| Image Coa: | DEU Neumagen-Dhron COA.svg |
| Coordinates: | 49.8595°N 6.8976°W |
| Image Plan: | Neumagen-Dhron in WIL.svg |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Bernkastel-Wittlich |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Bernkastel-Kues |
| Elevation: | 130 |
| Area: | 16.28 |
| Postal Code: | 54347 |
| Area Code: | 06507 |
| Licence: | WIL and BKS |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 2 31 092 |
| Website: | www.neumagen-dhron.de |
| Mayor: | Dirk Doppelhamer[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
| Party: | SPD |
German: italic=no|'''Neumagen-Dhron''' is an German: Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a German: [[Verbandsgemeinde]], a kind of collective municipality – in the German: italic=no|[[Bernkastel-Wittlich]] district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.[2] It is a state-recognized tourism community, and it was the seat of the former German: cat=no|Verbandsgemeinde of German: cat=no|Neumagen-Dhron. Its situation and amenities make it a lower-order centre.[3]
German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron lies roughly 15 km south of German: italic=no|[[Wittlich]] and 20 km northwest of Trier. The municipality is made up of the three centres (German: [[Ortsteil]]e) of German: italic=no|Neumagen, German: italic=no|Dhron, and German: italic=no|Papiermühle ("Papermill"). The river German: italic=no|Dhron is met by the German: italic=no|Kleine Dhron ("Little Dhron") in the outlying centre of German: italic=no|Papiermühle, whereafter it empties into the Moselle at German: italic=no|Dhron. Over on the other side of the river from German: italic=no|Neumagen, the river German: italic=no|Zweibach also empties into the Moselle.
German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron is one of a series of places that claim the title "Germany's Oldest Winemaking Centre". The winemaking village of German: italic=no|Neumagen was founded by the Romans some 2,000 years ago as a waystation on the road from Trier to Koblenz along the Moselle; its Latin name was Latin: italic=no|'''Noviomagus Trevirorum''' ("Noviomagus of the Treviri"). It is the place where the German: italic=no|Neumagen Wine Ship (German: Neumagener Weinschiff), a ship carved out of stone now in the Rhenish State Museum in Trier, was unearthed. A copy of the Wine Ship can be seen in the village centre. In the Early Middle Ages, German: italic=no|Dhron is believed to have been the location of the episcopal German: italic=no|Nicetiusburg (castle). The two places also later belonged to the Archbishopric of Trier. Beginning in 1794, German: italic=no|Neumagen and German: italic=no|Dhron lay under French rule. In 1815 they were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, they have been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Until municipal administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1969, both centres belonged to the German: italic=no|Bernkastel district, whose seat was in German: italic=no|[[Bernkastel-Kues]]. Today's municipality was newly formed out of the older municipalities of German: italic=no|Neumagen and German: italic=no|Dhron on 7 June 1969.
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[4]
| Kohl | FBL | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 seats | |
| 2004 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 seats | |
| 1999 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 16 seats |
The mayor is Dirk Doppelhamer (SPD).[1]
In 1951, arms were approved for both German: italic=no|Neumagen and German: italic=no|Dhron. German: italic=no|Neumagen's arms might have been described thus: Per pale argent a cross gules and barry of thirteen of the first and azure, that is to say, with a red cross on a silver background on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side and thirteen horizontal stripes alternating between silver and blue on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side.[5] German: italic=no|Dhron's arms might have been described thus: Per pale argent a cross gules and gules a bend argent charged with three roses Or barbed vert, that is to say, with the same dexter side as German: italic=no|Neumagen's arms, but with the sinister side showing a red field with a silver slanted stripe with three golden roses with green sepals running along it.
In 1967, the arms were changed in connection with the merger of the two municipalities. The resulting escutcheon might be described thus: Barry of eleven argent and azure the German: italic=no|Neumagen Wine Ship Or, in a chief of the first a cross gules charged with three roses in fess of the third.
The red cross stands for German: italic=no|Neumagen's and German: italic=no|Dhron's longtime allegiance to the Electorate of Trier, while the three golden roses stand for Tholey Abbey, a Benedictine monastery that once owned a winegrowing estate in German: italic=no|Dhron. The blue and silver stripes stand for the old feudal lords of German: italic=no|Neumagen, and the Wine Ship for the municipality's Roman beginnings.
One point of interest is the Archaeological Loop, on which guided tours are also regularly offered. In the centre of German: italic=no|Neumagen is found a cast of the Roman Wine Ship right next to the old Saint Peter's Chapel (German: Peterskapelle) and the Ausonius Garden. Something about the municipality's earlier history can also be learnt at the local history museum.
Likewise worth seeing are the old Gothic church in German: italic=no|Dhron and the nearby cathedral "free estate".
Farther up the Moselle is found the new cycle path which leads straight to the German: italic=no|Rosengärtchen vineyard with its archway of roses and its German: Märtyrerkapelle ("Martyrs' Chapel").
A working replica of the German: italic=no|Neumagen Wine Ship can be chartered.
German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron is to a considerable extent characterized by winegrowing, and with 247 ha of planted vineyard area is the biggest winegrowing centre on the Moselle after Piesport, Zell, Leiwen, and Konz. Traditionally, the winegrowers' mainstay has been Riesling. Moreover, winegrowing forms the basis for tourism, which is likewise an important part of the economy.
Well known German: italic=no|Dhron vineyards are:
Well known Neumagen vineyards are:
At digs and new building works in German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron, many old monuments have been found in the old castrum's foundations that were used for fortification. Some of the more important finds are listed here:
Since the 2009/2010 school year, the Ausonius Hauptschule and the Friedrich Spee Realschule together form a unified "German: italic=no|Realschule Plus".
German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron lies right on German: italic=no|[[Bundesstraße]] 53, although this does not run through the built-up area, which consequently has little road traffic. Right at German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron is a bridge on this road, which affords a good and quick link to other nearby places. The Autobahn A 1 can be reached in 15 minutes, and along it, drivers can reach nearby cities such as Trier or Koblenz.
German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron has at its disposal its own yacht harbour, and by way of a landing stage, passenger voyages, for instance to German: italic=no|[[Bernkastel-Kues]], are possible.
Coming from Trittenheim and Trier, the new cycling path runs right alongside the Moselle. Furthermore, cyclists can ride on paths on either side of the Moselle towards Piesport or German: italic=no|[[Bernkastel-Kues]].
On the German: italic=no|Neumagen-Dhron Plateau, some 2 km southeast of the municipality, is the German: Flugplatz Neumagen-Dhron, an airfield run by the aerial sport club.