Peterswald-Löffelscheid

Peterswald-Löffelscheid 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 Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Hunsrück roughly 8 km eastsoutheast of Zell.Constituent communitiesAs the municipality’s name implies, there are two centres, or Ortsteile, named Peterswald and Löffelscheid.HistoryIn 1233, the municipality had its first documentary mention as Silva s. Petri. A later mention calls it Petrusdorf. The two places both belonged to the “three-lord” territory, As in the Beltheim Court, the lordship was shared by the Electorate of Trier, the Counts of Sponheim and the family Braunshorn (later Winneburg and Metternich). In 1790, the lordship of Peterswald with the villages of Peterswald and Löffelscheid was assigned to the Counts of Metternich. Beginning in 1794, both places lay under French rule. In 1814 they were 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. On 7 November 1970 came the merger of the two municipalities into one.