops in 1794, the [Electorate of Trier](/source/Electorate_of_Trier), for centuries the local overlord, fell. In 1814 Wirfus was assigned to the Kingdom of [Prussia](/source/Prussia) at the [Congress of Vienna](/source/Congress_of_Vienna). 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 7 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.[1]

### Mayor

Wirfus's mayor is Herbert Thönnes, and his deputies are Resi Henzgen and Reiner Geyermann.[2]

### 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](/source/Coat_of_arms) might in English [heraldic](/source/Heraldry) 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.[3]

## Culture and sightseeing

### Buildings

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

- Saint Margaret's [Catholic](/source/Catholic_Church) Church (*Kirche St. Margaretha*), Kirchstraße 8 – [Late Gothic](/source/Gothic_architecture) quire, [Baroque](/source/Baroque_architecture) [aisleless church](/source/Aisleless_church), 1770; on the church: [basalt](/source/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](/source/Wayside_cross), 18th century
- On *[Kreisstraße](/source/Kreisstra%C3%9Fe)* 24 going towards [Illerich](/source/Illerich) – wayside cross; basalt niche cross, marked 1675
- On *Kreisstraße* 25 going towards [Klotten](/source/Klotten) – grave cross, marked 1684
- On *Kreisstraße* 25 – wayside cross, marked 1907
- Junction of *Kreisstraße* 25 and *[Landesstraße](/source/Landesstra%C3%9Fe)* 107 – basalt wayside cross, marked 1777[4]

### Rosental Chapel

The Rosental [Chapel](/source/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](/source/Second_World_War) held various high offices of state (State Secretary, Minister). Today a street in Wirfus is named after him.[5]

## References

1. [Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat](http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1350109000.html)

1. [Wirfus’s council](http://www.vgcochem.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-stadt-cochemdie-ortsgemeinden/wirfus/gemeinderat.html#content_top)

1. [Description and explanation of Wirfus’s arms](http://www.vgcochem.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-stadt-cochemdie-ortsgemeinden/wirfus/allgemeines.html#content_top)

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

1. [Rosental Chapel](http://www.vgcochem.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-stadt-cochemdie-ortsgemeinden/wirfus/allgemeines.html#content_top)

## External links

- [Wirfus in the collective municipality’s webpages](http://www.cochem-land.de/de/buerger-verwaltung/die-ortsgemeinden/wirfus.html) (in German)

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