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Dorfbrunnen Ferres

Beschreibung

Ferres is the smallest district of the municipality of Piesport, attested in 1168 as "Bovaries". In reality, the village is much older. It owes its name to the Roman "bovarii". These were cowherds who drove their animals across the Moselle to the far bank, where there is a fertile plain that was used as pasture and farmland very early on. Back then, long before the barrages were built, the Moselle was not as deep and not as wide. 

 

There was a ford here, a "Fahrt", as they say in Ferres. The village fountain (called Boor) was the water source for the inhabitants of Ferres until 1958. It was therefore an important source of life and as such a meeting place for the people. Other special features of the village are the chapel (see information board) and the birthplace of Eberhard Taub, who went down in history as the founder of the nearby pilgrimage site of Klausen. He was in the service of the Counts of Esch. "Nikolaus Novillanius, a chronicler of the Trier Benedictine Abbey of St. Maximin, reports that Eberhard Taub from Ferres built a chapel in honour of the Virgin Mary." 
(Source: Piesport, Rheinische Kunststätten issue 1/1974 p. 8) 
This was the beginning of a place of pilgrimage that became famous for miraculous healings. There is a memorial plaque on the house where the pious Eberhard was born, and the village street is called Bruder-Eberhard-Straße.