Today, the village on the pass summit has around 100 inhabitants, and there are more than 400 secondary residences.
Currently, roughly 540 people have a primary or secondary residence in Birgel.
Foreigners were 1.62% of the population, and 46 had their secondary residence in Eßweiler.
This new, statelier complex was built in the years 1759-1768 as a secondary residence.
Since the mid-19th century, the château has been used as a secondary residence by the family.
He has had a secondary residence in Malibu, California, since the beginning of the 1990s.
In 2008 the population was 52,353, and in addition there are about 5,000 people who have registered the city as their secondary residence.
She'd hit the ones with secondary residences in the States first.
"There is no requirement that you actually spend any time in the secondary residence," he added.
Thus once again the house became a secondary residence.