Monument preservation
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzThe historically evolved cultural landscapes, cities and towns provide us and future generations with opportunities to develop individually and identify with the land. They are a piece of home.
Preserving this cultural heritage, a testimony to our history, is also the responsibility of the state.
This obligation on the part of the state also means that it must intervene in questions of monument preservation. It fulfills its responsibility by protecting monuments from inappropriate changes that destroy their historical value. It helps monument owners to bear the additional costs of preserving cultural monuments through tax relief and financial grants, and it advises them on professional preservation.
Despite all the losses caused by the Second World War and the decades of reconstruction, the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm has a number of largely undisturbed villages with their characteristic rural architecture. They are characterized by a large number of characteristic farmhouses of the "Trierer Einhaus" type from the late 18th and 19th centuries. Together with them, numerous village churches, castles, wayside crosses, archaeological evidence and some castle buildings of supra-regional importance form a lively cultural landscape.