Kliding

Kliding
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Kliding within Cochem-Zell district
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Coordinates: 50°6′31″N 7°3′20″E / 50.10861°N 7.05556°E / 50.10861; 7.05556
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Cochem-Zell
Municipal assoc.	Ulmen
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Gerhard Müller[1]
Area
• Total	5.27 km2 (2.03 sq mi)
Elevation	415 m (1,362 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	217
• Density	41/km2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	56825
Dialling codes	02677
Vehicle registration	COC
Website	www.kliding.de

Kliding 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 Ulmen, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies in the Eifel, 7 km from the river Moselle.

Yearly precipitation in Kliding amounts to 768 mm, which falls into the middle third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 56% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations, lower figures are recorded. The driest month is April. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is 1.5 times what it is in April. Precipitation varies only slightly. Only at 1% of the weather stations are even lower seasonal swings recorded.

In 1360, Kliding had its first documentary mention as a fief held by the widow of Dietrich, Lord at Ulmen. Electoral-Trier overlordship ended with the French Revolutionary occupation of the Rhine’s left bank between 1794 and 1796. In 1815 Kliding was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Urschmitt and Kliding, which together formed a single municipality, were split into two separate ones in 1848. In 1869, the consecration of a new chapel at Kliding was celebrated. Since 1946, Kliding has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.^[3]

Kliding’s mayor is Gerhard Müller.^[1]

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per pale and chevron, argent and vert counterchanged, in dexter chief an oak sprig bendwise slipped fructed of two and leafed of four of the second, in sinister chief a cross patriarchal of the first, in dexter base a waterwheel spoked of four of the second, in sinister base a horseshoe bendwise, the ends to chief, sable.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:

• Saint Wendelin’s Catholic Church (Kirche St. Wendelin), Oberdorfstraße 1 – Gothic Revival aisleless church, 1861–1862, building inspector Ferdinand Nebel, west tower 1904^[4]

Saint Wendelin’s is also noted for its windows. Kliding is also home to a Heiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints) known as the Dreifaltigkeitsheiligenhäuschen (“Trinity Heiligenhäuschen”), which stands on Mühlweg.

• Waterfall (also called the Schießlay; the Eifel’s highest waterfall, with a drop of 28 m^[5])

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kliding.

• Municipality’s official webpage (in German)